The Accidental Successful CIO

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How CIOs Can Prepare For The “Network Generation” Of Workers

The Accidental Successful CIO

Is social media awareness a good thing or a bad thing? Image Credit: Gauthier DELECROIX – 郭天 CIOs have a responsibility to create an IT department that can help the company move forward. We need to be able to attract and retain the best workers who will be able to deal with the technology challenges of the future. As we prepare to onboard the latest crop of graduates, we may pause and wonder what we are getting ourselves into.

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CIOs Have To Find Ways To Keep Their Smart Offices Safe

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CIOs have to find ways to keep hackers out of their smart offices Image Credit: Richard Patterson Let’s face it: our workplaces have continued to evolve over time. Today’s workplace does not look anything like it used to. We have computer controlled air conditioning and heating, lights turn off when nobody is in the room, and elevators automatically know where we want to go.

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How Do CIOs Have To Change To Be Successful In The Future?

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CIOs have to change in order to prepare for the future Image Credit: chintermeyer Being a CIO today is definitely a real challenge. The world seems to be moving faster than it ever has before and between pandemics and hiring challenges, it seems as though a CIO’s work is never done. However, if there is one thing that a CIO understands, it’s that everything changes.

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Should CIOs Allow Workers To Use Their Own Devices?

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CIOs are searching for ways to make employees feel empowered Image Credit: transmediale One of the biggest issues that CIOs have been facing over the past few years has been the question regarding what to do about worker’s personal technology. The people who work for us have been making major investments in mobile phones, laptops, and tablets.

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How CIOs Can Make Technology Available To All

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Technology is only valuable if everyone can use it Image Credit: Michigan Municipal League As a CIO, you understand the value of technology to the company that you work for. Technology has the ability to make things move faster, make work easier, and to allow the company to be more successful in its marketplace. However, what we often don’t spend a lot of time thinking about is that not everyone responds to a given technology in the same way.

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How Can CIOs Avoid Groupthink?

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What CIOs are the most likely to fall for groupthink? Image Credit: kirybabe I’m pretty sure that most CIOs have heard about groupthink by now. We all know that what we really want to do is to surround ourselves with people who think differently than we do. Our goal is that when issues come up, we can bring the brightest minds to the table and generate a wealth of different ideas.

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What CIOs Need To Know About “Zoom Fatigue”

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CIOs need to understand what people are feeling Image Credit: foam CIOs are responsible for equipping the company with the technology that is required to make things run smoothly. When the pandemic hit, we sprang into action and made sure that everyone had what they needed in order to work remotely. Even after the pandemic had receded, we made sure that the company’s infrastructure could support all of the remote meetings that were happening.

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