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Are You Top Management Material? Think Beyond IT
, organization, even industry. InformationWeek’s Tomorrow’s CIO survey of 720 senior technology executives, conducted in May, found that 75% of CIOs and 65% of their C-suite peers think the CIO ... , an attendee asked what has become a common question among ambitious technology pros: Is it better for the CIO ... to a tech newcomer? For the most part, it’s not enough for CIOs to just ask the right technical questions ... -level IT execs don’t need business experience. Quite the contrary. Starting with his years at Wal ... http://www.informationweek.in/Archive/09-01-01/Are_You_Top_Management_Material_Think_Beyond_IT.aspx

10 reasons CIOs will get fired this year
all other C-level executives to the wheel of business. I think the unsettling trend toward CIOs ... CIOs who choose to fall back on what they know instead of diving into what their companies need. And I think a lot of CIOs are going to lose their jobs in the second half of 2010—not because they don't ... the general view and environment that's provided by the tail and its proximate parts. Instead, CIOs need ... what CEOs want and expect from their CIOs and IT organizations, but what they demand? What's ... http://www.informationweek.in/Cloud_Computing/10-06-15/10_reasons_CIOs_will_get_fired_this_year.aspx

Down To Business: IT Priority No. 1: Free Up Money For New Projects
of the 80-20 morass, they will never matter as much as they think they do. InformationWeek's recent Tomorrow's CIO research indicates that CIOs are making little headway in reversing 80-20. If you think you can ... to consume capital, we need to find ways to make our businesses more profitable without building ... infrastructure--for instance, by extending the company's Total Rewards customer-loyalty program beyond ... featured Harrah's CIO Tim Stanley, applies as much to the nation's big business technology ... http://www.informationweek.in/Archive/08-09-22/Down_To_Business_IT_Priority_No_1_Free_Up_Money_For_New_Projects.aspx

Tomorrow’s CIO
technology tied to GPS, temperature, vibration, and light. CIOs must walk this line. They need ... , there’s technology leadership. CIOs of the future had better be able to look ahead at least three ... and consolidating platforms. More CIOs should think like Richard Entrup, director of IT at the Museum ... expensive—videoconferencing technology. In predictive analytics, “we’re just beginning to think what ... insight into what corporate managers want from technology leaders—and that CIOs might be missing ... http://www.informationweek.in/Archive/08-08-01/Tomorrow_8217_s_CIO.aspx

The Global CIO Fifty
responsibilities. CIOs are being given more strategic roles than ever before, yet they're simultaneously ... only complicates the situation. CIOs are being asked to drive business change while at the same time ... the globe, CIOs are fighting the stubborn perception that IT in general, and CIOs and their teams ... -of-times, worst-of-times scenario, CIOs can find enormous value in seeing how their peers around ... CIO 50, we've identified 50 of the top CIOs from around the world and profiled them and the strategic ... http://www.informationweek.in/Archive/09-08-01/The_Global_CIO_Fifty.aspx

Global CIO: The Top 10 CIO Issues For 2010
>... While the business-technology world of 2010 will present a dramatically different outlook to CIOs versus the perspective they had 12 months earlier, we at InformationWeek's Global CIO think ... /The world's my home/When I'm mobile. " The Transformation Quotient . When the economy turns, CIOs need ... . But the leaned-down, cranked-up expectations for CIOs that congealed so rapidly in last year's fight for survival remains, and that heightened sense of what CIOs must achieve—in spite of being in command of fewer ... http://www.informationweek.in/Cloud_Computing/10-01-04/Global_CIO_The_Top_10_CIO_Issues_For_2010.aspx

Enterprise data center : Still the core of business tranformation
. To reap the full potential of a virtualized infrastructure, organizations need to move beyond the server ... the fact is that the data center today is still a pressing concern for CIOs. Gearing up to meet ... and operating expenses because it right-sizes facility infrastructures. Organizations need not have ... tier levels to criticality of business applications. For example, a bank’s ATM technology needs 24x7 ... and running to meet new demands or a new service in the market place requires a technology that allows you ... http://www.informationweek.in/Data_Center/10-03-31/Enterprise_data_center_Still_the_core_of_business_tranformation.aspx

Global CIO: Stop Treating IT Like A Cost Center
one evening. Two of them, Jeff and Dave, are struggling to understand what role their CIOs should ... , and they both know that their spotty efforts in leveraging business technology to create business ... can you run a vibrant business in 2008 without a great CIO?" "Karen, I think you're missing the point -- I don't think you realize how lucky you are to have a CIO who actually understands your busi -- " "Luck, Jeff, has nothing to do with it. Nothing at all. Do you think my CIO just appeared out ... http://www.informationweek.in/Software/08-12-18/Global_CIO_Stop_Treating_IT_Like_A_Cost_Center.aspx

Going Green: The CIO’s Role in Enterprisewide Environmental Sustainability
the operational impact of environmental sustainability. Thus, CIOs and IT executives need to start now ... evidence is compelling for supporting the need to take action. Going green represents both ... CIOs and other IT leaders do? Enterprise management needs to become concerned about a long list ... For example, the need to disclose to customers CO2 emitted during delivery might affect customers ... and tighten up carbon accounting. In enterprises looking to create green capabilities, executives and CIOs ... http://www.informationweek.in/Archive/09-11-01/Going_Green_The_CIO_8217_s_Role_in_Enterprisewide_Environmental_Sustainability.aspx

How to be a guinea pig and not get slaughtered
,Satish Joshi ... No one likes to be a guinea pig—least of all CIOs whose heads are likely to roll, if they over spend even 2 cents beyond their shoestring budgets. That is perhaps ... something beyond simple virtualization or a subscription or two to Salesforce.com. Where adopting cloud ... and computing requirements, think about what represents an unpredictable, often short-lived demand ... components that need to be imparted to employees on a regular basis. Such training programmes, although ... http://www.informationweek.in/Cloud_Computing/10-02-19/How_to_be_a_guinea_pig_and_not_get_slaughtered.aspx