Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
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Small business, big profits If they are technically innovative, the small business will likely see a huge payout either in a dramatic jump in profits or in an outright buyout. Indeed, small business CIOs and CTOs have proven themselves savvier in more than a handful of cases than they big firm brethren. One need only…
It seems like such an easy question: Who needs more hands-on tech skill and experience — the CIO of a small business, a medium sized company, or a huge enterprise? But alas, like all things tech, the answer is as clear as the bottle of Pepto that all CIOs end up gulping at some point…
Nearly nine in 10 executives surveyed for the quarterly Robert Half Professional Employment Report said they anticipate no changes to the size of their teams in the next three months. Just five percent of respondents plan to add full-time, professional-level staff in the third quarter, while another five percent indicated they will make personnel reductions….
by Jamie Ryan, senior vice president, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for Aspect Within the last few years, businesses have undergone a major transformation as the consumerization of IT makes its way into the enterprise and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies become more prevalent. Workers want the same technologies on the job As today’s workers are…
“It’s hard to find good help these days.” Sound all too familiar? It’s the refrain many a CIO is uttering these days right along with their counterparts in other industries from manufacturing to the sciences. Technical talent management best practices This according to a new study from benchmarking and best practices firm APQC, Technical Talent…
by Ken Pedersen, COO of Geneca We’ve all been there. The business announces an exciting new project. You organize an implementation team. The team’s excited, the kick-off is great, the first stand-up meetings rock. Then, fast forward three months and the team is struggling. Decision makers are hard to find or uninvolved in the day-to-day….
General leadership skills just don’t translate into IT. There too many differences between line of business ops and what IT does. But all too often these difference are overlooked in general leadership programs. by Marc Schiller “Leadership is leadership. There’s nothing special about IT and there’s no such thing as IT leadership.” This is what…
Connecting the dots Now more than ever in future-focused organizations, the CIO is being looked upon to play an executive leadership role in the organization. Note the purposeful use of the word executive. I use this to denote the new expectations of the CIO role, a role in which the CIO plays an integral and…
by Frank Petersmark of X by 2 Despite several generations of executive-level maturity, the CIO role still finds itself playing second fiddle when it comes to full integration with its business peers. Many CIOs say there’s still a fundamental disconnect between them and their business-executive peers on several key strategic issues, including the need to…
Once considered one of the most valued positions in IT, the business analyst role has been decimated by the recession as cost cutting and a myopic focus on lean ops have done away with much of the bridge building between IT and the business. Now that it appears the economy has finally turned a corner,…