Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
CIOs must get the balance right between utility and innovation in order to secure influence in the future, according to new research from PA Consulting Group and Harvey Nash, a global professional recruitment consultancy and IT outsourcing service provider. The 2011 survey of over 2,500 CIOs and IT leaders reveals that CIOs are playing an…
“Today, the IT infrastructure is the backbone and accelerator of a company’s business transformation,” explained Jean Cholka, CEO of the global IT services provider Freeborders. “Thereby, having the right leader in the IT organization in place is critical to a company’s success.” This transition in IT’s role was fueled by a number of converging storm…
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…
Face facts: CEOs do not trust CIOs. To them, a call from the CIO is like a call from their auto mechanic. Before he hangs up, the CEO knows he will be pressured to spend money on something he doesn’t understand but probably needs. He’s just not sure why. What’s a “valve job”? What’s a…
Wouldn’t it be great if you could predict the future? If you could solve tomorrow’s problems… before they happen? If you could have what I call a “flash foresight” — a sudden burst of insight about the future that produces a new and radically different way of doing something by opening up invisible opportunities and…
In response to asomewhat recent LinkedIn post asking for a single word or phrase to characterize people’s leadership style 1500 LinkedIn professionals offered up a steady stream of “courageous, passionate, compassionate, sincerity, charisma” and other warm and fuzzy epithets. Not surprisingly, there were no posts indicating harsher forms of rule. This, of course, begs the…
Moving from the CIO’s seat to the top of the C-Suite is no small feat. It’s not a venture won by thrust and feint maneuvers but by cleverly presented tales of fiat accompli on your resume. And it isn’t your mastery of technologies that will win the day it’s how well you play with others….