New-Gen IT Requiring CIOs to Think More Like CFOs

By Chris Preimesberger DEL MAR, Calif. — Nobody likes to talk about the danger of their jobs evolving into something they do not like, least of all highly compensated enterprise C-suite executives. But a group of Fortune 500 CIOs did just that several days ago. The occasion was the second, and possibly annual, The Wall…

New-Gen IT Requiring CIOs to Think More Like CFOs

“It’s really incumbent upon CIOs to step it up a notch,” Gelsinger told the audience of fellow and former CIOs at the summit. “They really have to. IT systems are morphing into new entities that involve CMOs, in addition to CIOs and CTOs. The democratization of IT, thanks to the cloud and mobile devices, is…

Making the Case for Information Governance

In my last column, IT’s Time for Information Governance, I provided an introduction to the concept of information governance (IG) and why it is an urgent and relevant concept for CIOs. As promised, in this column, I am going to start to sketch out the case for IG. This is critical, because success in IG…