Articles on Chief Information Officer

I'm regularly asked about how to get started with big data. My response is always the same: I give them my big data roadmap for success.

I've been writing about the "New CIO"  for almost 5 years and I finally feel like there's some real change coming to the CIO role and subsequently, to the

A CIO and A CMO walk into a bar... ...except...they aren't in the same bar. They made plans to meet at Good Time Charlies on Monday.   You know - the CMO

This is based on a true story...its long but worth it...I hope. As long as Little Johnny could remember, he wanted to be 'the boss'. He came from a long

If you're organization is like most, you've got a lot of legacy IT systems.   Most of those legacy systems require a lot of maintenance. Most of those

Over on InfoBOOM yesterday I wrote a post titled The Cloud and The Silo where I discussed one of the current challenge of CIO's and IT groups today - that

The need for connection & engagement in education by Garr Reynolds on Presentation Zen Quote: Few people think that the formal education systems

Mark McDonald over on Gartner's blog network wrote a great piece this week titled Everything is up for grabs, making it a great time to be in IT. In the

I've been reading Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath (amazon affiliate link).   If you haven't read the

The Consumerization of IT By Zack Urlocker on GigaOm Quote: In a recent presentation, Lew Cirne, CEO of application performance management vendor New

Ray Ozzie is leaving Microsoft. After it was announced that he was leaving, he published a memo on his blog. The memo, titled Dawn of  a New Day,  is an

Some smart-ass (like me) will probably say "1 letter"....but let's dive into that question a little more deeply. Last week, in an article titled "CIO's

Improve end-user workforce productivityEarlier this week I wrote a post titled "The relationship between the CIO and CMO?" where I reported on a survey

CIO.com has an article titled "CMOs and CIOs: Can This Relationship Be Saved?" where they discuss surveys results released by the CMO Council and

Over the few weeks, I've been writing a lot about IT and the future of IT. Most of those articles end up with me saying something like "think about the

Last week I wrote a long article titled Building Tomorrow's Organization - without today's IT? The purpose of that article was to walk through a 'what if'

A few weeks ago I wrote about The diminishing role of IT and the CIO.  That post struck a nerve with quite a few readers so I wanted to expand on the

In my article titled Technology Selection and Cultural Fit, I argue that cultural fit is an important aspect to consider when undertaking Technology

The New New CIO Role: Big Changes Ahead By Thomas Wailgum on CIO.com Quote: CIOs themselves are in the midst of a make-or-break personal change-management

In a previous article titled The Future of IT & the CIO - Redux of the DoDo I pointed to some survey results that should be alarming to most IT

Shadow IT vs. Shadow Marketing By Scott Brinker on Chief Marketing Technologist Quote: IT people work for IT. Marketing people work for marketing. And, as

I've just started reading Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (affiliate link) by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown.  Actually...I've only

Mark McDonald, of Gartner, offers some excellent tips for IT planning for 2011 in a post titled Three things to think about as you plan for 2011.  In the

A simple question that can do so much. Whether hiring or choosing vendors, take a few seconds to ask: I can, but should I?

Competition is overrated by Chris Dixon on cdixon.org Quote: Startups are primarly competing against indifference, lack of awareness, and lack of

Image by Aprile C via Flickr I'm in Atlanta this week on business. I decided to stay at a nice little boutique hotel in midtown called the Artmore Hotel.

I really dislike it when I hear someone in IT say that its time 'run IT as a business'. Why? Because both terms normally convey a sense of importance upon

BP oil spill: Leadership and IT failure Quote: As the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to grow, reports suggest that several IT failures may

In my post earlier this week, I spoke, or more accurately typed, about the importance of story. I wonder if there are any CIO's and IT leaders out there

Can all of the information technology assets within a small business be outsourced?  Could we see the IT desks within small businesses be as empty as

Hey CIO - if you want to survive, you need to figure out a way to fascinate your organization. I'm currently reading "Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to

Over the last few weeks I've been conducting a very unscientific survey of small business CIO's, VP's and Directors of IT. Using LinkedIn, I gathered a

The future of the information technology group  has been determined...and it doesn't look good. See that bird over there? That's the Dodo.  He's extinct.

I've been trying to catch up on my reading list. Most articles, books and blogs that I've been reading have been focused around CIO's and IT organizations

Short answer?  Nope. Long answer?  Read on :) Vince Kellen does a great job arguing the point in a post titled "Echolalia: The CIO is Dead! Long Live the

Happy Easter everyone. Last week was the first published post using Delicious to manage links for my Sunday links post.  I used a javascript from

Too Big to Trust? Or Too Untrustworthy to Scale? by Charles H. Green on Trust Matters Preach it Brother Edelman by Robbin Phillips on Brains On Fire Blog

I'm a bit slow on my reading lately....so bear with me as I catch up. Just read through the 2010 State of the CIO Survey published by CIO.com. A few

Strategy Is Boring by Kneale Mann on One Mann's Opinion Are you stress testing your IT strategies? by Christina Torode on TotalCIO Innovation and the

Gene asks "Is Cloud Computing part of your Strategic Plan?" While Gene's question is a fair one, I have to ask a much simpler question....do you have a

Do you know Hutch Carpenter?  You should.  He write's some awesome stuff over at I'm Not Actually a Geek. Hutch recently wrote a post titled "Apple iPad

Talent: Develop Strengths or Weaknesses? Yes. by Steve Roesler on All Things Workplace 5 Tips for Improving the Synergy between Marketing and IT by Jenn

Do you know your IT staff? Do you regularly communicate with them? If you do, good for you. If not, you're missing out on a wonderful opportunity to build

Are you innovating or imitating? Anywhere you go these days, you'll find someone talking or writing about Innovation.  Most of  the stuff I've been

The most important thing in your company is not a thing by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Network 6 Lessons for Life by Jon Gordon on Jon Gordon's Blog

I recently stumbled across an article on TechRepublic titled "The seven habits of wildly unsuccessful CIOs" written by Karen Ann Kidd in 2003. The article

Five by Chuck Musciano on The Effective CIO The Splinternet means the end of the Web's golden age by Josh Bernoff on Groundswell Run IT Like a Business,

"I hate consultants." When I heard those words spill out of my lunch companion's mouth as soon as we sat down, I knew it would be a long lunch meeting.

Outstanding leaders put people first from Management-Issues : News Enterprise 2.0 - Building the New Schoolyard for Bullies? by Ben Kepes on CloudAve On

Short post this week as I'm swamped and haven't had time to work anything up....but I wanted to take a quick second to ask my readers to give me some CIO

I've been sitting at my computer staring at the screen for a few minutes trying to come up with a topic for my weekly "New CIO" article.   While waiting

I just finished reading "Managing" by Henry Mintzberg. Great book. What's so great about it?  It provides a good reminder that being a good manager is

George Bailey needed a guardian angel. CIOs don't — they just need to look at their own team. Lessons from It's a Wonderful Life for technology leaders.

CIOs need ‘both/and’ strategies for 2010 not either/or choices by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Network Unlocking the Passion Paradox by Kevin

Just finished reading Chris Curran's article on CIO.com titled How to Improve Your IT Planning in 2010 - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership.  Good

You Can Only Lead the Horse by Amber Naslund on Altitude Branding Leadership – What’s Love Got To Do With it? by Terry Starbucker on TerryStarbucker.com

Why Social Media Purists Won’t Last by Jason Falls on Social Media Explorer Reliability vs. Validity by Mark Howell on Strategy Central The Led Zeppelin

This is a short one....lots going on this week. I got a lot of great feedback on a post I wrote titled "Consultants - Do we need them?".  In that post I

Intuition vs. Data-Driven Decision-Making: Some Rough Ideas by Bob Sutton on Bob Sutton - Work Matters CIO and the Art of Decision Making by Arun

How CIOs can sense if their companies are getting ready to fall? by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Network 10 Tips on Building a Better Business by Ted

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. I just completed

What Human Business And the Social Web Are About by Chris Brogan on chrisbrogan.com The Insider Threat: What CIOs Need To Know by Dr. Jim Anderson on The

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. I just read a 'call

Sorry to miss last Sunday's Link post...I was trying to recover from my vacation :) Benefits of Slow Practice by Steve Neiderhauser Is Your Strategy About

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. There's lots of

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. So you want to be a

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Do you know the full

Social Media and IT Security: Adversaries or Partners? by Steve Radick on Social Media Strategery The T.S. Eliot Guide to Success by Mark McGuinness on

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Are you agile? I'm

How to SWOT away Strategic Planning by Steve Neiderhauser The Role of the CTO: Four Models for Success by Bob Gourley on CTOvision.com A Tendency to Blame

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. As a follow-up to my

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. It as if we're more

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Innovation. That's a

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Earlier this week, I

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. We've all heard the

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. I've seen many

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Today's CIO is

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Ahhh...Social

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today's CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. It's fitting that my

I've been thinking about writing a weekly article and finally found a topic that I think lends itself well to this approach. I'm planning on writing about

CIO Magazine ran a survey of 208 Chief Information Officers (CIO) and reported the results in an article titled "IT Budget & Staffing Survey Shows

Tom Parish has interviewed Nathan Langston, Chief Information Officer (CIO), of the Boy Scouts of America on Enterprise Leadership Online.   The

This is a guest post from Michael Sebastian, PhD.   Find out more information about Michael here. Anger, fear, depression and fatigue. These are the

I received an email a few weeks ago asking if I would be interested in reviewing the new book from Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan titled "the three laws of

Oracle's Profit magazine has a nice article titled "The Go Betweens: Ten Tips for Connecting Information Technology with the Business" has some excellent

An article titled "How I Used Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Software to Prevent IT Staff Cuts" on CIO.com that describes using Project Portfolio

According to research conducted by Harvey Nash, an IT Recruitment firm, everything.  Information World Review reports on this research in an article

According to Information Week, the Top 10 issues for CIO's in 2009 are: Customer-Facing Innovation Attacking the 80/20 Ratio The Challenging Economy The

Ran across some great stories over the last week...enjoy! Stakeholders in a Barrel on Tyner Bain Global CIO: The Top 10 CIO Issues For 2009 by Bob Evan's

Mike Sebastian, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at SourceCheck....and a great guy to boot, has recently had an article published on InsideARM titled "The

The latest edition of CIO Magazine has an interesting article titled "Power from Your People" written by Karan Sorenson, VP & CIO at Johnson &

The 21st annual CIO 100 list has just been delivered. The article leading up to the list of the CIO 100 is quite interesting..I'm reading things like

I asked the following question on LinkedIn earlier this week and received some very insightful responses: What are the top challenges in IT organization's

The topic of Information Technology Strategy is one that is near and dear to my heart.  In fact, I've harped on this subject a few times (a few posts for

If you didn't believe my ramblings in "Common Sense and Technology Selection", I've got a nice anecdotal (and funny) story that backs up my assertion that