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Sounding Board is a CIO Executive Council signature program, which brings together members to discuss the strategies, best practices and pitfalls associated with real-world initiatives in high-priority topic areas.

The CIO Executive Council is a global community of hundreds of CIOs who form the most unbiased peer-advisory resource available to the profession. In addition to peer consultation, members and their staff benefit from leadership development education, high-profile speaking and media opportunities, and exclusive resources created by Council communities of practice.

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Create new corporate value

Posted Aug 15, 2012 - 04:08 pm

Members from the CIO Executive Council weigh in on how to optimize infrastructure to meet changing business needs. Add your opinion and advice.
IT Management
Go beyond the lowest bidders to make your vendors into partners

Posted Jun 05, 2012 - 03:28 pm

Members from the CIO Executive Council weigh in how to reboot vendors' mind-sets to get away from the same old outsourcing contracts.
IT Management, CIO Executive Council
Business leaders spearhead BI decisions

Posted Mar 25, 2012 - 03:35 pm

Members from the CIO Executive Council weigh in on why they are putting IT in the background on business intelligence. Add your opinion and advice.
Business Intelligence, CIO Executive Council
Measure the success of your IT-business partnerships

Posted Feb 13, 2012 - 12:31 pm

Members from the CIO Executive Council weigh in on whether attempts to partner with the business are making a difference. Add your opinion and advice.
IT Management, CIO Executive Council
Encouraging users to embrace big business data

Posted Dec 12, 2011 - 09:00 am

Members from the CIO Executive Council weigh in on encouraging users to embrace big business data. Add your opinion and advice.
Business Intelligence, big data, CIO Executive Council
Disaster recovery on a budget

Posted Nov 03, 2011 - 03:54 pm

CIOs are always looking for disaster recovery options that don’t break the bank. Members from the CIO Executive Council share their tactics. Add your opinion and advice.
Data Center, CIO Executive Council, disaster recovery
Give users the virtual desktop they want

Posted Sep 29, 2011 - 09:52 am

Members from the CIO Executive Council weigh in on how to give users the best virtual desktop experience. Add your opinion and advice.
IT Management, CIO Executive Council, desktop virtualization
Securing data on all devices

Posted Aug 22, 2011 - 09:12 pm

Members from the CIO Executive Council weigh in on how to protect sensitive data on mobile devices. Add your opinion and advice.
Security, CIO Executive Council
How to help employee career development with staff rotation

Posted Jul 17, 2011 - 02:34 pm

Members from the CIO Executive Council weigh in helping employee career development with staff rotation. Add your opinion and advice.
IT Management, CIO Executive Council
Using business intelligence to make better business decisions

Posted Jun 03, 2011 - 02:11 pm

"An important thing to remember for user buy-in is that you have to launch a BI program that is business-relevant and focused on a solving a pain-point or realizing a new benefit," says Sandeep Phanasgaonkar, CTO, Reliance Capital. In this installment of Sounding Board, Sandeep and other members of the CIO Executive Council weigh in on using BI to make an impact on the business.
Business Intelligence, BI, CIO

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