CIO

The Web offers cheap and easy access for our clients (internal or external) to access services 24/7. As a result, our Web stores and public facing sites have become "must be available" on the same basis. But how many of us actually follow through?

In many ways CIOs are like nomads: They might set up camp for a short while, but before you know it they’re off in search of other pastures.

Last summer, about 30 hand-picked IT managers convened in an executive classroom for the third session of CIO University, a leadership development program for would-be CIOs. The agenda was chock-full of sessions covering best practices for stakeholder management along with role-playing exercises to explore the Thomas-Kilmann model of conflict resolution. Guest speakers included C-level executives as well as former attendees who had gone on to become CIOs. A post-session happy hour and dinner gave participants a chance to network, exchange insights and simply blow off steam.

Sometimes you meet a person who strikes you as an inspiring role model. Other times, you get a role model of a different sort, an example of how not to be. The CIO I had just spent an hour with was definitely the second type.

Chief information officers should be leading the charge to adopt innovative social media if their organizations aren't leveraging the technology, a Canadian IT professor has told an audience of CIOs.

In late August, in the heat of the summer doldrums, a team of 30 or so hand-picked IT managers convened in an executive classroom for session No. 3 of CIO University, a leadership development program for would-be CIOs.

New research shows that many CFOs are making a power play to take more control of IT. That's not good news for CIOs, but you can fight the trend.

Although an abundance of management thinking on innovation theory originates in America much of the practice and execution of innovation takes place outside this country. In America many mid-and senior-level American executives know innovation theory quite well.