A CIO’s role is a big job, a tough job; it is also an influential job. What other part has a more enterprise and global influence than the CIO? With the volatility and uncertainty of today’s environmental challenges, IT must adapt to the changing business...
You are a CIO. Let’s face it, your role as CIO is a big job. You are bombarded from all sides. On one side, the rapid technology revolution promises innovative solutions while addressing user adoption challenges push in from the other side. Pressures from business...
Just like your car, just like your home, just like everything physical you own – IT Infrastructure will wear out, and it will break. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve stepped into the head of IT Infrastructure role to find hardware upwards of 10...
A couple of weeks ago, we returned home from traveling, tired, and grimy after a very long cross-country flight. The only thing on my mind as I pulled into the driveway was a hot shower, a cup of chamomile tea, and my pillow – in that order. As the garage door opened,...
It was 2002 and I had been asked to step up into the CIO seat. At the time, I was the head of Infrastructure. I had built an excellent reputation as a “get it done” leader which had resulted from a very effective technology integration of two equal-sized merged...
Effective IT management is not necessarily about spending less – or more; it’s about allocating dollars, resources, and talent wisely and monitoring for benefits realization on many fronts. Surprisingly, many IT organizations do not harvest the data nor have...
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