What are the common qualities and experience among the top CIO performers? By Andy McCue. Published by Silicon.com Wednesday 06 June 2007 With technology increasingly at the heart of most organisations the opportunity is there for CIOs to play aContinue Reading

Think people not processes By Jo Best, Published in Silicon.com: 14 March 2007 Enterprises are undergoing seismic shifts in their business – but a significant proportion of CIOs feel technology just can’t keep pace. A report from consultants Capgemini hasContinue Reading

Most CIOs say their IT organisations have the funding and organisational elasticity needed by their businesses, according to a survey of 1,400 IT leaders published by Gartner. It’s the CIOs’ lack of involvement with corporate executives in setting strategy andContinue Reading

by Julia Vowler Published by Computer Weekly, February 2007 The cookie-cutter chief information officer has yet to be invented, so organisations need to take great pains in sourcing the extraordinary mixture of business leadership and technical understanding that makes upContinue Reading

Half are more worried about this issue than any other, but only one in five plans spending. Despite rating customer loyalty and satisfaction as top priorities, fewer than one in five companies has actual plans to spend money tackling theContinue Reading

Techies need more business skills, says job guide – February 2007 IT workers need to become more business-savvy, move up the management ladder and keep up with the latest technical skills if they are to avoid being outsourced, according toContinue Reading

According to findings published by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) in February 2007 IT managers view personal success by making an impact at work and developing their colleagues, but think their organisations are more focused on market leadership and profitContinue Reading

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The increasing importance of business transformation is leading to the creation of a new C-level title – the Chief Process Officer (CPO). One company leading the charge is McAfee, which has created the new role for Bill Curtis. He wasContinue Reading

The 2007 Harvey Nash CIO Strategic Leadership Survey shows that 76 per cent of 519 CIOs surveyed believe their role has become more strategic this year and 66 per cent have already expanded their job scope. Most Heads of ITContinue Reading

Ten years ago, “where’s the meat?” was the political slogan of the day and research by the Cranfield School of Management confirmed that companies were failing to reap financial rewards from IT projects. This and similar findings no doubt helpedContinue Reading

Almost one in five recruiters expected a shortage of IT leaders in 2006, according to the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) and reported by CIO Connect. IT professionals will be the second most in-demand executives in 2006 after financeContinue Reading

UK small and medium-sized businesses are losing competitive advantage afforded by new technologies because they don’t understand routine technical jargon according to research from AT Communications Group (ATC). The survey found that 42 per cent of business owners and executivesContinue Reading

Here’s a conundrum: I have never met a CIO on the board of any company who believes he is there because he is the functional head of IT. But I’ve met many who are not and believe they should beContinue Reading

In many large organisations IT planning and delivery timescales have become longer than the remainder of the business can live with. This has created tensions that entire generations of tools and methods have failed to solve, and yet we continueContinue Reading

Leaders lead people. There’s no getting away from it; that is what leaders do. If they are not doing that they are not doing the job. This can sometimes come hard to people in IT leader roles. The truth isContinue Reading

A few years ago I was flown out to the USA for a beauty parade on benchmarking leadership to the gathered IT elite of a global pharmaceuticals company. It was a breakthrough opportunity for my company at the time, soContinue Reading

Original article by Brinley Platts for Computer Yearbook 2003 We are not yet three years into the 21st Century and the world is looking more uncertain, more hostile and more complex than anyone could have predicted. Organisations across the globeContinue Reading

A decade ago CIOs were undervalued, overworked, under pressure and frustrated. They knew they could be leading their firms to new ways of doing business enabled by IT, but no-one would listen. Cynics of the time were fond of suggestingContinue Reading

A head-hunter friend of mine has confessed that her clients, usually CEOs, find it difficult to describe the CIO they would truly like to recruit. They think they know what they want but on probing their role definition would giveContinue Reading

Original paper by Brinley Platts for the NCC Journal Are you a CIO? Do you aspire to be one? I have asked literally hundreds of senior IT executives these questions. I know a lot about what makes IT executives tickContinue Reading

IT can contribute to an organisation broadly on three levels and good CIOs deliver at all of them. Unfortunately many IT executives get stuck in the mire of the lower levels and never break through to the top. At theContinue Reading

“Leaders lead people,” according to General Norman Schwarzkopf in It Doesn’t Take a Hero: “ordinary people with hopes and dreams and ambitions just like the leader.” This beautifully sums up the difference between leadership and management; between being an ITContinue Reading