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Click on the article title below to read the full document:Becoming a CIO: the three leadership challenges
"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."...
Deliver the three levels like top CIOs
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...
So you want to be a CIO
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...
What your CEO really wants
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...
To make the transition to top CIO, these skills are vital
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...
Viewing change as leadership opportunity
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...
Do you measure up?
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...
Be a leader, not a wage slave
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...
Being the business
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...
Campaigning your way onto the board
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...
IT above the law in jargon
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...
Prove you're not just a back office function
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...
Ten years after; still no meat
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...
Step up or cool out
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...
2007 Prediction: CIOs are in danger of losing out to CPOs
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,...
From CIO to board-level business shaper
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IT managers out of step in judging success
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...
Techies need more business skills
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...
IT execs worried about customer loyalty and satisfaction
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...
The way to become a top CIO
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...
CIO exclusion: business skill shortages constrain IT growth
Most CIOs say their IT organisations have the funding and organisational elasticity needed by their businesses this year, according to a survey of 1,400 IT leaders published by Gartner. It's...
CIOs: Technology not keeping pace with business
Think people not processes
By Jo Best, Published in Silicon.com: 14 March 2007
Enterprises are undergoing seismic shifts in their business - but...
How to be a Top CIO
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...
