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…
25 October 2011
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…
25 October 2011
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….
25 October 2011
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…
25 October 2011
“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…
25 October 2011
“Knowledge worker” is a term coined by the great management commentator Peter Drucker as he observed post-war western economies begin transforming into their post-industrial forms through the 1960s and 70s….
25 October 2011