A CIO's Survival Guide to Saying No
One of the toughest leadership challenges for CIOs today is having to refuse business requests for new technology. Here's how to keep the lines of IT-business communication open while communicating...
View ArticleTraditional vs. Digital CIOs: Survey Reveals a Growing Divide
CIO magazine's 13th annual State of the CIO research reveals stark contrasts between traditional CIOs who focus more on internal operations and digital CIOs who expand IT's influence externally to work...
View ArticleWill Western Union's Digital Gamble Pay Off?
Facing escalating competition in the mobile payments revolution, a new CIO banks on data analytics to map out a profitable future, writes Editor in Chief Maryfran Johnson.
View ArticleBouncing Back From CIO Unemployment
A long job hunt takes a personal and professional toll, even on the most accomplished IT leaders. Here's how to emerge stronger than ever.
View ArticleCIOs Need to Focus on Competitive Threats
Today's executives can boast about their companies' tech prowess, but they also need to keep an eye on archrivals and new competitors, says Maryfran Johnson.
View ArticleWhat CIOs Can Learn on Corporate Boards
Maryfran Johnson says CIOs who serve on external boards add to their heavy workload but gain a valuable new perspective
View ArticleCIOs Join Forces to Fight Cancer With IT
Editor in Chief Maryfran Johnson describes the profoundly hopeful and uplifting story of how informal coalitions of CIOs from some of the country's leading medical institutions are crossing boundaries...
View ArticleEditor's Letter: Why CIOs Must Own Data Valuation
As more companies look to profit from the their data, CIOs must grow beyond their traditional roles as data stewards, says CIO magazine's editor in chief.
View ArticleFor Top CIOs, Success Breeds Success
Wildly successful IT projects make great stories. They spin out profitable new lines of business. They help business partners whomp the competition. They send customer satisfaction skyrocketing.
View ArticleCIOs: Expand Your Skills With M&A
Few business situations are more fraught with equal measures of peril and promise than mergers and acquisitions. Billions of dollars change hands. Thousands of jobs are affected. Yet the majority of...
View ArticleSocial Media Rehab for CIOs
Of all the questions I ask CIOs (and I've got an arsenal at my command), there's always one that stops the conversation cold. "So what are you doing with social media?" Um, me personally or my company?...
View ArticleCIOs Need to Drive Companies to Their Digital Destination
I've been a bit obsessed lately with trying to discern the reality behind the trendy buzzphrase "digital enterprise." So I keep asking CIOs what it really means to them and their businesses. We talk a...
View ArticleHow double-duty CIOs cope with non-IT responsibilities
Maryfran Johnson is impressed with the CIOs who take on additional business functions, but wonders how they they do it all without having a nervous breakdown. The answer: great teams, trusted deputies.
View ArticleCIO Leadership Live with James Rinaldi of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab | Ep 11
How the agency is opening up data silos and driving data transformation.
View ArticleCIO Leadership Live with James Rinaldi of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab | Ep 11
How the agency is opening up data silos and driving data transformation.
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