Category: Professional Growth
A CIO’s Guide to IT Portfolio Management
This sprawling five page article from CIO Zone gives us a look into the world of PPM for CIOs, following the path of explaining what PPM is, what happens when you don’t have it, what to expect with implementation, and best practices to follow throughout the process. Using a mix of easy to understand bullets [...]
The New CIO: Chief Invasiveness Officer?!?
According to this interview with Michael Schrage, a research fellow with the MIT Sloan School’s Center for Digital Business, CIOs are increasingly
7 key skills of a project manager
Often the skills listed for a project manager are aligned with business ability or technical knowledge. In this post from Enterprise PM, a focus is put along the human element of project management: how well does a PM manage their time? How well do they communicate to people inside and outside of their project team? [...]
Do Enough IT Professionals Want to Be CIO?
Being a CIO is stressful – so stressful, apparently, that people are more willing to take lower paying jobs or not seek promotion to avoid it!
How CIOs Should Innovate for Growth
Forbes.com provides this video featuring Mark Johnson (chairman of Innosight) and Quentin Hardy of Forbes discussing how CIOs can facilitate innovation within a company. Johnson suggests that CIOs are in a rare position to not only allow rapid experimentation and growth, but identify and utilize employees that discover new and better ways to impact the [...]
How CIOs can help curb e-waste
From cellphones to servers, electronics discarded due to real or perceived technological obsolescence are a mounting concern around the world. Why? In part, it’s because millions of devices, developed with large investments of energy and natural resources, are finding their way into landfills that are not equipped to deal with the hazardous materials used in [...]
News Feed: More demands for greater federal CIO authority (From Biz Journals)
Members of Congress are pushing the administration to assign more authority to federal chief information officers — including control over their own budgets — to encourage smarter use of technology.
Top 5 tips for CIOs to raise public (or corporate) profile
The modern CIO needs to re cast themselves as the strategic partner, the listener and the influencer. Anthony Plewes from Futurity Media provides five ways to foster
Why CIOs fail – A short primer on success
Summary: Alignment with lines of business, rather than technology alone, is the key to CIO success. …
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