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CIO Tenure – Current Thinking for IT Leaders

Following is a curated list of resources that reflect current thinking on a topic of interest to IT leaders. You can assist this effort by contributing insight from your own real-world experiences, and are invited to suggest changes or additions here. Current Thinking Includes: Multiple surveys completed over the last 18 months show CIO tenure to be flat or actually increasing throughout this difficult economic period, although their methodologies differ: SearchCIO.com: IT executive jobs average 6.3 years, a testament to [...]

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The CIO Role – Current Thinking for IT Leaders

Following is a curated list of resources that reflect current thinking on a topic of interest to IT leaders. You can assist this effort by contributing insight from your own real-world experiences, and are invited to suggest changes or additions here. Current Thinking Includes: The CIO Role is a topic that generates a tremendous amount of copy, with little consensus on the state of the role for today’s practitioners, or what the future holds.  A cursory reading of analyst materials [...]

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Becoming a CIO – Current Thinking for IT Leaders

Following is a curated list of resources that reflect current thinking on a topic of interest to IT leaders. You can assist this effort by contributing insight from your own real-world experiences, and are invited to suggest changes or additions here. Current Thinking Includes: A review of resources making referencing to the CIO position reveals a very long list of suggested traits for the role.  Rather than providing an aggregation of all those items here, we might focus on what [...]

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What Staff Really Need From The CIO

Much has been said about the role of the CIO in the enterprise and how that role may be changing over time, the need for more innovative ideas, more accountability, better partnership with internal customers and the significant challenges ahead for IT senior leaders. In the mix of advice for CIOs and senior management, there is less guidance on what the staff, the folks who actually do all the hard work, need from senior IT leadership (usually the CIO or [...]

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Flying At The Right Level As An IT Leader

Like many other professions, the career path of an IT leader, VP, CTO or CIO usually starts out at a lower level within an organizational hierarchy, and may take many routes. A business analyst fresh out of college moves through the project management ranks, leading larger teams and programs until he is responsible for an enterprise-wide technology portfolio. A developer writes quality code for a few years, then leads a team of developers, and eventually finds herself as CTO for [...]

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Is the Role of CIO Ascending or Descending?

Reading through the abundant content on the topics of “partnership” and “alignment” between IT and business units, it’s easy to get a little dispirited.  In survey after survey: From the Business perspective, we hear that there is a large communication divide between IT and business units, that IT doesn’t understand the business, that IT staff don’t have the necessary skills to think beyond simple black and white (as proven by their Myers-Briggs scores), that they are still thinking in bits [...]

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The Influence Game for New CIOs

The real impact that a new CIO will have after joining an organization is largely driven by that individuals leadership skills and ability to deliver, but is also framed by other factors, including: The perceived role of the CIO as held by the reporting point. Is it the CEOs expectation that the CIO will be primarily a technical manager that can hold their own at an occasional staff meeting, or a polished leader who is as comfortable in the Boardroom [...]

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