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Measure the Success of Your IT-Business Partnerships

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

How CIOs are determining if new attempts to partner with the business are making a difference.

The Mobile Enterprise: Killing IT's Sacred Cows

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

CIOs need to break with tradition or risk having IT get outsourced, say modern IT managers. But how do they gain an edge? Don't be a slave to ROI, work with startups, and bring iPads and mobile apps into the enterprise.

CIO Challenge: Mobile App Vendors Bypass IT

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

At the AppNation Enterprise Summit, mobile upstarts learn to do an end-run around straight-laced CIOs. This will surely test the often rocky IT-business relationship, but could ultimately improve it.

Doing Reorganization Right

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT

With IT departments restructuring everywhere, CIOs must make sure that change is helpful, not confusing

Why CIOs Detest the Phrase “IT and the Business”

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:00:00 GMT

CIO magazine editor in chief Maryfran Johnson discusses our Nov. 15 cover story and why it’s time to dump that polarizing phrase and make IT and business people equal partners.

Candid Talk Trumps the Blame Game

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:00:00 GMT

How Hilton’s CIO uses honest communications to work through difficult times—and avoid finger-pointing

Google CIO: Don't Fight Consumerization of IT

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT

In a Bloomberg Businessweek article, Google CIO Ben Fried reflects on the benefits of letting employees have their way with technology. Forrester Research agrees that IT managers should relinquish control, but not before methodically analyzing workers' wants and needs.

CIO Alert: Five Cures for What Ails IT

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:00:00 GMT

IT groups often struggle to stay efficient as a business grows and evolves. Here are five tips for CIOs needing to improve budgeting and vendor relationships and align IT and business priorities. First step: Go to lunch.

Explaining IT Value to Skeptics

Wed, 25 May 2011 04:00:00 GMT

Here are some approaches CIOs take when new executives require them to re-establish IT’s strategic value

It’s Time for CIOs to Get in the Game

Thu, 12 May 2011 04:00:00 GMT

IT-business alignment is no longer the conversation, finds CIO magazine Editor in Chief Maryfran Johnson. Today’s top IT executives know it’s all about creating business value.

IT Value Is Dead. Long Live Business Value.

Thu, 12 May 2011 04:00:00 GMT

Business outcomes from technology investments are all that really matter. The CIO’s challenge is finding new ways to prove IT’s worth.

IT-Business Alignment a Thing of the Past

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:00:00 GMT

It’s time for CIOs to embrace an integrated, evolving strategy

Raising Your IT Staff’s Business Smarts

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Eisai Senior VP of IT Joel Dobbs says that after a consolidation, CIOs must focus everyone on strategic goals

Using Enterprise Transformation to Grow Business Skills

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:00:00 GMT

How CIOs are taking advantage of ERP implementations to create and improve partnerships between IT and business staff

SAP's Not-So-Secret Weapon: Its Own CIO

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Oliver Bussmann, now a year into his tenure as CIO for SAP, has re-invented and raised the profile of the ERP vendor's CIO role. One key: Sharing with customers his ongoing experiences with a huge SAP environment.