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Gartner's 2010 CIO Agenda study outlines the 10 highest business priorities for CIOs-and where those initiatives fall into their expected priorities for 2013.
Book Review
In their new book, Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris explain how businesses can effectively utilize and deploy analytical experts to further their business intelligence/analytics mission.
Analysis
CIOs need to seize opportunities in 2010 and show the business they can cut costs while moving the business forward.
Opinion
As IT spending looks flat for 2010, here are five action points CIOs can use to combat increasing pressures on IT.
New Slideshow
IT professionals looking for a little love (read: more money) may want to look at stocking up on technical certifications. But not just any certifications. Dice Learning, a search engine that helps connect technology workers with the training and certifications they need, has gathered input from 17,000 IT workers on which of those certifications deliver the biggest boosts in pay. (Of course, the cynical IT staffer would answer that question "none"-luckily, it appears the cynics weren't polled.)
What follows is a look at the top 10 certifications that IT workers say help them command higher salaries-regardless of experience levels.
Feature
Organizational politics, patience and pragmatism all play key roles in helping CIOs to develop next-generation IT executives.
Analysis
Broadridge Financial Solutions CIO Mark Schlesinger explains his leadership development philosophy.
Analysis
Former Medco Health Solutions CIO Mark Halloran explains how he led training programs to develop talented IT leaders.
Analysis
A former divisional CIO with Prudential offers a treatise on what IT leaders must do to meet the changing demands of the job.
New Slideshow
Even though many IT professionals have seen flat to declining pay rates, there are some bright spots in the IT job arena. According to Foote Partners, publishers of the esteemed quarterly IT Skills and Certification Pay Index, there has been a definite demand for SAP and enterprise applications skills over the last six months. Here are the top 20 distinct skills by market value growth over the last six months, according to the most recent index.
New Slideshow
The quarterly Foote Partners IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index examines in depth how certain skills and certification can affect the pay of IT professionals. Unsurprisingly, the index found that most skills and certifications decreased in value last year.
But as a percentage of the "base salary" for IT professionals, most types of certifications gave recipients an edge in remuneration. Typically, IT certification holders made 7.46 percent more than average IT workers in the fourth quarter of 2009.
CIO Insight examines how much extra certain types of IT certifications have garnered professionals over the last three years. The percentages are all measured as additional value on top of the base IT salary, as determined by Foote Partners.
New Slideshow
The 80-million strong Millennial generation is going to change the IT landscape in countless ways, whether CIOs like it or not.
Dealing with this unique generation can be difficult—given their work habits, interests and deep grounding in technology as a way of life. Luckily, there are a handful of insightful books that help businesses and bosses understand and manage the Millennials.
Interview
The leaders of the analytics push explain why CIOs struggle to use information to their employers' gain—-and how they can avoid the usual trip-ups.
New Slideshow
IT employee confidence rose to its highest level in the fourth quarter of 2009 in almost two years, according to the latest survey by IT staffing firm Technisource.
IT workers also expressed much higher confidence in the economy in job availability than in the same period in 2008. Click through to see the full results.
Analysis
A new framework for evaluating your strengths, weaknesses and potential as a corporate leader.
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