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Corporate culture is critical to social media projects.
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Does your company run a strategic IT shop, or an operational one? According to the IT Governance Institute (ITGI), strategists are more forward-looking, are governed with an eye toward partnering with lines of business in order to innovate, and tend to return more from their IT investments. Operators are most concerned with cutting costs in the here and now, are governed to keep the lights on and often miss opportunities to realize value from their investments.
In a recent study conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, ITGI examined the behaviors and outcomes of these two types of IT organizations.
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The term ‘innovation’ means different things to different CIOs. Finding the right meaning has never been more important.
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What Frontier Airlines learned during a big IT project.
See our case study on Frontier's SaaS effort.
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The CIO's First 100 Days: Conduct a Technology Stress Test.
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How can you measure where you are?
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But with every crisis comes opportunity. For CIOs, there are plenty of them to go around.
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Marketing is about communicating the value of IT, which is more essential than ever in a down economy.
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Only about 80 percent of business executives rank IT as somewhat important or critically important for key activities, and only half of them see IT doing well in supporting their needs, according to Forrester Research. While CIOs can improve the way they support the business, Forrester also believes they need to do a better job communicating the ways they already do so.
The following tips come from a new report by Forrester, “Value-Based Communication Boosts Business’ Perception of IT.” The three over-arching rules are: Link IT’s internal activities to business value; personally position IT’s value to the organization; and add business value to IT’s work with other organizations.
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Our 2009 CIO Role Survey shows that CIOs expect the importance of business tasks in their portfolio to increase much more quickly than technology tasks over the next two years. This points to the need for a new skill-set for the next generation of CIOs.
Each slide shows the percentage of IT pros surveyed who responded in a particular way.
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A reading list that will help you get your point across.
By Ericka Chickowski
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While the succession management process differs from one organization to another, there are certain characteristics of an effective program that are universal:
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Cost cutting is the top priority for CIOs this year, but they can't lose sight of other IT leadership concerns.
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Preparing your company’s next generation of IT leaders probably isn’t high on your list of priorities. Here’s why it should be.
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It’s essential for CIOs to find the right ways to measure IT’s performance. Here’s how to weigh your options.
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