CIO Insight Staff

A skills shortage, getting IT and business aligned and understanding their evolving role as leaders are among the top management concerns of CIOs, according to a survey by the Society for Information Management conducted by Professor Jerry Luftman, assoc

In The Future of Management, strategy guru Gary Hamel argues that management innovation is the chief source of long-lasting competitive advantage. But do CIOs, whose “biggest hurdle” Hamel says is to “think differently about management and admit that traditional roles and prerogatives must change,” agree? Turns out they’re divided: Half feel technological innovation is more […]

As an IT consultant, do you know how much you should be making? This depends, of course, on many variables that are not always easily gauged: experience, skills, industry, education, size and location of company. PayScale has created a business model based on providing potential employees with the data needed to negotiate the best deal. […]

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Controlling costs and aligning IT with business were among the favorite topics of our Web site visitors in September. They also showed interest in the emerging Web 2.0 offerings of corporate social networks and virtual worlds. Here are the top 10 requested articles from last month. 1. 8 Ways to Cut IT Labor Costs: But […]

The world is still round, says Pankaj Ghemawat. Globalization is a real and powerful force, but the sameness of business around the planet is often overstated, argues Ghemawat, a professor of global strategy at IESE Business School in Barcelona and professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. His new book, Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing […]

The Quote: “The things that are wrong with the Web today are due to this lack of curiosity in the computing profession.” Who Said It: Alan Kay, president of Viewpoints Research Institute, a not-for-profit corporation aimed at improving education for the world’s children and to advance the state of systems research and personal computing. Kay, […]

Staff expenses-salaries, benefits, bonuses, training and travel-can represent nearly one-third of IT budgets, and become prime targets for some CIOs to reign in costs. CIO Insight surveyed top IT executives to determine how they control costs,

The Quote: “With the talent market so tight, it’s just dumb business to get the reputation as a nasty place to work.” Who Said It: Robert Sutton, Author, The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One that Isn’t. In Context: Responding to the question—How big is the asshole problem in technology organizations?—Sutton […]

Beginning with the work leading to his first book, The Alignment Effect, Faisal Hoque has been on a seven-year-long “research journey” into the subject of alignment. He used his perch as the founder, chairman and CEO of BTM Corp. to organize the Business Technology Management Institute, a research organization made up of academics, CIOs and […]

What do Dartmouth, Brigham Young and ESADE have in common? They all ranked atop a list of best MBA programs, according to a survey of recruiters. The Tuck School at Dartmouth College ranked No. 1 in the national ranking for best MBA programs. Brigham Young’s Marriott School held the top spot among U.S. regional universities […]

Negotiating a good deal means more than winning on price or other terms, say Danny Ertel and Mark Gordon, cofounders of negotiation and business relationship management specialists Vantage Partners, in their upcoming book, The Point of the Deal: How to Negotiate When Yes Is Not Enough (Harvard Business School Press, October 2007). When parties will […]