CIO Insight’s article on CIOs who take on more roles in the business brings up many issues to ponder. One of them is a potential career path beyond CIO that might be facilitated by a willingness to add roles and responsibilities to a CIO’s portfolio. The story of Beth Perlman, CIO of Constellation Energy, is […]
CIO Insight’s great reporting uncovered another trend related to CIOs expanding their roles. Forrestor’s Alex Cullen commented on how CIOs might fit into other parts of the organization:
“We see the broader role more and more in areas like real estate management,” he says. “CIOs make really good chief operating officers for other parts of the […]
What frustrates me about most surveys and studies is the lack of definition of the terms. The result is a survey that means virtually nothing. CIO Insight uses the phrase “strategic mindset” when discussing responses to one of it’s survey statements to CIOs:
“There are some companies where the head of the information technology department is […]
Projectmanagement411 had a fantastic February with lively discussion on a plethora of business project topics. Those who participate make me better for it- hopefully they feel the same as we all grapple with the thorny business issues of the day.
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Continuing from yesterday’s post , another great point made in David Brumby’s Computerworld article “Risks Pay Off in Brand Building ” relates to how we evaluate projects. Clearly, he makes the point that financial criteria can hurt innovation; a better approach is to evaluate how a project contributes to strategies:
“Some of the most innovative ideas […]
You may know by now that I am not a fan of increasing the CIOs role. Rather I see tremendous value in centralizing non-IT executive control of projects (IT and non-IT) supported by a PMO-like organization. Even so, I’m am NOT saying I’m against CIO role improvement; what I am saying is that other […]
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