How Data Analytics Is Transforming the Real-Estate Industry
Data insights are the key to providing customer value. The first steps are creating a culture of innovation and finding a CIO who is a business strategist.
Stories by Martha Heller
CEO Says CIOs Need to Be a Source of Energy and Innovation
Allstate's CEO says the CIO's office is only 20 feet away, so he can easily get thoughts from "one of the architects of our business innovation."
Breaking Through the CIO Paradox
The final CIO Paradox column examines three of the biggest contradictions that leaders in the CIO role face.
How CIOs Are Making Security an Enterprise Necessity
Information security is often seen as more trouble and cost than it's worth. Until it fails. How can CIOs truly make it part of enterprise risk management?
Start Recruiting IT Talent Now
To lure top tech students into the enterprise, CIOs must sell youth on the idea that Silicon Valley isn't the only place where IT is fun.
Finding the talent your business needs
How CIOs are meeting the challenge of a small high-tech pool by making the most of the teams they have
Skills for the CIO Class of 2015
IT management is changing. Here are some of the types of experience and knowledge that companies will be looking for in their CIOs.
Busting CIO myths
Welcome to IT MythBusters, where we take your most cherished beliefs about IT and rake them over the coals. In this edition, we feature Jeanne Ross, director of MIT's Center for Information Systems Research and co-author of books on enterprise architecture, governance and IT value. Enjoy.
Moving past old technology to new value
As CIO, you are out in front of your company, thinking through trends in market conditions, technology innovation and customer behavior. Sales and marketing leaders are out there with you. But unlike them, you are tethered by the cement footprint of data center, hardware and software choices made in a different computing age. Those decisions weigh heavily on how flexible, scalable, innovative and cost-effective you can now be.
IT marching orders for the next administration
FRAMINGHAM (01/20/2004) - To complement CIO's coverage of this year's presidential election, we asked members of the CIO Best Practice Exchange to take a survey on federal IT policy. Ninety-four members -- who are all senior-level IT executives of midsize to large organizations -- responded during a two-week period in November. Here is what they had to say about technology policy.