7 Skills That Can Make CIOs Better Leaders

1. 9 Personal Skills You should Hone
2. 10 Non-certified IT Skills That Pay a Premium
3. 7 Essential CIO Leadership Skills That Get Results
4. Skills for the CIO Class of 2015
5. How to Retool Your IT Skills for the Cloud
6. 10 Recession-proof IT Skills You should Have
7. IT Jobs: How to Re-Skill Yourself for a Higher-Paying One

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Checklist for Leveraging Big Data Decisions

The Big Data evolution is changing the way we conduct business on many fronts. For decades, companies pursued real-time customer information to better capitalize on providing what the customer needed; CIOs looked to lower costs for faster analysis; companies sought to un-cuff their hands from IT costs and restrictions; and end users yearned for custom solutions and answers in real time. All wanted a voice in making their companies respond faster, serve better, and grow profits. Utopia is reality with the rise of Big Data!

There are many questions to consider: Are we ready to handle Big Data? Can companies ingest data and present options? Will CIOs leapfrog functionality and integrate the right options? How will organizations manage tiered systems for analytics? Will customers embrace the power of Big Data to extract best options? Let’s examine the impact on IT professionals.

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CIO’s Seven Points of Key Influences

The CIO role by nature is fraught with paradox, the modern CIO need be both business strategist and IT manager, innovator and cost-cutter, visionary and situation-driven.

Chief influence officer is the most pertinent persona for CIO in 21st century, since the technology is ubiquitous in information age, however, the traditional big box hardware style of IT infrastructure is disappearing, and more invisible digitized IT backbone based on Cloud computing is emerging, modern CIO is no longer just the chief infrastructure officer to manage back office of functional IT, this strategic role is more based on the influence made cross the organizational boundary, from innovation to sustainability, from talent management to cultural transformation.

Here we discuss the seven points of CIO’s influences:

1. Strategy Influence
2. Innovation Influence
3. Technology Influence
4. Culture Influence
5. Talent Influence
6. Sustainability Influence
7. Influence on Influencer

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CIO challenges: Bringing your iPad to work

The arrival of personal technology in the office is a challenge for all organisations. The technology is here, but not yet adapted for corporate use, and CIOs are asking what security policies must be put in place to safeguard network services and company data are these devices proliferate. This white paper describes how these devices can be identified on the network, securely enrolled, and authenticated and authorised on the network Download the whitepaper

Top 10 CIO priorities

Which issues are top of mind, or should be top of mind, for CIOs? Consider this list, gleaned from discussions with scores of U.S. and Indian CIOs, as well as from our own research

No. 10: Improve collaboration
No. 9: Explore cloud computing
No. 8: Get your arms around the consumerization of IT
No. 7: Leverage social media
No. 6: Find the right people
No. 5: Prep for the post-PC era
No. 4: Harness big data
No. 3: Break out of the 80/20 spending trap
No. 2: Make IT one with the business
No. 1: IT is too darn slow (and needs to get faster)

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