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Center for CIO Leadership Pulsecheck Interview Synthesis: The CIO and Finance: The Integration of Technology and Business in the "New Normal"

info@cioleadershipcenter.com — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:17:30 GMT

White Paper: Beyond the Crossroads: How Business-Savvy CIOs Enable Top-Performing Enterprises and How Top-Performing Enterprises Leverage Business-Savvy CIOs

info@cioleadershipcenter.com — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:04:02 GMT

The Center for CIO Leadership has taken the 2009 IBM CIO study and applied the Center’s education expertise to the study to help CIOs identify opportunities to advance their skills.

Center for CIO Leadership

Summary

In 2009 we worked with many of you to further our shared understanding of the competencies and skills CIOs require to advance their businesses today. Your contributions have resulted in a new Center white paper, “Beyond the Crossroads: How Business-Savvy CIOs Enable Top-Performing Enterprises and How Top-Performing Enterprises Leverage Business-Savvy CIOs.”

This new perspective brings together two bodies of research – the Center’s competency research highlighted in The CIO Profession: Leaders of Change, Drivers of Innovation – and the 2009 IBM CIO study, The New Voice of the CIO. This paper highlights the progress that we, as a profession, have made in just a few short years and shares advice and approaches from your CIO peers and fellow Center members on the skills and competencies necessary to become a Business-Savvy CIO.

Business-Savvy CIO

The “new normal” –continued economic challenges and the expanded role of government, the increasing use of technology as a business enabler – are requiring CIOs to become Business-Savvy leaders and to drive growth and change through technology and process innovation.

This paper outlines the capabilities and competencies required of Business-Savvy CIOs and approaches to gathering those skills. The Business-Savvy CIO possesses strong business acumen and is able to:

Make innovation a practical reality
Create a strong understanding of the ROI of IT
Expand the business impact and influence of IT

Further Reading

You may also be interested in reading the blog post The Many Faces of the CIO from the blog The Total CIO written by Center member Andy Blumenthal.

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The CIO Profession: Leaders of Change, Drivers of Innovation

info@cioleadershipcenter.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:20:53 GMT

Center for CIO Leadership Pulsecheck Interview Synthesis: Impact of the Current Environment on the Role of the CIO

info@cioleadershipcenter.com — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:34:10 GMT

Succeeding in the new economic environment: Focus on value, opportunity, speed

info@cioleadershipcenter.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:22:19 GMT

Getting Higher Business Value from IT: The Non-IT Executive View

info@cioleadershipcenter.com — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:48:34 GMT

What CIOs at firms getting higher business value from their IT are doing better than other firms. Four pivotal tasks suggest how CIOs should prioritize their objectives.

George Westerman and Peter Weill

Center for Information Systems Research

A Center for CIO Leadership Summary

This research report published by the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at the MIT Sloan School of Management summarizes the results of a survey of 153 senior non-IT executives about ten IT and eight non-IT management tasks and statistically identified which were most important. The authors, George Westerman and Peter Weill of CISR, then interviewed 16 experienced CIOs to find out how they achieve these tasks effectively.

The results showed that firms who get higher business value from IT perform four specific tasks better than other firms. The results provide IT executives with strong evidence to help prioritize objectives and their daily tasks. Read the full text of this research briefing (Click on Research Briefing # VI-3A)

Read the full text of this research briefing (Click on Research Briefing # VI-3A)

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2008 ASEAN CIO Leadership Study: The Changing Role of CIO: From Technology Excellence to Business Impact

info@cioleadershipcenter.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:24:01 GMT

Application Consolidation: The Number One Business Imperative

info@cioleadershipcenter.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:25:26 GMT

Harry Fox Agency: Linking IT Investments to Business Value

info@cioleadershipcenter.com — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:47:22 GMT

CIO as the master of change: transforming the IT organization and driving transformation across the enterprise

info@cioleadershipcenter.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:17:48 GMT