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Recent stock market and corporate fraud upheavals and events of September 11 have emphasised just how critical it is to have processes which have leading, not lagging, indicators of market, customer,...
View ArticleIT Architecture Matters
IT architectures are enjoying a renaissance. CIOs are updating yesterday's architectures, or working on creating new ones. The reason? IT architectures promise benefits that are more sought after than...
View ArticleCredit Where Credit Is Due
Every $1 invested in computers yields between $5 and $17 in stock market value. Whereas, $1 invested in property, plant and equipment (book value) only yields $1 in stock market value. And $1...
View ArticleGetting Priorities Straight
Few initiatives are standalone IT projects any more. They are business initiatives with varying degrees of IT support so they need the wholehearted support of both business and technology executives....
View ArticleThe Soft Touch
CIOs and other IT executives need to embrace the importance of the soft side of leadership.
View ArticleStakeholders Matter
CIOs need to identify their many different stakeholders and actively manage them.
View ArticleA Clear and Present Objective
The joint research on IT governance between MIT Sloan and Gartner's CIO group, Executive Programs, has identified that organisations with good IT governance have different enterprise characteristics to...
View ArticleThe Heat Is On
Each year, EXP surveys our worldwide CIO membership about their top enterprise business trends, CIO management priorities and CIO technology priorities. An unprecedented 620 EXP CIOs responded to this...
View ArticleA Pivotal Role
To effectively deliver on the CIO's six imperatives - lead, anticipate, strategise, organise, deliver, measure - CIOs need to really know their enterprise and their business environment
View ArticleSo Bill Me
IT costs are now highly visible and containing them is high on executive agendas
View ArticleCompeting in the Network Era
Are you and your CEO ready for the fact that just about everything will become a node in a network?
View ArticlePlaying by New Rules
CIOs are learning to manage a new set of externally generated risks.
View ArticleDeciding Factors
It's been nine months since we introduced the IT governance framework that combines three components: what decisions need to be made, who makes them and how they are enacted. But enterprises have...
View ArticleWho is entitled to be called ‘head of digital’?
Over recent months, I’ve worked with several organisations on roles encompassing either head of digital or chief digital officer (CDO), or where the relationship between the CIO and head of digital is...
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