CIOs

CIOs, IT chiefs: ARRGH! What do you MEAN, HR just bought 400 iPads and didn ... Register CIOs and IT bods are in the dark over tech budgets as lines of biz people sidestep them to deploy their own projects, according to a survey by the Corporate Executive Board. Some 165 firms with a tech spend of $29bn responded to the questions from CEB, ... See all stories on this topic »

'CIOs Have To Become Innovators' Businessworld Vic Bhagat, Executive VP and CIO of EMC Corp, is the man to go to for transformational IT. In his 20-year stint with GE, he set up several centres of excellence focused on analytics and new technologies such as cloud and big data. When he came on board ... See all stories on this topic »

CIOs left in the dark about technology spending outside of IT Information Age IT departments are significantly underestimating the budgets allocated to technology in others parts of the organisation, as more business leaders bypass the CIO and IT staff to execute their own projects. These are the latest findings from member ... See all stories on this topic »

CIOs may want to check mobile list twice FierceMobileIT As 2013 nears a close, planning for the next calendar year is in full swing at many IT shops. Mobile wish lists are no doubt on the radar of chief information officers--whether they're visions of carrier changes, device upgrades or shiny new mobile ... See all stories on this topic »

A CIO Survival Guide to Saying No IDG News Service One of the toughest leadership challenges for CIOs today is having to refuse business requests for new technology. Here's how to keep the lines of IT-business communication open while communicating honestly with your fellow executives. See all stories on this topic »

A CIO's Survival Guide to Saying No CIO Magazine "Veteran CIOs find that by using tools such as skillful conversation, deep governance and sense-and-respond intelligence, denial doesn't have to kill a career," Kim S. Nash writes. Done wrong, there's no question that a "no" can sharpen battle lines ... See all stories on this topic »

State Exchanges Started Late, Clashed With Vendors Wall Street Journal (blog) That day, at a status review meeting of CIOs of state health exchanges, he learned that many of his peers were far behind where they should have been. According to Mr. Kwak, several of his peers hadn't yet selected a systems integrator – tech vendors ... See all stories on this topic »

Meet Google CIO Ben Fried TechRepublic (blog) a_ben_fried.jpg November's editorial focus here at TechRepublic is on the concept of the "CIO as a business catalyst." We've published articles on soft skills needed by CIOs, the experiences of a female CIO, old-school technology strategies CIOs should ... See all stories on this topic »

Small Businesses Put Themselves at Risk by Not Taking Security Seriously CIO CIO — Senior management at small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) are failing to take cyber security seriously and are putting their organizations at risk, according to a recently released study by security research firm Ponemon Institute. cyber attacks. See all stories on this topic »

Project Management Lessons From HealthCare.Gov CIO Insight And while all of these may be true, there are other, lesser reported project management lessons that CIOs can learn from the unsuccessful rollout of HealthCare.Gov. Here are four key takeaways: 1. Communicate the bad news early on. The project to ... See all stories on this topic »