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20 influential chief information officers

20 influential chief information officers

By Michael Krigsman on March 9, 2016

The CIO role has come under considerable scrutiny because enterprise technology is now more strategic than ever before. The shift toward strategic IT has happened with the growth of business models that rely on technology platforms. In summary, digital transformation has accelerated change in the CIO role from infrastructure provider to innovator. 20 Influential Chief […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged #cxotalk, CIO, influence, Little Bird

US federal CIO? 'Someone from Google or Facebook will be eaten alive'

US federal CIO? ‘Someone from Google or Facebook will be eaten alive’

By Michael Krigsman on October 21, 2014

The selection of US Chief Information Officer must be an innovative Washington IT insider. Anyone else is doomed to fail.

Posted in Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged CIO, Steven VanRoekel, Vivek Kundra, white-house | 1 Response

Mission impossible? White House looks for new CIO

Mission impossible? White House looks for new CIO

By Michael Krigsman on October 9, 2014

As President Obama seeks a new U.S. Chief Information Officer, it’s time to examine the opportunities and obstacles associated with this important role.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged CIO, Federal CIO, white-house

Business transformation and the digital CIO

Business transformation and the digital CIO

By Michael Krigsman on June 25, 2014

Many innovative enterprises are evaluating how to take advantage of opportunities created by cloud, social, mobile, and data with analytics. The implications go far beyond technology into core activities related to business model, corporate culture, and interactions with customers. Many companies making these changes undertake shifts in organizational priorities, goals, and technology platforms. Taken as […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged #cxotalk, CIO

CIO strategy workshop: Intel's IT leadership and transformation pyramid

CIO strategy workshop: Intel’s IT leadership and transformation pyramid

By Michael Krigsman on May 20, 2014

The days of pure infrastructure IT, in which the CIO is responsible for little more than feeds and speeds, are ending. The path of modern CIO success requires meeting expectations from the business while reducing costs and finding ways to drive innovation. Because these goals can be mutually exclusive, accomplishing all three together is a significant CIO challenge. During a CxOTalk conversation […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #cxotalk, CIO, value chain

McKinsey research: IT needs a kick in the keister

McKinsey research: IT needs a kick in the keister

By Michael Krigsman on April 3, 2014

A new study from strategy consulting firm, McKinsey, shows “growing dissatisfaction” with IT performance, from both business users and within the ranks of IT itself. The study notes that almost one-third of IT respondents believe replacing their own leadership should be a top priority to improve IT performance. This data signals a growing crisis, in which […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged CIO, cio magazine, McKinsey & Company

MIT CIO leadership awards now accepting applications

MIT CIO leadership awards now accepting applications

By Michael Krigsman on February 28, 2014

Everyone knows I am a strong advocate of Chief Information Officers. It’s a tough job fraught with pressure from management that demands simultaneous cost cutting and innovation along with increasingly sophisticated business requirements for technology-enabled transformation. Despite these challenges and many more, there are great CIOs using technology to drive significant and meaningful business improvements. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CIO, mit

Cloud, DevOps and Herding Cats

Cloud, DevOps and Herding Cats

By Guest Authors on February 11, 2014

The conventional wisdom is that 2014 is that year that enterprise IT finally “rolls up the sleeves” and gets serious about cloud adoption. But what does this really mean? Basically we’re seeing the era of cloud pilots and proof-of-concepts in the enterprise drawing to close, especially around IaaS and to a certain extent PaaS. CIOs […]

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise, Featured Posts, General, Infrastructure, Marketing, Technology | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, CIO, cloud, cloud computing, devops, iaas, paas, salesforce.com | 2 Responses

Can an 8-Person StartUp Sell to a CIO?  Yes — If You Understand The Social Contract.

Can an 8-Person StartUp Sell to a CIO? Yes — If You Understand The Social Contract.

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 30, 2013

Recently Erick Schonfeld was kind enough to invite me to the DEMO conference to both serve as an Enterprise panel judge, and also to join a panel with 3 esteemed CIOs on how to Sell to Enterprise CIOs.  I was the Start-Up Guy on the Panel. You can see the whole session below, with the […]

Posted in Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged CIO, DEMO conference, Entrepreneurship, saas, salesforce.com, Social Contract, startups, workday

How ITaaS is Reviving the Service Catalog

How ITaaS is Reviving the Service Catalog

By Guest Authors on September 23, 2013

The service catalog hasn’t exactly been one of the hotter topics in enterprise IT.  Introduced as a IT service management best practice with ITIL v3, the general idea is that IT should provide a central list of services, SLAs, and prices along with service request processes. Users go to the service catalog, pick what they […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Platforms, Technology | Tagged CIO, cloud computing, Enterprise, iaas, ITaaS, itil, itsm, service catalog, software as a service | 1 Response

BYOD: The new battleground for CIO value

BYOD: The new battleground for CIO value

By Michael Krigsman on September 16, 2013

Today’s business users expect instant access to all work-related services and data from their personal mobile devices, challenging IT to re-think long-held ideas about infrastructure, policies, and governance. Because bring-your-own-device (BYOD) reflects massive growth in the consumerization of IT, it has become the battleground on which Chief Information Officers must demonstrate value and relevancy. This […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged byod, Chief information officer, CIO

Rethinking IT Transformation for the Cloud

Rethinking IT Transformation for the Cloud

By Guest Authors on July 16, 2013

As cloud computing matures and success models emerge, enterprises are now getting serious about using cloud to drive IT transformation.  JP Morgan Chase, Toyota, GE and other leading organizations are moving beyond incremental costs savings and are using cloud and next generation platforms to drive innovation, growth and competitive advantage.  Unfortunately many CIOs and their […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, General, Strategy, Technology, Trends & Concepts | Tagged amazon, CIO, cloud computing, cloudstack, dropbox, enterprise software, eucalyptus, IT transformation, openstack, salesforce.com, Strategy | 5 Responses

CxO Talk: Can a CIO and CMO be friends?

CxO Talk: Can a CIO and CMO be friends?

By Michael Krigsman on April 2, 2013

In episode four of CxO Talk, co-host Vala Afshar and I talk with Steve Mann, chief marketing officer (CMO) at LexisNexis, and Phil Komarny, chief information officer (CIO) at Seton Hill University. The discussion includes an insider’s look at the CIO and CMO roles, along with advice for technology vendors selling to senior executives. Steve […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged #cxotalk, CIO, CMO, lexisnexis

Marketing and IT tensions: 'CxO Talk' debuts today

Marketing and IT tensions: ‘CxO Talk’ debuts today

By Michael Krigsman on March 8, 2013

A new breed of chief marketing officer seeks data-driven answers to tough challenges, such as establishing clear links between marketing spend, activities, and specific business outcomes. To meet these goals, marketers have taken over an increasing slice of the overall budget that enterprises allocate to technology. Not surprisingly, this trend corresponds to the growth of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged #cxotalk, CDO, CIO, CMO, CXO, dion hinchcliffe, guy kawasaki, paul greenberg

Cloud research exposes gaps between CIOs and business leaders

Cloud research exposes gaps between CIOs and business leaders

By Michael Krigsman on January 21, 2013

  We often hear that IT is not aligned with the business, which is a catchall concept loosely meaning that business leaders and IT folks do not understand each other’s goals. Although differences in perspective and goals between these groups do exist, the gaps are difficult to measure, quantify, or even describe precisely. Nonetheless, these differences […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged CIO, cloud computing, Dimensional Research, host analytics | 1 Response

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