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These 9 initiatives have been found to elicit the most significant measurable impact for professionals in this role.
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People & Leadership
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November 27, 2019
You’ve been promoted from within or hired externally to the role of CIO. Studies show that two years after a new executive transition, as many as h...
October 02, 2019
Most new IT managers feel unprepared for their new people responsibilities. Managers are essential to the success of their teams, and by failing to...
September 10, 2019
The war for talent is here, and organizations are losing the battle. With IT unemployment at record lows, IT departments must find new ways to set ...
August 17, 2019
Changing workforce dynamics and digital access have shifted the power from employers to job seekers. Candidate expectations have escalated to match...
July 17, 2019
Most new IT managers feel unprepared for their new people responsibilities. Managers are essential to the success of their teams, and by failing to...
June 05, 2019
Most new IT managers feel unprepared for their new people responsibilities. Managers are essential to the success of their teams, and by failing to...
March 01, 2019
Fight the war on talent by leveraging straightforward tactics to help you build a targeted recruitment and retention strategy to attract more women...
February 14, 2019
You’re busy – don’t make your recognition program more complicated than it needs to be. Focus on day-to-day ideas and actively embed recognition in...
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Strategy & Governance
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December 18, 2019
Create an IT strategy based on business needs, not just intuition. It is no longer enough to generate a text document and call it an IT strategy. S...
October 31, 2019
Pre-digital organizations are not dinosaurs doomed to extinction. Organizations can transform themselves to thrive in the digital age. Digital tran...
July 25, 2019
This blueprint helps enterprises looking for either business model transformation and/or digital transformation to understand platform strategies a...
May 17, 2019
This blueprint helps organizations take stock of their digital maturity and compare it with their peers in the industry. By leveraging the capabili...
April 02, 2019
Learn about the evaluation of quantum capability and how to track it henceforth.
March 11, 2019
With the differentiation between products shrinking, organizations are looking towards improved customer experiences to separate themselves from th...
January 24, 2019
Organizations must move from running uncoordinated efforts within siloes to launching digital transformation initiatives organized around customer ...
December 18, 2018
Read the CIO Trend Report 2019 for an overview of emerging technologies and upcoming changes in the technology environment. Understand the multifac...
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Value & Performance
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June 15, 2018
CIOs need to take charge of the IT value proposition, increasing the impact and strategic role of IT. Use your IT update presentation to focus deci...
June 05, 2018
Business relationship management (BRM) is not just a communication conduit between IT and the business. When implemented properly, a BRM is a value...
October 18, 2017
To properly allocate project work and establish more stable project timelines, PMOs and portfolio managers need to develop a reasonable and managea...
June 14, 2017
With the right PPM strategy, IT leaders can enable executive decision makers to make sense of the excess of project demand and prioritize those ini...
March 21, 2017
IT investment decisions are made without a shared perspective of value, resulting in cost misallocation and unexploited opportunities to improve ef...
November 03, 2016
Our program enables IT to develop the right service metrics to tie IT service performance to business value and user experience.
July 13, 2016
Completed projects aren’t necessarily successful projects. Projects are justified because they will make the organization money, save money, or mak...
April 28, 2016
Stakeholder management is something everyone does, but unfortunately few people actually do well. Taking the time to properly identify critical sta...