CIO - Blueprints

Acquire the Right Hires with Effective Interviewing

Acquiring the best talent relies heavily on an effective interviewing process, which involves the strategic preparation of stakeholders, including interviewers. Asking...

Make IT a Successful Partner in M&A Integration

Many organizations forget the essential role IT plays during M&A integration. The involvement of IT is critical to providing a better view of risks, improving ease of...
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Become a Transformational CIO

A transformational CIO is a business leader who actively approaches business peers with opportunities for transformation, and who seeks to co-lead business change. In...
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Master the Art of Stakeholder Management in Small Enterprise Environments

Stakeholder management is something everyone does, but unfortunately few people actually do well. Taking the time to properly identify critical stakeholders and...

Train Managers to Strengthen Employee Relationships to Improve Engagement

Managers have the greatest impact on their team's engagement due to the closeness of the working relationship. Make significant improvements to manager relationships to...
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Recruit and Retain More Women in IT

Fight the war on talent by leveraging straightforward tactics to help you build a targeted recruitment and retention strategy to attract more women in your IT department.
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CIO Trend Report 2017

Trend reports can provide an academic outlook as to what is happening in the technology landscape, but not much else. CIOs need a framework to develop concrete insight...

Apply Design Thinking to Build Empathy With the Business

IT often manages stakeholders who don’t know how to articulate what they want. Requirements often say what the business needs, but rarely does discussion about the...
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Prototype With an Innovation Design Sprint

Design, build, test, and iterate your innovative ideas in four days or less by applying design thinking, rapid iteration, and user experience testing.
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Sustain and Grow the Maturity of Innovation in Your Enterprise

Follow this blueprint to increase the effectiveness of your current innovation program on a project and personnel level, allowing you to spawn more innovations, realize...
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