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Advice to CIOs: Don’t Choke On the Alphabet Soup
CIOs are having an identity crisis.The CIO’s turf is being cut into smaller and smaller pieces as organizations create chief digital officers, chief process officers, chief marketing officers, chief...
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The Tough Road Ahead for Women CIOs
GE’s appointment of a woman, Jamie Miller, as CIO -- replacing Charlene Begley, who resigned for medical reasons -- has led to new focus on female CIOs. However, messages are mixed about whether the...
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What Should You Use for CIO Metrics?
The saying goes, if you can't measure it, you can't manage it. However, when it comes to IT, what exactly is it you're supposed to measure? A group of people on LinkedIn's CIO Network group recently...
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Why the C-Suite Needs to Listen Harder to CIOs
CIOs are constantly being told that they need to think more like CEOs, that they need to think in business terms, that it's their responsibility to manage up.But a recent article is saying the opposite...
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Why Your City Needs a Chief Innovation Officer
Over the last few years, there’s been an increasing trend to add a title to the C-suite: the “chief innovation officer.” In some cases, this person is replacing the chief information officer; in...
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3 Questions with Higher Education CIO Dr. Baz Abouelenein
Dr. Baz Abouelenein is the Chief Information Officer at Kansas City Kansas Community College (KCKCC). Over the past few years, he has worked with executive leaders, faculty, and stakeholders at KCKCC...
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What Does 'CIO' Mean to You?
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet."With the plethora of new C-level titles and the infighting going on between some of them, it’s not surprising that...
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The CIO's Guide to Going on Vacation
Ah, summer. Relaxing days with the family, long weekends full of leisure activities, and exotic vacations.Yeah, right.According to a recent survey from Robert Half International, the vast majority (73...
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The Changing Role of the CIO: A Google Hangout
2013 has been full of discussions about the rapidly changing CIO landscape. Whether it’s the CMO or CTO horning in on the CIO’s turf, or the growing value of big data, or how the “I” in CIO should...
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CIOs and CMOs: Friends or Foes? A Google Hangout
We’re having another Hangout! Please join us on December 11 at 2 pm EST (11 am PST) to discuss the changing relationship between the CIO and the CMO. With all the talk this year about CMOs taking over...
View ArticleCIOs and CMOs: Friends or Foes? Recap of Our Google Hangout
Last week, Simplicity 2.0 hosted a Google+ Hangout on the subject of “CIOs and CMOs: Friends or Foes?” Rand Fishkin, founder and CEO of Moz, an SEO software company; Scott Brinker, co-founder and CTO...
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3 Questions With 'Iconoclastic' CIO Mitch Davis
Mitch Davis has been CIO for ten years at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. “I’ve never lived anywhere in my life this long and never thought I’d be here this long,” he says. Previously, he was the...
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Women in IT: A Google Hangout
We’re having another Hangout! Please join us on March 6 at 2 pm EST (11 am PST) to discuss the role of women in IT.Studies indicate that women aren’t proportionally represented in the IT industry....
View Article5 Things We Learned in Our Google Hangout on ‘Women in IT’
Last week, Simplicity 2.0 hosted a Google+ Hangout on the subject of “Women in IT.” Melissa Woo, CIO of University of Oregon; Terri Chung, associate at Hewlett Consulting Partners; and Kimberly...
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Me and My Shadow: Dealing With Parallel IT Organizations
Who knows what evil lurks in corporations outside the IT department? Only the shadow knows.The term “shadow IT” is gaining in popularity, but the concept is not new. It refers to hardware and software...
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3 Questions With Higher Ed CIO Stephen diFilipo
Stephen diFilipo, now a vice president and CIO in higher education, has had a rather unconventional career trajectory: As a classically trained musician, he spent years performing throughout the United...
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3 Questions With Asheville CIO Jonathan Feldman
Jonathan Feldman is Chief Information Officer for the city of Asheville, N.C. A rapidly growing and popular city, Asheville has been named a Fodor top travel destination. Under Feldman’s watch, the...
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3 Questions With Higher Ed CIO Raechelle Clemmons
Any person who calls her blog, “Some guy named Rae: Musings of a female CIO” is going to have some interesting opinions. Raechelle Clemmons, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at St. Norbert...
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Remember the CIO-CMO Wars? Never Mind
After months, if not years, of dire warnings about how CMOs were competing with CIOs for scarce corporate resources, that CMOs were eventually going to supplant CIOs, and that CIOs were a dying breed,...
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Deloitte Global Survey Points Out CIOs' Innovation Problem
There’s little doubt that globalization is transforming the way we work. But what is it really like to be a global CIO? A recent survey, CIOs at the Tech-junction, focuses specifically on CIOs outside...
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