July 3, 2012 8:24 AM
Posted by: Arun Gupta
BITA,
business IT alignment,
CIO role,
LeadershipThe journey of a thousand miles begins with a small step; similarly, the development or deployment of systems and solutions begins with requirement gathering. Conventional wisdom has it that IT teams talk to business users to gather their requirements, and then go about creating or finding a...
June 5, 2012 7:26 AM
Posted by: Arun Gupta
BITA,
CIO,
CXO relationships,
LeadershipThe relationship between the CIO and the CFO has been discussed with adversarial undercurrents as the general perception about the CFO portrays a beanie counter. This is analogous to the CIO...
May 15, 2012 12:01 AM
Posted by: Arun Gupta
Changing role of the CIO,
CIO,
LeadershipAlmost a decade back I remember a company that after spending a large amount of money with consultants going through the whole nine yards and then some more recommended rechristening
May 8, 2012 12:01 AM
Posted by: Arun Gupta
Leadership,
software licenses,
Vendor relationshipsLast year was a very difficult year for most software companies with slowdown in new license sales that brought in a negative trend in new business revenue. This happened very quickly after the globally experienced
May 1, 2012 12:01 AM
Posted by: Arun Gupta
busy CIO,
Leadership,
Time managementI was recently reading a survey on how CIOs divide their time between activities; internal customers, external customers, vendors, management and business meetings, staff review meetings, fighting fires, responding to emails, learning new technologies, and attending a host of IT events. CIOs are a...
March 20, 2012 9:43 AM
Posted by: Arun Gupta
CIO,
Leadership,
role of the CIO,
Vendor relationshipsOver the years CIOs and vendors have worked to forge relationships that go beyond transactional and
March 13, 2012 10:11 AM
Posted by: Arun Gupta
BITA,
CIO,
Innovation,
Leadership,
role of the CIOEveryone agrees that business priorities define the IT agenda for any enterprise;...
March 6, 2012 3:50 AM
Posted by: Arun Gupta
business apps vs. personal apps,
change management,
CIO,
cloud-based apps,
ERP deployment,
Leadership,
long project cyclesExchanging notes with some old friends, reminiscences of long drawn ERP or similar projects and some quick wins took us on a rollercoaster ride. Everyone had been through a couple of...
February 28, 2012 9:19 AM
Posted by: Arun Gupta
CIO,
CIO and the team,
Leadership,
Team management,
team workLast week I was at a CIO conference with 80 odd CIOs representing junior and senior CIOs across verticals. Amongst other sessions, fun and networking, some vendor sales pitches, the big draw was a small contest run by the organizers titled, “My success story”. It was more than elevator pitch...
