August 24, 2010 2:08 AM
Posted by: S R Balasubramanian
C-level aspirations,
CIO career,
communication skills,
leadershipToday’s CIO lives in a world which involves interactions with many stakeholders; he cannot operate alone. Since he services various internal and external customers, his reach and influence go much beyond his function. The management also has its own expectation of him, and he is
August 16, 2010 6:20 AM
Posted by: S R Balasubramanian
C-level aspirations,
CIO career,
language of business,
leadershipEvery CIO functions in various capacities at an organization. Due to this multi-faceted job profile, he requires various traits that put him in charge of the situation. As a good manager, he can function very well by being dedicated and efficient. Just this capability will not take him far, since...
August 9, 2010 5:24 AM
Posted by: S R Balasubramanian
CIO career,
HR,
leadershipCan the CIO make contributions to HR? Certainly yes, will be my answer to this query.
Now, if we go by the traditional view, the CIO is a technology wizard who peers at the computer screen and makes various machines work. He is considered a back-end guy, someone who has very little to do...
August 2, 2010 7:02 AM
Posted by: S R Balasubramanian
BI,
business analytics,
CIO career,
data mining,
reportingMany organizations have already gone through the usual grind of generating several periodic and ad-hoc reports. Managers take action on some of them, whereas many such reports get printed as a matter of routine—with very little use made of them.
On the other hand, routine reports have a...
