June 3, 2010 6:35 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
CIO careers,
mentorSome avocations cry out more than others for the helping hand of a mentor. I've decided the CIO job is one of them. Maybe it's because the chief information officer is a relatively new entrant into the realm of bosses. Or maybe it's because the CIO job is so hard, demanding that right- and...
May 13, 2010 6:25 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
CFO,
CIO careers,
CIO role"Where the CIO should report is a question as old as the CIO role itself," says John Van Decker, analyst with Gartner Inc.
Shoot, it's a stale question even for a reporter who has been covering CIO careers for five years.
But data on the topic, whether from Gartner or
May 6, 2010 1:50 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
CIO,
CIO careers,
MicrosoftMicrosoft CIO Tony Scott was the keynote speaker at a modest but interesting gathering of CIOs in Boston yesterday, and he more or less stole the show, arriving in a rumpled suit and displaying the sort of brash, jargon-free intelligence that is still a novelty at IT shows. He's predicting that...
April 29, 2010 6:55 PM
Posted by: rlebeaux
CIO,
CIO careers,
IT hiringWell, this sounds like a positive sign of economy -- and IT -- recovery. We've written recently about what CEOs look for in the CIO role, and now The...
April 16, 2010 2:09 PM
Posted by: Christina Torode
CIO,
CIO careers,
risk managementOf all the conversations I had with attendees this week at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Las Vegas, it was actually one with Gartner analyst Debra Logan about CIO careers that surprised me the most. Logan is finding that more...
March 19, 2010 4:13 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
CIO,
CIO careersWhat are CEOs looking for in a CIO? According to headhunters at the Boston Society for Information Management (SIM) annual meeting last night, CEOs are saying they need someone who can speak the language of business...
February 24, 2010 8:56 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
CIO careers,
IT outsourcing,
outsourcing providerConsultant Tom Young has been mulling over the good, the bad and all the ugliness of outsourcing contracts for 13 years, eight of them with the IT advisory firm TPI, where he is managing director of the CIO services and infrastructure group. Before that, he was a financial director at AT&T...
February 12, 2010 3:51 PM
Posted by: rlebeaux
CIO,
CIO careers,
IT hiringA few weeks ago, over a delicious dinner of Thai food with my uncle visiting from the Palo Alto area, I went on and on about my job here at SearchCIO.com and about all the various social media platforms on which my work now relies, including Twitter, LinkedIn and, of...
February 10, 2010 9:24 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
CIO,
CIO careers,
IT PMOTen minutes after filing a story on the virtues of an enterprise project management office, I got a call from a CIO I’d gotten to know over the years informing me that he had been fired. On a Friday...
