July 7, 2011 7:20 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
Big Data,
CIO careers,
CIO roleNo matter the topic at hand, lately my conversations with CIOs turn to Big Data -- or, to use my editor's preferred term, large data sets. CIOs have Big Data on the brain -- and for good reason. Business leaders are convinced that mining varied, complex and unstructured large data sets generated...
June 9, 2011 7:26 PM
Posted by: Christina Torode
business transformation,
CIO leadership,
CIO role,
IT and business alignment,
IT enabled business transformationYou've heard about it for years: IT and business alignment, or the acknowledgement that CIOs have to bridge the gap between IT and business goals. These days, I'm hearing that IT and business...
March 2, 2011 6:06 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
CIO,
CIO careers,
CIO role,
IT executive,
retail industryThe recent news that Sears named 46-year-old Louis D'Ambrosio, a former IT executive at IBM and Avaya, as its new CEO strikes me as a big deal. Just a few weeks ago, Peter Breunig, who oversees IT architecture at Chevron, was telling me that chances are "slim" that an IT leader would become CEO of...
January 5, 2011 5:16 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
CIO careers,
CIO roleWhen should a CIO on the job market start lying about his or her age? Or, to put a finer point on the question, hiding one's age? For one of the headhunters I consulted on a story this week about
September 29, 2010 6:29 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
CIO role,
IT and business alignmentI heard from a reader recently that Chief Idiot Officer, not Chief Information Officer, is a more apt descriptor for CIOs he's dealt with. Harsh.
The scathing note was in response to my recent story, "
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
