The world is changing so quickly, and every company's business model has to change as well, says V.C. Gopalratnam, vice president, IT at Cisco. 'You really have to build an organisation that is as flexible as hell.'
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'Instinct based on experience' critical in making quick decisions, the global entrepreneur said in his address to the IT community.
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Most managers want their team members to be more proactive when it comes to making decisions. IT Team leaders at any level can use a 'Tree Decision Rights' model to identify different types of decisions and then work with their team members to empower them to take on more decision-making responsibly.
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'The CIO is uniquely primed to ascend to the CEO and COO positions in technology driven companies,' says Andre Mendes, CIO/CTO at the US Broadcasting Board of Governors.
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The approach to allowing people to use mobile technology at the workplace is not as complex or problematical as often 'talked up'.
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An executive adviser urges CIOs not to be passive in developing a relationship with the new CEO. Speak up about opportunities for business growth and communicate the business impact of the IT function.
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Virtual life can go on. Here's how to set up your online estate through major social networks and useful web services.
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The Yankee Group says iPhone market share will dominate Android within two years.
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Fashion house Paul Smith has long taken classic British style to the wider world. Now head of IT Lee Bingham is helping deliver the same quality to online shoppers.
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Many organisations have trouble finding IT workers with the skills needed to implement big data analytics and cloud computing strategies. But that skills gap isn't limited to engineers and developers. There's also a shortage of executives and business leaders with the skills to manage big data and cloud teams.
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The world of technology changes at a blinding pace, which means a CIO has to regularly adopt new skills. So what does it take to compete and be a successful CIO at a time when having a variety of skills is more important than ever before.
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Some enterprise applications are beginning to incorporate social, consumer-inspired interfaces.
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How do you sort through all the choices and find the right software vendor for your business? IT executives offer eight suggestions (along with four bonus tips) about what questions to ask software vendors as well as how to properly vet them and their product offerings.
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Integration, innovation, infrastructure: three forward-thinking IT leaders explain why it's inevitable that the 'I' in 'CIO' won't always stand solely for 'information'
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Whether you think your company uses the information or not, self-evaluations are a necessary device for professional development. Learn how to get the most out of this often-maligned process.
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If you are resourcing a critical project which is complex and with a high likelihood of failure, you will increase your chances of success by selecting team players who have faced similar situations with enthusiasm.
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At this year's Cloud Connect conference, discussion moved from defining cloud computing to discussing practical enterprises applications of the cloud. That is, until two McKinsey consultants suggested the cloud could spell the end of IT organisations as we know them.
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There's no CEO 101 course that outlines the best way to run a tech company. But the legacies of Jobs, Watson, Gerstner and Gates - combined with the current work of Whitman and Rometty - offer lessons for the corporate leaders of tomorrow.
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Are you leaving money on the table by not optimizing your virtual or cloud environment to cut software licensing costs? Don't fall prey to these five common software licensing misconceptions.
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As IT responsibilities evolve, managers strive for better ways to measure techies' contributions
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MIS100 2012
