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Susan Cramm is founder and president of Valuedance, an executive coaching firm in San Clemente, Calif. Her CIO column, Executive Coach, offers advice and answers readers' questions on approaches to thriving in organizational life.
Reader Q&A: How To Make Actions Convey Your Agenda
Executive Coach Susan Cramm answers questions about how to make sure your actions send the right message to your staff.
Read More »Leading Change With Every Move You Make
Smart leaders leverage the attention focused on them by using it as a platform to to convey their leadership agenda. Here's how they do it.
Read More »Reader Q&A: Fostering strategic thinking in your organization
Executive Coach Susan Cramm answers questions about how to get your organization thinking strategically, plus putting leadership responsibility where it belongs.
Read More »Reader Q&A: Advice for Managing Business Meetings
In person or via teleconference, improve your decision-making processes in the meeting room.
Read More »A strategic mindset is worthless without the ability to mobilize commitment. Communication and collaboration are the keys to making strategy stick.
Read More »Advice on Leadership and Workplace Behavior
Tips for dealing with bomb-throwers, and how to please your superiors without stepping on the toes of those below you.
Read More »Decision making in IT is pretty messy. It doesn't have to be. CIOs can avoid acrimony by taking a fresh approach to the process. Here's how.
Read More »Advice on Reaching Out to Business Partners and Effective Leadership
Advice from career coach Susan Cramm: IT executives need to find collaborative business partners. Leaders listen a lot so they can tell what motivates people to act.
Read More »Winning back estranged colleagues is no easy task. Step 1: Eat humble pie. Step 2: Find the win-win solutions that define effective collaboration.
Read More »CIOs who understand how to influence top managers can create a powerful role for themselves, their organizations and technology.
Read More »Preparing for the Next Cyber Attack
Ensure you are up-to-speed on the latest security technologies available to keep your network safe in this Executive Guide. Get a thorough assessment of the corporate security threat landscape. Protect your network with data leakage protection, NAC and other technologies explained in this report.
Sponsored by Qwest
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Cloud Building: 8 Ingredients for Internal Clouds
Cloud computing: a fundamentally new way to deploy IT services and functions cost-effectively and quickly. Learn how the VMware vCloud initiative dramatically improves how consumers access their information and experience applications as well as the 8 ingredients to get you going.
Sponsored by VMWare
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Investing in Business Analytics Technology
You're thinking now is the time to take the plunge into business analytics, but you still have some unanswered questions. This research summary addresses the most common questions and concerns surrounding the successful launch of a business analytics initiative. It also includes real-world examples of organizations already getting return on their investment.
Sponsored by SAS
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