CIO.com - Leadership

How to Communicate with the Board of Directors

Carrie Mathews — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

CIOs share tips for working effectively with the board

IT Careers: 5 Tips for Charting Your 100 Day Plan

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

100 day plans aren't just for new presidents and executives. They can help anyone at any level in IT ease into a new job and achieve success.

Cutting IT Costs: Gartner Recommends 20 Can't Miss Tips

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

From personnel to software to wireless and teleconferencing technologies, these tips from Gartner analysts will help IT departments tighten their belts during a recession.

CIO Slideshows: Cool Takes on IT

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The origins of iconic tech products. High-tech hotels. The top 10 cities for tech workers. The silliest BlackBerry accessories. Get it all right here and much, much more.

How to Deal With Problem Employees

John Baldoni — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Employees behaving badly can cost you time, money -- and talented workers. Leadership columnist John Baldoni shares three tips for keeping a minor problem from becoming a major headache.

Essential Reading for CIOs: Three Books You Need to Read

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Three books illustrate -- in fiction and nonfiction -- lessons that business executives and IT managers should learn. Find out why Mesh Collaboration, Business Focused IT and Service Excellence, and the original In Search of Excellence should be in your "To Be Read" pile.

What a Wall Street Decline Means to Enterprise IT

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Insights into Wall Street and tips for IT and business managers looking to understand the financial sector and how to solve budget problems posed by a stock market dip.

Wall Street Turmoil Unlikely to KO IT Industry

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and AIG trouble stoke recession fears.

Lehman Brothers was Boosting IT Investment Despite Credit Crunch

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Lehman Brothers spent $309M on technology and communications in the past quarter.

12 Photos That Should Never Have Been Posted Online

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

What were they thinking? These 12 folks lost jobs, reputations, or their freedom after dumb photos they put up on the Web came to light.

A CIO Needs to Know How to Find SOA or Find the Door

Rich Levin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

There's more to best practices than architecture. Perhaps the best practice in SOA is for the CIO to get involved and be a leader in making the business case for adoption of SOA?

Innovative Thinking Gets a Kick in the Pants

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

CIOs share ideas to encourage innovation with senior management, including leveraging vendor knowledge and alignment with business strategy.

Home Depot Taps a Former eBay and Wal-Mart CTO as its new CIO

Meridith Levinson — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The home improvement retailer announced that it found a replacement for its retiring CIO, Bob DeRodes. Home Depot's new CIO most recently worked for eBay and previously for Wal-Mart.

Does a Tech Manager Need to Be Tech-Savvy?

Shawna McAlearney — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

To listen to the techies, any IT manager ought to have deep technical knowledge about everything in the knowledge domain, whether it's network performance or code optimization. Or so the prevailing wisdom goes. When push comes to shove, though, your techies would far prefer that you fine-tune your management skills than compete with them on technical know-how.

Does Your Organization Have the Skills to Implement SOA?

Mike Kavis — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Implementing SOA can have a major impact on people at various levels within an organization. Before a company gets too far into designing solutions, they should access the existing skill sets of their people and the impacts of SOA on their culture and delivery capabilities.