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Winning over IT value skeptics: CIO job No. 1

Helping key stakeholders understand the IT value creation process is the key to staving off post-mortems of IT projects gone wrong.

By Thornton May
Aug 26, 2025 5 mins
Business IT Alignment IT Leadership
opinion

Business survival requires an IT org that stands apart

How does your IT differ from the competition’s? Ensuring your IT strategy and execution is ahead of the pack where it matters most is all that counts.

By Thornton May
Jul 1, 2025 5 mins
Business IT Alignment IT Leadership IT Strategy
opinion

The great IT disconnect: Vendor visions of the future vs. IT’s task at hand

For CIOs, critically important first steps toward IT’s future require the kind of customer-informed vision few vendors and CEO ‘visionaries’ are offering right now.

By Thornton May
May 27, 2025 5 mins
IT Strategy Technology Industry Vendor Management
opinion

Managing the many we’s of IT

CIOs must reflect on who the ‘we’ really is when it comes to IT — a collective that should be more organizationally inclusive than you might expect.

By Thornton May
Apr 29, 2025 5 mins
Business IT Alignment IT Leadership IT Management
opinion

In turbulent political times, IT can be a difference maker

With many organizations experiencing political and macroeconomic whiplash, CIOs can serve as a much-needed oasis of calm and consistency — especially if their motives and methods are right.

By Thornton May
Apr 1, 2025 5 mins
Business IT Alignment IT Leadership IT Strategy
opinion

How CIOs can help the future suck less than the present

It is time for IT leaders to embrace positivity and provide a ‘can’t wait to get there’ picture and path to the future.

By Thornton May
Feb 25, 2025 4 mins
Business IT Alignment IT Leadership IT Strategy
opinion

IT predictions: 5 things that won’t change in 2025

The more things change, the more they stay the same: Here’s how the status quo on talent, digital literacy, business IT alignment, and CIO role will only get more rigid in turbulent times.

By Thornton May
Jan 28, 2025 5 mins
IT Leadership IT Strategy
opinion

Your CEO has little idea who IT is or what IT does

Business execs are almost entirely lost when it comes to understanding the people and processes of your technology organization — and that’s a problem, yours specifically.

By Thornton May
Jan 7, 2025 5 mins
Business IT Alignment IT Leadership
opinion

CIOs’ top 2025 goal? Turning around IT’s sagging reputation

Forget AI, IT leaders must shore up two key gaps in the year ahead: the C-suite’s perception of IT’s business value and end-users’ ability to derive value from the solutions IT delivers.

By Thornton May
Nov 26, 2024 5 mins
Business IT Alignment IT Leadership IT Strategy
opinion

Is your enterprise getting the IT it deserves?

Understanding and aligning the tribes of the digital economy is a key CIO capability — especially when it comes to allocating scarce IT resources for maximum business value.

By Thornton May
Oct 28, 2024 5 mins
Business IT Alignment IT Leadership IT Strategy
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