Can Big Blue Reclaim a Leadership Role Among the World's Titans of Technology? Last week, IBM reported another disappointing quarter, driving down the price of its shares and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. To be fair, the slide in the DJIA was also enabled by bad news from United Technologies, but Big Blue
IT Glitches and Outages Damage Reputation and Harm the Company's Bottom Line Last Wednesday was a bad day for the IT industry. The New York Stock Exchange was down for nearly four hours. There were also embarrassing outages at United Airlines and the Wall Street Journal.
Great CIOs Create Highly Effective Teams of Exceptional Vendors and Service Providers to Drive Real Value for the Modern Enterprise Mark Polansky is a Senior Partner in Korn Ferry's IT Officers Center of Expertise, a practice he headed up for more than 12 years. He has been based in the firm's New York office since joining Korn Ferry in 1997.
Five Critical Qualities of World-Class CIO Leadership in the Modern Global Enterprise Recently I've started work on my 5th book, "The CEO of Technology." The new book takes a close look at the challenges facing CIOs as they embrace their new responsibilities as value creators and leaders of business growth in the modern enterprise.
Great CIOs Strive to Emulate Great CEOs by Focusing on Essential Leadership Skills My friend John Foley has spent many years in leadership roles. He is a former lead solo pilot of the Blue Angels. As a career Navy officer and jet fighter pilot John has studied the art and science of leadership from a unique perspective.
Great CIOs Focus on Helping the Business Develop New Products and Bring Them to Market Faster Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Mark Egan's firm is a leading provider of executive-level technology management services including CIO/CTO advisory, information security, big data/cloud analytics and IT transformation.
How the Industrial Internet will Drive Real Growth and Fundamental Business Transformation Bill Ruh is responsible for setting and leading GE's software services and solutions portfolio strategy, development and operations. He has more than 25 yrs. of industry experience in enterprise application integration and object oriented technology.
What Keeps Your CEO Up at Night? The great CEOs typically wake up at night worrying about how their companies can stay ahead of the competition by innovating new products, opening new markets, expanding traditional markets, growing revenues from sales
CIOs Experience a Transformation of Focus - From Creating Internal Productivity to Driving External Value Michael Fitz is Vice President of Business Solutions for Sprint. In this role, Mr. Fitz is responsible for strategy and planning for Sprint's Enterprise Solutions business unit, including marketing and product management of business products.
Will CIOs Experience Similar Career Trajectories as CFOs? A recent conversation with Gregory Roberts of Accenture inspired a fascinating question: What if CIOs and CFOs had similar career trajectories? Greg is a Managing Director in Accenture's Communications, Media and Technology practice.
Hunting on the Network: Q&A with Cyber Security Expert Shawn Henry of CrowdStrike Shawn Henry is the President and CSO of CrowdStrike Services and a retired Executive Assistant Director of the FBI. This Q&A session is about the role and responsibility of the CIO in dealing with the risks and dangers of cyber crime.
Dealing with Cyber Crime Requires a Realistic Mindset Defense in depth is about layering security across the organization. That concept still works. What's happened is the layers are more complicated.
Will IT Build the New Front End for the Customer-Centric Enterprise? The unexpected rapid transformation of IT from a mysterious back-office function to a high-profile enabler of multiple customer management services has been a shock to many CIOs.
Shifting Consumer Economy Raises the Bar for CIOs and IT Organizations Essentially, consumers are shifting their attention from buying products to buying experiences. That shift requires a corresponding shift in how CIOs plan strategy and lead their organizations.
Dealing with the Realities of the 'Experience Economy' and the Elevated Demands of Empowered Consumers We have to get ourselves accustomed to the new environment of empowered consumers and their elevated demands. The good news is that the "experience economy" actually plays to the strengths of IT, since many of the experiences that customer demand