Pressure on IT budgets should be relieved by 2010, said Gartner analyst Marcus Blosch, but only among those IT shops that effectively align themselves with business goals. CIOs that want to protect their IT budget from being slashed need to develop...
Aspiring CIOs should try to gain experience in non-IT roles in order to have the right experience to fill the top tech job. The research included interviews with bosses of IT recruitment companies which have been responsible for placing CIOs at...
Within the IT department, all of the IT directors surveyed had sign-off power or were active contributors to purchases, compared to nine out of 10 CIOs. Corporate managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were more likely than IT...
Speaking today at the Financial Services IT Summit in London, a panel of experts warned that CIOs need to know at least as much about their business and the market it operates in as they do about technology.
The interviews were recorded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Michael Cusumano, and Harvard University academic David Yoffie, as research for their book on the Microsoft/Netscape browser battle.
This also means knowing and understanding the customer and being able to influence them through the effective use of technology - a reason why retail industry CIOs are so highly regarded. ♦ The top 10 CIOs
♦ CIO50 analysis: How to be a top...
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