In my upcoming new book, Leading the Epic Revolution (Wiley, 2013), I examine the many ways in which smart companies – and successful CIOs – innovate successfully.
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Thaddeus Arroyo, Chief Information Officer, is responsible for AT&T’s information technology. He was appointed to his current position in January 2007, following the close of the merger between AT&T, BellSouth and Cingular. [...] Do you have a clear understanding of your company’s market? Do you know what people want and what drives value on the other side of the firewall? [...] Building trust, building confidence and building strong relationships across the C-suite are imperatives for the modern CIO. Effective CIOs are connected CIOs. They are leaders with a strong platform, a detailed roadmap and a crystal-clear agenda that guides them to success. [...]
I had the pleasure of speaking with Jay Ferro recently. Jay is the CIO at the American Cancer Society, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary this year. “We hope this will be our last century,” says Jay. “We’re actively trying to put ourselves out of business.” [...]
In a time of extremely rapid change and transformation, CIOs are central to the health and well being of the modern corporation. Can you think of an important business process that isn’t enabled by IT? CIOs have unique expertise and relevant knowledge that enables them to “see” across the many units, silos and [...]
You could feel the incredibly high levels of energy, enthusiasm and engagement at Monday’s 2013 CIO Summit of America at the Harvard Club in New York. The annual summit, described as “the industry’s most genuinely effective and dynamic peer-to-peer networking event,” drew a record attendance of more than 320 top-level executives. The scope, [...]
Mike Hill has been with IBM for 35 years, and like many other executives here, he has held a variety of positions within the company. His current title is Vice President of Enterprise Initiatives. Essentially, Mike leads a team that is responsible for taking new ideas with great potential and building them into [...]
I was recently introduced to Bruce Bachenheimer, Clinical Professor of Management at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business and Director of the University’s Entrepreneurship Lab. I think it’s fair to say that Bruce lives and breathes innovation and entrepreneurship. A serial entrepreneur himself, Bruce is an expert on the important role that innovation [...]
I spoke recently with Sameer Dholakia, Group VP and GM, Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix Systems. Sameer and his colleagues at Citrix have an uncommon perspective on the organization of IT assets. Instead of seeing information moving up and down a series of stacks, they see it moving left to right across networks [...] |
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