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Quick Study: The Evolving Roles of CIOs and IT Leaders
Here’s a curated collection of articles that looks at the many hats IT leaders are wearing today.
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[This article was updated on October 11, 2023 with more recent content]
Those wondering about the role of the CIO in the digital age need only look at the keyword in the middle of the title: Chief "Information" Officer. The corporate world actually isn't just about being “digital” or “data driven”. That digital data represents what the organization actually knows: Information about itself, its customers, and its employees, and how that organization does business moving forward.
So, the CIO that some organizations virtually locked in the data center for years today is involved in everything from payroll to cybersecurity, e-commerce to environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives. Their domain extends from coders to clouds.
This Quick Study takes a look at the many hats CIOs may wear these days as recorded by the writers who contribute to InformationWeek. The roles and responsibilities of CIOs have changed dramatically, and surely will continue to shift as the job itself morphs in the years ahead.
CIOs, Their Jobs, and the Expanding C-Suite
Emotional Intelligence: An Often-Overlooked IT Leadership Skill
Strengthening your emotional intelligence can help you become a more effective and respected leader. Getting started is as easy as mastering a few key attributes.
The Value of the Fractional Chief Technology Officer
A fractional CTO can be a great solution to help limit risk, manage teams, and develop cost-effective strategies to help meet the technology demands of an evolving business.
Achieving CIO Balance: IT Meets the Business World
CIOs are being pushed to deliver value to the business and stay on top of technical issues. How can they do both?
2023 IT Salary Report: Pay Increases Despite Economic Pressures
2022 was a boon year for IT salaries. 2023 came in ominously, but that storm is unlikely to last long. Download the free 2023 IT Salary Report here.
5 Tips To Crush It as a First-Time Engineering Manager
Getting hired as an engineering manager for the first time means you’ve already shown you have the right mix of technical experience and people skills. But there are certain things to keep in mind that will help you start on the right foot and avoid some pitfalls of management.
Don't Let Age Mothball Your IT Career
Age is only a number. Don't let a high number cancel your career. How can IT professionals apply past knowledge and insights to address cutting-edge challenges?
Today’s Blueprint for CIO success: A Shift in Mindset
Chief information officers can help lead organizations through today’s complex macro environment, if they broaden their purview to areas that deliver business outcomes faster.
CIO Roles Disrupted Amid Enterprise Changes
With remote and hybrid workforces, accelerated digital transformation and cloud migration, and the increasing security issues from the other changes, CIOs are facing more complexity and change.
CIOs and the Great Talent Crunch
Taking a Deep Dive into People Skills
The fundamental people skills -- or chops -- are communicating, collaborating, being a team player, and listening, with the ultimate goal as connecting.
Eliminating Remote Work Will Ruin Tech’s Drive for Diversity
Here’s why remote work should continue to be an option available at tech companies to increase diversity and help solve staffing challenges.
Do Women IT Leaders Face a Glass Cliff?
Are organizations more likely to promote women to top IT management posts during hopeless crisis situations? Apparently, yes.
6 Challenges and Opportunities for Hybrid and Remote IT Teams
Remote and hybrid work is here to stay. Employees want the flexibility and ability to ditch the commute, among other benefits. But managers may not like it. What does that mean for IT teams?
4 Ways to Create a Workplace that Fosters Diverse Leaders
Research finds that there aren’t enough women in leadership positions. Here are four ways leaders can create a workplace that fosters more diverse leaders.
Soft Skills: The Ultimate Force Multiplier for IT
As the job market shifts and new doors open, it’s critical for IT leaders to hire talented tech pros who are empathetic, forthcoming, and invested in helping the end user through their work.
CIOs, Innovation, Their Budgets and ROI
What is a fractional CIO and when does hiring one make sense versus taking on a full-time executive?
IT Leaders as Advocates for Continual Change
While IT leaders have their finger on the pulse of tech advances, it’s crucial to work closely with business leaders ensuring strategy is aligned with business outcomes.
CIOs and the Right Tech in the Right Place
Does Your IT Organization Need an AI Team?
Artificial intelligence is rapidly emerging as an essential enterprise tool. Is it time for IT organizations to form their own dedicated AI teams?
The Key to Startup Success? Bridging Diverse Leadership Skills
Increased economic pressures, coupled with the fast-paced technology market, have created a need for multifaceted leadership to ensure startup success.
CIO Lessons Learned from Southwest Airlines’ Winter Plight
Severe weather and outdated software systems led to an estimated $825M loss at airline, exposing operational risks that can arise if technology is not updated.
5 Ways a CIO Can Assess the IT Landscape in a New Role
Once settled into a new workspace and role, IT leaders can begin to assess how their new department works (and doesn't) in five key areas.
The Voices of Today's CIOs
HP Hunts For New CIO After Guerrier Exit
Ron Guerrier had a special focus on strengthening the Palo Alto, Calif.-based IT behemoth’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn on the Hybrid Workplace & Exploring AI
Six months after moving from IBM to Cisco, Previn talks about solving for the needs of the hybrid workplace that can include leveraging AI.
Former Microsoft CIO Jim DuBois Dishes On AI and Future of IT
The industry veteran and author looks beyond hype around generative language models as businesses begin adopting emerging technologies at a feverish pace.
Q&A: Aflac US CIO Shelia Anderson Talks AI, Data, and Cloud
Automating claims processing and other functions currently see more play with the insurer than ChatGPT, but Aflac’s AI journey is still underway.
J&J CIO Jim Swanson: Current IT Projects and Best Career Advice
Write your own job description and then find that job, says Johnson & Johnson EVP and CIO Jim Swanson, who shared his insights about IT careers and provided an overview of J&J's many IT projects in a recent interview.
Q&A: US Patent and Trademark Office's CIO on Cloud and DevSecOps
Jamie Holcombe talks about developing a “software factory” drawing upon DevSecOps methodology and GitLab to help it modernize software development within his agency.
Not A Typical CIO: Lessons Learned as Chief Insights Officer
In today’s customer-driven economy, the role of chief insights officer is one designed to help organizations practice customer-centric thinking.
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