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7 Shifts of the Digital CIO

Transforming to a Digital IT Operating Model

Building a Data-Driven Organization

How to Develop a Transformative IT Strategy

A Culture That Empowers IT Employees Also Retains Them

Gamify Your Team’s Technology Skills Development

Beware the Process Vortex

The Five-Star IT Organization

IT's Ultimate Purpose is to Facilitate Change

New CIO Opportunity Expanded to Chief Digital and Information Officer

Adapt Your Leadership Style to Your Teams' Needs

Resume Shifts for Millennials Rising to Executive Leadership

Put Yourself in the Path of Career Opportunity

Patience and Good Advice Result in Desired CIO Role

Three Ways the Tech Organization is Leading Digital Transformation at GlaxoSmithKline

How Leaders Are Solving Technology Talent Challenges

The Power of Peer-to-Peer Networking

How to Build Executive Support for a Data Management Strategy

Combine IIoT and Industry 4.0 for Competitive Advantage

Why IT Leaders Need to be Bold

Humble but Hungry as a New CIO

How IT Leaders Build Trust

If Your Company is Rebranding, IT Leader Advice From the Trenches

Passion for Improving the Customer Experience

IT Innovation as an Employee Engagement Strategy

Why 'Less Is More' on Your Resume

For IT to Drive Business Growth, Get to Know Your End Customers

Turning the IT Management Pyramid Upside Down

Ten Must-Have CISO Skills

The New CIO: Collaborate, Integrate, Orchestrate

The Industrial Internet of Things – Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Create a Culture of Continuous Learning

A Transformation Opportunity Too Good to Pass Up

The Best Job Interview Questions for Finding Digital Transformation Leaders

CIO Attracted to a Larger Transformation at a Smaller Company

The Six Businesses of IT

Take Your IT Team from Ordinary to Extraordinary

Building Digital Leaders of the Future

Shoring Up Information Security with Limited Resources

How to Keep Top Technology Talent from Jumping Ship After a Merger

CIO Recommended Reading List for 2019

CIO Quickstart Guide: Developing a technology strategy

Signs it is Time to Reinvent Your CIO Career in 2019

Rebuilding the IT Org from Scratch to Drive Digital Transformation

Maximizing CIO and IT Organizational Clout

Assess Employers for Achievement Fit Instead of Cultural Fit

Let Honor Be Your Guide

Organizational Strategy Before Technology Strategy

When Your CIO Job is Also a Mission

To Find the Right IT Leadership Job, Cast a Wider Net

Modeling Perfection in IT to Inspire the Company

Disrupting Our Business Before Someone Else Does

The Quotable #CIO: Wit and Wisdom in the Age of Twitter, 8th Edition

Top Expert Leaving? Save the Day with Emergency Knowledge Transfer

Making Cybersecurity a Business Priority

Providing Analog Service in a Digital World

Strengthening the CIO – Corporate Board Relationship

First CIO Job: Why a mid-market company was the perfect fit

How to Assess an IT Job Candidate’s Executive Presence

Leadership All the Way Down

Living in an All-SaaS World: Myth vs. reality

Reduce Information Friction to Expand Your Markets

The CIO Profession is a Calling

Data-Driven Automation: The key to successful digital leadership

Achieving the Fully Connected Global Operation at Last

CIO Job Search: My three 'non-negotiables'

How Artificial Intelligence is Driving Digital Transformation

Digital is not a “Thing”

The IT Talent Paradox: ‘Grow and let go’

Soft Skills Required for Leading Digital Transformation

CIO’s Disruptive Technology Secret Weapon: College Interns

10 Tips for Conducting an Out-of-Town Job Search

Recommended Executive Coaches

Rock and Roll CIO

Building World Class IT is a People Project

Recommended Professional Resume Writers

CIOs Leading Effectively Through Massive Change

Why Great Leaders Distinguish Acute Problems from Chronic Ones

On a Mission to Create Great Client Experiences

Forget Productivity. Think Impact.

For IT Executives, Changing Industries Is Harder Than It Seems

A CIO Job She Didn’t Know She Was Interviewing For

A CIO Explains the ROI of Hiring an IT Executive Recruiting Firm

Six-Word Lessons in Culture Building from the Former CIO of Microsoft

CIO Recommended Reading List for 2018

CIO Comes Off the Road to Lead Technology at Winnebago Industries

A New Digital Platform Attracts and Impresses Legal Clients

Five Challenging Personalities, and How to Manage Them

Rip the Lid Off Your IT Black Box

The CIO Where Digital Experiences are a Work of Art

A 90-Year-Old Manufacturer Becoming a Software Company

Summer of Soul Searching Leads to a Perfect Fit CIO Position

Celebrating 10 Years in the Cloud

Overcoming Common Obstacles to Driving Innovation

How CIOs can Help Improve Enterprise Agility

Cancer Genetics Inc. CIO: 'This is more than just a job'

How I Made the Leap From CIO to COO

9 Tips for Becoming a Great Tech Contract Negotiator

When to Hire an Interim CIO

The Quotable #CIO: Wit and Wisdom in the Age of @Twitter, Part VII

With a Seat at the Table, Now CIOs Must Deliver Business Results

A Risk Taker Gets Comfortable as an Insurance CIO

The Future Belongs to the Curious

It's Time to Train Your Replacement

7 Tips for Crafting Your Professional Elevator Pitch

Driving Digital: The Leader’s Guide to Business Transformation

Increasing IT’s Speed-of-Change with OKR

Delays Cost Talent: How to keep your executive searches moving

Track Adoption as a Critical Project Metric

Seeing Value, Not Red Flags, in a CIO’s Multiple Career Moves

Town Hall Job Interviews Assess Cultural Fit

Job Interviews Are Not Utterly Useless

CIO Joins an Industry Ripe for Disruption

Attracting Job Opportunities Through Thought Leadership

A DevOps Primer for IT Recruiters

To Win the IT Talent War, Bring the Right Weapons

How to Make Your IT Reorg a Non-Event

Business Relationship Managers: The secret to IT effectiveness

Book Review: A CIO’s Guide to the Art of IT Management

Don’t Let These Roadblocks Stymie Your IT Leadership Job Search

Does Your Company Need a CIO or a CTO (or Both)?

Drawn to a Digital Transformation Opportunity

Synergy is Not a Dirty Word in IT

How to Attract Top IT Talent to Your Boring Company

How to Make the Most of Phone Screen Interviews

Teams that Deliver the Promise of Digital

26 Cybersecurity Acronyms and Terms IT Recruiters Should Know

Iconic Brand Attracts a New CIO

Building a Talent Pool for the New IT Landscape

Demystifying a Digital Transformation: 7 key insights

A CIO’s Jump from the Commercial Sector to Higher Education

How Fear, Uncertainty and Change Create New Career Opportunities

CIO Interview Guide

Soft Skills Maximize the Value of IT Certification and Training

Career Lesson from a Super Bowl Hero

Rising Tide of Interim CIOs

CIO of a $3 Billion Start-Up

Who Owns Digital? The Whole C-Suite

CIO Recommended Reading List for 2017

Robust Professional Network Leads to a First CIO Job

An Agile Approach to Employee Performance Reviews

Writing an Aspirational Resume

The Product-Based IT Organization

Citizen Data Scientist Programs Can Help Close Your IT Talent Gap

Business Transformation Delivered Daily in a New CIO Role

A Governance Model for a Global Intranet and Office 365 Rollout

A Fork in the Road for CIOs

A Reputation for IT Transformation Leads to a New CIO Job

What is a Digital Enterprise? One CIO’s perspective

Escaping the Millstone of Past IT Decisions

Lessons Learned from our ERP Upgrade

Be the Business: CIOs in the New Era of IT is published

A First-Time CIO Three Times Over

How CIOs Can Seize Digital Transformation Leadership

What is a CTO?

Landing a Born-in-the-Cloud CIO Job

From IT Leader to BT (business technology) Leader

A New CIO Job, Thanks to Networking

Power to the People (and Long Live the King)

Digital Citizens - Your Security Force Multiplier

Two Proposed KPIs to Measure IT Resiliency

Long CIO Tenure Can be a Career Obstacle

Six Ways IT Leaders Build Trust

The Quotable #CIO: Wit and Wisdom in the Age of @Twitter, Part VI

Unraveling the DNA of Strategic IT Vendor Partnerships

Recommended Blogs for IT Leaders

CIOs and the Search for IT Talent in the Gig Economy

Leading a Diverse, Millennial IT Team

The Technology Business Management Revolution

Twitter Accounts Our Readers Recommend for IT Executives

Winning a Most Enviable New CIO Position

The First 6 Things Recruiters Look for on Your Resume

Tips for Recruiting IoT, Big Data and Other Scarce Skills

Grazing at the IT Metrics Smorgasbord

How I Landed My New CIO Job: Back to my roots

How Cultural Diversity Strengthened IT at Inteva

Understanding the 3 Dimensions of Leadership Trust

Will Your Talent Flourish in the Future?

Local Ties Lead to a New Global CIO Job

A New Approach to the Business Value of IT

7 Essential KPIs that Quantify IT Value

A CIO’s Dream - Building IT From Scratch

Executive Presence: The CIO's 'It' Factor

CIOs Share How They Are Rebranding IT

Don’t Mistake Cooperation for Collaboration

Why Transformational CIOs Need to be Empathy Ninjas

This CIO Leads Product Development

Strategic versus Tactical: Breaking the Conundrum

How Enhanced Productivity Can Fund IT Reinvestment

Collaborative Innovation Electrifies Mobility Adoption

The 4 Most Meaningless IT Metrics

Fixing This Big IT Mess is My Dream Job

10 Steps to Optimize Your CIO LinkedIn Profile

The 2016 CIO Recommended Reading List

IT Transformation Trifecta

Questions to Ask at Your Job Interview

An IT Presentation Disaster (and How to Avoid It)

The Last CIO Job I’ll Ever Have

Tap Customer Data for Your Business Transformation

Splitting The CIO’s Job – A Bad Movie Every Time

Why CIOs Should Take a Cue from Historians

How to Keep Bad IT Projects from Crowding Out the Good

Addressing Gender Equity in IT Head On

IT Leaders on Their Roles with Data (Sound Off responses)

Preparing for the Swift Waters of IT Executive Job Search

How I Landed My New CIO Job: switching industries

The CIO’s Future Lies Beyond Technology

Experts Weigh In on Critical CIO Soft Skills

Profiting from Digital Data Streams

The Levers of Embedded IT

How I Landed My New CIO Job: A perfect cultural fit

CIOs on the Soft Skills They Are Developing

6 Keys to an Interview-Generating CIO Resume

Strategies for Bringing Innovation from the Outside In

A Plan to Assure a New CIO’s Success

How I Landed My New CIO Job: Transformational Leader

A Grateful IT Leader

The Innovation Anticipation Imperative

Communicate IT’s Business Benefits More Effectively

Follow-the-Boss Can Be a Career Trap

Partnering with the Business Changes the CIO's Risk Profile

Create the Work Culture Your Team Deserves

How I Landed My New Job: High Tech CIO

IT Leaders Share Talent Retention Tips

Want a Seat at the Table? Build the Table

Make Transparency a Core Competency

IT Communication in a State of Crisis

Recommended Professional Resume Writers

Are You a Technology Expert or a Leader?

How I Landed My New CIO Job: Growth Enabler

Give Up Control to Get Control

Build a Legacy, Not a Monument

The New 'Digital Director' Corporate Board Role: Are You Ready?

How I Landed My New CIO Job: Global CIO

The Quotable #CIO: Wit and Wisdom in the Age of @Twitter, Part V

A Dive Into Analytics: No Data Scientists Required

The Compassionate CIO

How I Landed My New CIO Job - Strategic Leader

First Step in IT Transformation? Unwind the Past

Bridging Your Technology Skills Gap

The 80/20 Law of IT Spending

Top CIO Competencies Submitted by Our Readers

How to Make it to the IT Corner Office

3 More Malfunctions of a CIO

How I Landed My CIO Dream Job

Fixes for Your Flawed IT Organization

Build Your Own CIO Career Plan

Fulfilling the Need for Speed

Are You Motivating or Manipulating Your People?

Books CIOs Recommend to Their Peers for 2015

The Four Malfunctions of a CIO

CIOs Must Think Like CBMOs (Chief Behavior Modification Officers)

The Strategic CIO: Are You and Your Team Ready?

How I Landed My New CIO Job, with Idexx's Ken Grady

CIO Skills Gained from M&A Experience

What does “Digital” Mean? Our Readers Speak

Change Requires Less Management, More Leadership

BUZZKILL: Fending Off the Tech 'Buzz' to Focus on the Business

Agile Prototyping Your Mobile Apps

How I Landed a New CIO Job

To the CIO's Charter, Add Experimentation

The Quotable #CIO: Wit and Wisdom in the Age of @Twitter, Part IV

Eliminate the IT Talent Blind Spot

High Tech CEOs Ponder the Strategic CIO

Avoid Bad Hires with the Talent Triangle

The Non-Hypothetical CIO

Retain Your Best Young IT Talent

Overcoming Your IT Department's Outsider Reputation

An IT Leader's Guide to Executive Presentations

Technology Business Management Defines the Modern CIO

Veteran Executive Sheleen Quish on the State of the CIO

Keep Your Team Motivated Through Multiyear Implementations

Is a Private Equity CIO Gig Right for You?

CIO Strategy for the “Age of the Customer,” Part Two

Abbie Lundberg on Digital Transformation and the CIO

CIO Strategy for the “Age of the Customer,” Part One

Breaking the 'Stakeholder' CIO Paradox

Peer-Recommended IT Leadership Development Programs

A Digital World Calls for Counterintuitive CIOs

How to Hold IT Staff Accountable for Results

Reduce Your Buzzword Footprint*

Structured Problem-Solving Maximizes IT Effectiveness

Transforming IT Means Transforming Your Team

The Anticipator CIO: Procter & Gamble's Filippo Passerini

Leading IT Through Trust and Ownership

CIOs and Managing the Innovation Cult

Getting Your Global IT Organizational Structure Right

CIOs Must Disrupt IT

IT Resource Constraints, or Too Much Demand?

CIO 'Selfie:' A Look Through the Eyes of the CEO

IT Business Partner Job Description

Be the CIO Your Company Needs

10 Tips for IT User Satisfaction Surveys

CIO Roadmap for Board Membership

Build a Customer Service IT Culture

3 Ways CIOs Can Improve IT Communications

The 2014 CIO Recommended Reading List

A CIO's Job is to Make IT Investable

CIO Says "I'm to Blame" if Vendors Don't Deliver

IT Governance Lessons from George Washington

CIO Opinions of Vendor Sales Practices

How to Ace the Job Interview

Communications Solutions for STEM Professionals

Four Ways to Change How Your Team Sees Change

Embracing the Uncertainty of 'Could Work'

Polishing Your CIO Brand for a Job Search

VIDEO: IT Talent Hunger Games CIO Panel at CIO Perspectives

CIOs Driving Innovation at the Edge

Six Signs a CIO Should be Job Hunting

Recruiter's Perspective: Pam Kurko, Senior Executive Recruiter

IT Vendors are People Too

For High Performing Teams, CIOs Must Lead with Character

Establishing Governance to Optimize IT Investments

The Quotable #CIO: Wit and Wisdom in the Age of @Twitter, Part III

Human Infrastructure is Now the CIO’s Key to Success

A CIO's Giant Leap into the Cloud

Gary Beach on the Technology Skills Crisis

Time for CIOs to Shake Up the Boardroom

First Step for the New CIO: Outside Assessment

Recruiter’s Perspective: Carol Lynn Thistle, Director of Recruiting

No Magic Wand Will Solve IT's Talent Challenges

One CIO's Strategy for Winning the IT Talent Wars

Seven Ways to Help Your IT Organization Embrace Change

How CIOs Earn a Seat at the Executive Table

Ten Things You Can Do to Retain Top Technology Talent

Take my job - please! CIO Succession Planning

SOUND OFF: IT Leaders Share Their Toughest Single Talent Problem

How CIOs Get Onto Corporate Boards

CIOs Must Break Down Knowledge Barriers To Spur Innovation

Today's CIO: Teacher to the C-Suite

You are Accountable for Accountability

Being 'Strategic Enough' to Keep Your CIO Job

Great CIOs Are Adept Politicians, by Abbie Lundberg

The Case for CIOs on Corporate Boards

Bold Leadership Requires a 'Fearless Front Line'

What CIOs Can Learn from Corporate Turnarounds

Rebooting Work: Adopting Meritocracy Over Entitlement

The Bias Against CIOs on Corporate Boards

SOUND OFF: Is BlackBerry 10 in Your Company’s Future?

Lessons in IT Leadership from Rudyard Kipling

Retaining Critical Skills in Your IT Organization

Suggested CIO Reading for 2013

Trends in CIO Recruiting: The Hybrid is More Than a Car

Build a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Change Your Culture – Change Your Results!

Roundup of the Best Quotes from 'The CIO Paradox'

Patience is a Virtue: The CIO Interview with Greg Fell, Terex

CIOs Letting the Business Lead IT Programs

Crossing the Innovation Chasm

Guest Blog: Become a Social CIO – Your Career Depends On It

The CIO Interview with Dr. Arthur Langer, Columbia University

Hugging, Spanking and Holding People Accountable

SOUND OFF: Proven Methods for Developing Blended Executives

Reaching Beyond IT: The CIO Interview with Kristy Folkwein, Dow Corning

Succeeding with Enterprise Mobile Apps

Abbie Lundberg's interview with Martha Heller on The CIO Paradox

Guest Blog: When Great Leaders Get Stuck

You Win With Your People: The CIO Interview with Nancy Wolk, Alcoa

The Quotable CIO: Wit and wisdom in the age of twitter, part deux

Top 10 list from The Complete Executive, by Karen Wright

Who Are Your Change Agents?: The CIO Interview with Sonny Garg, Exelon

Going Mobile: The CIO Interview with Walter Yosafat, Wyndham Worldwide

Shifting the Conversation About 'Cloud' to What Matters

Self-Service Data Analytics at Qualcomm

SOUND OFF: What Employee Retention Strategies are Working for You?

CIO Secrets to Great Pizza

The Sticky Floor for Aspiring Female CIOs

SOUND OFF: What phrase does the business NEVER want to hear?

Job Interview Questions About Change Leadership

SOUND OFF: The Best Career Advice You've Ever Received, Part 2

The CIO as Chief Process Officer

Is Your Password Policy Stupid?

The "Outside-In" View of IT

SOUND OFF: The Best Career Advice You've Ever Received, Part 1

Big Data Muscle-Building

Will “the Business” Accept CIOs' New Role in Business Model Innovation?

10 Tweaks for Leadership from the Marines

How Do You Market IT?

IT is not a Spectator Sport

List of Professional Resume Writers

BI Means "Business Impact"

Breaking the CIO Paradox: Excerpt from my forthcoming book

Turn Your IT Org Chart Upside-Down

SOUND OFF: How is your CIO Role Changing?

Empowering Customers to Manage their own Healthcare

The Quotable CIO: Wit and wisdom in the age of twitter

Excerpt from The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership

Leadership Books Recommended by CIOs and Technology Executives

IT Drives $Billions: The CIO Interview with Ted Hengst of Harris Corp.

CIO Career Advice: Be Careful What You Wish For

CIO Career Advice: Think like a GM

Don’t Ask CIO David Harkness About Hard Savings

The CIO's Responsibility to Speak Up

When Running IT is Like Apollo 13