Podcasts by The Accidental Successful CIO
Managing an IT department is not just a business, it’s a science. Nobody knows more about the science of being a CIO than Dr. Jim Anderson.
“I don’t embrace excuses about why an IT department is not being successful, I embrace solutions.”
Over the last 25 years, Dr. Anderson has transformed failing CIOs worldwide. Dr. Anderson will turn these nervous executives into powerful leaders.
Welcome to the premier podcast for learning how to think and act like a successful CIO – both if you are a CIO today or if you hope to be one in the future. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jim-anderson5/support
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CIOs Start To Redesign Their Web Sites To Meet The Needs Of Older Customers from 2022-07-27T14:16:44
As the person with the CIO job, you have a lot on your plate.
You are the one who is responsible for securing the companies network, you have to roll out new servers and...
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European CIOs Come Under Fire When Their Systems Fail from 2022-07-20T17:34:13
The one thing that stock traders want to be able to do is to trade their stocks.
However, if the IT systems that they use to make this happen have a fault or an outage, ...
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CIOs Start To Deal With The Loss Of Encryption from 2022-06-29T13:55:01
CIOs who are following what is going on in the world of security and encryption know that things are about to d...
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VW’s CIO Looks For Ways To Catch Up With Tesla from 2022-06-22T14:12:42
Just about everyone knows who Volkswagen is.
They are the German company who makes cars – remember the Beetle from the 1960’s? Well, they are still around and they still...
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Do CIOs Need Robots To Manage Their Managers? from 2022-06-15T14:46:29
Ok, so let’s have a talk here for just a moment.
The managers that CIOs are putting into place these days seem to becoming younger and younger. Maybe it’s because there ...
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CIOs Discover That Dumb Technology Can’t Always Be Upgraded from 2022-06-08T15:39:15
As CIO we are always trying to move our companies forward because we understand the importance of information technology.
What this means sometimes is that when our company ha...
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CIOs Start To Deal With Trying To Secure Their Supply Chains from 2022-05-25T13:43:52
When a CIO starts to think about what they need to do to secure their company, most often they tend to look around themselves.
They look at the company’s data centers, t...
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How Can CIOs Prevent The Creation Of A Post Pandemic Two-Tier Workplace? from 2022-05-18T15:10:44
In the post pandemic world CIOs are facing a major challenge: where should everyone work?
There are those people who have been just waiting for permission to return to the office be...
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Why Are More CIOs Keeping Their Data At Home Instead Of In The Cloud? from 2022-05-11T14:12:34
You would think that being a CIO these days would be a pretty easy job.
All you really have to do is to find ways to Listen
How CIOs Can Use Social Media To Further Their Career from 2022-05-04T14:14:55
CIOs need to understand that in order to be successful in communicating the importance of information technology, they need to work with others.
The people that th...
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How Should CIOs Handle A Hybrid Office? from 2022-04-27T12:10:39
As all CIOs now realize: the world has changed.
The Covid-19 pandemic changed everything for everyone. After having spent a year working from home, most companies have n...
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CIOs Know That The Biggest Threats Come From Inside from 2022-04-20T12:23:02
As the person with the CIO job, one of the things that takes up a lot of your time is trying to keep the company’s valuable data and knowledge safe because you understand the importa...
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Five Rules That CIOs Have Learned About Working From Home from 2022-04-06T12:28:35
CIOs need to understand that things have changed.
The workplace has undergone a once-in-a-lifetime change and now the number of workers who are working from home has sky...
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CIOs Prepare To Work With Virtual Assistants from 2022-03-30T12:10:52
There is no question that CIOs need help.
There is just too much to do during a day as we deal with the `importance of information technology and there are too many peop...
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CIOs Move Slowly To Implement Artificial Intelligence from 2022-03-23T15:35:51
I think that we can all agree that artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful IT tool...
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Chinese CIOs Find Ways To Put Robots To Work from 2022-03-16T13:27:03
All CIOs understand that if they are going to help their companies become more successful, then they are going to have to find ways to introduce new technology into how the company perfo...
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Can CIOs Lower Costs By Hiring More Robots? from 2022-03-09T12:40:22
Let’s face it – companies are under more pressure than ever to do more and provide their customers with a better shopping experience.
There are only so many ways t...
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CIOs Start To Prepare Their Websites For Use By Older Customers from 2022-03-02T13:04:59
One of the responsibilities of the person with the CIO job is to make sure that the face that the company presents to the outside world is one that everyone can interact with. <...
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CIOs Want To Know Where To Go From Here With AI from 2022-02-23T13:10:22
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CIOs Need To Start To Watch Out For Ad Scammers from 2022-02-16T13:18:28
CIOs need to watch over where the people who work at their company go to when they are using the internet at work.
I’m pretty sure that we are all up on blocking the gam...
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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Should A CIO Choose? from 2022-02-02T13:02:19
As a CIO I suspect that you are well aware that there are a number of different ways that your IT teams can go about developing software (and doing a lot of other things).
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How Can CIOs Make Their Talent Pipeline More Diverse? from 2022-01-26T12:04:26
Every person with the CIO job wants to have an IT department that is quick and nimble.
We want our staff to be able to anticipate what is coming and make sure that the c...
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What CIOs Need To Know About Self-Driving Cars And AI from 2022-01-12T17:53:20
As the person with the CIO job we are responsible for staying on top of all of the cool new technologies that are rapidly developing because of the importance of information tec...
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Should CIOs Track Employee Happiness? from 2022-01-05T16:28:17
As the person with the CIO job, one of your many tasks is to find ways to make sure that the people that your company has hired Listen
CIOs Need To Prepare For The Arrival Of Face Scan Technology from 2021-12-15T15:09:18
As CIOs who understand the importance of information technology, we know that we always have to be ready to deal with the next wave of technology.
The challenge that we ...
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How Should CIOs Deal With Companies Who Don’t Do E-Commerce? from 2021-12-08T04:05:47
Over the past few years there has been a revolution been going on in retail.
An industry that used to be based on people coming to their bricks and mortar stores has bee...
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Health Provider CIOs Have To Deal With Ransomware from 2021-12-01T15:37
Nobody ever said that being the person in the CIO position is an easy job for anyone to have.
However, lately it sure seems as though it is becoming even more difficult....
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Why CIOs Need More Diversity In Their IT Departments from 2021-11-17T15:03:56
Perhaps more than any other executive in the company, CIOs have long known that having a diverse workforce is a g...
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CIOs Ponder If They Should Ever Return To The Office from 2021-11-10T16:33:50
The person with the CIO job realizes that someday the Covid-19 pandemic will release its grip on our lives and we will return to the workplace.
The question is: Will there be...
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CIOs Deal With The Problem Of How People Create Passwords from 2021-11-03T14:19:28
If you take a look at the long list of things that a modern CIO is responsible for, securing the company’s network is right there at the top.
What this actually me...
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CIOs Start To Realize That They Have A Colorblind Problem from 2021-10-28T01:14:17
As the CIO, you have the responsibility to make sure that the company’s technology is made available to everyone.
This can be fairly easy to do when you are considering ...
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How CIOs Can Build Human Networks from 2021-10-20T10:52:58
Although we like to think of the CIO job as being a technology job where we spend our time trying to communicate the importance of information technology, there is a lot of human contact r...
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CIOs See A Need For Data In Their Factories from 2021-10-06T11:02:59
CIOs who are responsible for their company’s factories are starting to understand that they will be spending far more on data management and analytics tools in the aftermath of the coronav...
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How Serious Is The Lack Of Machine Learning Talent? from 2021-09-22T10:59:52
The person with the CIO job understands that the future belongs to artificial intelligence (AI). Listen
What Impact Will 5G Have On Work From Home? from 2021-09-15T10:20:16
If you’ve been watching TV or reading a newspaper (online) lately, you’ve probably started to see all of the 5G wireless network Listen
Shopping Mall CIOs Try Out Facial Recognition Software from 2021-09-01T09:53:18
So if you were the CIO for a shopping mall, what would you want to know?
You’d want to know that all of your servers and networking gear was secure. Listen
How CIOs Can Reduce Bias When They Are Hiring from 2021-08-25T10:38:09
With a little luck, we’ve all gotten the message by now: Listen
How IT and Business Can Work Together To Benefit The Customer from 2021-08-11T13:26:16
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Why Do CIOs Fail When It Comes To Innovation? from 2021-08-04T14:11:41
As the CIO of your company, you have been given the job of leading innovation at the firm so that it can realiz...
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Questions You Need To Ask About Your Next CIO Job from 2021-07-28T14:33:12
As CIOs we will eventually go looking for our next CIO job.
When we do this, we need to be prepared to answer plenty of questions on various technology, business and per...
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How CIOs Can Position The IT Department For Success from 2021-07-21T16:25:20
As the person with the CIO job, it’s your responsibility to make sure that the IT department is successful. In order to do that, you need to be able to lead the department in the rig...
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CIOs Struggle With The New Challenge Of Citizen Developers from 2021-07-14T20:11:21
As though CIOs didn’t already have enough to worry about with the importance of information technology, it now turns out that within their own company there may be a shadow IT department a...
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CIOs Have To Prepare For The Hybrid Work Environment from 2021-06-23T18:06:34
Every CIO understands that the pandemic was a major disruption to their business and the importance of information technology.
Their workplaces went from being filled wi...
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Just Exactly What Should A CIO Do During Their First 100 Days? from 2021-06-16T14:07:47
Being a CIO is an exciting job.
Starting a new CIO job can be both exciting and just a little bit daunting. When the person with the CIO job gets ready to start a new jo...
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How Are CIOs Failing Their Business Users? from 2021-06-09T11:33:13
Right now every CIO seems to be talking about the customer experience (CX).
What CIOs have been told is that if you don’t get customer experience right, you may leave yourself...
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How A CIO Can Make An Inherited IT Department Better from 2021-05-26T17:58:51
As CIOs, some jobs are tougher than others.
One of the most demanding is when you find yourself taking on a troubled IT department. This isn’t a job for the f...
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How Should CIOs Implement Robotic Process Automation? from 2021-05-19T11:40:49
Guess what? A brand new technology is on the horizon and as the company’s CIO, you are going to be the person who is going to have to implement it.
This new technology i...
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What Do CIOs Have To Know About Business Intelligence? from 2021-05-12T14:29:58
Modern CIOs need to understand that Business Intelligence (BI) leverages software and services to transform data into actionable insights that inform an company’s strategic and tactical bu...
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How Can CIOs Avoid Getting Locked Into One Vendor’s Cloud? from 2021-04-28T14:11:08
As more and more CIOs move their company’s IT infrastructure into the cloud, the importance of the cloud is becoming more and more important.
I’d like to be able to tell you that al...
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What Does It Take To Be A Successful CIO? from 2021-04-14T14:16:37
Just think of all of the things that the person with the CIO job has to stay on top of: the explosive growth of cloud computing, the continued rise in business-managed IT spend, and ...
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What Can Amazon Teach CIOs About Being Successful In The Cloud? from 2021-04-07T13:03:53
As CIOs are busy creating projects to move more and more of their IT infrastructure into the cloud, they are always looking to other firms in order to get direction on what the best ...
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Is BYOD The Way That CIOs Can Attract More Millennials? from 2021-03-17T12:42:26
CIOs who think that BYOD (bring-your-own-device) is a fad that is starting to fade away are wrong.
CIOs who think they can abandon the practice of creating BYOD polices ...
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What Can CIOs Learn About Security From Norsk Hydro? from 2021-03-10T13:48:13
As the people with the CIO job, we are all aware that security is a big deal at our companies.
However, just exactly how to secure the company is an issue that a l...
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How Can The Enterprise Holding’s CIO Help The Company To Evolve? from 2021-03-03T14:40:05
You would think that being a CIO at a rental car company would be a pretty straight forward job.
I mean, if you understand the importance of information technology and c...
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CIOs Start To Deal With The Limitations Of Image-Recognition Filters from 2021-02-24T13:40
As your company’s CIO it is your responsibility to understand the importance of information technology and to use it to secure the company’s assets.
What this means on a daily...
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CIOs Want To Know: How Secure Is Your Mobile Phone? from 2021-02-17T16:49:56
As the person with the CIO job, you realize just how important mobile phones are to your company.
These devices have become the way that everyone stays in touch an...
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How Do You Get The CIO Job? from 2021-02-10T14:00:32
The CIO job is the one that everyone in the IT department eventually wants to get.
It can be a real challenge to line up an interview for this position and even more of ...
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CIOs Search For Ways To Unplug from 2021-02-03T14:47:07
As a CIO, do you feel like you are always “on”?
When you were in the office, there were always meetings, phone calls, and people wanting to drop by your...
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What Do CIOs Need To Know About Cyber Insurance? from 2021-01-27T13:53:47
When you are the CIO, you deal with things like servers, networks, firewalls and the like.
You are not generally called on to deal with other business related issues
CIOs Start To Look For Workers With Hybrid Skills from 2021-01-13T13:54:42
As the person with the CIO job, it is your responsibility to make sure that the company is staffed with the IT experts that will be able to understand the importance of infor...
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Changing Times Cause CIOs To Change Their Priorities from 2021-01-06T18:28:33
Every CIO starts out a year with a clear set of goal: things that we want to get done because of the importance of information technology.
However, and this year has been no ...
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Healthcare CIOs Prepare To Safeguard Covid-19 Vaccines from 2020-12-16T15:12
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a long, hard, path for everyone.
Only now is a light starting to appear at the end of the long dark tunnel that we have all been in. Vacci...
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CIOs Want To Know: Is Tape Making A Comeback? from 2020-12-10T13:33:30
Securing the company’s data is one of the primary jobs of the CIO. As the importance of information technology grows and more and more of our data moves into the clo...
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CIOs Need More Energy To Make It Through The Pandemic from 2020-12-02T15:26:46
Guess what: CIOs are humans also.
Just like everyone else we have grown tired of living in a world that is trying to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. We miss ...
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The Cost Of Having Women Drop Out Of IT from 2020-11-18T12:49:33
As the person with the CIO job, you understand that having a diverse workforce is key to having an IT department that can solve today’s complex problems.
Diversity is so...
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Why Would A CIO Choose To NOT Use Robots? from 2020-11-11T12:58:48
Let’s face it, the robots are taking over.
All people with the CIO job are aware of the advances that have been made in robotic technology over the past few years. It go...
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CIOs Are Being Asked If They Trust Their Customers from 2020-11-04T12:46:07
Hey look – a customer is showing up at your company’s online web site.
They took a look at the company’s catalog. Now they are placing an order. Are they a real customer? Are...
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CIOs Investigate How To Use IT To Improve Food-Supply Management from 2020-10-28T18:12:45
I am willing to bet that when you go to the grocery store, the store is filled with food products.
In fact, I’m also willing to bet that pretty much any day of the week ...
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The Challenge Of Getting Clean Data from 2020-10-21T17:20:18
The person with the CIO job has a problem on their hands.
The world has changed and a new breed of technology has rolled into the IT department: Listen
What Hiring Mistakes Do CIOs Make? from 2020-10-07T14:08:05
So what is the most important asset in the IT department?
If you are like most CIOs, you’re instinctive answer to that question is “our people”. That’s a good...
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CIOs Learn From A Pandemic What It Means To Be Ready from 2020-09-30T17:38:52
There is no way that any of us could have seen the Covid-19 pandemic coming our way.
This is something that none of us have ever experienced before and in fact the peopl...
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CIOs Seize An Opportunity To Redesign The Workplace from 2020-09-23T17:47:30
When the Covid-19 pandemic struck, all of sudden everyone who had been coming into the office started to stay at home.
That left a lot of workspace wide open. ...
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Oil Industry CIOs Deal With Covid-19 By Going Remote from 2020-09-16T19:49:13
CIOs who work in the oil industry are used to seeing ups and downs sweep through their IT departments.
However, nothing could have prepared them for the arrival of the C...
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What CIOs Should Do If Nobody Is Listening To Them from 2020-09-02T19:05:06
As a CIO, communication is a key part of your job as you try to share the importance of information technology.
You really need people to pay attention to what you are telli...
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Are You Creating A Toxic Culture In The IT Department? from 2020-08-26T14:55:04
Just by being the person with the CIO job you change things.
Your department looks up to you for guidance in how they are supposed to behave. What a lot of people in the...
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What CIOs Can Do When Everyone Retires! from 2020-08-19T13:43:22
I’m pretty sure that I don’t have to tell CIOs that they have a real problem on their hands.
Due to the way that demographics work, there are a lot of skilled IT workers...
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Are You A Confidant CIO – Or An Overconfident CIO? from 2020-08-12T13:35:37
So just exactly what does it take to be a successful CIO?
I think that we can all agree that one of the key traits that the person in the CIO position needs to have is t...
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Tough Decisions That CIOs Have To Make from 2020-08-05T13:15:32
So if you look back on the day that you become a CIO, you need to remember that nobody ever told you that this was going to be an easy job dealing with the importance of information ...
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CIOs Need To Know How To Secure The Internet Of Things from 2020-07-29T13:51:50
Guess what?
The person with the CIO job has another question about the importance of information technology that they are going to have to find the answer to. This time ...
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The Challenge Posed By Your Company’s Employee Health Data from 2020-07-22T13:49:34
Let’s face it, if you were the person running your company you would have a lot of big issues that you needed to deal with in addition to worrying about the importance of information...
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I See You – CIOs And The Problem Of Exposed Corporate Data from 2020-07-15T14:20:11
Wow – that cloud thing is a powerful tool for the person with the CIO job to use.
Think about it, we have access to almost unlimited storage and the ability to spin up n...
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Can CIOs Find A Way To Use Robots Inside Of Stores? from 2020-07-10T14:40:41
That pesky e-commerce thing has changed everything for businesses everywhere.
What this means for ...
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A Health Care Startup Realizes That They Need CIO Help from 2020-06-24T13:49:17
Just exactly how important is a CIO?
A startup health care company tried to accomplish the creation of a new way for patients to purchase prescriptions online; however, ...
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Know-It-All CIOs Are The Source Of The Problem from 2020-06-17T13:46:32
CIOs who are excited about their jobs and who are ambitious often like to act like they know everything.
This kind of behavior becomes very visible to everyone tha...
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CIOs Go Looking For Robots To Use On The Farm from 2020-06-10T13:27:21
One does not often think about farming and CIOs in the same thought.
However, it turns out that the way that food is being grown and harvested is in the process of un...
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Restaurant CIOs Start To Use Big Data from 2020-06-03T13:41:05
So it turns out that restaurants have CIOs also.
These CIOs are tasked with the challenge of understanding the importance of information technology and finding ways to u...
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CIOs Deal With A Revolution In Grocery Stores from 2020-05-20T14:09:20
CIOs who work for grocery store chains are undergoing some significant changes in their lives.
It used to be that being a CIO who worked in the grocery business allowed ...
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CIOs Have To Learn To Invest In IT In Order For Their Company To Succeed from 2020-05-13T13:32:04
As the person with the CIO job, it is your responsibility to provide your company with guidance on how they can be successful.
In order to be able to provide good advice...
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Can Auto CIOs Transform Their Companies Into Software Companies? from 2020-05-06T13:27:41
Think about the car that you are currently driving.
What components go into it? If you guessed metal, glass, and plastic then you would be correct – but you would have m...
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CIOs Need To Know What Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Is from 2020-04-29T13:12:31
As the person with the CIO job at your company, you are constantly under pressure to understand the importance of information technology and to find ways to allow the company to do...
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Should CIOs Promote Full Pay Transparency? from 2020-04-23T14:18:18
So let’s make sure that we all understand what we are talking about when we bring up pay transparency.
Right off the bat, Listen
CIOs Look For Ways To Use Blockchain Resumes from 2020-04-15T13:13:04
The person with the CIO job realizes that their company has a significant problem when it comes to Listen
How CIOs Can Get Rid Of Their To-Do Lists from 2020-04-01T13:10:12
If you are like most CIOs, you always have too much to do and not enough time in which to get it all done.
Most of us deal with this challenge by creating lists ...
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CIOs Have To Help Their Companies Start To Use AI – Or Else… from 2020-03-25T13:13:23
I’m pretty sure that just about every CIO has heard about artificial intelligence (AI) by now.
This technology is starting to revolutionize a lot of the ways that we liv...
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Should CIOs “Friend” People That They Work With? from 2020-03-18T13:45:38
So just exactly what is this “friendship” thing?
For that matter how important is it? For most CIOs, friendship is very important. We’d all like to have as many friends ...
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How CIOs Need To Be Preparing For Cyberthreats from 2020-03-11T14:56:46
CIOs have known for a long time that Listen
How CIOs Can Hire People With Cybersecurity Skills from 2020-03-04T17:14:18
As your company’s CIO you have a responsibility to make sure that the IT department is staffed with the skilled workers that it will need in order to remain both competitive and secu...
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Should CIOs Kill Off Passwords? from 2020-02-26T15:10:51
When your IT department creates a new website for users to access, how do they go about securing it?
If you are like most IT departments, you require users to ma...
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CIOs And The Problem Of Social Engineering from 2020-02-19T15:16:16
So let’s pretend for a moment that you’ve switched sides.
You are now a hacker that is trying to break into your company’s network because you understand the importance ...
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Are CIOs Ready To Use AI To Transform The Business? from 2020-02-12T16:13:25
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful new technology that the person with the CIO...
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How CIOs Can Help To Get More People To Take Cruises from 2020-02-05T15:10:50
So the people with the CIO job who work for the big cruise lines have a bit of a problem on their hands.
It turns out that when people are planning on traveling, they ge...
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How CIOs Waste Their Employee’s Time from 2020-01-15T12:39:55
As is the case with all CIO’s, you’d like to be the best boss that you can possibly be.
There are a lot of characteristics of good bosses: they treat their employees wit...
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CIOs Need To Get Ready For Continuously Learning Models from 2020-01-08T15:10:24
If you are the person with the CIO job, the rest of the company is looking at you for help in making your company more competitive.
What this means is that the com...
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How The Nutrisystem CIO Turned The Company Around from 2019-12-18T16:38:11
Just a few years ago, the weight loss company Nutrisystem was in a bad place.
A combina...
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CIOs Need To Start To Understand How Other People Learn from 2019-12-11T13:02:42
Most CIOs feel comfortable when they are dealing with the things that they know the best which show off the importance of information technology: servers, networks, software, firewal...
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What Do CIOs Need To Know About Managing Millennials? from 2019-12-04T13:37:36
I’m hoping that we can all agree that the nature of our IT department’s workforce has been changing over the past few years.
It sure seems like as the importance of info...
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CIOs Need To Understand The Effect Of Rudeness from 2019-11-20T12:47:29
As the person with the CIO job, you have a lot on your plate.
You need to make sure that the company’s networks are kept secure and you need to make the right decisions ...
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How Can A CIO Make His Or Her Company Cybersafe? from 2019-11-13T14:13:11
One of the most important jobs that the person with the CIO job is asked to do is to secure the company’s networks because of the importance of information technology.
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What CIOs Need To Know About Negotiating Better Deals from 2019-11-06T12:38:30
Let’s face it, one of the most important jobs that a CIO does is to negotiate deals.
No matter if we are dealing with outside vendors or internal departments...
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Should Bank CIOs Be Sharing Data To Improve Security? from 2019-10-30T11:30:08
When the bad guys go after a bank, because of the importance of information technology it is the responsibility of the Bank’s CIO to keep the bank’s networks and electronic assets sa...
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CIOs Want To Know: How Do Phishing Attacks Happen? from 2019-10-23T11:36:13
Let’s agree on one thing: the people who work at your firm are smart people. Right?
There’s no way that they would fall for one of those phishing attacks that we re...
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When It Comes To Cybersecurity, What Should CIOs Be Worried About? from 2019-10-16T11:35:09
Let’s face it: it is becoming harder and harder to keep the company’s IT assets and its network safe from people who want to do you harm.
The threats are relentles...
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What Do CIOs Need To Know About Status Battles At Work? from 2019-10-09T11:31:22
When a member of your department does a good job, all of a sudden you find yourself in a difficult position.
You’d like to show this individual that they did a good job ...
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Does Where A Manager Sit Affect Their Career? from 2019-10-03T14:23:05
As is the case with all managers, there are probably some manager skills that you do very well and other things that you’d like to learn how to do better.
The big questi...
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How To Transform An IT Architecture from 2019-10-02T12:19:08
The reason that an IT department exists within a company is to provide the company with a way to use the importance of information technology to provide the company with a co...
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What’s The Best Way For Women CIOs To Network? from 2019-09-25T12:11:33
If you are a woman, becoming CIO can be a significant challenge.
However, once you are able to achieve this goal, that is when the real work starts. As CIO, Listen
How Can CIOs Use AI To Help The Company Get More Customers? from 2019-09-18T12:10:24
Let’s face it: our companies are not in business just to keep the IT department up and running.
Rather, it’s really the other way around. The IT department exists to h...
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What Can CIOs Do To Boost Workplace Diversity? from 2019-09-11T12:18:27
As CIOs, because of the importance of information technology we spend our days surrounded by servers and making decisions about things like firewalls and moving into the cloud. ...
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CIOs Start To Become Leaders In Their Firms from 2019-08-28T12:59:18
The role of the CIO in the company has been an ever evolving position.
The people with the CIO job first started out as simply being caretakers for the IT eq...
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What CIOs Need To Know About Drilling For Oil from 2019-08-21T18:25:37
Once upon a time the CIO job had very little to do with the company that you worked for.
Instead of having to worry about what the company was up to, you cou...
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CIOs Need To Get Better At Detecting B.S. from 2019-08-14T11:59:40
I think that we can all agree that one of the most important parts of the CIO job is the ability to take in and process a large amount of information in order to understan...
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What Does Your Workplace Say About Your IT Department? from 2019-08-07T18:30:39
One of the most challenging jobs that the person in the CIO position has to deal with is trying to recruit the best workers.
In addition to the importance of...
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Just Exactly How Much Of A Risk Are Hacks? from 2019-07-31T13:32:14
Based on what we’ve all be reading in the newspaper and seeing online, I think that it’s pretty clear that anyone who is aware of the importance of information technology knows that ...
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How Can CIOs Become More Successful? from 2019-07-24T13:30:06
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What’s Preventing You From Becoming A Better CIO? from 2019-07-17T13:55:27
Hopefully we’d all like to become better CIOs.
This is a great goal, the challenge that most of us are facing is that Listen
CIOs Need To Learn How Best To Use Email from 2019-07-11T13:14:34
Ah, email. What a powerful tool. What an utter ...
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Just How Important Are Good Managers? from 2019-06-26T13:11:03
Having the CIO job is tough. Because of the importance of information technology, the company expects you to be able to accomplish a great deal.
The world in which you w...
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How CIOs Can Do A Good Job Of Delivering Bad News from 2019-06-19T11:25:45
Let’s face it, as CIOs we’d all like to be liked. We enjoy the parts of our job that are fun and which have to do with the importance of information technology.
It...
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What Can CIOs Do When The Cloud Isn’t Fast Enough? from 2019-06-12T13:00:04
The world in which we live is currently changing.
Over the past few years, as the importance of information technology has grown, the internet has become a bigger and mo...
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CIOs Want To Know: What’s Coming Next In Technology? from 2019-06-05T12:02:47
If a the person with the CIO job could have a super power, what would be the best one to have? The ability to fly and avoid all of those lines at the airport? The ability to see thro...
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How CIOs Can Solve Really Big Problems from 2019-05-22T13:47:35
As CIOs we are faced with a complete set of problems that we need to solve.
These can be small, simple problems that we can solve just by thinking about them for a momen...
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Are You Ready For Big Data? from 2019-05-15T13:01:53
All CIOs have heard about big data by now: the Tsunami of data that is washing over every company and the struggle that they have to collect it, store it, and then process it in orde...
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Are CIOs Ready To Deal With Hackers? from 2019-05-08T13:03:34
As CIOs, every day is busy. We’ve got a lot of different things going on that have to do with the importance of information technology and it can be very challenging to try to get ev...
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Why Can’t Your IT Department Be More Like Apple? from 2019-05-01T13:20:06
As the person with the CIO job, it’s your responsibility to make sure that the company’s IT department understand the importance of information technology and is able to meet the nee...
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Is An Open Office The Right Solution For Your IT Department? from 2019-04-24T13:08:48
Can you remember the day when if you wanted to talk with your boss you would go walking down the hall to his or her office? You’d knock on the door, get called in, enter and perhaps ...
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CIOs Want To Run Their IT Department Like Adobe from 2019-04-10T12:48:04
Being the person with the CIO job is hard work. You try and you try and you try to do a good job but it always seems like you are somehow falling further and further behind. There is...
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How CIOs Are Using Algorithms To Tell People What To Do from 2019-04-03T13:45:37
As the person with the CIO job, one of your main tasks is to assign work to the various people who work for you. As the number of people grows and the amount of work that ...
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CIOs Help Banks Prepare For The End Of The World from 2019-03-27T10:36:30
CIOs at banks have a great deal to worry about. Simply because their companies have so much valuable data and money, the bad guys are always trying to break in and steal things. ...
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What Are The 5 Skills It Takes To Be A Successful CIO? from 2019-03-20T13:46:53
So CIO, are you a good manager? I suspect that most of us think that we are. However, over at the Gallop company they have just completed a survey of managers. What they discovered i...
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Security Breech At The SEC Causes A Headache For Their CIO from 2019-03-13T14:08:25
Let’s face it, when it comes to money, people can quickly become very greedy. When you take a look at institutions like the American stock market, the potential for people to do a la...
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CIOs Are Racing To Deal With The Next Big Security Threat: Quantum Computing from 2019-03-06T14:11:07
One of the most important jobs that the person with the CIO job has is to keep the company’s networks and data secure. This means that they are responsible for implementin...
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CIOs Need To Understand The Risk Of Internet Connected Devices from 2019-02-27T14:06:07
Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for a while, you may not be aware of this thing that is being cal...
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How Can CIOs Teach Their Employees About Cybersecurity? from 2019-02-20T14:00:52
I think that we can all agree that keeping the company’s network secure is one of the CIO's most important tasks. However, no matter how many firewalls we put in place or how effecti...
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Wells Fargo’s CIO Drops The Ball from 2019-02-13T15:07:21
If you were the CIO of a major bank responsible for the importance of information technology, what do you think that your #1 job responsibility would be? If you are guessing “keep th...
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