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10 essential business skills for IT leaders
If you've heard it once, you've heard it 10 million times: IT leaders have to become more business savvy than they've ever been before. But exactly which business skills do IT leaders need to learn?
Top CIO concerns
A report by the Society for Information Management has found that IT and business alignment remain the top concerns for CIOs. "One would think that over 30 years, with all the smart people, CIOs,
A New Job Description for the CIO
A decade ago, the CIO position was described as a technology one. Today it is more likely to be described as someone with "C-level leadership skills." Once an afterthought, today's CIO needs the same
Help shape good IT candidates
Instead of complaining about the dearth of good job candidates, why not lend a hand by teaching a course or two at your local university? Computer science programs often struggle to align with the
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Finding the right employees
Today's IT department requires a diverse group of professionals with solid business skills, but often, the skill sets of those hired don't fit the bill. To make sure you are hiring employees with
CIOs must become legally astute
The wide-ranging responsibilities of CIOs today means taking more legal and business risk than ever before. That means CIOs must add legal expertise to their IT, people management and business
Finding the right person for the right task
If you don't know exactly what skills your staff has or what skills the business needs to move forward, you can't meet the business's demands. Consider creating a skills framework, which will give
A good project manager is hard to find
Good project managers are essential to ensuring that projects are delivered on time and on budget, but they can be hard to find. Because of the dearth of good project managers, more than half of
Roadblocks stymie CIOs in the coming years
While funding doesn't seem to be a problem, CIOs have other roadblocks that could hinder their effectiveness, according to a recent Gartner study. Although CIOs generally have the requisite IT
