CIO Insider: What Every CIO Can Learn from Turnaround Situations
August 11, 2005
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Leadership: Rules of the Road for Turnaround CIOs
Turnaround CIOs are in demand. Here are the six steps for
righting a troubled IT ship: Deliver quick wins, filter the
noise, align IT, fire and hire right, stand up for your
staff, and get the technology right. Need more details?
Go to:
http://www.cio.com/go/index.html?ID=5788&PMID=27903085&s=2&f=1
** In a recent Leading Questions column, we pointed out that
would-be turnaround CIOs need all the characteristics of
turnaround CEOs--decisiveness, toughness, communication
ability and financial acumen--plus one other. You must be
incredibly, incessantly politically astute.
http://www.cio.com/go/index.html?ID=3642&PMID=27903085&s=2&f=1
Also in this issue of the Insider:
1. Management Report: Why IT Leaders Fail
2. Forum: Business Skills
3. Education: Courses Teach Business Apps 101
4. Staffing: You'll Pay a Premium for These Programmers
5. Security: The Threat from Within
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1. Management Report: Why IT Leaders Fail
It comes down to a basic inability to connect with and get
along with other people.
http://www.cio.com/go/index.html?ID=5790&PMID=27903085&s=2&f=1
2. Forum: Business Skills
At a recent CIO Executive Council meeting, CIOs declared
that building business skills and knowledge is becoming the
most important element of staff development. Here are some
ways they are doing that.
http://www.cio.com/go/index.html?ID=5631&PMID=27903085&s=2&f=1
** But maybe we jump ahead of ourselves worrying about
business acumen. In his publisher's letter this month,
Gary Beach laments the paltry numbers of U.S. graduates in
science, math and technology. He's looking for ideas--write
to him.
http://www.cio.com/go/index.html?ID=5924&PMID=27903085&s=2&f=1
3. Education: Courses Teach Business Apps 101
Villanova University's on the cutting edge, teaching
marketing, finance, operations and management majors how to
use CRM and ERP and showing nursing students how to use
various hospital apps.
http://www.cio.com/go/index.html?ID=5925&PMID=27903085&s=2&f=1
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4. Staffing: You'll Pay a Premium for These Programmers
A Foote Partners study reveals which IT skills are getting
higher pay--and which are not.
http://www.cio.com/go/index.html?ID=5927&PMID=27903085&s=2&f=1
5. Security: The Threat from Within
A recent survey shows that companies with 500 to 900
employees are the most at risk for internal sabotage:
Twenty-three percent of those companies have been victimized.
http://www.cio.com/go/index.html?ID=5928&PMID=27903085&s=2&f=1
** For a comprehensive Q&A on internal fraud, see our "Ask
the Expert" session from July with Joel Bartow, CFE, CPP and
director of fraud prevention at ClientLogic.
http://www.cio.com/go/index.html?ID=5929&PMID=27903085&s=2&f=1
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honoring the 2005 CIO 100 honorees will be online. Check
back to meet 100 organizations we selected for boldness:
big goals, big risks, big wins.
http://www.cio.com/go/index.html?ID=390&PMID=27903085&s=2&f=1
Thank you for reading the CIO Insider.
Cheers,
Sandy Kendall
Web Editor
CIO Magazine
skendall@cio.com
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