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Five skills you need to be CIO
News This means the ability to communicate and influence at all levels - spouting techno-babble in the boardroom is unlikely to endear a CIO to fellow executives. A strong leader is also a more credible and effective operator... [06 Aug 2007]
How to be a top CIO
CIO Analysis With technology increasingly at the heart of most organisations the opportunity is there for CIOs to play a more strategic boardroom role. But even then the CIO needs to be proactive in making his or her voice heard and,... [06 Jun 2007]
CIOs: 'Wise up and the empire could be yours'
News If you can earn the right to be in all conversations about the business based on your experience and gravitas in the boardroom then you have the opportunity to extend your scope of influence beyond... [07 Mar 2007]
Skills Survey 2006: Does the board respect IT?
News But those one rung down the ladder are not so positive about the relationship with the boardroom. In silicon.com's exclusive 2006 Skills Survey, just over half (58 per cent) of board directors and... [30 May 2006]
Leader: Who's in favour of in-sourcing?
Leader However, the boardroom execs, more removed from the goings-on in the server room, think simply staying the course is best. By contrast, the least support came from the very top of the business - the... [22 May 2006]
Hunt for top talent is boardroom headache
News CEOs and senior execs are being forced to spend increasing amounts of their working week looking after staffing issues - a role once relegated solely to the HR department. CEOs spend about 20 per cent of... [08 May 2006]
Boardroom Despatches: Inside Intel
Comment Recently I had the pleasure of hosting an evening where the top brass from the UK retail sector met one of high-tech's most high-profile and influential CEOs, Intel's Craig Barrett. It's about attitude more than... [21 Nov 2003]
No place on the top table for techies
Comment Old school ties still carry far more weight in the boardroom than an in-depth knowledge of your company's business processes and the tech-minded are likely to have to wait a lot longer for that situation... [17 Jul 2003]
Brits and Germans give the rest a tech tonking
News The story is repeated across a range of key indicators of metrics, with 47 per cent of German companies having a technology boffin on the company board, while a meagre 19 per cent of French corporates allow the propeller-heads into the... [23 May 2001]
Model Management: trouble at the top
Comment These tales of boardroom woe add up to what Bennis and O'Toole call "CEO churning" - a trend, they say, that is more than just a series of headlines. Whichever way you look at it, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that a... [11 Dec 2000]
Technology to force boardroom to rethink its role
News But Richard Sykes, former CIO at ICI, warned that unless senior board members embraced technology, companies and CEOs would not survive. But if you do not have IT skills you are dead, it's a powerful... [21 Sep 1999]
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