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The Superstar CFO: Optimizing an increasingly complex role

whitepaper The demands of both internal and external stakeholders -- including CEOs and boards, activist investors, regulators, customers, business managers, and functional managers -- continue to expand, and seemingly everyone expects more from companies...

Tags: business management

[11 Apr 2008]

IBM CIO insights: Finding the new route to competitive advantage

whitepaper Facing rising competition and increasing pressure to contain costs, today's CEOs are demanding much more from their IT departments. According to IBM's Global CEO Study 2006, they are looking to their CIOs for insights and solutions to help drive...

Tags: cios, innovation, leaders, models

[02 Apr 2008]

IBM CIO insights: Finding the new route to competitive advantage

whitepaper Facing rising competition and increasing pressure to contain costs, today's CEOs are demanding much more from their IT departments. According to IBM's Global CEO Study 2006, they are looking to their CIOs for insights and solutions to help drive...

Tags: cios, innovation, executives, ceo

[02 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe

Comment CEOs want to cut costs from poor producers. So despite pressure to improve services, decrease downtime, deliver new and increasingly ambitious projects that define forward-thinking technology, my priority is now to save an easy million - oh, and...

Tags: management, resources, job cuts, recession

[03 Mar 2008]

'Why CRM is like love' - Gartner

News More than 70 per cent of CEOs currently rank building customer relations as their most important task, according to Gartner analyst Scott Nelson. Companies, increasingly under pressure to grow, are now looking to improve their CRM through a greater...

Tags: gartner, crm

[07 Mar 2007]

Net neutrality slain

News As the final House vote drew closer, lobbyists and CEOs from both sides began stepping up the pressure.eBay CEO Meg Whitman emailed more than a million members, urging them to support the concept, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Wednesday called on...

Tags: net neutrality

[12 Jun 2006]

Devil's Advocate: Business ethics

Comment Speaking at the event last September, JP Rangaswami, global CIO at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, said: "We are used to CEOs being accountable and going to jail and the same for CFOs. The main motivating factor is competitive pressure, not any...

Tags: business ethics, over-regulation, regulation

[03 Jan 2006]

Turning Lemons Into Lemonade: How to Make the Most of Compliance

whitepaper Sarbanes-Oxley demands more auditing insight and requires CEOs and CFOs to personally certify their companies' financial results or suffer severe civil and criminal penalties. In the United States, based on recommendations from the Securities...

Tags: oxley, securities exchange commission, recommendations, pressure

[13 Oct 2005]

We'll be the iPod of enterprise software, says Salesforce.com

News CEOs are saying 'where is the value coming from? Bruce Richardson chief research officer at AMR Research was similarly bullish: "We are going to see a lot more pressure on IT costs - we are just not going to continue to write these big cheques and...

Tags: appexchange, enterprise, salesforce.com, benioff

[13 Sep 2005]

Nokia and Ericsson do double take

News Device manufacturer Nokia and telecoms equipment both posted healthy year-on-year sales growth for the second quarter - 25 per cent and 18 per cent respectively - the pair's CEOs were taking a very different position on how developing markets are...

Tags: ericsson, nokia

[22 Jul 2005]

IT spending boost piles pressure on bank CIOs

News With CEOs under pressure to discover new ways to increase their profitability, CIOs are under the spotlight, the analyst said. CIOs are coming under the spotlight as banks race to adapt to difficult market conditions and put IT at the heart of new...

Tags: banks, cios

[01 Jul 2005]

Leader: Should CIOs want to be CEOs?

Leader But if it's because CIOs are happy with their lot, then there also should be no pressure for them to feel they must move on just to be deemed successful - especially because, as organisations become more dependent on IT, their powers are ever...

Tags: ceo, coo, career, cio jury

[24 Jun 2005]

CIOs lose sleep over security, not revenue

CIOs lose sleep over security, not revenue

News If I were to survey CEOs and CIOs [few] would have productivity goals over five per cent five years ago," he said. There's never been more pressure on executives [and] that can be both good and bad for our industry," he said.

Tags: security, cisco

[04 May 2005]

Sceptical bosses turn screw on "underperforming" IT

Sceptical bosses turn screw on "underperforming" IT

News CIOs, CEOs, CFOs and senior managers in 125 private and public sector organisations in the UK were polled for the survey, which showed a disparity between how CEOs and CIOs see their IT departments. Almost two-thirds (63 per cent) of CEOs said...

[02 Feb 2005]

Michael Dell steps down as Dell CEO

Michael Dell steps down as Dell CEO

News Even with the change in CEOs, founder Michael Dell will still wield considerable influence. Prices of parts such as RAM and LCD screens crept up through the last part of 2003, for example, putting some pressure on Dell's profit margins.

Tags: kevin rollins, dell computer, michael dell

[16 Jul 2004]

Microsoft and SAP scared Oracle into attempted acquisition

Microsoft and SAP scared Oracle into attempted acquisition

News The companies abandoned the talks after several meetings in which the two CEOs disagreed about who would run the combined company, Ellison said. Increasing competitive pressure from SAP and the entry of Microsoft into the business applications...

[01 Jul 2004]

Leader: The misguided desire to grow, grow, grow

Leader: The misguided desire to grow, grow, grow

Leader And don't allow shareholders to control CEOs and pressure them into pursuing markets they wouldn't otherwise go after. Sometimes it's pressure from the board and shareholders to raise share value and make them all a little richer.

Tags: corporate strategy, yahoo

[18 Jun 2004]

High Availability Ethernet Networks

whitepaper This pressure is coming both from CFOs and CEOs as well as from customers and clients. The pressure is on most CIOs and CTOs to re-engineer their existing legacy systems and networks into higher availability more tightly integrated units while at...

Tags: high availability, availability, cios, clients

[20 Apr 2004]

Solutions for a Virtual Internet Marketplace

whitepaper As CEOs face increasing pressure to adopt business-to- business Internet strategies, more companies will enter into virtual Internet marketplaces. These virtual Internet marketplaces will be created among companies, partners and suppliers to share...

Tags: business strategies, marketplaces, adopt, face

[24 Feb 2004]

CIOs on the way out?

CIOs on the way out?

News He said CEOs are under more pressure than ever to justify large sums spent on IT to shareholders and City analysts and that the financial director or CFO is likely to resist major changes to a firm's infrastructure that involve large budgets.

Tags: it director, cathy holley, david metcalfe, cio

[03 Sep 2003]

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