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Dr. Jim
4 Steps CIOs Need To Take To Make Their Process Improvement Projects Successful
Pity the poor CIOs who gets the idea that what his IT department needs to do this year is to implement a process improvement project. ...
4 Steps CIOs Need To Take To Make Their Process Improvement Projects... theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
Image Credit Pity the poor CIOs who gets the idea that what his IT department needs to do this year is to implement a process improvement project. It's not that these types of projects are a bad thing to do, it's just that all...
Dr. Jim
Why CIOs May Be The Company’s Biggest Security Risk
Your IT department has lots of data on its computers that bad people would like to get their hands on. Your company has taken care to ...
Why CIOs May Be The Company's Biggest Security Risk theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
[caption id="attachment_2025" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Your actions may be inviting danger into the company"]Image Credit [/caption] The world is a very dangerous place. Your IT department has lots and lots of...
Dr. Jim
One of the most important jobs that a CIO has to do is to manage the people that work for him or her. I’d like to be able to tell you ...
What CIOs Need To Do About Bad Apples In The IT Department theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
[caption id="attachment_2033" align="aligncenter" width="235" caption="Just A Few Bad Apples Can Spoil It For Everyone Else"]Image Credit [/caption] One of the most important jobs that a CIO has to do is to manage the people...
Dr. Jim
Hello CIO: You’re In Politics Now!
With all of the technology decisions that need to be made, can’t we all just skip the politics and get down to business? It turns out ...
Hello CIO: You're In Politics Now! theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
[caption id="attachment_2041" align="alignright" width="150" caption="No matter where you stand, you are now in politics"]Image Credit [/caption] Can't a CIO just rise above all of the politics? I mean really, with all of the...
Dr. Jim
Video: IT Value How To Measure The Revenue Of IT
We all know that IT provides value to the rest of the company, but how much value? That's the question that CIOs are always trying to ...
Dr. Jim
There you are, a CIO trying to run an efficient IT department. All of sudden — wham! One of your key IT employees comes and tells you ...
Why Throwing Leaving Employees Under The Bus Is A Bad Idea theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
Image Credit There you are, a CIO trying to run an efficient IT department. All of sudden -- wham! One of your key IT employees comes and tells you that he or she is leaving. Time to go back the bus up because you've got...
Dr. Jim
Arguably the most important part of any CIOs job is to communicate with your staff. How you go about doing that can be critical to both ...
CIOs Should Stop Sending Emails – Now! theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
Image Credit Those cloning experiments sure seem to have only been able to create more sheep so far – and that's not going to help overworked CIOs! It seems as though we have more things to do and less time than ever to get...
Dr. Jim
CIO Lessons From Zynga: Don’t Manage Like They Do!
Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past year and don’t know who Zynga is, they’re the online game company that has ...
CIO Lessons From Zynga: Don't Manage Like They Do! theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
Image Credit Just in case you've been living under a rock for the past year and don't know who Zynga is, they're the online game company that has ridden Facebook's coattails to success. They've created very, very popular games...
Dr. Jim
Why FedEx’s CIO Has His Head In The Cloud
When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight, who are you going to call? Probably FedEx, the package shipping company. What ...
Why FedEx's CIO Has His Head In The Cloud theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
Image Credit When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight, who are you going to call? Probably FedEx, the package shipping company. What you might not know is that FedEx has an enormous IT infrastructure that they...
Dr. Jim
You wouldn’t think that a CIO who just got fired from his job at HP would have a lot to teach us about IT strategy, but that’s where ...
W.W.C.R.M.D? (What Would CIO Randy Mott Do?) theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
Image Credit You wouldn't think that a CIO who just got fired from his job at HP would have a lot to teach us about IT strategy, but that's where you'd be wrong. Randy Mott is a CIO who has been around the block a few times....
Dr. Jim
CIOs understand that they are responsible for conducting performance appraisals with their team every so often. What many CIOs don’t ...
CIOs Need To Play The Role Of Coach If They Want To Win The Game theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
[caption id="attachment_1749" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Sometimes the IT department needs a coach, not a CIO…"]Image Credit [/caption] CIOs understand that they are responsible for conducting performance...
Dr. Jim
First the bad news: it turns out that 25% of the best workers in the IT department are planning on leaving within the next 12 months. Do ...
New Ways For CIOs To Keep The Staff That You Have theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
"Are Your Best Employees Ready To Fly The Coop?
Dr. Jim
Sure you did all of the research, you talked with all of the right people, shucks you even followed up on every Google link that you ...
Now What? When CIOs Make The Wrong Job Move… theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
Oops -- That Job Change Was Wrong, Now What?
Dr. Jim
One of the biggest challenges that modern CIOs face is how to do a good job of managing their IT department. The folks at Google have ...
Free Answers From Google On How CIOs Can Be Better Managers theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
Google Has Been Searching For What Makes A Good Manager
Dr. Jim
CIOs Are Learning That Clouds Aren’t Free
CIOs are currently being faced with making a decision that will impact their IT departments for years to come: should they move their IT ...
CIOs Are Learning That Clouds Aren't Free theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
It Turns Out That Both Public And Private Clouds Have A Cost
Dr. Jim
CIOs Need To Realize That Virtualization Isn’t All That It’s Cracked Up To Be
To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for ...
CIOs Need To Realize That Virtualization Isn't All That It's Cracked... theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
"Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But…
Dr. Jim
Dr. Jim Anderson explains the issues that CIOs need to be aware of when they are evaluating using cloud computing.
Dr. Anderson ...
Video: CIO Cloud Computing 101: Problems With Clouds theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3X7mmKfGQY&feature=player_profilepage Dr. Jim Anderson explains the issues that CIOs need to be aware of when they are evaluating using cloud computing. Dr. Anderson identifies seven issues...
Dr. Jim
More and more CIOs are turning to simulations in order to visually present large amounts of information in a way that we can absorb it. ...
CIOs Need To Realize That Seeing Is NOT Always Believing theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
Just Because You Can Simulate It, Does Not Make It True…
Dr. Jim
Dr. Jim Anderson discusses an outage that happened at the London Stock Exchange.
Dr. Anderson identifies what may have caused the ...
Video: London Stock Exchange Needs Cloud Computing theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XeebHzHA_8 Dr. Jim Anderson discusses an outage that happened at the London Stock Exchange. Dr. Anderson identifies what may have caused the London Stock Exchange outage and if cloud computing...
Dr. Jim
How do you make decisions? We’d all like to think that we carefully weight the available evidence and then use our past experiences to ...
3 Traps That Cause CIOs To Make Bad Decisions theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com
CIOs Often Don't Realize That They've Made A Bad Decision Until It's Too Late!
