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Effective CIOs are adept at corporate board-level politics. As technology is a central pillar of organisations of all sizes, the CIO has to become a key member of, or senior adviser to, the management board, making key decisions on all aspects of the business and therefore being required to understand all departments, operations and issues that arise. Driving through change management and technology requires board support to ensure success.

Board politics

Latest Board politics news

How CFOs and CIOs find hedging help

Via the cloud or spreadsheets, finance and IT execs can buy a wide range of products and expertise to help them hedge their companies' bets.

Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein leaves HP

Jon Rubinstein, known for his role developing the original iPod for Apple and for running Palm, has left HP, where he worked since the company's acquisition of Palm in 2010.

Government appoints Andy Nelson as new CIO

MoJ IT chief, to take the role

Intel shuffles management team

Changes come as Intel tries to diversify its PC and data center operations

RIM appoints Thorsten Heins as new CEO

Research In Motion's co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have quit after a tumultuous period at the company, which saw intense competition, and a long services outage at the maker of the BlackBerry.

Intellect appoints new chief

Intellect, the trade association for the UK's technology sector, has appointed Julian David as its new director general.

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang quits

Latest in string of changes at the company

Ex-HMRC chief Lesley Strathie dies

Dame Lesley Strathie, former CEO and permanent secretary at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has died following a battle with cancer.

Barclays can 422 IT jobs

Barclays Bank is set to cut 422 IT jobs, prompting anger from trade unions.

Met Police ex-deputy commissioner starts work at Accenture

Tim Godwin, a former deputy commissioner at London's Metropolitan Police, began work this week within public sector operations at IT services firm Accenture.

Board politics in depth

Eight reasons to dump your old ERP that your CEO will get

Some compelling business reasons why you should get the budget for a new enterprise architecture

Old outdated ERP drags the business down. Here are eight good excuses from Paul Turner, senior director at NetSuite, to explain to business-line peers why the business needs to invest in a replacement more...

Eight reasons to dump your old ERP that your CEO will get

CIO Profile: P&G's Dave Ubachs on the future of the CIO

It's about business prowess, not technical expertise, which comes as a given

For one of Procter & Gamble's IT heads, if the CIO isn't on the board, they cannot continue to stay relevant more...

CIO Profile: P&G's Dave Ubachs on the future of the CIO

The Great Debates at Davos: Jump-starting confidence in the economy

The hot topic this year is how BRICs economies can help the rest of the world

BG Srinivas, European head at Infosys has sent in a report on his first day at this year's Davos Summit. Attendees are abuzz with chatter over the global economy. more...

The Great Debates at Davos: Jump-starting confidence in the economy

NHS CIOs: Why is 2015 is your Year Zero

NHS CIOs need to start thinking about their post-NPfIT world now

The National Programme for IT is grinding to a halt, it will take some time for existing contracts to come to an end. NHS IT leaders need to be thinking now about what will replace them more...

NHS CIOs: Why is 2015 is your Year Zero

The benefits and pitfalls of working with Super-users

Business analysis can get caught up in an enthusiastic minority's view of what tech is required

Determining the IT requirements of the business can be helped by super-users, says Mark Settle, but beware that you aren't getting a wide enough perspective more...

The benefits and pitfalls of working with Super-users

CIO Pay = B + I + X factor

The formula for making sure you get the best remuneration deal

There's a formula to getting a good pay deal, says James Hallahan, MD CIO Practice, Harvey Nash. How does yours compare? more...

CIO Pay = B + I + X factor

CIO Profile: Thomson Reuters' Jane Moran on CEO Tom Glocer's legacy

Although the leader is about to depart the company's IT boss says the internal corporate structure is still sound

Thomson Reuters IT leader gives her support for the corporate structure the outgoing CEO created more...

CIO Profile: Thomson Reuters' Jane Moran on CEO Tom Glocer's legacy

CIO Profile: Thomson Reuters' Jane Moran on application rationalisation

For the financial information giant, supplier relations are a key factor in its recent merger

Thomson Reuters CIO explains the technology strategy behind the recent merger more...

CIO Profile: Thomson Reuters' Jane Moran on application rationalisation

The CIO Questionnaire: Chris Airey, Lifestyle Services Group

Former Bezier IT boss on the noble art of liquor-making and the value of personal development coaching

Chris Airey lists the most influential teachers in his career, from Ford and Littlewoods more...

The CIO Questionnaire: Chris Airey, Lifestyle Services Group

Ten steps to define your business strategy

Every CIO should have a sound business strategy, says a panel of distinguished IT leaders

Every CIO should have a sound business strategy for driving their organisation forward through technology, says a panel of distinguished IT leaders more...

Ten steps to define your business strategy

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Analysis

CIOs must merge IT with marketing to win in the digital decade

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Opinion

Information for sale

If departments can buy their own commodity IT, where does that leave today’s CIO? As the purveyor of timely, contextual and critical information to the business... more...

Information for sale

Debate

Virtual CIO Summit

This year’s CIO Summit was the best yet and a series of leading UK based CIOs shared their experiences and thoughts with an audience exclusively made up of CIOs. Some have kindly agreed to share their presentations with you here. more...

Virtual CIO Summit

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Top 10 considerations for your IT operations management in the cloud

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How to get your business ready for the 2012 Olympics

IT Manager: "I'm working on contingency plans to ensure that we can keep the business running whatever happens during the Olympics. Hopefully, it'll just be a case of letting people work from home but we need to be ready for anything".


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