3 Ways CIOs Work With Sales to Create Innovative Solutions
How IT leaders are recruiting ideas, building trust and embracing lessons learned when building tools sales teams want to use.
How IT leaders are recruiting ideas, building trust and embracing lessons learned when building tools sales teams want to use.
Information security is often seen as more trouble and cost than it's worth. Until it fails. How can CIOs truly make it part of enterprise risk management?
A new report from the CMO Council and Accenture on the strategic relations between CIOs and CMOs offers a grim outlook: "Marketing and IT executives do not believe they are highly effective partners, as they struggle to achieve common goals in the race to adopt and keep pace with rapidly evolving digital marketing capabilities," notes the report.
Survey finds that CIOs and marketing chiefs don't see eye-to-eye on much at all.
One of the most overused terms I've heard in the past few years as CEO of an IT consulting and staffing firm has to be the word "alignment." Think about it. How many times have you heard phrases like, "IT must learn to align with the business" or that "smart CIOs know that in order to succeed, IT must align with the business"?
In my recent visits with CIOs and executives in the IT vendor community, I keep noticing how we're still "so close, yet so far away" from one another.
CIOs are famous for their generic, canned and oftentimes boring remarks on anything from ERP and clould computing, to vendor relations and social media technologies.