IT Leaders - News, Features, and Slideshows

• ​Picking up STEAM: How the arts can drive STEM leadership

  Can combining the arts with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) provide more innovative thinking and solve our skills crisis?

• In pictures: CIO Summit Sydney 2015

  More than 250 CIOs and IT leaders gathered at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney this week for the 2015 CIO Summit.

• Tech spending outside IT rising

  A new report confirms what many in the IT sector have suspected – tech spending outside the IT department of Australian companies is increasing.
  

• Tech Performance Issues Plague IT and Businesses

  While CIOs and other senior IT leaders focus on being transformational, half of global businesses say they experience tech performance issues daily. What's the problem and how can IT improve things?

• Facebook adds another woman to its board

  Facebook has added a second woman to its board of directors. Susan Desmond-Hellmann, chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been elected to the board, the social networking giant announced.

• CIOs Adjust to Enterprise Tech as a Fashion Statement

  The state of enterprise tech has moved from company-centric to user-centric, and IT leaders -- faced with fickle consumer-business users -- must learn to understand 'the need' not 'the ask.'

• 11 project management tips for setting and managing expectations

  Project management experts discuss the best ways to set, manage and adjust expectations to ensure that projects don't veer off course - and they suggest what steps project managers should take if they do.

• How IT leaders can empower teams to become decision-makers

  Most managers want their team members to be more proactive when it comes to making decisions. IT Team leaders at any level can use a 'Tree Decision Rights' model to identify different types of decisions and then work with their team members to empower them to take on more decision-making responsibly.

• How entrepreneurial IT leaders can impact revenue

  Entrepreneurial IT leaders can offer unique insight, capability, experience and corporate leadership to the business. They are innovation-oriented and in an economy with uncertainty, they can find new methods for starting and sustaining revenue growth.

• CIOs talk about staying strategic

  It’s the bête noire of C-level managers the world over — too often, it’s easy to be pulled into the morass of day-to-day issues at the expense of strategy. If the role is predominantly operational, fair enough, but being forced into operations when you were hired to be strategic (or vice versa) is frustrating for everybody involved. So how do CIOs balance operations and strategy? Aligning the departmental business plan with the organisation’s strategic plan is an obvious starting point. Beyond that, however, CIOs have developed their own methods of staying strategic.

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