Special Business Reports
Press Release : ‘New Association Launched To Create A Stronger Voice for CIOs in Europe’
New Association Launched To Create A Stronger Voice for CIOs in Europe Chief Information Officers and IT user representative bodies across Europe unite under an Association banner. Immediate aims include addressing European skill shortages and ensuring that the European Commission’s Consultation on Cloud Computing reflects business concerns over security, global harmonisation, accountability and vendor behaviour. Press Release CIOforum – European CIO Association – English Press Release CIOforum – European CIO Association – Nederlands Press Release CIOforum – European CIO Association – Français
CIOforum 2011 Year End event – “CIO 2020 “A generation gap?…”
Every year the CIOforum celebrate the end of the working year with an elegant evening for members and business partners. This year end event we talked about the CIOforum achievements of the past year and once again we have the honor to welcome a series of excellent guest speakers at a superb location. After the introduction and welcome by IBM’s Country Manager Jacques Platieau, our members and business partners were presented a very in-depth overview of the recent CIO survey conducted by IBM.
Why Apps, Infrastructure, And PMO Roles Fail.
There are a number of roles in IT that can significantly change the organization for good or bad.
The CIO As Portfolio Strategist.
As organizations undergo the transformation from information technology (IT) to business technology (BT), they will have to make many important decisions in the process of moving from the current “as-is state” to the “to-be state.”
The IT Balanced Scorecard: Customer/Partner Metrics Revisited.
In the Balanced Scorecard framework, IT value is driven by satisfied customers. For many IT organizations, satisfying customers has become more challenging as the definition of an IT customer has grown to include many different constituencies both inside and outside the firm.
IT Globalization Examples — Drivers, Hurdles, And Opportunities.
CIOs are increasingly pursuing globalization in support of their firms’ efforts to attack new markets and achieve greater efficiencies. But globalization is both an emerging and complicated change, and there are no signposts to tell firms which way to turn.
Eight Ways CIOs Use Capability Maps To Embed Business In The Management Of IT
Business capabilities define what your organization does to execute its mission or support its position in the marketplace. These capabilities, such as “customer management,” “product development,” and “employee management” are the key building blocks of the organization.
Beyond Alignment: A Road Map For Business-Centric CIOs
For 30 years, CIOs have set up increasingly complex IT processes and industrialized IT operations in the hope of driving down costs while increasing IT and business alignment. While efforts toward alignment yield mixed results, business realities demand that CIOs move beyond alignment — to weave IT into the fabric of the business — or be relegated to managing technology.
Best Practices In IT Financial Management
In a recent Forrester survey of 84 enterprise IT decision-makers, only 52% said that they have a formal IT chargeback process in place. It is difficult to run IT like a business when the product appears to be free to customers but costs the business hundreds of millions of dollars to operate — which is precisely what happens when IT costs are not charged back to its customers.
Industry Innovation: Insurance
Today’s insurance CIOs are shifting their focus away from cost reduction to speed, flexibility, and innovation. As insurance buyers’ habits change from face-to-face interactions with agents to Web-based and mobile virtual experiences, CIOs are looking to develop strategies to ensure that IT’s capabilities keep pace with — and even anticipate — business needs.
