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This site profiles some key issues relevant to business, information systems, and information technology careers. Accordingly, you can expect to find various questions related to
the
CIO and the Changing role of the Information
Executive.
Furthermore, you can
expect to find information related to the
Restructuring of IS Professionals' Jobs and Related
Skill Sets. A glimpse of the future profile may also be gained from
the perusal of the skill sets and characteristics that embody the
organizations that made it to the Business
Week 50,
CIO
100,
and InformationWeek
500.
The
Job Surveys & Occupational Outlook and
Salary & Compensation Surveys, together,
provide a complementary perspective to this delineation of the
IS Professional's evolution.
Information is also provided on developing
Resume Writing .
A selection of
Professional Associations
and
Career Links to round off the
IS Professional's Career Advancement Page.
You may also access
W(h)ither
MIS?, a repository of questions, trends and controversies that
apparently have implications for the emerging shape and direction of the
business world in general, and MIS in particular. If you are looking for
a job, you would also be interested in
ISWorldNet's
Positions Available site. Recruiters of hi-tech professionals should
peruse ISWorldNet's
Positions Wanted site.
- What is
a CIO?
CIO is generally a senior executive charged with aligning the
firm's strategic
concerns with its information systems architecture. Increasing emphasis
on the "information" component requires a more business-oriented, and
cross-functional perspective. [Also see Gartner
Group's CIO Position Description.]
- On the Past and Future of the Role of CIO
- Future of the CIO Role - Aftermath of Sept. 11
- The Top 10 Requirements of the CIO Position
- How to Partner with Your CEO
- How to Say No to Your CEO
- On Being a First CIO Of a Company
- The CIO as Coach
- Back to Centralization
- Deploying Conferencing Technologies to InterConnect
- Lessons from Union Pacific Railroad - Business Comes First
- How to Talk to the Wall Street
- Achieving Business / IT Alignment
- Lessons from Gartner - Bridging the Gaps
- Moving Beyond Command and Control
- The CIO 100 - What Sets Them Apart
- Balancing Bean Counters and Business Unit Needs
- Rebalancing Acts For Improving IT Quality
- The CIO Starter Kit
- Ten Pieces Of Advice For Reinventing the World (Tom Peters)
- Coping with Technology If You Are Not A Technical Wizard
- Attributes that Make a Good CIO
- Following the Fiduciary Model of IT
- On Connecting With Your Users
- On Representing IT Interests as Influencer
- Conquering User Skepticism From Hurting Your Credibility
- Need For a Deputy CIO
- Emerging IT Role of Corporate Strategist
- The Future of IT 525 Years From Now
- Diminishing Uncertainty While Inventing the Future
- Learning From Past to Weather Storms of the Future
- The Changing Role of the CIO
- Broad Tech Knowledge Is Key To Becoming CIO
- Managing IT With Strategy Simulations
- Investing in Portfolio of Innovative Technologies
- Is e-Strategy the Next Killer App
- Ongoing Challenge of IT-Business Alignment
- Tiding Over Budget Cuts
- Managing Your CFO
- Buying Without Getting Sold
- Lessons from a Financially Strapped Company Turnaround
- Working Your Ways Around Tight Budgets
- Lessons in Simplification - Survey of Fortune 500
- Using Tools for Tracking IT Assets
- Lessons from Carlson - Doing It Piece By Piece
- Learning from Peers in Other Sectors
- Translating IT Into Business Value
- Working With Your Sales and Marketing Departments
- Promoting and Branding IT Internally - Different Lessons From Cablevisiona and Viacom
- Integrating Technology Islands To Manage Investments
- Getting IT the Credit It Deserves
- Getting the Skinny on Project Portfolio Management
- Lessons from GM North America - Deploying Project-Management 'Dashboard'
- IT and Productivity Paradox Revisited
- Measuring IT Value - Survey Results
- Communicating Value of IT
- Measuring the Return on Your IT Investment
- Lessons from CaliMed - Delivering IT Value for Your CFO
- Measuring the Intangible Contributions of IT
- Analyzing the Analysts
- Analyzing Your Software Vendors
- Letting Your People Go During Downsizing
- Managing Virtually by Remote Control
- Preventing the Software Piracy Traps
- Managing Yourself in Public Situations
- Networking by Working a Crowd
- Killing an Enterprise Project
- Changing Your Customer's Mind
- CIO on the CIO Role Compilation of previously published articles from the
CIO magazine that address the profession and the future of the CIO career.
- The
Chief Learning Officer: New Title for New Times Several
companies have instituted the title of the CLO (or are in the process of
doing so) with increasing realization of the value of the "intellectual
assets" for the firm's competitiveness. If this role represents the
future stage on the evolutionary path of CIO is still a moot issue.
- CIO
on the CIO Role Compilation of articles from CIO magazine on
the changing role of the CIOs and related issues.
- The
CIO Role: The Truth About CIO Turnover (Batz, CIO, Nov. 1, 1996)
"CIO does NOT stand for career is over. Exclusive research from CIO and
Human Resource Executive magazines debunks that
and other myths about IS executive job longevity."
- The
CIO Role: The Missing Piece: CIOs Need Consulting Skills Given
increasing intertwining of the business and technology performance
puzzle, CIOs need to possess the 'consulting' skills for bridging the
chasm between IS and the user departments.
- Delicate
Negotiations: CIOs Need Negotiating Skills Negotiating requires a
change of attitude from a 'winner takes all' attitude to balancing of
competing interests where the winnings are shared. The key requirements
of the process include being open to divergent views to prevent
premature closure, a focus on the shared goals and thinking how the
'compromise solution' could benefit everyone involved.
-
Everything I Thought I Knew About Leadership Is Wrong (Mort Meyerson),
Fast Company
Reflecting upon the inadequacy of the 'old' leadership style at EDS,
Meyerson narrates how he went about rediscovering the definition of
leadership in his new role as the chief of Perot Systems. A surprising
conclusion coming from the chief of a world leader of
technology: "Today I believe that leaders need to be good at psychology--
starting with self-knowledge."
- How Much Do You
Think About the Information? (Lundberg) The CIO editor
questions the existing overemphasis of the CIOs on 'technology' coupled
with sparse attention on the 'information' needs. She attributes the
spate of IS implementation failures to this 'imbalance.'
- Sitting in the Hot
Seat Micahel Earl observes that the "CIO today needs to be number
one, a politician, and number two, someone who can deliver." The
increasingly business-oriented role imposes upon the CIO the need for
relationship-building and bridging the business-technology gap.
- Strategic
Management -- Changing Role Of The CIO (Information Week, March
24, 1997) As technology becomes central to business, the CIO
becomes a key mover in the ranks of upper management.
- Various
Shades of the CIO The CIO Magazine provides a remarkable
coverage of the 'business-oriented' traits increasingly demanded of the
Information Executive. Some of the recent issues included discussions
on issues such as IS Outsourcing Relationships, IS Risk Management,
Groupware, and thought profile of some leading-edge management experts.
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- Computerworld: IT
Careers Articles
- What Color
Is Your Parachute: The Net Guide (Dick Bolles) Includes
Outline,
Job Listings,
Resume Information,
Career Counseling,
Sites to Make Contacts, and
Research Sites.
- Coping with or nticipating a Layoff In the Volatile Economy
- Careers in Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industry
- Career Issues Following the Sept. 11 Attacks
- What to Do When Your Company Faces Financial Difficulties
- Mine the Hidden Market for the Golden Career
- Career, Jobs and Salary Research for College Graduates
- Career Issues From Wall Street Journal Europe
- Career Issues From Wall Street Journal Asia
- Startup Research on Advice, Ideas, Financing, Technology and Running a Business
- Are
More Glory Days Ahead? (Davenport) In this article, Davenport
questions if glory days are over for the IS academia and IS practice.
His key concern seems to be the current overemphasis of IS professionals
on Technology and lesser emphasis on Information. He suggests that a
shift of this emphasis may bring back the glory days of IS.
- At The
CIO's Side: A CTO Increasing involvement of the CIO in the business
aspects is causing some organizations to hire Chief Technology Officers
to complement the technology aspects of the CIO's responsibilities.
- Battle among "Mega-Firm" Management
Consultants Read about the changing profile
of the management consulting firms. Prognosticators forecast ongoing
consolidation with the
entrance of smaller players, as well as, shift from the extant
cost-cutting focus toward growth
strategies. Also have a look at the Rankings of
the top management consulting firms.
- Bridging
the IS-Line Interface: The Role of the Relationship Manager (Subramani et
al.) This paper presents the results of an exploratory study that
analyzed how the 'Relationship Managers' are managing the relationship
between IS and Line groups.
- Skill Sets Needed to
Succeed in IT Results of three different surveys that identified
essential skill sets needed for succeeding in IS; business knowledge
and people skills topped the identified skills for all three
surveys.
- Taking
Care of Business (April 1997) Ernst & Young eighth annual executive
survey suggests that the top priority of most CIOs is aligning
the goals of business and IS... Is it deja vu all over again.
However,
the information executives are needed to connect to the concerns of the
business and talk 'technology' in terms of business sense.
- Top Management &
Technology Topics for IT Executives Profile of top management and
technology issues for IT executives; critical traits and core
competencies of successful IT executives, etc.
- CIO/Webmaster
Relationship Resolving the two perspectives and reconciling the two
views of IT and business.
- Weighing the
Nos and Cons (April 15, 1997) How to assess the investment decisions
about IT Projects? Some executives discuss the criteria they use for
assessing IT Project investments.
- When
the Headhunter Comes Calling (Business Week, May 5, 1997) How to
handle a call from a headhunter; how to become visible; and what not to
do if you want to do any future business with the headhunter...
- ACM Career
Opportunities: Computer Science & IT
- Academic Position Network
(APN)
- AJOBS-L:
Academic Jobs Listserv
- Advertising,
Marketing and Brand Management Careers Job Positions
- The Board of Directors: An
International Directory of Curriculum Vitae Review professional
profiles and available positions for senior executive recruitment.
- Career
and Job Resources at the Library and on the Internet
- Career Links from
CIO
- Career
Opportunities Home Page: CMU, GSIA
- CareerPath.com Contains
Jobs, Employer Profiles, HR Information, etc.
- Careers in
Information Systems Discussion List (CIS-L)
- Careers:
Fortune 100 Direct links to Career Centers of Fortune 100
corporations.
- The Catapult on
JobWeb
- The Chronicle of Higher
Education: Academe This Week
- CIO
Magazine: CIO Wanted: IT/IS Executive Positions
- Exec-U-Net (Executive Job
Listings) Subscription based. Illustrative information available
without charge.
- Managing
Your Career: Getting Creative
- Grant and Contracts Support
Information
- Higher Ed Jobs Online
- Hotjobs:
Computers and Technically Related Jobs
- InformationWeek
Careers: Job Search
- JobHunt: A Meta-list of
On-Line Job-Search Resources and Services
- JobHunt:
Academia Job Listings
- Jobtrak "Job seekers may
search the database 24 hours a day, post their resume online, and access a
host of other career resources including the JOBTRAK Career Forums,
Job Search Manual, and Guide to Graduate Schools."
- Institute of
Management Consultants
- Management Consultant
Network International
- International Directory
of Management Consultants
- Management
Consulting Online: Covering Careers, Thought, Trends and Firms
- So You
Want To Be A... Management Consultant
- MBA Central Matching
'fresh' and experienced MBAs with recruiters.
- NACCB Online Job Board & Resume Bank
- PlugIn
DATAMATION Job Search Sites
- Recruiters Online Network: Searchable Jobs and Resume Databases
- Robert
Half: Career Corner
- Techno
MBA Knowledge Base (ASU)
- Top 25
Electronic Recruiting Websites
- Transaction
Information Systems Contract Programming and Consulting Positions
- Wall Street Journal:
Careers.wsj.com Searchable technical, professional, and
management positions.
- Wet
Feet Press: Information Source for Job Seekers: MBAs
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