Martha Heller brings you career advice, job changes and best practices from CIOs in the trenches.
Jennifer Hartsock, CIO of Baker Hughes, a GE company, explains how she uses a product management model to drive productivity.
IBM CIO Fletcher Previn explains how agile development, Net Promoter Score, and organizational structure are key to delivering easy-to-use solutions that drive innovation and employee efficiency.
Andy Newsom, CIO of CSL Behring, discusses how he makes talent management a part of the IT department's culture and turns high-potential employees into enterprise leaders.
Justin Mennen, CIO and CDO of CompuCom -- provider of managed digital workplace services, is elevating the digital experiences of his customers and his P&L leadership role.
To help Lexmark's IT department better understand the business, CIO Brad Clay added non-IT people to the team. To ensure their success, he created a formal training program.
How the CIO of Brightstar embedded IT into the customer experience, integrated service lines, and made IT central to the business rather than just an order taker.
New York Lifeu2019s Dave Castellani offers his vision for a new distribution of IT resources.
Frank Modruson, former CIO of Accenture, offers his perspective on corporate board work.
To improve patient care, Carolinas HealthCare System's Craig Richardville looks to other industries for emerging technologies and innovative ideas.
To make sure IT spending goes toward the most important projects, Dave Hudson, CIO of Veritiv, says you need a combination of vision, goals and governance.
When IT understands the business, it can better fulfill its needs. To achieve that and foster a business outcomes culture, CIOs are using a combination of approaches.
By letting IT staff work with business teams, Scotts Miracle-Gro CIO Mark Sims created a structure that distributes development, delivery and support across the company.
Phil Fasano, who spent a career in the CIO role, says CIOs should do more than drive operational change u2014 they should become operations leaders.
CIO turned SaaS sales executive Kendra Von Esh says the CIOu2019s approach to evaluating SaaS vendors must change. She offers four tips for selecting the best SaaS product.
Eighteen months after implementing a centralized IT strategy, Magna International's CIO says complaints about IT fragmentation and costs have dropped.
Talent risk management expert Steve Trautman discusses how CIOs can ensure their teams are doing the right work.
At TIAA, digital thinking means using new development approaches to deliver digital products to customers faster, says Rahul Merchant, head of Client Services & Technology.
Todd Sprinkle, CIO of QVC, uses his own blend of business and technology career experience to ensure IT and product are in lockstep.
Steve Ambrose, CIO of DTE Energy, realized IT had to change its definition of success u2014 connect it to business value. Now it bakes business outcomes into the IT culture.
IT doesnu2019t wait for business requirements at Level 3 Communications u2014 it co-creates them, says CIO Atilla Tinic. Learn how he is changing the culture in his IT organization.
At Murphy USA, CIO Greg Davidson has created a "software product mindset" around the company's software development, improving its SDLC.
Become a better storyteller, and you'll be a better IT leader. Martha Heller explains how in the season 2 finale of CIO Career Coach.
Many large firmsu2014such as Ford Motor, Phillips 66, Staples and BNY Mellonu2014appointed new CIOs this summer.
Marc Hamer, CIO and CDO of Sealed Air, discusses digital leadership and the importance of working for the CEO.
It is time for CIOs to help decide what the company's strategy should be, not just how to implement it.
Deborah Strong, CFO of IT and Operations at Travelers, offers a two-day IT finance course that teaches technologists how IT drives value.
Learn how to turn your IT consumers into IT investors in this episode of CIO Career Coach with executive recruiter and CIO.com blogger Martha Heller.
How CIO Anil Cheriyan is transforming the IT operating model at SunTrust Banks.
CIOs need to shift their approach toward shadow IT from trying to rein in a pesky problem to thinking of it as u201cend user innovation.u201d
How Atticus Tysen, CIO of Intuit, is bringing IT into the heart of the businessrn
Executive recruiter Martha Heller discusses how it is the CIOu2019s job to create change at the operational layer so that systems deliver their expected value.
Well-known large companies, including IBM, Procter & Gamble, Regions Financial, and Levi Strauss are among the firms that recently announced technology leadership changes.rn
In season 2 - episode 3 of CIO Career Coach, executive recruiter and CIO.com blogger Martha Heller discusses the CIOu2019s role in bringing IT and product development together as one.
How Steve Betts, CIO of HCSC, ensures that IT drives member value.
Season 2 of the CIO Career Coach video series is here, and in episode 2, executive recruiter and CIO.com blogger Martha Heller shows you how to turn your IT team of order takers into order shapers.
CIO Shamim Mohammad and fellow leaders at CarMax made big, bold changes to transform CarMax into a product organization
Season 2 of the CIO Career Coach video series is here, and in the first episode, executive recruiter and CIO.com blogger Martha Heller shows you how to take a leadership role in digital transformation.
Richard Maranville became CDO of Freeman Company after he identified a need to better manage and develop the company's digital products. His replacement at CIO now reports to him.
Valmont Industriesu2019 CIO, John Kehoe, discusses how taking an enterprise view allows IT to be more strategic.
The new era of IT demands a new kind of IT professional -- one who has both the business and the technology skills to get the job done.
AIG, Sempra Energy, and Yale University are among several organizations that named new CIOs as the first quarter of FY17 comes to a close.
How Earl Newsome, CIO of Praxair, embeds adoption into everything his IT organization does
Congratulations to these IT executives on their recent appointments or promotions to new CIO jobs
Robbert Kuppens, global CIO of The Boston Consulting Group, describes how changing the companyu2019s IT operating model to an IT-as-a-Service took more than a policy change. It took a mind shift.
Dan Kieny, CIO of Black & Veatch, looks to the generations beyond millennials to envision a more user-centric workplace -- one where collaboration and communication happen in real time.
Greg Carmichael, president and CEO of Fifth Third Bank, reflects on how his experience as a CIO prepared him to be a CEO in the digital age.
Avnet, Univar, QVC and Warner Music Group are among the companies that head into 2017 with new CIOs.
Krishna Nathan, CIO of S&P Global, explains how 'alternative data,' such as satellite images and foot traffic, can transform a business.
IT executive recruiter Martha Heller explains what it takes to resign from a high-profile technology role without burning bridges.
In this video, CIO recruiter Martha Heller shares advice on how to negotiate compensation and other aspects of a job offer.