The Accidental Successful CIO Jim Anderson
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Managing an IT department is not just a business, it’s a science. Nobody knows more about the science of being a CIO than Dr. Jim Anderson.
“I don’t embrace excuses about why an IT department is not being successful, I embrace solutions.”
Over the last 25 years, Dr. Anderson has transformed failing CIOs worldwide. Dr. Anderson will turn these nervous executives into powerful leaders.
Welcome to the premier podcast for learning how to think and act like a successful CIO – both if you are a CIO today or if you hope to be one in the future. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jim-anderson5/support
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CIOs Start To Redesign Their Web Sites To Meet The Needs Of Older Customers
As the person with the CIO job, you have a lot on your plate.
You are the one who is responsible for securing the companies network, you have to roll out new servers and storage, and you have to worry about getting everyone to reset their passwords every 90 days. However, it turns out that you are also responsible for something else that you may not be aware of: the usability of your company’s web site. Sure we all take a look at the website to make sure that it’s running ok.
However, it turns out that you need to take a look at it through the eyes of an older visitor.
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European CIOs Come Under Fire When Their Systems Fail
The one thing that stock traders want to be able to do is to trade their stocks.
However, if the IT systems that they use to make this happen have a fault or an outage, then all of a sudden something that is normally always there can vanish instantly. When this happens, down lost time means money lost for stock traders. The person that they are going to be holding responsible for their losses will be the CIO who is in charge of the systems that they use. This was recently a big problem.
What are CIOs to do to prevent events like this?
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CIOs Start To Deal With The Loss Of Encryption
CIOs who are following what is going on in the world of security and encryption know that things are about to dramatically change.
A new type of computing, quantum computing, is being developed. This new type of computing is going to be perfectly suited to breaking the types of encryption that we are using to secure our networks and our corporate data today.
Within 10 years these new quantum computers are going to become available and CIOs need to be getting ready to deal with them now.
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VW’s CIO Looks For Ways To Catch Up With Tesla
Just about everyone knows who Volkswagen is.
They are the German company who makes cars – remember the Beetle from the 1960’s? Well, they are still around and they still make cars. The person with the CIO job has been studying the car market and has seen the rise of Tesla in the electric car space. VW would like to enter this market also.
However, despite their years of experience in making cars, it turns out that it’s been software that they have been struggling with as they try to enter this new market.
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Do CIOs Need Robots To Manage Their Managers?
Ok, so let’s have a talk here for just a moment.
The managers that CIOs are putting into place these days seem to becoming younger and younger. Maybe it’s because there are so many millennials now working in the IT department, but it sure seems as though the pool of candidates that we can promote to manager no longer have any gray hair. This is causing a problem for the person with the CIO job. This new breed of manager lacks some basic training.
In order to ensure that this new generation of IT managers is going to be successful dealing with the importance of information technology, is this the time for the person in the CIO position to turn to robots to keep track of how their new managers are doing?
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CIOs Discover That Dumb Technology Can’t Always Be Upgraded
As CIO we are always trying to move our companies forward because we understand the importance of information technology.
What this means sometimes is that when our company has a piece of equipment that has become outdated or perhaps no one knows how to use or maintain, we’ll often try to apply a wrapper technique to it. We’ll try to marry modern technology to older equipment in order to extend its life and avoid replacement costs.
However, as some CIOs are starting to discover, this is not always a good idea.
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