CIO ARCHIVE

03 March 2013
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Written by Tim Blair White

Pitching your product or service to a CIO is akin to meeting with that mythical unicorn – plenty of sightings and stories but you never actually get to meet with one! But, if you are lucky enough to get…

02 March 2013
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Written by Tim Blair White

I had the pleasure of spending the day at Lightspeed Ventures of Menlo Park, Ca with eight other CIOs (or senior staffers) from around the San Francisco Bay Area interacting with and providing feedback on 10 emerging tech start-ups…

10 November 2012
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Written by Tim Blair White

As a CEO or other senior executive overseeing IT, are you experiencing any of the following situations? The IT Department is not responsive and viewed with disdain by staff? Complaints of poor IT customer service? IT projects bogging down…

31 October 2012
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Written by Tim Blair White

Takeaway: Emerging technologies are re-shaping the role of the CIO in every industry. A panel of CIOs at a recent technical symposium share their views and predictions. At the Oct 29th Technical Symposium at the Santa Clara Convention Center,…

31 May 2012
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Written by Tim Blair White

CIOs in general are very courageous people – who else would willingly attempt to support the run-away train of business on sometimes faulty infrastructure while wearing a red cape and wishing they too were devilishly handsome or beautiful? Well,…

31 December 2009
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Written by Tim Blair White

The last day of the year has dawned and I was struck by a fundamental question as an IT executive: “What makes some IT teams really excel and succeed where others fail?” This thought came to me as I…