davidjf

Governing IT (look at this PWC perfect report) is (and that is not new!) key for company performance:

Strategic alignment is key, but clearly a subtle adaptive one, not too mechanistic...

What are CEO feelings on that?

Some new innovative ideas on this old alignment topic, like this definition of IT organizations as fitting into one of three categories, which called Solid Utility, Trusted Supplier, and Partner Player.

McKinsey emphasizes on some conditions of success...

All that relies usually on CIO. He is responsible of all dimensions of IT Governance (Strategic Alignment, Operational Efficiency, Risk Management, Security, Business Continuity, Change Management, System Integrity, Cost Management, Regulatory Compliance, Value Delivery):

Don't forget that sometimes IT can put you out of business!

CIO priorities on theses subjects evolve, and more...

Recently published, on those topics:

On Security : Web2 increases security risks and is a new challenge, and globalization is another key issue...

On Compliance: Compliance environment in US and more...

On Business continuity...

With such responsibilities, why CIO careers are not more dynamic, does CIO still means "Career Is Over"?

A lot of informations recently published on this theme.

What are the "new" issues and opportunities for CIO's ?

Let's take a quote from this one

Ovum analysts say in their Summit Seven predictions. "Virtualization, service-oriented architecture, management automation and integrated workflow tools will increasingly be coupled with externally provided software-as-a-service (SaaS), utility computing, business process outsourcing and other network-hosted applications and business services to create highly dynamic enterprise service delivery environments."

Not a bad list! but so many challenges inside! Just to take an example, SOA not so easy, and the article warns on that.

(for those who are not SOA experts, a good recent synthesis there)

See too the feelings of James Champy, ex reengineering guru: IT budget growth, but under control, lack of professional talents, offshoring still on, no technological revolution...

And McKinsey view: SOA and Lean production...

I like too the personal analysis of JP Corniou in his blog (e-voeux 2007), reemphasizing some challenges like level of CIO within organizations, need to prove continuously the value generated by IT, challenges of standards for IT, outsourcing and offshoring decisions, cultural and educational aspects, ...

Determine too what kind of CIO you are (business leader, innovation agent, operational expert, turnaround artist) in this nice report with quiz and ...look at global statistical results!

On a permanent never-achieved theme (alignment), some reemphasis on this key concept