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Stop poking the CIO in the I
Written by Dave Carey
- (Leadership)
- Pity the poor CIO. Seems like every time you turn around, somebody’s trying to poke his or her ‘I’ out. The once venerable title Chief Information Officer is now passé – no longer suitable, according ...
- Created on 07 October 2013
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CIO Careers: The power of personal connection
Written by Dave Carey
- (Leadership)
- A couple of weeks ago, a CIO and long-time friend of mine sent me an email, letting me know that he’s looking to change jobs after 15 years with the same firm. He knew that I was well connected with the ...
- Created on 22 August 2013
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Loblaw’s Big Data Play
Written by Dave Carey
- (Technology)
- Make no mistake about it, Big Data played no small role in the recent $12.5B acquisition of Canada’s largest retail pharmacy chain, Shoppers Drug Mart, by Canadian retail giant Loblaw. And while there ...
- Created on 18 July 2013
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CIO Career Advice: Moving Up the Business Ladder
Written by Dave Carey
- (Leadership)
- Over the past couple of decades I’ve met many CIOs with aspirations to move out of IT and up the corporate ladder. Some succeeded; many more did not. Despite the advantage of being an executive with ...
- Created on 02 July 2013
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UOIT conference showcases many sides of Innovation
Written by Dave Carey
- (Technology)
- A wealth of dynamic new ideas and technologies were front and centre at the recent Innovation 2013, a one-day conference produced by the University of Ontario Institute of Technology’s (UOIT) Faculty of ...
- Created on 20 June 2013
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CIO Career Advice: Underutilized IT Execs, Get Your Knowledge Working For You
Written by Dave Carey
- (Leadership)
- Created on 30 May 2013
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CIO Careers: When you’re gone, make sure you’re not forgotten
Written by Dave Carey
- (Leadership)
- Even though the Canadian IT executive community is small, it’s surprising how often CIOs who have been made to walk the plank – often through no fault of their own – sink out of sight with barely a ripple. ...
- Created on 09 May 2013
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Strategic Insights Report: Marketing IT to the Business
Written by Dave Carey
- (Leadership)
- All CIOs face similar roadblocks throughout their careers: internal business partners who distrust IT and want as little to do with it as possible; end users who are resistant to new ways of doing things ...
- Created on 30 April 2013
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Why are so many CIOs stumped by social?
Written by Dave Carey
- (Leadership)
- In a recent Forbes article, Oracle Corp. Senior VP Communications, Bob Evans, ranked “Lead the Social Revolution: Drive the Social-enabled Enterprise” number two on his list of “The Top Ten Strategic Issues ...
- Created on 08 February 2013
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Big Data = Big Opportunity for CIOs
Written by Dave Carey
- (Leadership)
- As a CIO, by now you’re already smack dab in the middle of the Big Data era. Doesn’t matter what size your company is; doesn’t matter if Big Data has never been considered as part of the IT or business ...
- Created on 10 January 2013
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CIOs – more than just efficiency experts
Written by Dave Carey
- (Operations)
- A lot of CIOs struggle with the fact that they are pigeon-holed by their organizations as efficiency experts whose role is primarily one of improving processes. The notion of IT being a key driver of business ...
- Created on 27 December 2012
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The Mouse that Roared
Written by Dave Carey
- (Connections Blog)
- ... Woods, you will have some idea of my confidence in our ability to pull this off. What I hadn’t reckoned on was this: we weren’t going into this competition with the, ahem, skills of Dave Carey, golfer; ...
- Created on 12 December 2012
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In search of the future CIO
Written by Dave Carey
- (Leadership)
- More than any other C-suite executive, CIOs are given to collective self-examination and tireless speculation on the future of their profession. That’s not surprising given the fact that CIOs are relative ...
- Created on 16 November 2012
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Confronting the IT Complexity Problem
Written by Dave Carey
- (Operations)
- You could forgive today’s CIOs for thinking they’ve fallen down some confounding IT rabbit hole. But rather than crying, “Curiouser and Curiouser!”, as Alice did, they’re more likely to exclaim, “Complexer ...
- Created on 23 October 2012
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The art of getting better press coverage (Part 2)
Written by Dave Carey
- (Connections Blog)
- Creating press releases that get noticed In Part One of this series, I identified a few of the most common reasons that editors reject, ignore or overlook a vendor’s news and product releases. Part Two ...
- Created on 10 October 2012
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Hosted computing forecast: cloudy with a chance of pain
Written by Dave Carey
- (Technology)
- As months go, August wasn’t the best for cloud computing. First there was the big stir caused by pioneering Apple seeder, Steve Wozniak, who said at an August 5 event in Washington, D.C., “I really worry ...
- Created on 25 September 2012
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Keep an eye on your digital wallet
Written by Dave Carey
- (Technology)
- If consumer financial transactions are part of your business and you don’t have a strategy around the digital wallet, you’ve got some catching up to do. For those of you who have spent the last decade ...
- Created on 19 September 2012
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The art of getting better press coverage (Part 1)
Written by Dave Carey
- (Connections Blog)
- Why press releases get rejected Having been the editor of Canada’s two leading IT management magazines for over 20 years, I’ve been approached countless times by IT vendors looking to get articles, case ...
- Created on 31 August 2012
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Glass ceiling still tough to crack
Written by Dave Carey
- (Leadership)
- Kudos to three leading women IT executives in Canada who were recognized for their outstanding achievements in 2011. In December, Dr. Catherine Aczel Boivie and Susan Doniz were on the Top 100 list of ...
- Created on 11 July 2012
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The Elephant in the C-suite
Written by Dave Carey
- (Leadership)
- Ever since Nicolas Carr’s famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) article in the May 2003 issue of the Harvard Business Review, “IT Doesn’t Matter”, CIOs have held a mirror up to themselves ...
- Created on 29 June 2012