New IT Recruitment and Retention Tactics

A continuing drought of skilled IT workers means CIOs need to work harder than ever to recruit and retain employees. Here are the latest tactics for hiring and retaining a high-performing workforce.

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How CIOs Can Negotiate CEO-like Pay

There is a lot more to compensation these days than straight salary. There are perks. There are incentives. CIOs should know the lay of the land before they negotiate.

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The Benefits of Job Rotation in IT

Experts say that there are benefits in establishing formalized job rotation programs, but few IT organizations have formally instituted them.

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Leading Reasons Why CIOs Get Fired

Every CIO should become familiar with the facts about why some contemporaries at other organizations get fired. Sometimes an enterprise simply hires the wrong person. Other times the CIO simply falls down on the job.

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Attracting Women to IT

Men outnumber women in IT leadership posts. That's no surprise. But experts say women are invaluable in IT and more can be done to recruit, retain, and leverage their strengths.

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How to Become the CEO

CIOs are increasingly central to corporate success. So why is the corner office so elusive?

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Bridging the Reliability Divide

In many organizations, there is a credibility gap between what CIOs are trying to achieve within IT and the points they score in the boardroom. Here's how CIOs can bridge this divide.

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Restructuring the IT Team

In the wake of mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, or consolidations, CIOs need to recruit and retain talent to meet the new mission, without alienating workers.

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Collaboration Is Key

From wikis to instant messaging to collaboration suites, the modern organization is being transformed by the new tools allowing co-workers to work together or with clients.

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Pow-wows with the Board

CIOs have an opportunity to demonstrate their skills and insight as business leaders in every interaction they have with the Board of Directors.

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Breaking out of the 'Techie' Mold

Boardrooms are turning to CIOs to both deal with security and regulatory compliance and to bolster the bottom line through IT-reliant initiatives.

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Speeding the Rubber Stamp Process

To get buy-in on a new product or strategy, CIOs must think like marketers.

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Evaluating Project Risks

CIOs can manage new initiatives best by first understanding their level of risk in several key areas.

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Add Your Voice to the Compliance Team

CIOs still sitting on the sidelines might try these tactics.

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Getting the Pay You Deserve

Presenting a clearer view of IT's role can help CIOs increase their salaries.

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The Evolving Role of the CIO

IT continues to gain prominence among organizations, but with it may come a shift in oversight from CIOs to other C-level executives.

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Creating Effective Corporate IT Governance

IT touches everyone in the enterprise. Why shouldn't other C-level executives take some responsibility for it, too?

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Don't Delegate Security

Every company needs to understand what it wants from security and practice it from the top down.

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Working with the CFO Boss

To the budget-minded CFO, technology can be another cost that must be controlled. Because CIOs and CFOs operate in different worlds, CIOs need to spell out their objectives clearly.

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