As the global economy slowly begins to emerge from the downturn, companies are evolving their focus on cost cutting to look for opportunities to emerge in the new “normal” more competitive and positioned for growth. The role of technology in innovating out of the downturn is far-reaching, and the opportunities for CIOs to take the [...]
The symposium partner, Center for CIO Leadership, a member driven community to advance the CIO profession, is hosting an exclusive executive event for CEOs, CIOs, CFOs and other members of the C-Suite on Thursday, October 21, 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm in New York City. Salon Theme: “CEOs See Technology as Growth Driver; CIOs Don’t… [...]
CIO Stephen Gillett is no plain old IT order-taker. He’s leading a new group developing even more in-store tech offerings–and delivering what CEOs want most from CIOs: strategic innovation.
Companies currently spend about 5-6% of their revenues on IT. Many of these companies are now struggling to align their IT to support the business strategy, provide a competitive advantage, and serve as a platform for growth. Exploding number of choices and growing complexity of technology assets making these companies victims of their rapidly obsolescing computing infrastructure. Once these assets offered these companies the competitive advantage and served as barriers to entry but now these IT assets are becoming liability. Supply chain meets the cloud to boost the visibility of collaboration processes with and between third-parties such as suppliers, partners, and customers. If companies fail to deconstruct their IT infrastructure and embrace cloud, their competition will outdo their competitive advantage and make them irrelevant. As a CIO of 21st century corporation are ready to embrace this new paradigm and massive IT transformation to prepare your organization for 21st century competitive tsunamis? Would like to hear your views/thoughts/experiences.
We are pleased to announce our partner, TiE Boston’s annual flagship conference TiECON East 2010, Boston’s Premier Entrepreneurial Conference which promises to deliver valuable insights on factors that foster entrepreneurial success in the New Economic Climate to be held on May 27th and 28th at the Westin Waltham, MA. The theme for this year’s conference [...]
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