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IBM Chief Information Officer: Insights & strategy

Chief Information Officer:
Insights & strategy
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Your aspiration: As a Chief Information Officer, drive change, innovation and efficiency to help build a smarter enterprise that will prosper amidst global competition. Your daily challenge: As a Chief Information Officer, deliver business results faster and better–with less.

Chief Information Officers are being counted on to deliver IT innovation to support the accelerating rate of change and to enable the enterprise to seize new opportunities. At the same time, CIOs must manage an effective, efficient, secure and resilient IT infrastructure to help ensure the organization’s survival and success. Use the tabs above to explore key challenges facing CIOs and how to add greater value to your enterprise by meeting them head on. Are you armed to embrace the art of the possible?

CIO Editor's Corner: Insights into Cloud Computing

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    Seeding the Clouds:
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    Cloud computing reduced the resources required to manage and operate the environment.

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    Cloud Computing Saves Time, Money and Shortens Production Cycle
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  • IBM Research Doubles Its Productivity with Cloud Computing

    IBM Research Doubles Its Productivity with Cloud Computing
    IBM researchers can testify first hand to the benefits of cloud computing.

  • IBM Computing On Demand Uses Clouds to Increase Business Productivity

    IBM Computing On Demand Uses Clouds to Increase Business Productivity
    Today’s business climate places a premium on flexible and responsive organizations.

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The New Voice of the CIO

The IBM Global CIO Study 2009: IBM interviews with CIOs from around the world provide unique analysis and insight into how CIOs operate in today's dynamic environment.

IBM interviews with CIOs from around the world provide unique analysis and insight into how CIOs operate in today's dynamic environment.

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Our newest report, The Global CEO Study: Implications for the CIO, highlights the five key traits of the Enterprise of the Future


Abstract: Catalyst for change. Expert on what’s possible. Guru of risk management. These are some of the many roles CIOs will play in the Enterprise of the Future, a vision outlined in the 2008 IBM Global CEO Study. The study results foretell an Enterprise of the Future characterized by accelerating, wide-ranging, uncertain change. Rather than resisting this change, the CEOs who participated in the study are embracing it. They are setting a new enterprise agenda centered around change that encompasses innovation, global integration, evolving business models and a new focus on corporate social responsibility.

What does this new CEO agenda mean to CIOs? It challenges them to become leaders and masters of change by enabling flexible, automated IT infrastructures that can not only respond dynamically to change, but actually drive change across the enterprise. Businesses and IT organizations alike must be hungry for change, plus they must be innovative in their product differentiation, integrated across the globe, disruptive in their business models and genuine in their concern for society.

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Convergent thinking among the
C-suite: why integration and collaboration spell big opportunity
for CIOs


Abstract: In a business environment characterized by constant change and global opportunity, where success rides on companies' ability to get comfortable with unpredictability and risk, four C-suite leaders are zeroing in on enterprisewide integration and collaboration as essential enablers for business growth. Rather than sit idly by and react to change as it occurs, today’s top highest ranking executives have other plans. According to IBM’s landmark Global CEO Study, CEOs and other senior business leaders are moving proactively and aggressively toward new business designs, building collaborative energy and delivering a steady stream of differentiating ideas and innovations. Now the CEO study—and IBM’s companion CFO, CHRO and CIO studies—offer a bird’s eye view into the business traits and transformation deemed essential for business growth and success in the years to come. Not only do these studies summarize the sentiments of C-suite leaders in companies of every size, sector and region around the globe, they illustrate the convergent thinking that’s occurring at the executive table—and the powerful implications for CIOs.

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