The chief information officer (CIO) is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and computer systems that support enterprise goals. The CIO typically reports to the chief executive officer, chief operations officer or chief financial officer. In military organizations, they report to the commanding officer.
As information technology and systems have become more important, the CIO has come to be viewed in many organizations as a key contributor in formulating strategic goals. Typically, the CIO in a large enterprise delegates technical decisions to employees more familiar with details. Usually, a CIO proposes the information technology needed by an enterprise to achieve its goals and then works within a budget to implement the plan. The CIO role is also sometimes used interchangeably with the chief technology officer role, although they may be slightly different. When both positions are present in an organization, the CIO is generally responsible for processes and practices supporting the flow of information, whereas the CTO is generally responsible for technology infrastructure.
CIO magazine's "State of the CIO 2008" survey, asked 558 IT leaders who they reported to. The results were: CEO (41%), CFO (23%), COO (16%), Corporate CIO (7%) and Other (13%).
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The prominence of the CIO position has risen greatly as information technology has become a more important part of business. In some organizations, the CIO may be a member of the executive board of the organization. No specific qualification is typical of CIOs in general. In the past, many have expertise in computer science, software engineering, or information systems, but this is not universal. Increasingly CIOs, especially those from a technical background, hold Master of Business Administration or Master of Science in Management degrees. More recently CIOs' leadership capabilities, business acumen and strategic perspectives have taken precedence over technical skills. It is now quite common for CIOs to be appointed from the business side of the organization, especially if they have project management skills.
In recent years governments and government departments have employed CIOs and recruited them from the private sector. The main reason for this is that as government departments have modernized their processes they have made costly IT mistakes and now require highly experienced IT executives to cut the best deals for their organizations.
In 2007 a survey amongst CIOs by CIO magazine in the UK discovered that their top 10 concerns were: people leadership, managing budgets, business alignment, infrastructure refresh, security, compliance, resource management, managing customers, managing change and board politics.
Typically, a CIO is involved with analyzing and reworking existing business processes, with identifying and developing the capability to use new tools, with reshaping the enterprise's physical infrastructure and network access, and with identifying and exploiting the enterprise's knowledge resources. Many CIOs head the enterprise's efforts to integrate the Internet into both its long-term strategy and its immediate business plans. The CIO is evolving into a role where he/she is creating and monitoring business value from IT assets, to the point where Potts in FruITion (novel) suggests that the Chief Information Officer (CIO) be replaced with Chief Internal Investments Officer (CIIO).
The CIO Chief Information Officer course covers the following matters:
First half of the Course
- CIO Chief Information Officer Role
- General Control Theory
- Feedback Control System
- Management by Exception
- Internet Sales & Marketing
- Search Engine Marketing SEM
- Search Engine Optimization SEO
- Blogs
- RSS Feeds
- Link Popularity
- Web 2.0
- e-Commerce
- B2B and B2C
- e-Procurement
- TeleCommuter (Distance work)
- Geo-Spatial & Informatics Integration
- Project Management PM
- Essentials of Project Management PM
- Practice: How to use the Project Management software Microsoft Project 2003 PM, with a working Project Management example
- Practice: How to use the Project Management software Project KickStart PM, with a working Project Management example
- Practice: How to use the Project Management software A-Plan 2004 PM, with a working Project Management example.
Second half of the Course
- ERP Enterprise Resources Planning
- Internet Telephony (Voice over IP)
- Wireless
- CRM Customer Relationship Management
- SCM Supply Chain Management
- Radio Frequency Identification RFID
- Business Automation BA & Workflow
- Workflow Essentials & Management
- Internet Automation:
How to extract price lists, stock information and other data from websites
How to test websites automatically
How to complete automatically forms
How to navigate complex websites repeatedly without user intervention
How to use macros script for the web automation (Internet agent, robot, spider)
How to automate search engine submission
How to automate articles submission
Internet Monitoring.
- Essentials of Virtualization
- Example: Microsoft Virtual Server
- Example: VMware Virtual Server
- Example: XenSource Virtual Server
- Cloud Computing (The new computer age)
- Service Oriented Architecture SOA
- Computer & Network Security
- On-Demand Services.
- …..
Who Should Attend?
- Business Intelligence BI professionals who wish to understand the fundamental issues and emerging trends in this important area
- Senior undergraduate students, Master's students, and research students who wish to obtain a sound exposure to the area of Business Intelligence BI
- Any Business Intelligence & Data Mining BI professionals.
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