Center for CIO Leadership

Welcome to the Center for CIO Leadership, a global community to advance the CIO profession.

The Center is a membership-based peer community for CIOs worldwide. With an emphasis on research, education, and outreach, the Center partners with world-class learning programs and academic institutions, established content resources, and respected influencers in the industry to meet the needs of CIOs today and to prepare them for the future.

The Center for CIO Leadership has partnered with INSEAD, one of the world's most respected and influential graduate business schools, to offer a uniquely tailored and newly available Executive Education program, CIO Business Strategy and Leadership Programme: Leveraging IT to Deliver Sustainable Value and Growth.

Soumitra  Dutta

This on-campus, in person Executive Education program – offered for the first time ever – offers you an opportunity to learn from leading INSEAD faculty about new frameworks and approaches to the business and technology uniquely experienced by CIOs.  The program allows the opportunity to learn from peer CIOs and features Programme Director, Soumitra Dutta, The Roland Berger Chaired Professor in Business and Technology, Academic Director, eLab, and other core INSEAD faculty, along with Harvey Koeppel, Executive Director of the Center for CIO Leadership.

Harvey Koeppel

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Announcing a brand new Center white paper, “Beyond the Crossroads: How Business-Savvy CIOs Enable Top-Performing Enterprises and How Top-Performing Enterprises Leverage Business-Savvy CIOs".

This new perspective developed by the Center brings together two bodies of research – the Center’s competency research highlighted in the October 2008 publication The CIO Profession: Leaders of Change, Drivers of Innovation – and the 2009 IBM CIO study. This white paper reinforces the findings of IBM’s research and provides CIOs with advice on the skills and competencies necessary to become a Business-Savvy CIO.

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We interviewed nine Center CIO members to gather input on the CIOs’ view of cloud computing, how they are using cloud computing in their enterprise, and what obstacles and challenges they face as they implement this new technology.  Below are the top 5 headlines from these interviews.

1. Security and regulatory issues are the top barriers facing CIOs in implementing cloud.
2. The degree of cloud computing adoption currently varies greatly and there is uncertainty around the ultimate role that cloud will play in the enterprise.
3. CIOs are testing the waters by moving things that are not “mission critical” to the cloud.
4. CIOs are thirsty for lessons learned – the good and the bad – from those who have implemented cloud.
5. The cloud hype has caught on in the C-suite and CIOs are feeling pressure to present use cases for this technology.

The complete synthesis can be viewed here.