CIO CFO Alignment

CIO CFO alignment can be built on a partnership of business value, metrics, and governance. ...

... "So engage the CFO on a shared set of requirements and implementation actions. Then follow up with outcomes that can be tracked to common measures ... " ...

Via Baseline: CIO-CFO Partnership

Focused Green IT Benefits

Leave high-level measures to the enterprise sustainability initiative and focus the IT organization on metrics that are in their path of control. ...

... "To sustain focus and support for a green IT strategy, CIOs must select granular performance metrics that enable comparison and prioritisation, such as percentage of equipment entered into recycling programs and power usage efficiency (PUE) or KW/CPU hours delivered. " ...

Via Silicon: CIO Green Guide

Customer Sat Projects

Automotive service company involves customers in IT project that achieves measurable impact on satisfaction rates. ...

... "Carbrey cemented support for the project among clients by showing them prototypes during the development phase. They gave him more specific, targeted feedback than he ever expected ... " ...

Via Network World: CIO Focus

Accountability System

New CIO institutes early-warning triggers for project management, that could stop project investment if circuit breaker trips. ...

... "He's put in place the Program Management Accountability System that will require program managers to deliver systems and applications incrementally rather than all at once ... " ...

Via FierceGovernmentIT: New VA CIO

Project Pain is Indicator of Gain

Leading CIO embraces pain as evidence of positive transformational impact. ... ie: improvements in process capability and maturity will cause setbacks and discomfort. This leadership acknowledges and embraces this reality upfront in the project principles. ...

... "Our business processes and practices will change significantly, and we will accept some disruption to achieve the ultimate benefits. " ...

Via Information Week: Acknowledge Transformation Challenges

Dashboard Transparency

Expect increased transparency in IT from the current administration, with fresh-look CIO dashboard ready for updated content. ...

... "A few days later at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Va., Kundra publicly unveiled the IT dashboard, surprising and exciting both CIOs and vendors alike. " ...

Via Federal News Radio: CIO dashboard