Tag: cio

This Week’s Five: CIOs Making News!

This Week’s Five  is a weekly column of five interesting reads from all over the web. This week we bring you news about CIOs : what they do, how they do it, and the difference they make! A company’s first-ever CIO catapults revenue from 6 billion to 18 billion in just four years How often have you heard of a CIO turning the fortunes of a company

This Week’s Five: The Changing Role of CIOs

This Week’s Five  is the column where we bring to you a collection of five interesting reads from all over the web, with a different topic every week. This week, we are exploring  the changing role of Chief Information Officers (CIOs)  in the enterprises. Gone are the days when the CIOs were largely responsible for practices supporting the flow of information

5 Tips for CIOs: Plan for Hurricanes, Hackers and Aliens?

Google is so serious about its disaster recovery planning that it tests for most scenarios imaginable, no matter how unlikely, including an  alien invasion of its offices . You see, nothing puts fear into a CIO like a system outage — it gives new meaning to having a “bad day” at the office. But quite surprisingly, unlike Google, very few companies have a disaster recovery plan.