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Chief Technology Officer

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is responsible for overall direction of all technology functions associated within the enterprise.  This includes Information Technology applications, communications (voice, data, and wireless), and computing services within the enterprise that impact the both the enterprise, its products and its customers.  As the top technical architect of the enterprise he or she provides a vision of how technology can be applied.  These areas include product design, customer interactions with the enterprise, IT operating systems, communications (voice, data, and wireless), transaction processing and database administration, compliance with all mandated requirements, the information center, personal computers, electronic and optical storage, and multimedia applications.

This site is dedicated to supporting the goals of the Chief Technology Officer and includes links to tools and toolkits that meet those needs.

Toolkits

  • IT Resource Hiring Kit - IT hiring is on the upswing and the IT Hiring Pack contains everything you need to hire the right people. The IT Hiring Pack brings you the Janco IT 2007 Salary Surveys plus several options for the related IT Positions Descriptions Guide in a bundle that every Information Technology and Human Resource function needs. All of the job descriptions are Sarbanes-Oxley compliant.
  • IT Service Management SOA Kit - Your company can't afford to waste any IT infrastructure investment, but you probably can't afford to hire expensive consultants to develop an IT infrastructure to fully support your Service-Oriented Architecture efforts either. Fortunately, you can now use proven ITSM best practices while developing your own infrastructure. The IT Service Management for SOA is a best practices methodology from Janco Associates that provides predefined standards, policies, and procedures for an enterprise to support its efforts as it begins the implementation of a Service-Orient Architecture.
  • CIO Productivity Tool Kit - The CIO productivity kit standard edition contains The CIO productivity kit metric edition contains Everything in the standard edition Disk Monitor Software Server Edition Network Event Viewer Software Metrics for Internet and IT (metric kit) Service Level Policy Agreement Policy Template (metric kit)
  • CIO Productivity Metrics Edition Tool Kit
  • Disaster Recovery Plan Template
  • Operational Control Productivity Software Bundle - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act mandates the need to monitor and audit IT and Internet environments. About 75% of our customers inquired about monitoring the Windows event logs and disk space usage as part of their Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and audit methodology. The Operational Control Productivity Tools for IT and Internet Software Bundle has tools that can be used to manage and monitor any sized enterprises' network and web sites.

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When the policemen look young 05/22/2008 - I’ve worked with enough early stage and growth companies to have met plenty of twenty something CIO’s/CTO’s but Google is a $13bn company. Around the same time I read the article The CIO Is Dead; Long Live The CIO. ... - more

Eight things I learned at the MIT CIO Symposium 05/21/2008 - "This leaves IT out of the picture," said Dr. Claudia Imhoff, president and founder, Intelligent Solutions. 8. If a company is interested in data analytics the IT department can't stop or control it. Doug Tracy, CTO, Rolls Royce, ... - more

The Shape of the CTO 05/17/2008 - I stumbled upon a set of resources for CTO/CIO while researching for a Point of View. On this site there is an excellent paper by Robert Smith on the "5 PATTERNS OF THE CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER" which describes the differing roles a CTO ... - more

Why status reports really do matter 05/13/2008 - Do a poll: many IT folks regard doing status reports as their least favorite task. My point here, though, will be that a lot of people, management and workers alike, don't fully understand the real purpose of status reports, ... - more

Facebook CTO changes employment status on Facebook profile 05/13/2008 - Facebook’s CTO is out the door. And, soon-to-come IPO goldmine aside, who could blame him? The news broke last night, courtesy of blogs BoomTown and VentureBeat. Seems there are plenty of reasons for Adam D’Angelo to leave (or was he ... - more

Chief Technology Officer (CTO / CIO) - Commodity 05/11/2008 - Leading energy trading house seek CTO to provide strategic direction for infrastructure and development areas. - more

CIO blogs lift us up where we belong… 05/06/2008 - We often kick around the idea here whether or not CIOs are reading blogs. It’sa friendly argument, but we haven’t been able to come to a conclusive decision yet. So, as I surf through my Google News updates and through my RSS readers, ... - more

“Astounding IT sayings”: the inaugural post 05/06/2008 - I haven't given myself the luxury of telling an IT anecdote or two here recently, so it's about time: here are two, with moral-of-the-story observations for each. Note: these are true stories. I may have changed some of the facts, ... - more

Climbing the ladder to CIO/CTO: a biographical sketch from eWeek 04/30/2008 - Another heads-up to readers: I was recently interviewed by eWeek for my thoughts on the difference between mid-market CIOs and enterprise CIOs. As these things sometimes go, the interview turned into more of a discussion of career path ... - more

Nuts: the biggest trap of all for IT stakeholders 04/28/2008 - As I promised last time, there's one more key way, the biggest way of all, not to get what you want from your IT organization. This is, in fact, the trap I have seen virtually every entity I’ve ever worked for fall into to some degree, ... - more

How not to get what you want from IT 04/21/2008 - As much as any part of your company that supports the key prongs of the corporate mission (deliver product, sell the product, support the product), IT is constantly on the hook to deliver more and more. As I've written before, ... - more

Using feedback loops to improve IT department service 04/15/2008 - As I've written here before, I strongly advocate thinking of IT in general as a service organization to the rest of the business. Any service organization needs one or more forms of "feedback loop" to be able to gauge whether it is ... - more

Financial metrics for IT: the holy grail of ROI and how it misses ... 04/10/2008 - As I promised in my previous post on this, and along the lines of the “intensely practical” goal of this blog, we’ll now take a look at the financial cost analysis for a specific project. This is only an example, with details changed or ... - more

CIO pet peeves: small drains on personal productivity 03/26/2008 - I promised a while back to write more about some of the pet peeves I’ve developed in the CIO/CTO role. So here are a few more. We all have pet peeves. Working as an executive in IT seems to present a lot of opportunities to develop a ... - more

Financial metrics for IT: the holy grail of ROI, and how it misses ... 03/19/2008 - Let's talk some more about one of my favorite topics, project portfolio management (PPM). A lot of literature on PPM tends to focus on evaluating risks and returns. An excellent article on IT governance last week in The Wall Street ... - more

“Channeling”: a technique for preparing IT presentations to management 03/14/2008 - The Skeptic's Dictionary tells us about a concept called channeling: "Channeling is a process whereby an individual (the "channeler") claims to have been invaded by a spirit entity which speaks through the channeler. ... - more

LVGI names new CTO, CIO 03/13/2008 - Las Vegas Gaming, Inc. reports that Tim Britt will be joining the company as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new ... - more

Technology Innovator Tim Britt Joins LVGI as CTO/CIO 03/12/2008 - ... innovator in server-based gaming application delivery through its award winning PlayerVision(R) system, announced today that Tim Britt will be joining the company as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer (CTO/CIO). ... - more

More Peterisms: lessons learned on IT practices 03/09/2008 - More pithy sayings that (at least in my view) I reuse in an attempt to succinctly express key concepts and lessons. Or, perhaps in many cases, to annoy my staff via tireless repetition. I have several dozen of these sayings, ... - more

The flip side of common myths: how some are perpetuated by IT 03/04/2008 - As promised, I'm going to follow up on my last post ("Optimism, resilience, stamina: the make-up of the CTO/CIO"), covering the myths IT deals with on a regular basis, by talking about its flip side: the ways that IT itself can ... - more

Our mention in CIO Magazine 02/29/2008 - Just a heads-up for readers: CTO/CIO Perspectives was mentioned this week in an interesting article in CIO Magazine, titled "20 Things You Can Do In 20 Minutes to Be More Successful at Work". Not all the tips are spot-on, ... - more

Optimism, resilience, stamina: the make-up of the CTO/CIO 02/24/2008 - Here's a disquieting little secret that few of us ever really acknowledge, maybe because it's rather painful and also an unavoidable part of the fabric of our existence in IT. I don't know how to say it more eloquently (or less bluntly) ... - more

Offshore development: aim for it, even if you never go there 02/19/2008 - As I wrote last time, a large part of my reason for opposing offshoring is because I've rarely, if ever, worked in a company where I felt the necessary prerequisites were in place to be able to even consider offshoring as a viable ... - more

Offshore software development: the reasons why not 02/14/2008 - Of all the numerous cold calls I get, inquiries from potential offshoring partners lead the pack. Their main pitch, of course, is that I can lower my development (or support, or QA) costs by leveraging offshore labor at a third or less ... - more

Software companies looking to hire a CTO/CIO? 01/26/2008 - Are there any software companies out there out there looking to hire a CTO/CIO? My prior experience includes being information lead at Web 2.0 startup Crowdspirit.org, researcher for Techcrunch UK and Project Manager for Tesco.com ... - more

 

 

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