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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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CIO Values: Don Campbell, CTO Of Cognos 09/05/2008 - Think ahead, Campbell advises. "Look at your infrastructure for more than today's needs." - more

Don’t ignore internal security (and don’t write passwords on Post ... 09/05/2008 - Gary McGraw, CTO of Cigital, talked to us about software exploitation and EULAs (end user licence agreements). Apparently, the EULA you accept to access Microsoft’s Frontpage, disallows negative comments about Microsoft to be posted. ... - more

Home Depot Appoints Former eBay and Wal-Mart CTO as its New CIO 09/05/2008 - Home Depot has finally found a replacement for Bob DeRodes, who announced his decision to retire from the home improvement retailer last April. read more. - more

Home Depot Taps a Former eBay and Wal-Mart CTO as its new CIO 09/04/2008 - The home improvement retailer announced that it found a replacement for its retiring CIO, Bob DeRodes. Home Depot's new CIO most recently worked for eBay and previously for Wal-Mart. - more

Home Depot Taps a Former eBay and Wal-Mart CTO as its new CIO 09/04/2008 - The home improvement retailer announced that it found a replacement for its retiring CIO, Bob DeRodes. Home Depot's new CIO most recently worked for eBay and previously for Wal-Mart. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Twitter Add to ... - more

CTO CIO COO - PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT - BANKING CONSULTANCY(London ... 09/04/2008 - CTO CIO COO - PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT - BANKING CONSULTANCY ** MUST HAVE BANKING OR FINANCIAL SERVICES EXPERIENCE ** An experienced Chief Technology Info... - more

"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of ... 09/03/2008 - Show me a media company without a bright CTO/CIO in the inner circle and I'll show you a company living and operating in the past. [Hint: Assigning this job as an additional duty to one of your bright, young computer geek field-based ... - more

Acton named CIO/CTO at VMU 09/02/2008 - Fresh on the heels of closing the Helio LLC acquisition, Virgin Mobile USA Inc. has named a new chief information and technology officer. - more

- A National CTO? 08/29/2008 - Barack Obama states he will appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) . And, indeed, his own campaign even has (had?) its own CTO (see CIO-dot-com). Blogger Robert Scoble recently listed (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) the “A ... - more

“Hot stove” lessons in IT, part I 08/27/2008 - Regular readers here have certainly noticed the recurring nature of many of my posts: "things about IT that should be obvious, but clearly aren't." Each week, as I set about writing on my chosen topic, it often strikes me that what I ... - more

CIO Sessions: CareerBuilder CTO: Eric Presley 08/27/2008 - Eric Presley, CTO of CareerBuilder talks to CNET News’ Dan Farber about how the online recruitment site is building new search engine tools to provide more targeted job recommendations. He also discusses technologies to aid the job ... - more

Speed vs. bureaucracy: management issues confronted by companies ... 08/21/2008 - I was at a relatively young company once where a senior executive suddenly sent out a message to the entire employee base, asking for general input on the cause and treatment of the following concerns: "There is a feeling that the ... - more

More astounding IT utterances 08/15/2008 - A few months back, I wrote a post on various "Astounding Sayings" that I've encountered in my career in information technology. It turns out that it's been one of the more popular posts I've written, judging from page views, ... - more

CTO / CIO / COO - PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT - BANKING / CONSULTANCY 08/14/2008 - An experienced Chief Technology / Information / Operations Officer within the Investment Banking arena. Rapidly progressed into senior roles by demonstrating strong leadership and the ability to adapt and succeed in fast paced and ... - more

Getting an IT assessment: pitfalls to watch for 07/21/2008 - One key ongoing goal of mine is that I constantly strive to pay attention. In this case, specifically, through web logging reports, I can see the Google searches that drive people to this blog every day. One of the most common of these, ... - more

IT, States of Denial, and more Peterisms 07/15/2008 - Yes, I admit it's an old and hackneyed play on words, but I'll repeat it anyway: in the course of my career, I've worked in IT positions in the fine States of New York, California, and Washington, but I'd have to say that the most ... - more

Serving your IT customers: be careful of being The Wizard of Oz 07/10/2008 - Cultural references are among the most powerful language tools around. The old cliche may be true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but equally, a well-targeted cultural reference, used as an analogy, can stream light onto a ... - more

The BI Arbitration Board 07/08/2008 - A BI arbitration board can be a newly created group whose members include the business sponsor, the chief technology/information officer (CTO/CIO), IT managers, the chief operating officer (COO), the chief financial officer (CFO), ... - more

Welcoming CTO/CIO Perspectives 06/20/2008 - Today, a recent introduction of mine sent me a link to a blog that really rocks: CTO/CIO Perspectives. This blog is written by Peter Kretzman. I read through several of the posts, and said, "Wow. This guy is good, he speaks the truth. ... - more

Business Acumen and the CIO/CTO 06/20/2008 - Just as we have argued that the CEO needs to make an attempt to better understand technology, technology process and the “physics” of product development (like technical project management, Brooks’ law, etc) so must the CTO/CIO better ... - more

Starve your voice mail, feed your e-mail 06/17/2008 - I've touched on this topic briefly before, but here's a lengthier discussion on why, in general, I find e-mail to be vastly preferable to voice mail for communication in the business world. Here's my stance: voice mail works reasonably ... - more

Start simple: a corporate desktop/laptop refresh model 05/29/2008 - Here's a topic that frankly shouldn't even merit a post -- it's that much of a no-brainer if you think about it.Yet, in the real world, I've found that it's anything but a no-brainer, at both small and ... - more

Executive questions, IT answers, pizza parlors, and speed chess 05/24/2008 - Let's mix some metaphors today, and attempt to relate them all to the world of information technology and project management.I have a good friend and colleague, one of the top IT consultants I know. He's able to execute crisply at the ... - 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

“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

 

 

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