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Langer Report: The Mature Technology CEO

CIO Zone, Jan 23, 2009

Managing IT can be a difficult challenge for the CEO, but there are certain best practices that can be followed to achieve success and maximize the benefits.

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A Recession May Be a Time to Go Back to School

New York Times, Jan 03, 2009

"If a graduate degree makes sense generally for your career, this period of unemployment could be seen as a window of opportunity," said Jeffrey A. Heath, a managing director of the Landstone Group in Manhattan, an affiliate of the recruitment firm MRINetwork.

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Why Retaining IT Executives Matters

CIO Insight, Jul 01, 2008

Businesses usually shed talent to reduce overhead during an economic slowdown. Despite the subsequent infusion of talent into the employment pool, many companies hunt for skilled workers at a frenzied rate and, surprisingly, cry that they can’t find the talent they need.

One reason for this contradiction is that many employers have not groomed and trained their employees for larger roles. As a result, they’ve created a chasm between employees and management.

 

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How to Tap IT’s Hidden Potential

The Wall Street Journal, Mar 10, 2008

Technology has accelerated the pace of change in business, making it crucial for companies to detect, assess and respond to every opportunity and every threat as quickly and as effectively as possible. And that kind of agility can only be achieved by fully embracing the operational and strategic importance of IT.

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Master’s Degrees Abound: Expanding Programs as More People Seek Higher Credentials

New York Times, Sep 12, 2007

There is a huge demand for credentials in high-level jobs now. "Each of my degrees helped me to get a leg up in the job market, and earn higher salaries than I would have otherwise. They were great investments."

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Ron Lamprecht, NBC Universal - Hot List 2007

TV Week News, Jul 15, 2007

NBC Universal made a pitch late last year to mobile television provider MediaFlo: Let us supply one-quarter of your content.  "We came back with our vision of how we thought we could help them drive their new platform to start this future of the cell phone and TV," said Ron Lamprecht, senior VP of digital distribution at NBCU and Columbia Tech Management instructor, who led the negotiations for the deal. "We wanted to show them that we were committed to this huge investment they were making."

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The Looming CIO Shortage

CIO Insight, Mar 12, 2007

The March 19 issue of CIO Insight magazine cites a potential shortage of qualified chief information officers in the next few years. Growing demand for CIOs is not being offset by an increasing supply of talented, well-prepared executives, according to a just-released report, "Grooming the 2010 CIO," written for the Society for Information Management Advance Practices Council.

 

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More Executives Become Leaders in the Classroom

Crain's New York Business, Mar 04, 2007

The March 4, 2007, issue of Crain's New York Business notes that more and more seasoned executives are sharing the hallowed halls of the city's universities with traditional academics. Contrary to conventional wisdom, it seems that those who can do, can also teach.

 

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CIO Jobs Morph From Tech Support Into Strategy

The Wall Street Journal, Feb 20, 2007

Now, technology is increasingly being recognized as a vital tool in corporate strategy -- and CIOs are helping to wield it. Web sites, for example, have evolved at many companies from the equivalent of corporate brochures to huge direct-sales channels that must be skillfully designed and tightly managed.  According to recent CIO polls from research firm Gartner Inc., 50% of CIOs surveyed said they now have duties outside of core technology, such as helping to craft corporate strategy. That is up from about 20% three years ago, says Mark McDonald, a Gartner analyst.

 

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Growing Tomorrow’s CIOs

InformationWeek - Optimize Magazine, Jul 01, 2006

Even as information technology becomes a more critical part of business operations, IT executives still receive scant recognition for their contributions or their vital role in the business. You might say that if CIOs' careers and influence had grown proportionately to technology itself, they would clearly be leaders of their organizations. Instead, while the history of IT as a marginalized function is relatively short compared with that of other professions, it has consistently faced problems since its insertion into business enterprises in the early 1960s...At <b>Columbia University</b>, we set about changing all of that and fixing this apparent disconnect between IT and its corporate value. We created a <b>Masters of Science in Executive Technology Management program</b> in the fall of 2004, designed specifically to address the shortfalls that have occurred in the CIO community. We geared the curriculum to use industry professionals and practitioners, integrated with our faculty, as mentors.

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