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• Straight talk from the top

  CEOs talk about what they expect from CIOs - keep the lights on, be a futurist, understand what’s possible and communicate that to the business – top the list: Part 4 of our special report on the 2013 CIO Summit.

• Champions of change

  The convergence of major technology trends makes the CIO role more valuable and complex than ever. The recent CIO Summit tackles strategies to lead through this new and constantly shifting platform of the cloud, social, mobile, and big data.

• Essential partnerships

  Line of business executives are now making more technology decisions – with or without IT’s imprimatur. CIOs and analysts share pointers on how to develop and nurture a working relationship with these business leaders.

• Outsourcing, adieu: Companies retake the reins on IT services

  After giving away the farm, some IT departments are bringing select outsourced services back in-house. Here's how they're doing it.

• Pure analytics

  Every CIO knows that software can churn through massive amounts of data and analyse it in no time at all. It is, however, the most astute ICT leaders who recognise that there is another, just as powerful, weapon in their armoury - simple observation of what is happening around them.

• Out in front

  “Change is the constant, change is the known. You know whatever you are doing in technology is going to change significantly every couple of years,” says Ben Robinson, CIO of Paymark.

• Break the status quo

  When your next project is moving to a new role, consider breaking from the traditional way of presenting yourself to your prospective employer.

• 'Creating Organisational Insight for IT Project Foresight'

  Only one in three IT projects will be successfully delivered, with one in four either failing or being cancelled, says Sarah Runge, author of Stop Blaming the Software.
  Many other projects are “challenged” with massive budget overruns and are not delivering the required functionality.
  Globally, the cost of IT project failures reaches US$6.2 trillion a year, she says.

• The 'State of the CIO' in 2012

  Results from CIO magazine’s annual ‘State of the CIO’ survey, now in its 11th year, suggest many IT leaders anticipate a challenging year ahead for their business and industry. But they also remain confident about their team’s performance against outlined metrics and goals. While roughly one in five IT organisations are still perceived by the business as a cost centre, an equal number are now considered ‘business peers’ or ‘game changers’ engaged in developing business strategy or a primary driver of the enterprise’s competitive future.
  More CIOs are taking some action to improve or solidify relationships with business stakeholders but a good number are still falling short in this area with survey results suggesting a gap between CIOs’ perceptions and those of their non-IT peers.

• Doing reorganisation right

  When I interview candidates for positions I've been hired to fill, I typically ask them to whom they currently report. I cannot tell you how often they respond, "That depends, what day of the week is it?" IT professionals are as likely as anyone to invest a tremendous amount of meaning in their titles, their headcount and their reporting lines, and CIOs who reorganize too often (or poorly) are in danger of losing talent. The CIOs below have found ways around that.

• BAT deploys Bring Your Own Device platform

  <a href="http://www.bat.com/">British American Tobacco (BAT)</a> is implementing a mobility strategy around a platform supplied by Excitor. The Dynamic Mobile Exchange solution will allow the company to implement a <a href="http://www.cio.co.uk/article/3316403/when-is-the-right-time-to-byod/">Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)</a>, BAT CIO Phil Colman told CIO UK.

• CIO mission: 'Reimagine IT'

  With almost half of today's CIOs planning to shift the majority of their applications and infrastructure to the cloud in the next four years, CIOs have an opportunity to 'reimagine IT' by looking at current technologies and asking what would be possible if they were deployed in other ways.

• Ways to get a bigger bang for your IT buck

  Getting maximum results from innovative IT investments is an art. Business users may need incentives to take advantage of new capabilities that wait to be exploited.

• Scott Green secures key Datacom post

  Former Axon CEO Scott Green is set to take up a new role as director of IT management at Datacom.
  Green&#8217;s role, which is Auckland-based, begins on 1 December.

• Expert on call

  CIOs are increasingly being asked to lead initiatives beyond ICT. CIOs share their insights on managing this challenge