Viewed from the perspective of the activity competency model (ACM) and prior theoretical works, we developed a conceptual framework for investigating the capability of IT management personnel and its impact on the performance of a CIO. A scale for measuring a CIO’s effectiveness and management capability was developed and validated. A partial least squares method was used to test the conceptual...

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act stipulates specific roles for the CEO, CFO, and the Auditor. However, the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO), usually in charge of IT governance (ITG), is implicit. This is despite the fact that in many firms, accounting and financial information and reporting systems either incorporate or are embedded in sophisticated information systems. Through a discussion ...

This paper documents lessons learnt by the IT-leadership team as they played their part in a billiondollar IT-based transformation in a large Australian retail organization, Coles Myer Limited. The story begins when the new CIO arrived in October 2002, and ends five and a half years later when the CIO resigned, in March 2008. During that period, the IT-leadership team transformed a group of ver...

This article presents a framework for creating a shared vision between an organization’s CIO and its top management team (TMT). Such a vision is the key to aligning the organization’s information systems (IS) strategy with its business strategy. We describe how this shared vision is facilitated by six visioning mechanisms and identify five distinct configurations of visioning mechanisms being u...

There is a wide array of research on the topic of the chief executive officer (CEO)-chief information officer (CIO) relationship that affects the strategic use of information technology (IT) (i.e., strategic alignment). However, the literature about divergent perception of IT expectation between the two groups, depending on their emphasis of innovation is sparse. This study fulfils this gap. Qu...

The paper describes empirical findings about Chief Information Officers (CIO’s) in Germany. Firstly the CIO concept in general is reviewed in brief and other surveys found in the literature are presented. Afterwards study results of the position of the CIO in Germany based on empirical data of an online questionnaire in a German online magazine for CIO’s are described. The current and future ta...


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Organizing has been at the heart of union strategy discussions for twenty years; it became labor’s top priority with the election of John Sweeney as president of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) in 1995. However, recent data on membership confirm that union fortunes continue to decline. In response to the deepening crisis, five major unions formed ...