Myles Suer

For years, the typical IT department had a vital yet simply defined role — network installation, maintenance, and support — outside the scope of other business units. But with digital transformation driving every industry, the role of IT — and the leadership strategy of the CIO — has evolved from an in-house  utility to an […]

In a recent Harvard Business Review, K. Gardner and Alia Crocker wrote that “for Agile to work, leaders need to pick the right people.” Otherwise, organizations will “not only fail to meet their goals but also cause disruption within an organization. A poorly managed initiative can miss critical deadlines, slow product development, and lead to […]

Having lived the early-stage startup life, I‘ve always wondered how CIOs approach these risky, yet rewarding opportunities. Speaking as someone who’s personally created the “3 people and a dog” type startup multiple times, I’ve been curious on how to attract top tech talent. Why might CIOs prefer a startup over a large established company? To […]

Over the last several years, I have asked CIOs multiple times about how they would like their performance to be measured. One answer has come back repeatedly: They want to be measured the same way as their Chief Executive Officer is measured. Hopefully, this isn’t news to anyone reading this piece. This should really matter […]

According to Daniël Pairon at KPMG, “resilience is the ability to deliver critical operations in the face of disruption. It allows organizations to absorb internal and external shocks, ensuring the continuity of critical operations by protecting key processes and resources such as systems, data, people, and property.” However, after COVID-19, I think that many business […]

Randy Bean’s book, “Fail Fast, Learn Faster” hits bookshelves this week. The book details the Big Data Revolution and the Chief Data Officers that emerged to manage the volume, variety, and velocity of data it unleashed. Bean is clear that Big Data captured corporate imaginations unlike prior data movements, including ‘business intelligence.’ Being Data Driven […]

As I was waking up Friday morning in the Bay Area, the skies were yellow, and the air was extremely unhealthy and smoky. The winds from the Dixie fire had shifted to the southwest. Now to be fair, fire season has become a part of life in California. But fires that are manmade are a […]

In 2013, Judith Hurwitz and other market experts proclaimed the beginning of the Big Data Era. They perceived that “big data enables organizations to store, manage, and manipulate vast amounts of data at the right speed and at the right time to gain the right insights.” They were candid that Big Data doesn’t represent a […]

CIOs are finding that they and their teams are increasingly and unavoidably living in a multicloud world. The question is: how well are they managing multicloud? This was the question that I posed recently to the #CIOChat. Biggest Management Challenges with Multicloud CIOs suggest the challenges come in the following order: 1) the complexity of […]

In February, I wrote “CIOs Proclaim the Tech Sales Model is Broken.” Before sharing the piece, I asked a few colleagues at my employer at the time to review it. They suggested it would be a career-limiting move to socially share the article, given that I quote CIOs’ tough advice to marketers and salespeople. Yet […]