COSE and Partner Blogs

Are you stuck in the 80’s with outdated lighting?  Well, for one local Cleveland manufacturer, Logan Clutch, a lighting retrofit was a matter of “putting common sense into common practice."

Over the past few months, we have received feedback from COSE members regarding the Health Care Reform Gameplan that was delivered as part of the May COSE Update magazine. Because some of the feedback and questions we have received pertain to the tone that was used in this Gameplan, we wanted to take a moment to provide an explanation around the language or phrases that were used and also about the political vs. non-political nature of this piece.

Leading the IT function of an organization is often a tightrope act between important strategic initiatives and equally important tactical actions. The CIO leads the organization’s IT strategy and ensures that back office operations are optimally supported.

Each year, we produce a CIO Symposium that seeks to offer education to IT execs, focusing on the strategic side of the equation. Content is developed with our team of volunteer CIOs and IT executives along with a survey of attendees. As we’re working through this year’s content, I found it interesting to look at what’s foremost in CIOs minds right now. Here are the top 10 business issues, in no particular order, that IT execs are working on right now.