Tools CIOs can use
Templates, worksheets, checklists, calculators and apps, grouped by the problem in front of you. Each one is short enough to use this week.
Management consulting tools for CIOs
A recommendation has to survive a steering committee that did not ask for it.
8 downloads, 2 online tools, 2 apps →Deciding where AI goes
Every team has an AI idea, and the budget covers a few of them.
4 downloads, 3 online tools, 2 apps →Cutting cloud and SaaS spend
The cloud bill grew faster than the business, and finance wants to know why.
5 downloads, 3 online tools, 2 apps →Governing the AI already in use
Teams adopted AI tools before anyone wrote a policy for them.
7 downloads, 1 online tool, 2 apps →Buying AI: vendors and models
Every vendor now sells AI, and the contract says little about what happens to your data.
3 downloads, 1 online tool, 2 apps →Buying technology without regret
The RFP is written around the incumbent, and the contract renews before anyone reads it.
3 downloads, 4 online tools, 2 apps →AI regulation and risk
The EU AI Act applies in stages, and nobody has listed which systems it covers.
4 downloads, 1 online tool, 1 app →Architecture decisions that hold up
Nobody remembers why the system was built this way, so every review reopens it.
6 downloads, 2 online tools, 2 apps →Technical debt you can show the CFO
Engineering says the debt is slowing everything down, and finance asks for a number.
2 downloads, 3 online tools, 2 apps →Security platform evaluations
Three firewall or identity vendors claim the same features, and the shortlist is due.
4 downloads, 2 online tools, 1 app →Running IT like an investment portfolio
Projects get funded once and never re-examined, even when the case behind them has gone.
4 downloads, 1 online tool, 2 apps →Org design and decision rights
Central IT and the business units both think they own the decision.
4 downloads, 2 online tools, 2 apps →The first 100 days as a CIO
The new CIO has three months to learn the estate and show a plan.
2 downloads, 4 online tools, 2 apps →Board and budget season
The budget has to be defended to people who do not read architecture diagrams.
5 downloads, 4 online tools, 2 apps →Incidents and resilience
The last outage review blamed a person, and the same failure came back.
3 downloads, 3 online tools →