Christopher Koch

The following are CIO-specific suggestions for dealing with on-the-job stress, not including taking up yoga. (Not that...

Joel Gruber, CIO of RouteOne LLC, a startup joint venture backed by the American Big Three automakers and Toyota Corp., is living the highest order on-demand dream. Gruber is building a fast, flexible business process that will consolidate all the different credit application processes of the automakers and some participating banks so that car dealers can enter a customer's information once and know if a loan is accepted from all the different companies. No rekeying for each credit application.

At IT conferences, Marty Roesch gets a lot of attention

David Drew used to have his own supergroup for IT decision making at 3M Corp.: the Information Systems Steering Committee. He had all six business division chiefs in there, along with the top functional leaders, meeting together six times a year to do nothing but jam on IT strategy, endorse IT projects of more than US$1 million and prioritize IT resources.