David Carey

For CIOs, leadership has many facets, from building a great IT shop to leading technology innovation to supporting the organization

This issue of CIO Canada explores various aspects of leadership as it relates to the CIO. The seven IT executives who participated in our annual roundtable had a lot to say on the subject. There was much they agreed on and much they disagreed on, which only goes to show how subjective our ideas about leadership can be.

This past July, CIO Canada polled readers on a variety of IT management issues for our 2005 CIO Insider Survey. The numbers have been crunched and the results are now in. Some of the key findings are as follows.

As I write this column, the Hurricane Katrina disaster is little more than a week old. And already, as is becoming commonplace with disasters, the basest inhabitants of the wired world have been quick off the mark to exploit the catastrophe.

Working with a clean technology slate, CTO Mo Hirani can attend to the complex demands of outsourcing without being encumbered by the burden of legacy systems. Compared to the lot of most IT execs, it

Is your role as CIO evolving towards that of a business strategy leader? If so, you should be putting an unrelenting focus on building the right relationships within the organization and educating your colleagues as to what the competition is doing, and how IT can help your company

Though the University Health Network is a world leader in patient care, it still is subject to many of the ills besetting Canada

Getting on the Web services bandwagon early is paying off in a big way for Vancouver-based credit union Vancity. With the help of Web services, the company is now embarking on a large-scale program to revamp its core banking system without disruption to end users, a feat its CIO likens to flying an airplane while changing out the engine. Here