
If you're a head of IT with something to say - get onboard
By silicon.com
Published: 18 August 2008 11:00 BST
If you are the head of IT at an organisation - public or private sector, large or small - you should be on the silicon.com CIO Jury. Many of your peers already are.
It's a hassle-free way of allowing leading CIOs to get their opinions out to the rest of the tech industry.
Here's how it works. Roughly once a fortnight the pool of CIO Jury members - which is made up of CIOs, IT directors and their equivalents - receive an email from silicon.com containing a short question that requires a yes or no answer.
Members of the CIO Jury can respond with a simple yes or no (sometimes just a 'Y' or 'N' over their BlackBerry), but are free - and encouraged - to add more comments if they want. Relevant comments are then quoted in the resulting CIO Jury article.
It's called the CIO Jury because we take the responses from the first 12 tech chiefs to respond and use that as the basis for the article. As the popularity of CIO Jury continues to grow, we also try to use all responses in supplementary articles, wherever possible.
The subjects are chosen by the editorial team and often tap into hot topics of the week. Past examples have included 'Does outsourcing work?', 'Will the IT department exist in five years?' and 'Do IT suppliers understand your role and your pressures?'
Follow the link to read a recentCIO Jury, which also shows who took part.
Questions are rarely very technical - the focus is on strategy, business decision-making and the changing role of the individual in charge of IT.
Members don't have to respond each week. Part of the attraction of CIO Jury to participants is that this has proved a hassle-free, convenient way of publicly contributing to key debates.
So if you're a CIO, IT director or equivalent and think CIO Jury, with its commitment to interesting subjects, low time overhead and high visibility is for you, then drop us a line at editorial@silicon.com.
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