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CIO Leadership Skills Development

Dr. Jim Anderson speaks and provides consulting on IT Leadership topics

In the past, the Information Technology (IT) department was left along and was only noticed if something stopped working (like email!) However, in the 21st Century IT has become a critical part of how businesses compete.

The problem is that very few firms have figured out how to evolve from treating IT as a simple cost center to using it as a competitive advantage.

Dr. Jim Anderson has spent over 20 years consulting with a wide variety of IT firms from start-ups to large multinationals. His insights into the IT leadership needed to combine the separate worlds of business and IT strategy offers hope to IT management teams everywhere who are struggling with this challenge.

Dr. Anderson offers his insights and guidance to Blue Elephant Consulting customer on how to get business and the IT groups to work together in the following programs:

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Contact Blue Elephant Consulting today for a free consultation call in order to find out how our IT consulting services can help to make your IT department more effective.

Dr. Jim Anderson has spent over 20 years working with a wide variety of IT firms from the very big to the very small. His insights into how to bring the separate worlds of business and IT together offer hope to firms everywhere who are struggling with this challenge. Dr. Anderson offers his insights on how to get these two different groups to work together for the betterment of the firm in the following programs:

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