Welcome to The Institute for CIO Excellence

The Institute for CIO Excellence is a private commercial executive training institute, associated with the University of South Carolina Upstate faculty and programs. We provide high quality executive training to equip senior IT managers to think and to function as competitive corporate CIOs.

A great IT Director is focused on operational excellence. A great CIO is focused on creating strategic business value. We teach great IT directors to be great CIOs.

You have two options for getting this premier CIO training and certification. Either way, it's the same great training (same material, same depth, same homework assignments, same projects):

• In-Residence Classroom Option: for those who want live interraction in the Institute's classrooms (live instructors and quality interraction with other CIE students)
• Online Training Option: for those who want to complete this at their own pace in their own place (DVD or streaming lectures and text-book based instruction)