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Gartner's basic business rules for capitalizing on big data
Big data is like a fashion trend: You can't turn around without seeing yet another magazine article, research report
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Mastering digital business: This is not your father's Oldsmobile
Ransom E. Olds founded Oldsmobile in 1897. Nearly a century later, in 1988, General Motors created the now-ubiquitous tagline "This is not your father's Oldsmobile" to market their then next-generation
...15 Apr 2013 -
Sports analytics and the CIO: Five lessons from the sports data craze
A lot of people -- CIOs included, we imagine -- turn to sports as a form of escape from everyday life, including their job. But not so fast: The growing sports data craze means that analytics and number
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CIO uses creative problem-solving to take on tight budget
Like many states -- and enterprises -- the commonwealth of Massachusetts is looking at another tough budget year in 2013. And like their peers in the private sector, state CIOs are also charged with
...08 Jan 2013 -
Hiring IT staff, mobility, security: New year, old challenges for CIOs
In the first part of this SearchCIO.com interview, John Letchford, CIO for the commonwealth of Massachusetts, talked about using collaboration
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Ten secrets of success from top CFOs speak volumes to CIOs
What are the secrets of success of today's high-performing CIOs? Yesterday morning at the MIT Sloan CFO Summit, I was struck by how alike they are to the critical success factors voiced by top CFOs.
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Newest trends in IT shifting CIO concerns
Few have their finger on the pulse of enterprise technology like Shvetank
...29 Oct 2012 -
CIOs must craft a hiring strategy for the 'perfect storm'
IT staffs are stretched thin. Finding the right IT resources gets tougher every day. The HR hiring strategy that sufficed in the past isn't up to the task. Those have been perennial CIO complaints
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Building an enterprise social network for the 'extended' brain trust
When Donna Cuomo, chief information architect at MITRE Corp., took charge of architecting an enterprise social network in 2009, two cultural movements were afoot. The first was internal. MITRE's CEO
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Boston's Citizens Connect app bridges gap between city, residents
Bill Oates, CIO of the city of Boston, Mass., is bridging the gap between citizens and government agencies with a citywide mobile collaboration
...01 Aug 2012 -
Fortifying the ITIL framework for IT and the business
When global business process outsourcing company StarTek Inc. brought its IT operations back in-house in 2009 after years of outsourcing them, it aimed to do so with structure and discipline. The ITIL framewor
...27 Jun 2012 -
Agile development methodologies, transparency pay dividends for NYSE
Robert Kerner doesn't waste time. The senior vice president and chief digital officer at New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Euronext believes that in this fast-paced, technical world, slowing down might
...24 May 2012 -
To gain a competitive advantage with mobile, CIO readiness is all
Ask Angelo Valletta, CIO at Sun National Bank, about IT's role in the company's sure-handed launch of its mobile banking
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At IBM, big data management is big -- really big
If your IT organization is feeling overwhelmed by the amount of data
...11 Apr 2012 -
The ROI of self-service BI
During a 2009 Gartner Inc. business intelligence (BI) conference, there was talk of a new
...27 Mar 2012 -
great recession (Great Recession)
Great recession is a label used by journalists and economists to describe a severe, prolonged economic downturn.
Some economists trace the most recent great recession to the collapse of the
...12 Mar 2012 -
IT project management strategy for CIOs
IT project management is one of the most valued skills in today's IT organization, whether you're a hardened veteran or a fresh-faced IT rookie. CIOs seeking advice managing projects will find various
...18 Jan 2012 -
IT salary satisfaction survey shows CIO salaries dipped in 2011
Senior and midlevel IT executive salaries were on the decline in 2011, according to new data from the CIO/IT Strategy
...18 Jan 2012 -
IT forecast for 2012: Cautious growth in U.S.
In November -- while the U.S. economy remained anemic, the eurozone threatened to implode, and there were some hints that economies like China and Brazil might face a little bubble-bursting themselves
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Tactical decisions outweighed IT strategic planning for CIOs in 2009
CIOs spent more time on tactical decisions over IT strategic planning in 2009, which ended up being a good strategy to drive business value during the Great Recession.14 Jan 2010