Niel Nickolaisen is CIO at Western Governors University in Salt Lake City. He is a frequent speaker, presenter and writer on IT's dual role enabling strategy and delivering operational excellence. Write to him at nnick@wgu.edu.
Contributions from Niel Nickolaisen
- A CIO's five-point plan for managing endpoint security
- A CIO asks if enterprise social networks are worth it
- CIO POV: Embrace new wave of consumer 'killer apps'
- Information systems management from a product POV
- Data storage strategy: Pre- and post-cloud computing
- Need for speed driving one CIO to DR/BC in the cloud
- A CIO POV on upgrading to Windows Server 2012
- Mobile device security: Rewards outweigh risks
- Making a business case for storage and backup
- Consumerization calls for a new IT delivery mindset
- Doing the right things can green up your IT
- CIOs push virtualization's slow roll
- Keeping business applications up to par
- Three pillars of project management competency
- Three factors in choosing the right outsourcing model
- BI projects require open mind, deft touch
- Cloud strategies abound, but CIOs must make the calls
- Boost career with process management, IT specialization
- Finding the sweet spots for business process automation
- Are legacy ideas keeping your virtualization down?