CIO News

• Week of 07 May 2012 Of motherhood and mobile strategy (12 May 2012)

  In this week's roundup, we make a highly unscientific link between motherhood and mobile strategy and get a glimpse of Siri's possible true calling.

• Mobile spending seeding a business revolution (10 May 2012)

  Mobile computing is burning up the enterprise in more ways than one. A new report on mobile spending adds a piece of kindling to the rage.

• Mobile app dev at heart of website redesign (09 May 2012)

  A website redesign with ROI in mind meant bringing Maxim magazine readers' favorite features to their favorite devices.

• BI? Website relaunch? It's all about mobile app design (09 May 2012)

  Whether it's a conversation about websites, business intelligence, sales, you name it -- all roads lead to mobile app design.

• Using tech to gain a competitive advantage: The new CIO benchmark? (08 May 2012)

  Interest in the ways rival companies are using technology to gain a competitive advantage has risen sharply among business leaders.

• Week of 30 Apr 2012 Sometimes tech innovation is the only option (04 May 2012)

  This week's roundup of bits from around the Web includes two interesting looks at tech innovation. Plus, could your Facebook profile help save a life?

• Do CIOs care about gaining a competitive advantage? (04 May 2012)

  Do CIOs care enough about gaining a competitive advantage—or is collegiality the secret of success in IT?

• Forward-looking CIOs need to focus on app dev skewed toward mobile (03 May 2012)

  App dev now is taking center stage because meeting customers' real-world information needs is not just nice, it's necessary to being able to compete.

• VMware CIO: Bringing the consumer experience to the enterprise (02 May 2012)

  Investing in the consumer experience with a social media and mobile slant ranks among VMware CIO Mark Egan's top five ways to create business value.

• Four ways to improve your change management strategy (01 May 2012)

  What creates the most bottlenecks when it comes to a change management strategy? One expert outlines the biggest offenders.

• Week of 23 Apr 2012 Promoting innovation, from boss-less offices to tweaking big data (28 Apr 2012)

  This week's roundup of tidbits from the Web includes ways of promoting innovation, as well as talent in the workplace.

• Privacy concerns surround Google cloud storage service (27 Apr 2012)

  Soon after Google launched its Drive cloud storage service, data privacy and security worries arose.

• CIOs get no respect? They should follow the money (26 Apr 2012)

  CIOs don't get any respect from CEOs on innovation leadership. Don't get miffed, follow the money.

• Remote access security controls for a mobile world (24 Apr 2012)

  Security expert Scott Crawford outlines ways CIOs can maintain remote access security controls despite the influx of mobile devices.

• Week of 16 Apr 2012 Seeing the obvious is an IT project management skill (20 Apr 2012)

  Having good IT project management skills can mean knowing when you don't need them.

• Predictive analytics is hard to do; just ask a data scientist (19 Apr 2012)

  Where do you rank in using predictive analytics? New research and two Ivy League data scientists suggest that if you do it all, you're way ahead.

• Quotable quotes on the role of the CIO (17 Apr 2012)

  The best comments on the role of the CIO often don't make it into stories. Here's a collection of insightful and often humorous CIO side comments.

• Cloud computing security requires input and support from the business (17 Apr 2012)

  There are many places where it would be easy for a CISO assessing cloud computing security to just say no. But there are big benefits to saying yes.

• Week of 09 Apr 2012 Reading the tea leaves on the CIO job shakeup at BofA (13 Apr 2012)

  What do companies want from their CIOs? This week's shakeup in the CIO job at Bank of America suggests the question is not given to easy answers.

• IBM's CIO experiments with role-based management of IT, BYOD (12 Apr 2012)

  IBM CIO Jeanette Horan is testing out role-based management for IT delivery, with job function the determining factor behind such programs as BYOD.

• Cloud solutions seldom bring good results if they are forced to fit (12 Apr 2012)

  Internal and external pressures to adopt cloud solutions should be tempered by careful planning and the ability to say no.

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