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| Week of 16 Jun 2008 |
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Five career trends for enterprise CIOs
These five stories investigate issues and deliver solutions that will help you in your career decisions and enhance your organization. |
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Geeks fade away as ITIL infiltrates Allstate
Allstate has used ITIL to standardize change management and bring IT into alignment with the company's business goals. So far, the process is working. |
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| Week of 09 Jun 2008 |
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Enterprise 2.0 finds its place in big business
Blogs, wikis and social networks may be changing the world, but they won't happen at your company without a business case. |
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Disruptive outsourcing: Flexibility at a fixed price
A new outsourcing model touts flexible terms at a fixed price and improved relations with the business. |
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PMO leads IT revamp, gets a seat at the table
Hired to get a project management office up and running, Robert Golden ended up renovating and then running IT at Insurance House Cos. His secret weapon? Facts. |
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| Week of 02 Jun 2008 |
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Career advice in 'remarkably robust' market
Looking for a job or just want to boost your standings? Companies want CIOs who can leverage IT investments for greater automation, value and risk management, says a CIO recruiter. |
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IT pros find a place online to broker services
Where the jobs are: An online marketplace of buyers and providers of IT services offers an interesting wrinkle on outsourcing -- and some data on worker capacity in U.S. cities and... |
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| Week of 26 May 2008 |
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Six steps to reducing IT's carbon footprint
A national advocacy group for state CIOs recently released a report recommending ways IT leaders can become IT environmental advocates. |
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NASCIO behind green IT with strong statement, action plan
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) gets behind green, urging CIOs to play a key role in state environmental policy. |
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Software taps into the zeitgeist to predict the future
Move over, wikis. Companies are using prediction markets to get a read on what employees think about business outcomes and how often they're right. |
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| Week of 19 May 2008 |
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CIOs tout collaboration tools as the font of creativity
Four CIOs at the MIT Sloan Symposium dismiss the gulf between maintaining IT infrastructure and innovation as a false dichotomy and address what's really top of mind: collaboration... |
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Engineering talent draws major bank to test China for IT services
When a major bank took a chance on China for an outsourcing project, it was geography, engineering talent and a young company "hungry" for business that closed the deal. |
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| Week of 12 May 2008 |
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Data archiving: For the users, by the users
Hewlett-Packard puts database archiving in the hands of the business, courtesy of a visual design tool that can model apps and apply business rules. Improved XML makes it look like... |
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IT jobs holding their own, while the industry holds its breath
The latest report from Dice Holdings, an online job site, shows a modest decline in available jobs since this time last year, with New York accounting for more than half the loss. ... |
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HP, EDS success depends on execution, experts say
A Hewlett-Packard and EDS merge sounds great on paper, but analysts say its success will all depend on how well the plan is executed. |
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| Week of 05 May 2008 |
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Forrester: 10 mistakes that will sink a strategic plan
A good IT strategic plan addresses real needs that stakeholders can see and understand. Here are 10 things not to do. |
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Five tips on selecting a data center location
Data center construction comes with a host of tough problems. Finding the right place is challenge No. 1. Here are tips to help you vet your location. |
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IBM: 'Liberate' your apps from SharePoint
IBM takes aim at the SharePoint juggernaut, offering users a tool to move content into its own Lotus Quickr platform and IT a greater measure of control with a new administrative d... |
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| Week of 28 Apr 2008 |
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Better economy rests on IT's shoulders
The odds that IT can bring the U.S. economy out of a recession are 'pretty good,' says at least one expert. But are you ready to have the weight of the world on your shoulders? |
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Disaster planning: Bank builds data center for the long haul
After Hurricane Katrina another whirlwind began. A Mississippi bank, with expertise from SunGard, built a $16 million data center for the long haul. |
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Xerox goes green with rewritable paper
Saving the planet, one sheet of reusable paper at a time: Xerox has developed a reusable paper based on the molecular compound used on glasses that change tint in the light. |
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| Week of 21 Apr 2008 |
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Project and portfolio management take center stage
As the economy sours, CIOs are more cognizant than ever of managing the IT portfolio for the highest returns to the business. Read these recent stories on PPM to learn why. |
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Offshoring in Ho Chi Minh City promising
A Russian IT provider finds a "good cultural match" in the former Saigon. |
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Forbes' CIO reweights IT portfolio for growth with PPM
Flying blind, the new CIO at Forbes uses project portfolio management (PPM) software to gain visibility and reallocate IT assets for business growth. |
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| Week of 14 Apr 2008 |
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American Apparel makes RFID sexy
American Apparel rolls out a radio frequency identification (RFID) system to track every T-shirt, boy beater, brief, bra and everything else in real time. |
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Cloud computing will follow you everywhere
Cloud computing is a disruptive force in computing, akin to the revolution ushered in by the Internet. The big vendors are dumping billions into it. CIOs need to pay heed. |
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