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The talent to fill soft skills gap may be closer than you think
- Features Writer 31 May 2012 -
Why IT spend as a percentage of revenue doesn’t work
- Editorial Director 31 May 2012 -
Tell your CEO to get a social media life (s/he will thank you!)
- Features Writer 26 May 2012
Did you know there may be unicorns in your IT organization? Let me explain. Earlier this week, I wrote a piece about how IT leaders are looking to fill soft skills gaps. It was based on a ...
Using IT spend as a percentage of revenue to figure out how to divvy up IT investments doesn’t work in many large companies. For one, most enterprises have varied business units and goals. One ...
At long last, we've successfully traversed the drudgeries of late winter and early spring and are poised to embrace those most rejuvenating unofficial first days of summer, otherwise known as ...
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MIT Sloan honors pair of CIOs for information technology innovation
- Features Writer 25 May 2012 -
The revolution is here, but is the CIO’s role about cleaning up the mess?
- Editor at Large 25 May 2012 -
CEOs: CIOs earn seat at the table by creating competitive advantage
- Features Writer 22 May 2012 -
Really big deals: Facebook IPO and SEC guidance on cybersecurity
- Features Writer 18 May 2012 -
Even a minor lapse in security protocol can lead to major costs
- Features Writer 17 May 2012 -
Disaster recovery documentation falling short
- Editorial Director 16 May 2012 -
Of motherhood and mobile strategy
- Features Writer 11 May 2012
A pair of winners was selected for this year's MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Award for Innovation Leadership. Sharing the honor, announced this week at the 9th annual symposium, are Catherine Bruno, vice ...
What would the CIO role be without all the hand-wringing over whether it will survive another minute? This week was the annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, "Piloting the Untethered Enterprise," a ...
CEOs -- just who do they think CIOs are? Who do they want you to be? Mobile may be on your mind. Perhaps you have your head in the cloud. That's all well, good and important to the CEO, as long as ...
Unless you've been living in outer space (or on MySpace), it's impossible not to know that today is the day Facebook drops its privacy settings and friends the NASDAQ. News and analysis abound, but ...
Very bad things happen when security protocols are neglected. Just ask Stephen Fletcher, the now-former CIO for the state of Utah. Fletcher was fired by Gov. Gary Herbert this week over the March ...
I spoke with a CIO years ago who went around his data center and randomly shut down servers. He did this for two reasons. For starters, if no one noticed that the server was off for a week, it ...
As we head into another weekend, we'd like to send best wishes to our readers who are also mothers. Come to think of it, being a CIO or IT leader is a lot like being a mom: Every day brings new ...
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Mobile spending trumps all, seeding a business revolution
- Editor at Large 10 May 2012 -
BI? Website relaunch? It's all about mobile app design
- Editorial Director 09 May 2012 -
With tech innovation, countries starting out with less are doing more
- Features Writer 04 May 2012 -
Is CIO collegiality at odds with gaining a competitive advantage?
- Editor at Large 03 May 2012 -
Four ways to improve your change management strategy
- Editorial Director 01 May 2012
Call it the triumph of consumerism, or just common sense. Mobile computing is on fire in the enterprise -- apps, middleware, tablets -- and the proof is in the pesos, pounds, the pieces of eight. ...
Enterprises are outsourcing mobile app design and keeping the names of their partners a closely guarded secret for competitive gain. IT departments are being asked to redesign customer-facing ...
When is the last time you actually dedicated time to innovative thinking? If it's taking you a while to answer (or you don't have time to remember because you're too busy working), you're not ...
Who would dispute the importance of gaining a competitive advantage in business? Competition is the mother's milk of capitalism. A competitive edge -- an advantage of one company over another vying ...
When I talked to IT Service Management expert Derek Lonsdale about change-management strategy challenges, he kept coming back to the change management advisory board. True, the advisory board ...