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• Business process optimization and the CIO role converge

  Keen on applying IT best practices to the business, enterprise leaders rely on CIOs for business process optimization and change management programs. Continue Reading

• CIO focuses on developing leadership skills on a tight budget

  CIO Paul Harder focuses on developing leadership skills among his nonprofit agency's team and in the community on a very small IT budget. Continue Reading

• Business transformation and the human touch

  Business transformation, and how the CIO can bring this to bear through adaptability and a bit of a human touch. Continue Reading

• Teamwork is important, folks at the top say

  Teamwork is important. Two born leaders tell CIOs why. Continue Reading

• Miami Dolphins using analytics technology to get home-field advantage

  Miami Dolphins CTO Tery Howard turns to analytics technology and IBM to make Sun Life Stadium all that it can be. Continue Reading

• How to preserve your relationship with an outsourcing partner

  When an outsourcing partner messes up your agreed services, what's the next step? Expert Jonathan Hassell offers advice about keeping the ship afloat.Continue Reading

• Ensuring self-service BI doesn't become a data free-for-all

  Doing self-service BI right still requires structured and governed data management.Continue Reading

• Realities of risk today require a chief business security officer

  The chief business security officer, a new type of security pro, can help bridge the gap between IT security and business initiatives.Continue Reading

• The ROI of self-service BI

  Self-service BI could very well be the answer to the perennial question, "What's the ROI of business intelligence?"Continue Reading

• Personal cloud solutions part of a frictionless future

  By 2015, analysts say, personal cloud products will displace PCs as the hub of consumers' digital lives, with annual spending topping $2 trillion.Continue Reading

• Spring is here, and innovation is in the air

  In this week's roundup of news and notable bits from around the Web, spring brings thoughts of innovation.Continue Reading

• Will cloud service providers create a jobs boom?

  Are cloud service providers fueling major job growth, or just re-employing workers bumped by the cloud?Continue Reading

• Why a technology and marketing strategy alliance should be cemented

  CIOs and chief marketing officers may be at odds at times, but many signs point to the need for a stronger technology and marketing strategy alliance.Continue Reading

• Mobile BI strategy showcases ways IT can benefit the business

  OFS Brands Application Manager Tim Hopper explains why the national furniture supplier pursued a mobile BI strategy and the ways it's paying off.Continue Reading

• Driving mobile business intelligence, analytics at Sonic Automotive

  Mobile business intelligence and advanced analytics are the latest evolution of the BI program at national auto retailer Sonic Automotive.Continue Reading

• A tale of two data quality theories

  Data quality still hobbles business intelligence efforts. The question is what to do about it.Continue Reading

• Technology innovation awards focus on government initiatives

  The ACT-IAC recently gave out technology innovation awards to government programs using IT to improve services and automate paper-based operations.Continue Reading

• Outsourced management could save your strategic initiatives

  Should outsiders ever manage your team? In some cases, outsourced management might be the best decision a CIO ever makes.Continue Reading

• Knowledge is key in governing the extended enterprise

  Governing the extended enterprise requires a new way of thinking about relationships with suppliers and customers; each requires a strategy of its own.Continue Reading

• IT Leadership Awards recognize the midmarket's innovative CIOs

  Learn which innovative CIOs are in the running for our IT Leadership Awards, and discover more about their technology and business initiatives.Continue Reading

• How project management best practices drive the ROI of one EHR system

  CIO Jamie Gianna drove big revenue increases by carefully applying project management best practices to a formerly DOA EHR system project.Continue Reading

• Where are the women in computer science?

  Women are nearly at parity with men when it comes to bachelor's degrees in science and engineering. So, why are so few women in computer science?Continue Reading

• Siri, find me a good lawyer

  In this week’s roundup, a legalpalooza: Yahoo sues Facebook, someone sues Siri and a lawyer slowly backs away from her Pinterest boards.Continue Reading

• A CIO reveals how to avoid problems with outsourcing partners

  Our expert Scott Lowe reveals how to avoid problems with outsourcing partners on your next cloud project.Continue Reading

• Storage technologies are paving the way for Data Center as a Service

  Storage technologies like SSD are an important part of constructing the virtual enterprise data center, or Data Center as a Service, of the future.Continue Reading

• How big data improves an information security strategy

  A security guru discusses new ways of looking at the intersection between big data and an information security strategy.Continue Reading

• Data silos in big data analytics: Now you see them, now you don't?

  Big data makes the problem of data silos even bigger. Or does it? Either way, CIOs must make big changes to get the most out of big data analytics.Continue Reading

• IT director uses simple green decisions to make IT relevant

  Sometimes it's the little things. One IT director found three simple green decisions, saved a big bank and helped to make IT relevant.Continue Reading

• A CTO's take on mobility strategy launch time, outsourcing and more

  A chief technology officer answers some of CIOs' lingering questions about mobility strategy rollouts, outsourcing and rogue app development.Continue Reading

• Forging a BI strategy in a user-centric, tablet-crazed, big data world

  Driven by business pressures and user demand for BI and mobility, many companies are developing their BI strategy at what seems like warp speed.Continue Reading

• In choosing the right model for outsourcing, consider three factors

  In choosing the right outsourcing model, enterprises need to consider differentiating, "who cares?" and parity factors.Continue Reading

• Mobility strategy: CIOs have to embrace disruptive technologies

  It was suggested at Fusion 2012 that without a mobility strategy, it could be true: "CIO" could mean "career is over."Continue Reading

• Who’s afraid of the iPad 3?

  This week’s bits include why the iPad 3 should put a scare in the competition, and an example of how CIOs who consider the consumer come out on top.Continue Reading

• Use a free fishbone diagram template on your next root cause analysis

  Drive process leadership by trying a free fishbone diagram template on your next root cause analysis expedition.Continue Reading

• The love-hate nature of unified communications

  A unified communications strategy where workers are empowered to make decisions comes up against management's need to control.Continue Reading

• Mobile BI now a must-have, thanks to handheld devices and iPads

  Your enterprise is awash in smartphones, tablets, iPads and other handheld devices. There's no denying it: Mobile BI is here. Learn how to embrace it.Continue Reading

• Benefits of a shared services strategy

  The topic of shared services is an important one as the promises of virtualization, cloud computing and even centralized IT become fully realized in enterprise computing. In the February 2012 edition of Enterprise CIO Decisions Ezine, find out what ...Continue Reading

• Security woes and a different kind of Net threat

  We're feeling a little vulnerable this week. Maybe it's because our cache of tech bits is a little heavy on security issues.Continue Reading

• Ezine Download: Agile Methodologies

  Agile project methodologies are transforming enterprise project management strategies, delivering fast, effective results.Continue Reading

• Content is king in social collaboration

  Users will stay away from social collaboration platforms that lack relevant content, no matter how many bells and whistles they have.Continue Reading

• Other IT systems may get the buzz, but the value of ERP remains

  In the rapidly evolving tech world, where data analytics and cloud hype steal the headlines, the value of ERP is easy to overlook.Continue Reading

• ERP's future value depends on flexibility in the face of tech trends

  The future value of ERP will depend on whether ERP vendors can adapt to tech trends like big data, mobility and the cloud.Continue Reading

• Unified communications about integration, not just productivity tools

  If a unified communications strategy is just about which employee productivity tools to support, it misses the point of UC, two experts say.Continue Reading

• A mobile device security strategy that puts users first

  With the right strategy, mobile device security doesn't have to be a compromise between user demands and network risks.Continue Reading

• CIO expects ROI, quick rebound in virtualizing disaster recovery site

  One CIO is exploring an untraditional virtualization strategy to optimize his disaster recovery site: Virtualized desktops first, server virtualization later. Learn why.Continue Reading

• Data loss statistics: Emerging culprits

  Social networking, cloud computing and mobile technology create business opportunities. But data loss statistics show these advances create risks too.Continue Reading

• Mobile device security is necessary but secondary to business strategy

  Many enterprises are not implementing newer network mobile device security tools. Worse, they're overlooking the business case for going mobile.Continue Reading

• Silence on business analytics speaks volumes

  The next time your CIO pals clam up about business analytics, watch out. They're on to something. You should be too.Continue Reading

• No need to search, they know what you want

  Tidbits of news and analysis from the week that was, including another manipulation of big data, three steps to becoming the CIO you know you are and one mobile device that might give you headaches.Continue Reading

• Hotel app pockets revenue by putting concierge service in your pocket

  A mobile hotel app takes customer service to a new level, but not without constant tweaking and heavy-duty promotion, says IT innovator Eric Chao.Continue Reading

• How CIOs can avoid big chaos through a BI data steward

  With big data comes big responsibility. CIOs can avoid big chaos during an ERP integration with the help of a data steward.Continue Reading

• BI strategies evolve for big data analysis needs

  "Big data" is a buzzword no more. CIOs are adapting their BI strategies to meet the challenges of big data analysis.Continue Reading

• CIO takes 'bottom-up' approach, with a BI platform built for ERP

  An IT exec schooled in database design chooses a "bottom-up" BI platform developed expressly for his ERP system, with a little help from an outsider.Continue Reading

• Mission-critical systems taking on dual roles

  As CIOs take on new roles, they are finding new uses for mission-critical systems -- and that in turn is making their role more business-critical.Continue Reading

• Las Vegas CIO uses IT to become a player in foreclosure crisis

  Up against the Nevada foreclosure crisis, Las Vegas CIO Joseph Marcella uses, improves and shares IT services to help beat the lousy odds.Continue Reading

• What's the big deal about big data analytics?

  Are businesses chasing Hadoop and Teradata just because they're the hot new thing? CEO John Weathington advises CIOs to stop and think before they jump into big data analytics.Continue Reading

• The consumerization of IT and the CIO role

  Center for CIO Leadership founder Harvey Koeppel discusses how CIOs can use IT consumerization for business gain.Continue Reading

• Is technology leadership training lacking?

  A lack of technology leadership training specific to the CIO position leaves the up-and-comers fending for themselves.Continue Reading

• Technology leaders of the future embedded in a business near you

  Future technology leaders could come from the non-IT ranks. Industry experience and a drive for business value gained from data are making it happen.Continue Reading

• No honor-student bumper stickers for Steve Jobs

  A roundup of items you might have missed from around the Web, including Steve Jobs' high school GPA and a possible storm over cloud privacy in the EU.Continue Reading

• Cost, data quality issues still hobble CIOs' BI strategies

  Data quality remains a top challenge for business intelligence. For CIOs, this should be the question: What's good enough for the task at hand?Continue Reading

• Days are dwindling for successful Windows 7 migration

  If you've been hitting the snooze button on Windows 7 migration, it's time to wake up -- you're already late.Continue Reading

• Gartner CIO forum: The innovation process and business transformation

  The 2012 Gartner CIO Leadership Forum will focus on how CIOs can drive the innovation process and how they and IT can transform the business.Continue Reading

• Hadoop offers big data analytics on the cheap -- if you know how

  CIOs can harness the power of data mining using the free Apache Hadoop framework, but is there such a thing as free big data analytics?Continue Reading

• BI projects require open mind, deft touch

  Most organizations sit on a gold mine of business intelligence. Extracting it requires knowing how analytics projects differ from day-to-day IT work.Continue Reading

• 2012 Global IT Forecast

  TechTarget asked 2,642 IT professionals and business analysts around the world for their IT forecasts for 2012. The direction of IT budgets and the technologies getting attention may surprise.Continue Reading

• Turning a stalled EHR system project into new services and cash flow

  When a major EHR system project stalled, the finger pointing ensued. COMHAR’s CIO put a stop to the blame game and began to get business value out of the EHR project.Continue Reading

• Gartner CIO Leadership Forum to focus on IT's new role in the business

  CIO leadership in 2012 will be "amplifying the enterprise" through the use of cloud computing, mobile technology and social media.Continue Reading

• Ezine Download: Business Intelligence: Data Mining Done Right

  Emerging technologies are revolutionizing enterprise data collection and analysis strategies, and CIOs are leading this business intelligence brigade.Continue Reading

• Big data is dead? Long live analytics apps?

  The view of BI as an enterprise-wide system similar to ERP is giving way to a more tactical, "disaggregated" approach based on analytics apps.Continue Reading

• Ezine Download: Deploying and Enhancing Desktop Virtualization

  CIOs aren't the only ones behind the push to virtual desktops -- cost savings, greater mobility and employee demand have turned business execs into fans as well.Continue Reading

• CIO: Forget tech metrics; meeting business needs is measure of success

  Don't ask iRobot CIO Jay Leader to calculate tech metrics on IT projects.Continue Reading

• Quick take: Why iRobot's CIO doesn't like enterprise cloud computing

  Contrarian iRobot CIO Jay Leader explains why he has no use -- at the moment -- for enterprise cloud computing. It's all about the economics, stupid.Continue Reading

• SaaS BI gains traction in the enterprise

  Citing easy setup, cost effectiveness and faster time to value, IT execs are turning to SaaS BI tools, one cloud-based offering that has come of age.Continue Reading

• Who's the 'insider' security campaigns target?

  Can CIOs learn anything from a security campaign launched by the military more than 60 years ago?Continue Reading

• Shared services model puts focus on external customer

  For Owens Corning CIO David Johns, a shared services model is key to a low-cost, high-value IT and business services delivery strategy.Continue Reading

• Enterprise CIO Decisions Ezine

  The Enterprise CIO Decisions Ezine offers senior IT executives insights on pressing technology and management issues.Continue Reading

• IT salary survey: Highest- and lowest-paying industries

  Our IT salary survey reveals a shakeup in the highest-paying industries, with financial services knocked off its perch on top and health care rising.Continue Reading

• IT salary survey: High earners think alike, regardless of company size

  According to our 2011 IT salary survey, midmarket high earners have more in common with their well-paid counterparts at enterprise companies than with other midmarket peers.Continue Reading

• Four priorities in securing the extended enterprise

  The extended enterprise encompasses mobile, social and cloud technology, and requires four decisive security countermeasures, Forrester Research says.Continue Reading

• Your technology investments are vital to the business, so prove it

  CIOs are proving the value of technology investments with a few of their own, and generating revenue for the business with existing technologies.Continue Reading

• IT salary survey: Highest earners are cozy with business, hard on IT

  The highest earners among IT senior and midlevel leaders differ from their less well-off peers -- and not just because they make more money.Continue Reading

• CIOs say salary raises small component of job satisfaction factors

  Midmarket IT executives are OK with salary increases -- of course -- but say job satisfaction factors include things that aren’t in their paychecks.Continue Reading

• The CIO and the extended enterprise

  The CIO role is stretching further into the outer limits of the "extended enterprise."Continue Reading

• Salaries don't drive job satisfaction for senior IT executives

  Salary increases in 2011 weren’t enough to make senior IT executives feel warm and fuzzy when it came to job satisfaction.Continue Reading

• CIOs: Should your next IT hire be a consumer advocate?

  How IT shops are changing and whom CIOs need to hire are big topics in the age of cloud and mobility. Should consumer advocates be on the list?Continue Reading

• IT salary satisfaction survey shows CIO salaries dipped in 2011

  Our annual IT salary survey shows CIO salaries dropped in 2011, but some are still cautiously optimistic about their compensation.Continue Reading

• Cloud Identity Management as a Service: Not quite ready for prime time

  When it comes to cloud identity management, expert Jonathan Hassell suggests that midmarket CIOs may be better off waiting until the time is right.Continue Reading

• Setting the stage with a security business continuity plan

  A security business continuity plan shouldn't be an afterthought or overlooked completely, but that is too often the case, data security experts say.Continue Reading

• IT project management strategy for CIOs

  For the CIO looking to increase organizational success, an IT project management strategy is key. Check out our IT project management resources in this guide.Continue Reading

• IT service catalog not always necessary in a shared IT environment

  Shared services in a virtualized cloud computing environment add complexity to developing a service catalog but don't change its basic purpose.Continue Reading

• 2012 IT priorities: Windows 7 migration, yes; cloud, not so much

  Our survey says the top IT priority in 2012 is Windows 7 migration, despite predictions that the cloud would replace companies' IT infrastructures.Continue Reading

• Midmarket CIOs lead the charge with cloud-based computing

  When midmarket furniture company Telelok began lagging, it turned to cloud-based computing to stay agile and relevant in a tough economy.Continue Reading

• IT forecast for 2012: Cautious growth in U.S.

  Though spending is expected to grow in U.S. IT departments, our IT forecast for 2012 shows a smaller increase than expected.Continue Reading

• CIOs proving the value of technology investments

  There's no easy way to prove the value of technology investments, but smart CIOs are finding new ones -- and smarter still, being proactive about it.Continue Reading

• IT executives putting their own stamp on shared services model

  Definitions and approaches vary, but IT executives are forging ahead with their own takes on shared services to cut costs and serve customers better.Continue Reading

• CIO conquers IT systems failure through strategic virtualization

  Faced with an enterprise-wide IT systems failure and scant resources, CIO Paul Stokes turned to virtualization technologies and rigorous planning.Continue Reading

• With cloud strategies abundant, CIOs must exercise command, control

  Given the growing number and quality of cloud strategies, CIOs must make sure they are the ones driving this cultural shift -- or risk obsolescence.Continue Reading

• Mobile, social engineering top data security management concerns

  Spear phishing, mobile device management and social engineering top IT executives' data security management agendas for 2012.Continue Reading

• Big data, mobile IT, cloud drove fast-moving 2011, set stage for 2012

  Driven by mobile IT, big data and clouds of all shapes, the pace of change sped up for CIOs in 2011 and set the stage for an equally disruptive 2012.Continue Reading