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• Microsoft, VMware, Cisco experts vet the cloud for CIOs

  What factors do CIOs weigh when choosing between public and private cloud? Is PaaS the future? Is it time to bring back that cloud deployment? Cloud experts offer insight to CIOs. Continue Reading

• 7-Eleven guru's eight-step program for building an innovation team

  IT innovation is on every CIO's agenda -- or it should be. Before plotting your strategy, consider these eight tips from 7-Eleven's innovation guru. Continue Reading

• IT trends 2015: Top five CIO trends and resolutions CIOs

  The monolithic app is dead, standardization often trumps innovation, and more. CTO and SearchCIO expert Niel Nickolaisen lays out the big CIO trends in 2015 and how he plans to respond. Continue Reading

• Master a multichannel customer engagement strategy

  Mobile computing, geolocation targeting, and sophisticated data collection and analytics tools are building toward increased customer interactions, but determining how to best deliver information to customers is still a work in progress at many ... Continue Reading

• Advice for CIOs on cloud computing risk management

  Cloud technology expert Stephen Braat of IT service provider CDW shared his views on cloud computing risk management with CIOs at SIMposium 2014. Continue Reading

• TechTarget's 2014 IT Salary and Careers Survey infographic

  Is it time to play the technology field? Find out in TechTarget's 2014 IT Salary and Careers Survey infographic, which indicates fatter paychecks and increased optimism.Continue Reading

• Quiz: IT project management essentials for growing a business

  Are you keeping your project pipeline in check? Review our recent stories and take our quiz to assess your knowledge of IT project management essentials.Continue Reading

• Jim Highsmith offers a 2015 prescription for adaptive CIO leadership

  Agile development guru Jim Highsmith makes the case to CIOs that adaptation is tantamount to business survival. Here is his prescription for adaptive leadership.Continue Reading

• Twelve ways to resolve the IT skills gap

  Listen up IT executives, it's time to stop pondering the IT skills gap and adapt leadership, training and recruiting styles to resolve it. IT and business strategist Harvey Koeppel explains how.Continue Reading

• How to raise the capital needed to launch your business

  Today's entrepreneurs have more ways than ever to fund their business concepts. They just have to know what they need -- and what they are willing to give up -- to get it.Continue Reading

• Managing information security amid new threats: A guide for CIOs

  Managing information security in a breach-a-day climate is no picnic. In this Essential Guide, we prepare CIOs for the challenge.Continue Reading

• CIOs called on to master multichannel customer engagement

  The customer is already multichannel. Companies -- and CIOs -- are scrambling to catch up. It won't be easy.Continue Reading

• Emotional intelligence is the hallmark of a good leader

  Author and consultant Roxi Bahar Hewertson's new book, 'Lead Like It Matters Because It Does,' contends that businesses do a poor job of picking their leaders. She explains why in this Q&A with SearchCIO's Nicole Laskowski.Continue Reading

• The era of incident response gives humans a leg up

  More organizations are realizing that strong incident response is the best way to prevent future attacks, but IR is still underfunded. In this installment of Future State, security expert Bruce Schneier lays out the state of IR today.Continue Reading

• Gartner's four steps on how to better manage public APIs

  Do you know what APIs are being leveraged inside your enterprise? Performing an internal audit is the first of four steps required for managing APIs.Continue Reading