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• Cloud computing management: A CIO quiz

  Proper cloud conduct can make or break a company. Are you doing everything right? Assess your cloud computing management know-how with this CIO quiz. Continue Reading

• Evolution of mobile hinges on marriage between data and devices

  Enterprise mobile computing marches on, and data is proliferating. Companies need to put them together to compete effectively. Continue Reading

• Three tips for a better IT service model

  With IT budgets moving out of the IT department, these three best practices will help put your IT organization in a better position to compete with outside IT services companies. Continue Reading

• Mobile pulls CIOs into vetting next-generation security

  Among its many other wonderfully disruptive consequences, mobile computing forces CIOs to figure out a next-generation information security strategy. Continue Reading

• How to consolidate application portfolios

  Many enterprises that have been around for a while are now maintaining a vast number of applications. Now the question is: how to best consolidate these application portfolios to maximize their business benefit. In this SearchCIO handbook, CIOs and ... Continue Reading

• A CIO's guide to SMAC strategy and governance

  In this Essential Guide, explore the benefits of a SMAC strategy and get expert tips on SMAC governance best practices.Continue Reading

• CIOs make the tough call on legacy systems

  After decades of building up their IT infrastructures, companies are faced with deciding which legacy systems to keep and which to cut. CIOs can attest there are no easy formulas.Continue Reading

• Private cloud termination agreement: What CIOs need to know

  Relationships between companies and their cloud providers can be fleeting. Knowing this, it's important for CIOs to think about exit strategies before they sign that cloud contract. David Rutchik, a partner at Pace Harmon LLC, offers advice.Continue Reading

• The new security paradigm

  When it comes to the most high-profile data breaches of the past year -- Target, Home Depot, Sony and J.P. Morgan come to mind -- hindsight is 20/20. Security budgets are increasing in the wake of these massive breaches, and CIOs are employing new ...Continue Reading

• SMAC strategy and governance: A CIO quiz

  The intersection of social, mobile, analytics and cloud is transforming IT strategies. Are you properly governing your SMAC strategy? Take this quiz to find out.Continue Reading

• AMD CIO jettisons data centers and gives the company a lift

  The CIO of multinational semiconductor company AMD shares his story of how he consolidated 18 data centers into two.Continue Reading

• CIOs beef up security tools in wake of 2014 data breaches

  What's different about security strategies in the aftermath of the 2014 data breaches? More money, more monitoring, more employee training, and that's just for starters.Continue Reading

• A tale of two retailers profiting from big data

  A young and an old retailer shed light on how they're profiting from big data. (Hint: The secret is in their approach to project management.)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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Smart robots pave way for better human-machine collaboration

  Robots will find a place in the enterprise, but can we trust them? Here's how they will impact the role of IT.Continue Reading

• A physician-programmer experiments with AI and machine learning in the ER

  One way for CIOs to start preparing for machine learning and artificial intelligence is to build a flexible architecture.Continue Reading

• Enterprise mobile application development: A CIO strategy guide

  Ace enterprise mobile application development with the resources in this CIO Essential Guide.Continue Reading

• Visa risk manager rescues small retailer from credit card fraud

  Finding the right software tools to combat credit card fraud can save small businesses tens of thousands of dollars. Having a seasoned fraud specialist at the helm also helps. Just ask Speck Products.Continue Reading

• Mechanical Turk supplies Gilt with 'artificial artificial intelligence'

  In this Q&A, a data scientist explains why he combines objective data with human critiques to assess risk in Gilt's pre-emptive shipping program.Continue Reading

• How to monetize your mobile app

  Monetizing your mobile application isn't easy. In this SearchCIO tip, three experts share the secrets behind monetizing their mobile apps and offer advice on how you, too, can develop a successful app.Continue Reading

• Managing technology providers to meet business initiatives: A CIO guide

  To meet certain business initiatives, CIOs must learn the ins and outs of managing technology providers. Use this Essential Guide to facilitate better vendor management.Continue Reading

• How PayPal rallied a 4,000-strong move to Agile

  PayPal’s wholesale move to an Agile methodology was built on ‘four pillars,’ took seven months and changed the way 4,000 IT and product people did their jobs. Here’s how it got done.Continue Reading

• AT&T CIO says customer relations will be 80% digital by 2020

  Thaddeus Arroyo, AT&T CIO and winner of the 2014 MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award, outlines a 'bold' digital-first strategy for internal employees and the company's external customers.Continue Reading

• Nordstrom digs into 5-star customer reviews and finds a shipping problem

  How does a retailer known for customer service get even better at it? Matt Fisher of Nordstrom uses text analytics to parse tens of thousands of online customer reviews.Continue Reading

• CIO Innovator profiles: Industry groundbreakers, great IT leaders

  SearchCIO's award-winning CIO Innovator profile series features IT executives who are applying information technology to enable, grow and transform business.Continue Reading

• IT leaders explain how to assign a value to your data assets

  In the latest CIO Decisions, CIOs and IT experts share their thoughts on infonomics -- placing a value on data assets -- and other of-the-moment IT concerns.Continue Reading

• Becoming 'brain aware' to calm chaos, boost productivity

  Intel's mindful awareness program introduces employees to new skills for dealing with the always-on demands of the digital age. In the future, will businesses become more 'brain aware?'Continue Reading

• Five common disaster planning and recovery pitfalls to avoid

  Testing the efficacy of your enterprise's disaster planning and recovery strategy is crucial to avoiding common pitfalls. In this slideshow, learn about five DR follies to avoid.Continue Reading

• Disaster prevention and mitigation strategies: Strike early and often

  Prepare for IT disaster of any kind with this Essential Guide, which offers CIOs advice on prevention, mitigation and business continuity.Continue Reading

• IT disaster recovery plan: What's your testing timetable?

  SearchCIO's tweet jam participants debated and deliberated on a well-considered IT disaster recovery plan test schedule. Read their conclusions in this #CIOChat recap.Continue Reading

• Shadow apps: Turning SaaS risk into CIO strategy

  What can businesses' willy-nilly adoption of SaaS apps do for CIOs? Remove the invisibility cloak, and shadow apps become a golden opportunity to enable business goals, beef up security and save money.Continue Reading

• Seven data science lessons from McGraw-Hill Education analytics guru

  What programming language should every data scientist know? How should data scientists be trained? Why do you need more women on your team? McGraw-Hill Education's Alfred Essa answers those questions and more.Continue Reading

• Is it time to revamp your disaster recovery management program?

  Disasters of all stripes -- from hurricanes to data leaks -- are bound to happen, and happen often, so a solid disaster recovery management program is a must. Take this quiz to find out if your DR plan is up to the task.Continue Reading

• Top CIOs reveal their biggest information technology issues

  We asked some of today's leading CIOs to share their biggest IT challenges of the past year and how they overcame them.Continue Reading

• The CIO cloud blueprint: A strategic planning guide

  In this CIO Essential Guide, learn how to craft an enterprise cloud blueprint that supports your organization's software and infrastructure needs.Continue Reading

• AT&T CIO built IT career by taking on 'least comfortable' roles

  AT&T CIO and 2014 MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award winner Thaddeus Arroyo built a CIO career by taking on roles where he felt 'least comfortable.'Continue Reading

• Five questions your CFOs are asking about security and risk management

  CFOs peppered a panel of security experts on how to establish security in a software as a service (SaaS) world.Continue Reading

• Leading the digital enterprise: Five tips on how to get there

  This year's MIT Sloan CIO Symposium focused on the digital enterprise and how the line between internal and external customers is blurring.Continue Reading

• Prescriptive method of analytics boasts broad benefits

  Can the prescriptive method of analytics improve business outcomes in your industry? #CIOChat participants sound off on the potential and the reality.Continue Reading

• Ten open data examples to get CIOs thinking

  Say hello to open data; the agricultural industry gets "smarter"; and UNICEF innovates: The Data Mill reports.Continue Reading

• Top enterprise IT spending trends and priorities of 2014

  TechTarget's annual IT Priorities Survey shows IT's evolving technology priorities, with virtualization, BI, mobility and more topping the list.Continue Reading

• Free templates: IT vendor selection, social sharing and mobile devices

  SearchCIO has rounded up free templates from around the Web providing guidance on IT vendor selection, social sharing and mobile device policies.Continue Reading

• CIOs should prepare for the battle between old BI and new BI

  BI and analytics will experience rapid adoption in 2014 as BI vendors face a changing market.Continue Reading

• Seven not-so-obvious roles your analytics pro will have to play

  What skills do CIOs need to develop or bring in-house to take on big data and advanced analytics? Here are some not-so-obvious candidates.Continue Reading

• Enterprise risk management strategy: A planning guide for CIOs

  Identify, monitor and vanquish threats to the business with this Essential Guide for CIOs on enterprise risk management strategy and planning.Continue Reading

• Prescriptive Analytics: The Next Frontier

  Is an optimized future within our grasp? With prescriptive analytics, it just might be. Learn more in this month's issue of CIO Decisions e-zine.Continue Reading

• 14 questions that drive cloud computing strategies in the right direction

  Stop debating what the cloud is and start asking these 14 questions that develop cloud strategies for the business worth talking about.Continue Reading

• Top 5 lessons from the data sports craze

  Proper presentation of data will help analytics gain hearts and minds.Continue Reading

• Free IT templates for CIOs and technology managers

  SearchCIO rounded up free IT templates from around the Web to help technology managers organize their IT departments, projects and service offerings.Continue Reading

• Talking SMAC with Dell CIO Andi Karaboutis

  Dell CIO Andi Karaboutis talks about the demand for SMAC -- social, mobile, analytics and cloud -- and Dell IT's progress on self-service analytics.Continue Reading

• The Dynamic of IT Teams in 2014

  5 big dysfunctions that will hurt your IT team. How to avoid these pitfalls and turn a dysfunctional team around.Continue Reading

• BYOD acceptable use policy requires answering the five W's

  A BYOD framework is built by asking the five W's on many acceptable use policy levels, explains mobility expert Craig Mathias in this webcast series.Continue Reading

• The four cornerstones of a successful BYOD program

  A BYOD security policy is one cornerstone of a successful BYOD program. Learn why flexibility is also crucial to BYOD success, in this webcast series.Continue Reading

• CIO careers: A guide to getting ahead

  In this CIO Essential Guide, learn how CIOs in high-level careers in IT are driving their enterprises -- and profession -- forward.Continue Reading

• Careers in information technology: A CIO guide to getting ahead in IT

  In this CIO Essential Guide, learn how CIOs in high-level careers in IT are driving their enterprises -- and profession -- forward.Continue Reading

• Out of the shadows: Rogue IT is becoming CIO business as usual

  The consumerization of IT and increasing demands for business agility are forcing the evolution of rogue IT. How are CIOs responding?Continue Reading

• On a day of praise for disruptive technologies, a word of caution

  A former Google engineer schools aspiring disruptors on what really matters when deploying disruptive technology for human consumption.Continue Reading

• Free project management template examples for strategic IT planning

  These free project management template examples from around the Web provide project guidelines and strategic IT planning tools to CIOs and IT leaders.Continue Reading

• The enterprise data hub poised to become the heart of data management?

  Moving big data can cause network strain, leading some businesses to turn to the enterprise data hub.Continue Reading

• Enable mobile workers by enabling digital business: Eight tips for CIOs

  From 33,000 feet up, traveling 420 miles per hour, expert contributor Harvey Koeppel offers CIOs eight tips for keeping pace with mobile workers.Continue Reading

• The mobile device features core to a mobility management program

  In establishing a mobility management program, organizations should insist upon a series of mobile device features, says expert Craig Mathias.Continue Reading

• A CTO who has 'seen it all' shares top tips for effective disaster recovery

  When it comes to effective disaster recovery, CTO Niel Nickolaisen advises it may be best to look outside your IT department. Read his top tips here.Continue Reading

• What's in a title? A CIO/CTO shares perspective on his dual role

  What's in a title anyway? In this CIO Snapshot, CareWorks CIO/CTO Bart Murphy talks about what it's like to carry out the dual roles.Continue Reading

• CIO/CTO shapes up shared services strategy and puts the fun into ITSM

  Bart Murphy was hired by CareWorks Family of Companies to create and carry out a shared services strategy; he transformed IT and became CIO/CTO.Continue Reading

• CIO/CTO reaps benefits of a flexible ITSM platform

  In the second part of this story, CIO/CTO Bart Murphy explains how a cloud-based ITSM platform has helped transform IT and the business.Continue Reading

• An executive guide to IT investment, growth, and development in 2014

  In this exclusive guide, uncover emerging IT trends benefiting overall company health and growth to ensure you’re realizing full growth and performance potential.Continue Reading

• Enterprise IT infrastructure in the age of cloud: A guide for CIOs

  In this Essential Guide, learn how the cloud and hybrid technologies are transforming enterprise IT infrastructure and the data center.Continue Reading

• #CIOChat: Your wearable device presents a BIG data challenge

  Ever consider the implications of bringing your wearable device to work? Tweet jam participants discuss data challenges and infrastructure needs.Continue Reading

• Revlon CIO ushers in corporate cloud and sweeping culture changes for IT

  Former Revlon CIO David Giambruno reveals how he expertly led his team through a drastic transition from a vertical to a horizontal organization.Continue Reading

• On digital transformation, will CIOs get stuck in the shadows?

  Organizations must play to their digital strengths if they want to survive digital disruption, advises Forrester. Is there a place for the CIO?Continue Reading

• Private and public sectors must combine forces against cyberattacks

  Pauline Neville-Jones outlines steps underway in the U.K. to combine government and private sector resources in the fight against cyberattacks.Continue Reading

• In business-model innovation, cloud computing is imperative

  Business-model innovation is a necessity in light of the changes that cloud computing brings to the enterprise, columnist Harvey Koeppel explains.Continue Reading

• CIO Spotlight: Compensation Trends and Career Outlook for 2014

  Discover the key factors driving the increasingly positive outlook, your peers' top priorities and the most exciting projects they're working on, and what separates the highest paid from the pack.Continue Reading

• Walgreens CFO tug of war between IT legacy systems and tech that could 'take us to glory'

  In this SearchCIO interview, Walgreens CFO Wade Miquelon talks about IT strategy and the difference between a good idea and capturing business value.Continue Reading

• MetLife takes a gamble on startup culture

  A 145-year-old company, MetLife shook off traditional IT for a startup culture.Continue Reading

• Survey: For cloud computing use, business needs trump cost savings as top driver

  TechTarget's latest Cloud Pulse survey shows business needs trump cost savings for cloud use. IT leaders and analysts say it's about time.Continue Reading

• IT career salaries infographic: Salary expectations, projects and mood

  TechTarget's Annual Salary and Careers Survey polled 1,771 professionals on their current earnings, the mood in IT and salary expectations for 2014.Continue Reading

• Move like Jagger to nail down a digital strategy

  The collaborative skills of Quincy Jones, longevity of the Rolling Stones and tenacity of Tina Turner are the makings of a potent digital strategy.Continue Reading

• Ensure mobile device security through a mobile device management policy

  A panel of experts at the ASAE's Technology Conference details how to create an enterprise MDM policy and implement a comprehensive MDM system.Continue Reading

• AIIM President John Mancini: How to get big data off the hype curve

  AIIM President John Mancini talks about the right way to experiment with big data and why the most valuable CIOs are also the most vulnerable.Continue Reading

• Protect information like a pro: A guide for enterprise CIOs

  In this CIO essential guide on corporate data, learn how to protect information assets in your organization.Continue Reading

• CIO guide: Protect information like a pro

  Providing adequate protection for corporate data is a top-of-mind concern across IT. In this guide, learn how to protect your information assets.Continue Reading

• Active cyberdefense: What are the legal limitations?

  In this Ask the Expert video, attorney Randy Sabett discusses the complications and legal limitations of an active cyberdefense strategy.Continue Reading

• The new BPM program: A focus on data-driven business outcomes

  With an emphasis on data-driven business results, the new BPM program is giving CIOs the tools to help grow the business.Continue Reading

• Smart process applications: Straight talk from CIOs

  Smart process applications were the focus of November's 'CIO Decisions' e-zine. What do CIOs say about this new breed of apps and other technologies?Continue Reading

• Evolving BPM and BPO practices will change the nature of work

  Harvey Koeppel makes the case that BPM and BPO are evolving and converging and will permanently change the way we work.Continue Reading

• Want better analytics? Start asking 'crunchy' questions

  Predictive analytics and crunchy questions, data visualizations and good design: The Data Mill reports.Continue Reading

• HoneyBaked Ham IT and marketing veeps find secret sauce in big data

  At The Original HoneyBaked Ham Co. of Georgia, there's no such thing as data for data's sake.Continue Reading

• Many enterprises missing out on value of internal social technologies, collaboration

  Even as enterprises become increasingly comfortable with the sometimes-dicey world of external social media, most fail to see the value of embracing enterprise social media technologies.Continue Reading

• Forrester: Three competencies CIOs need to master digital disruption

  CIOs need three competencies to keep pace with digital disruption. Plus, do you play soldier, captain or general in digital disruption?Continue Reading

• Best project management practices for CIOs and IT managers

  The best project management practices emphasize efficiency over chaos, so we've gathered some top project management tips from our sister sites.Continue Reading

• Clay Christensen warns CIOs that smart managers are doomed to fail

  Disruptive innovation theorist Clay Christensen warns CIOs to be skeptical of time-honored business tenets.Continue Reading

• Top CIOs know IT employees don't need morale killers like stack ranking

  In Searchlight: Stack ranking? Yahoo could learn from CIOs about valuing employees. Plus: IBM will share Watson, Facebook's $3 billion bid and more.Continue Reading

• Seven steps to enterprise mobility security

  In this webcast, analyst Jack Gold provides a plan for CIOs looking to protect endpoints and shore up enterprise mobility security management.Continue Reading

• CIO tip: Learn how to present a risk-management plan to the board

  CIO tip: Companies are getting serious about risk management plans -- and leaning on CIOs to help them.Continue Reading

• Leadership tips in a challenging environment from three health IT CIOs

  At the 45th annual SIMposium, health IT CIOs talked about how technology is changing just about every aspect of health care, except one: the importance of leadership.Continue Reading

• A data analytics strategy for boosting business efficiency and revenue

  Michael Koukounas, analytics leader at Equifax Inc., on leveraging a data analytic strategy to improve operations and business outcomes.Continue Reading