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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• IT executive salary, career and project ambitions: Roadmap 2014

  The results of our IT Salary and Career survey are in. See how your salary and career goals compare with those of your peers.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

• 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

• 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

• How to build a security roadmap with a cascade approach

  Having trouble gaining upper-level support for security plans? In this video, learn how to build a one-page security roadmap with a cascade approach.Continue Reading

• How to manage mobile devices: Tech investments and a feature wish list

  A CIO gives his take on the tech he needs to manage mobile devices and which MDM capabilities he believes are still half-baked.Continue Reading

• The project pipeline and the role of IT

  HoneyBaked Ham IT executive Bill Bolton outlines role of IT and six steps for prioritizing the project pipeline.Continue Reading

• Guess CIO talks IT job skills and a CIO lesson learned

  Guess CIO Michael Relich: 'No one cares what's under the hood; they just want the car to drive.'Continue Reading

• Creative destruction and the cloud: Why it's a good thing

  The creative destruction brought on by the cloud is an imperative and unavoidable part of your IT and business strategy.Continue Reading

• Cloud: A disruptive technology that's worth the disruption

  Cloud computing is a disruptive technology that promises to upend the enterprise, but the upsides are worth the risk.Continue Reading

• Why is Microsoft licensing so complicated?

  Live from the 2013 Gartner Symposium ITxpo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discusses why Microsoft licensing is so complicated.Continue Reading

• Big data and predictive analytics: When is enough data enough?

  When to call it quits with data, the power of a name and performing surgical marketing: The Data Mill reports from Predictive Analytics World.Continue Reading

• IT as a service: How to succeed as an IT broker

  Is your organization moving toward offering IT as a service? Find out what CIOs and experts have to say about succeeding as an IT broker.Continue Reading

• The future of mobility: A BYOD guide for CIOs

  In this Essential Guide, learn how CIOs are planning for the future of mobility, aligning consumer devices with bring your own technology trends.Continue Reading

• Planning for the future of mobility: A BYOD guide for enterprise CIOs

  In this Essential Guide, learn how CIOs are planning for the future of mobility, aligning consumer devices with bring your own technology trends.Continue Reading

• Kurzweil: The human brain on IT

  Inventor and futurologist Ray Kurzweil shakes up an information management crowd with visions of the human brain on IT.Continue Reading

• Forrester: Achieve business agility by adopting these 10 attributes

  Is your company struggling to keep up with the lightning-quick pace of change? Forrester explains the 10 attributes of business agility.Continue Reading

• Architecting the enterprise of the future: CIOs offer a roadmap

  At this year's MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, SearchCIO asked several IT leaders to discuss architecting the enterprise of the future.Continue Reading

• Free technology roadmap template examples for CIOs

  These free technology roadmap templates and examples will clear up your organization's strategic vision, combining detail with overarching goals.Continue Reading

• Agile principles, for IT and across the enterprise

  Agile principles push beyond the boundaries of IT and across enterprise.Continue Reading

• The history of cloud computing and what's coming next: A CIO guide

  In this enterprise guide, learn about the history of cloud computing and how to successfully implement cloud technologies in your organization.Continue Reading

• A new book zeroes in on finding the key metrics that drive decisions

  Author Ben Yoskovitz talks about using the right metrics at the right time as the path to business success.Continue Reading

• CIO drives tech-enabled golf with repeatable processes, innovation labs

  TopGolf CIO Tom LaPlante helps drives the tech-enabled business by implementing stable processes and turning every employee into an innovation ninja.Continue Reading

• Prescriptive analytics is coming to a future near you

  It is only a matter of time before algorithms rule the world. Humans, meet prescriptive analytics.Continue Reading

• Lean Startup methodology key to open government initiative in Palo Alto

  CIO Jonathan Reichental introduced Lean Startup techniques to make better, faster decisions and provide more transparency in local government.Continue Reading

• All aboard: CIO wins the battle, initiates centralized IT organization

  Our SearchCIO IT Leader of the Year Award winner, CIO Eric Hawley, explains how he built a centralized IT environment -- starting with listening.Continue Reading

• The SearchCIO-Midmarket 2013 IT Leadership Awards: The Winners

  The results are in! We unveil the winners in our 2013 SearchCIO-Midmarket IT Leadership Awards, including our overall IT Leader of the Year.Continue Reading

• The 2013 IT Leadership Awards: Our finalists

  The 2013 SearchCIO IT Leadership Awards honor the effective leadership styles of leading CIOs and IT executives. Here, we introduce our finalists.Continue Reading

• Liberty Mutual CIO: An IT roadmap to business value and agility

  Mojgan Lefebvre, CIO of Liberty Mutual Global Specialty, discusses five ways she ensures her IT roadmap and team sync up with company business goals.Continue Reading

• Big data can mean bad analytics, says Harvard professor

  The value of big data is in the analytics -- not any old analytics but software customized to your business purpose. Anything less is bad analytics.Continue Reading

• The 2013 IT Leadership Awards: Meet our CIO finalists

  The 2013 SearchCIO IT Leadership Awards honor the top CIOs and IT executives in the enterprise space. Here, meet our finalists.Continue Reading

• The CIO position: Why you need to eat your own dog food

  When it comes to the CIO position, the want ads have yet to catch up with the skill set du jour.Continue Reading

• Business and social network apps belong together: Will they ever meet?

  Social and business apps need to merge. But does anyone know how that's going to happen?Continue Reading

• The GRC maturity model and value proposition

  In this CIO Matters column, Harvey Koeppel takes a look at the GRC maturity model and how CIOs can turn risk management into business value.Continue Reading

• MIT: A big data revolution is here, and it's past time for CIOs to lead

  The big data experts at the MIT CIO event made it official: Big data is transforming business. But it's complicated stuff, and it needs a CIO's touch.Continue Reading

• Project prioritization and portfolio management guide for CIOs

  In this Midmarket CIO Briefing on project prioritization, learn how to effectively manage initiatives in your IT organization.Continue Reading

• Land O' Lakes CIO turns 'dirty data' into customer insights

  Land O' Lakes is combining 'dirty data' with company data sources and -- Eureka! -- putting customer insights into the hands of the business.Continue Reading

• IT project evaluation and portfolio management guide for CIOs

  In this CIO Briefing, learn how to apply IT project evaluation and portfolio management strategies in the enterprise.Continue Reading

• Airport CTO takes customer service to new heights with sensor technology

  Houston Airport CTO Lisa Kent uses sensor technology to provide superior service to her customers -- both internal and external.Continue Reading

• Creativity and innovation the hallmarks of CIO's IT centralization

  Eric Hawley, CIO at Utah State University, knows that creativity and innovation are vital to IT centralization -- as is a fully baked cookie analogy.Continue Reading

• Forrester CXi shows CIOs key to improving customer experience

  Companies that excel at customer experience work hand in glove with CIOs and IT, according to the Forrester 2013 Customer Experience Index.Continue Reading

• Small-business cybersecurity: Mitigating employee and customer threats

  Small-business cybersecurity programs often hinge on how organizations prepare for -- and respond to -- employee and customer threats.Continue Reading

• As IT pervades the enterprise, here comes the chief procurement officer

  The rise of the chief procurement officer raises questions about the role of IT.Continue Reading

• C-suite looking for team members, not captains of industry

  Is the decider-in-chief an industry relic? One CIO headhunter says so. The new C-suite ideal is the collaborative team player.Continue Reading

• Putting a price on information: The nascent field of infonomics

  Companies are behaving as if information has a monetary value. The question is how much? The nascent field of infonomics aims to provide answers.Continue Reading

• Technology Priorities for 2013

  Technology Priorities for 2013Continue Reading

• Rainmakers: Three CIOs who made revenue generation their business

  CIOs know alignment with the business is vital, but as IT emerges as a center of innovation, smart CIOs are taking charge of revenue generation.Continue Reading