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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Data warehousing architecture gets a big data makeover

  In the digital age, data warehousing architecture shies away from the monolithic enterprise data warehouse in favor of flexibility.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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Offshore IT outsourcing: Economy, not ethics, is big question for CIOs

  Offshore IT outsourcing is an emotional topic for CIOs, but the cost can be more complicated than a simple bottom line.Continue Reading

• Gartner outlines the IT essentials for building a big data strategy

  Building a successful big data strategy takes discipline, imagination and a CIO who can work with the business. Here's how to do it.Continue Reading

• To be a better leader be a team player: CIO leadership lessons from a pro

  Former CIO of Marriott, now personal coach, Carl Wilson talks CIO leadership and the importance of integrating IT with the business.Continue Reading

• Multi-hypervisor environments: Making it work or not worth the work?

  There are potential benefits to running a multi-hypervisor environment but are they worth the management challenges?Continue Reading

• Five team dysfunctions that could spell disaster for any IT department

  CIOs need to foster the softer side of workplace relations if they want to head off the five team dysfunctions that can sink even the tightest IT ships.Continue Reading

• What to consider before deploying the Hadoop framework

  Learn three ways to decide if deploying the Hadoop framework is the right move for your enterprise big data needs.Continue Reading

• Project management best practices show off IT talent in Miami Beach

  An accountability mandate helps an IT director introduce IT project management best practices that make his staff’s value apparent—and transparent.Continue Reading

• CIO Matters: Leveraging big data for big business value

  Leveraging data for business value represents a fundamental shift in the way we conduct business, interact with customers and exchange information.Continue Reading

• Nate Silver on Bayes' Theorem and the power of big data done right

  Nate Silver outlines three principles taken from Bayes' Theorem that influence his prediction process.Continue Reading

• Beyond the hype, CIOs can generate business value from big data tools

  Sears Holdings CTO Phil Shelley talks about how embracing big data tools led to a new business and how CIOs can use them to add value to the business.Continue Reading

• The history of business intelligence and analytics and what comes next

  A look back at the history of business intelligence and analytics reveals where data analytics has been, where it stands, and where it’s going.Continue Reading

• Four steps to defining and articulating the role of risk management

  Risk management programs are under pressure from all quarters. Here are four steps to defining and articulating the role of risk management.Continue Reading

• Hadoop framework breathes new life into Ancestry.com legacy tools

  Ancestry.com tackles DNA testing with the help of the Hadoop framework, and discovers that moving to big data technologies takes time and teamwork.Continue Reading

• Data mining challenges on the horizon: Got big data? Now what?

  Sure, volume is a challenge. Velocity too. But it's the data mining challenges presented by big data that CIOs need to get their heads around.Continue Reading

• Metadata practices gaining momentum as companies tackle 'big data'

  Companies have long considered metadata secondary to analytics and data management programs, but with the advent of 'big data,' that's changing.Continue Reading

• Free cost-benefit analysis template examples for CIOs

  Check out this collection of free cost-benefit analysis examples to determine, in a systematic way, which decision or project is the most beneficial to your organization.Continue Reading

• Movie app rewards well-behaved patrons in Cinemark theaters

  The CineMode movie app gives movie-goers control of the viewing experience in Cinemark theaters. Learn more in this podcast video with Cinemark's CTO.Continue Reading

• Leadership qualities of CIOs who do big things

  Why do some CIOs have a big impact on their companies and others don't? A recent study lays out the leadership qualities that make all the difference.Continue Reading

• Apply lean principles to ITSM for continuous service improvement

  Applying lean principles to IT services management not only helps CIOs cut the fat, but find a balance for continuous service improvement.Continue Reading

• Office productivity software choices, once easy, now are complicated

  Once a standard desktop, Windows OS and Microsoft office productivity software were easy choices for IT. Why things have gotten much more complicated.Continue Reading

• 2012 election shows power of data analysis to personalize customers

  What can the 2012 election teach CIOs about data analysis? Collecting the right data is important, but using it to change behavior is what matters.Continue Reading

• Data storage strategy: Pre- and post-cloud computing

  CIO Niel Nickolaisen lays out how the cloud has simplified his data storage strategy … and satisfied his company's data dumping resistance.Continue Reading

• Data center facility of the future is a hybrid

  Data center facility ownership isn't a given as CIOs develop hybrid data centers for economic and competitive reasons.Continue Reading

• Cloud computing makes Amazon an enterprise computing power

  AWS cloud computing services have been around for six years, and Amazon is now comfortable attacking enterprise computing head on.Continue Reading

• Free mobile device policy template examples for CIOs

  Is the influx of mobile devices out of control at your organization? These free mobile device policy template examples can help you create guidelines.Continue Reading

• Ten secrets of success from top CFOs speak volumes to CIOs

  Understand how the business makes money. Focus on continuous improvement. Ten secrets of success of some of the nation's top CFOs speak to CIOs too.Continue Reading

• Free IT organizational structure chart templates for the CIO

  Use these free IT organizational structure chart templates to illustrate the relationships and hierarchy between various IT roles in your enterprise.Continue Reading

• Steps CIOs can take to harness digital disruption

  How does a CIO get involved in digital disruption? Analyst Nigel Fenwick offers a framework.Continue Reading

• Incentive-based pricing models for your next IT outsourcing contract

  Looking to add oomph to your standard IT outsourcing contract? Here are three incentive-based pricing models that might help.Continue Reading

• Gartner makes predictions on the future of information technology

  Gartner analyst David Cappuccio lists top ten trends in the future of information technology.Continue Reading

• Radical change or incremental steps? Digital disruption is both

  Digital disruption is associated with speed and surprise. But CIOs need to know that incremental change also has strong disruptive potential.Continue Reading

• Free elevator pitch examples and templates for IT and the business

  An elevator pitch is a great tool for tailored speeches and pitches. To craft your own, check out these free elevator pitch examples and templates.Continue Reading

• Should cloud service providers take a vertical tack?

  A specialty approach could be the answer for cloud service providers looking to ease enterprise CIO risk and compliance concerns.Continue Reading

• The 2013 IT Leadership Awards: Secrets to writing a winning nomination

  Winning awards often comes down to writing a captivating nomination. Here's what the judges are looking for in our sites' 2013 IT Leadership Awards.Continue Reading

• The data wars are just beginning

  In the coming data wars, many companies will be left out in the cold, and big data analytics won't be their only problem.Continue Reading

• Making a business case for data storage and backup

  CIO Niel Nickolaisen lays out how he gets the business to invest in storage and backup technologies starting with a business case for the value of data.Continue Reading

• The social networking revolution will go only as far as the people

  The social networking revolution is upon us, but will it change business for the better? It will go only as far as the people participating in it.Continue Reading

• Free PICK chart templates: Organize ideas for IT and the business

  Use these free PICK chart templates as a resource to help IT and the business organize ideas and prioritize IT projects.Continue Reading

• Free IT service catalog templates for the CIO

  Creating and updating an IT service catalog can keep your business running smoothly. Check out these free IT service catalog templates on the Web.Continue Reading

• Minimizing supply chain risks key to business continuity management

  Find out why supply chain analysis is a critical component of business continuity management in this tip.Continue Reading

• Creating competitive advantage through data analytics

  In this week's roundup, as the title suggests, read three different ways of creating competitive advantage. Plus, why CIOs need to start questioning the green-ness of cloud.Continue Reading

• Five free project scope statement examples for the CIO

  Project scope statements can help CIOs control initiatives and reach business goals. Find free examples of project scope statements here.Continue Reading

• A guide to IT sustainability practices for CIOs

  In this guide to IT sustainability practices for CIOs, learn how to make your company greener through technology innovation.Continue Reading

• Olympic-size woes and the dark side of tech innovation

  This week's roundup finds former tech stars who won't be up on a podium anytime soon, the dark (Hat) side of innovation and heroic leadership lessons.Continue Reading