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• Eliminating change management process chokeholds

  Learn which aspects of the change management process cause bottlenecks, as well as ways to get around them. Continue Reading

• What the Queen of Soul can teach about social CRM

  In this week's roundup of interesting items from around the Web, we present a musical key to social CRM, Google's search for love and more. Continue Reading

• Relocated, remote workers may be worth financial risk

  Fearing the financial risk, many companies are missing out on IT talent by not considering hiring remote workers or paying for relocation. Continue Reading

• Access is necessary but not sufficient for mobile IT

  It's easy to forget how breathtakingly quickly mobile IT made its way to the enterprise. Educating, not just providing access, will be key for CIOs. Continue Reading

• Enterprise mobile apps and business software guide

  Are enterprise mobile apps taking your business software to the next level? Establish a strategy for enterprise mobile apps with this guide. Continue Reading

• CIO skills in most demand: The ability to 'helicopter'

  Does your CIO skills repertoire include the ability to "helicopter"? Then do I have a job for you!Continue Reading

• Social media tips and other helpful lists

  In this week's roundup, we have a list made up primarily of lists -- how meta! Included are social media tips and a general how-to on being a good CIO.Continue Reading

• Moving away from IT spend as a percentage of revenue

  Traditional metrics, such as IT spend as a percentage of revenue, don't always work. Find out why in our latest CIO Matters column.Continue Reading

• Filling soft skills gap may be easier than you think

  Some of our readers responded to a recent story about the perceived soft skills gap in IT suggesting the talent leaders are seeking could be all around them.Continue Reading

• CEOs: CIOs earn seat at the table by creating competitive advantage

  CIOs who master new technologies and wring value from legacy systems are great, but what CEOs really want is a partner in creating competitive advantage.Continue Reading

• Even a minor lapse in security protocol can lead to major costs

  When security protocols are neglected, data isn't the only loss. A breach in Utah cost the state CIO his job and possibly his reputation.Continue Reading

• Really big deals: Facebook IPO and SEC guidance on cybersecurity

  Read about this week's biggest tech news, including Facebook's long-awaited IPO and the SEC's guidance on cybersecurity.Continue Reading

• Of motherhood and mobile strategy

  In this week's roundup, we make a highly unscientific link between motherhood and mobile strategy and get a glimpse of Siri's possible true calling.Continue Reading

• Mobile spending seeding a business revolution

  Mobile computing is burning up the enterprise in more ways than one. A new report on mobile spending adds a piece of kindling to the rage.Continue Reading

• BI? Website relaunch? It's all about mobile app design

  Whether it's a conversation about websites, business intelligence, sales, you name it -- all roads lead to mobile app design.Continue Reading

• Using tech to gain a competitive advantage: The new CIO benchmark?

  Interest in the ways rival companies are using technology to gain a competitive advantage has risen sharply among business leaders.Continue Reading

• Do CIOs care about gaining a competitive advantage?

  Do CIOs care enough about gaining a competitive advantage—or is collegiality the secret of success in IT?Continue Reading

• Sometimes tech innovation is the only option

  This week's roundup of bits from around the Web includes two interesting looks at tech innovation. Plus, could your Facebook profile help save a life?Continue Reading

• Enterprise CIO project management resources guide

  Project management success requires proper planning, a dedicated team and a deft CIO touch. Learn more in this project management resources guide.Continue Reading

• Four ways to improve your change management strategy

  What creates the most bottlenecks when it comes to a change management strategy? One expert outlines the biggest offenders.Continue Reading

• IT Leadership Award winners showcase leadership innovation

  SearchCIO-Midmarket.com announces the six winners of our IT Leadership Awards, all pillars of leadership innovation at midmarket companies.Continue Reading

• Promoting innovation, from boss-less offices to tweaking big data

  This week's roundup of tidbits from the Web includes ways of promoting innovation, as well as talent in the workplace.Continue Reading

• Privacy concerns surround Google cloud storage service

  Soon after Google launched its Drive cloud storage service, data privacy and security worries arose.Continue Reading

• CIOs get no respect? They should follow the money

  CIOs don't get any respect from CEOs on innovation leadership. Don't get miffed, follow the money.Continue Reading

• Seeing the obvious is an IT project management skill

  Having good IT project management skills can mean knowing when you don't need them.Continue Reading

• Predictive analytics is hard to do; just ask a data scientist

  Where do you rank in using predictive analytics? New research and two Ivy League data scientists suggest that if you do it all, you're way ahead.Continue Reading

• Sheehan leaving CIO post at Dunkin' Brands for COO job at Modell's

  Dan Sheehan leaves the CIO post at Dunkin' Brands for the COO position at Modell's Sporting Goods.Continue Reading

• Quotable quotes on the role of the CIO

  The best comments on the role of the CIO often don't make it into stories. Here's a collection of insightful and often humorous CIO side comments.Continue Reading

• Reading the tea leaves on the CIO job shakeup at BofA

  What do companies want from their CIOs? This week's shakeup in the CIO job at Bank of America suggests the question is not given to easy answers.Continue Reading

• Got project management woes? Check out these RFP examples

  Great CIOs live and die by the request for proposal (RFP), but sometimes knowing where to begin is a nightmare. We've gathered some RFP examples to start your project fast.Continue Reading

• CIOs want exit options from cloud service providers

  Security and compliance remain top concerns for CIOs seeking cloud service providers, but vendor lock-in isn't far behind.Continue Reading

• Strategic outsourcing and vendor management guide

  Get strategic outsourcing tips and IT vendor management best practices in this IT outsourcing guide for enterprise CIOs.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

• 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

• A tale of two data quality theories

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The CIO and the extended enterprise

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

• 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

• 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

• Rosy outlook for services broker model may have thorns

  The IT services-broker model might be good for your business, but one CIO cautions against letting the label define your role.Continue Reading

• Re-evaluating endpoint security tools

  Has technology advanced to the point that some endpoint security tools -- and the staff needed to support them -- will go away?Continue Reading

• An enterprise guide to CIO roles and responsibilities

  Get answers to questions about IT career issues, salaries, budgets, spending and staff development in this guide to CIO roles and responsibilities.Continue Reading

• Overtime pay limit could put CIOs in a tough spot

  A bill limiting overtime pay for IT workers is one more example of politicians putting corporate interests ahead of individual workers, opponents say.Continue Reading

• 'IT as a services broker' model will carry beyond 2012

  IT leaders are positioning themselves as facilitators or IT services brokers rather than as the managers and mainframe minders of yore.Continue Reading

• CIOs have to be passionate and in fighting trim

  To be executive material for the CIO job these days, you'll need more than a well-cut suit.Continue Reading

• CIO's change management strategy gives left and right brain their due

  Managing change can be the hardest part of IT's job. One CIO has a strategy to manage change that hinges on using both hemispheres of the brain.Continue Reading

• Application portals for managing mobile devices no joke

  CIOs are turning to application portals to meet mobile needs while protecting corporate IT policies.Continue Reading

• Getting a grip on shadow IT in the age of self-service technology

  Shadow IT should be a serious concern for all CIOs in an age of self-service technology. Here's how to get a grip on it.Continue Reading

• SaaS solutions with a vertical slant

  A growing segment of SaaS solutions targets industry-specific needs and mission-critical business functions.Continue Reading

• 10 tips to help CIOs demonstrate the value of information technology

  CIOs struggle to show the value of information technology. Gartner offers 10 tips for closing the value gap between IT spend and business aims.Continue Reading

• FAQ: Four criteria for an effective IT innovation strategy

  In this FAQ, IT executives share four ways to kick-start and manage an IT innovation strategy that drives business value and transformation.Continue Reading

• GE's journey from waterfall to Agile practices

  General Electric Co. turned to Agile practices to revamp software development in its Energy division. Now Agile is making its way across the company.Continue Reading

• Agile project management helps overcome IT obstacles

  Traditional project management can ruin the best-intentioned IT efforts. It's time to get flexible and interact with stakeholders using Agile methods.Continue Reading

• Enterprise risk management strategies guide for CIOs

  Risk management is critical for enterprises embarking on new IT projects and plans. Take a look at these resources for insights and advice on risk management.Continue Reading

• ITIL chief architect: How to build an IT Service Management strategy

  Choosing the right IT services to deliver is the foundation of a winning IT Service Management strategy. ITIL chief architect Sharon Taylor explains.Continue Reading

• How adopting an ITIL framework can lead to cost savings for business

  An ITIL framework isn't easy, but it can drive huge cost savings. Learn how ITIL cost reduction strategies translate back to your business.Continue Reading

• Why agile projects pose challenges for enterprise project managers

  Agile expert Joseph Flahiff explains why managing agile projects can make project managers feel as if they're cramming a square peg into a round hole.Continue Reading

• In search of speed, State Street's CIO builds a private cloud

  State Street Corp. CIO Christopher Perretta shares how he tapped into the virtues of flexible, scalable computing by building an industrial-strength private cloud.Continue Reading

• Three tech trends shaping the future IT organization and the CIO role

  Cloud computing is just one of three technologies shaping the IT organization of the future and the role of the CIO.Continue Reading

• Evolving IT skill sets: Seven roles that should be on CIOs' radar

  This tip looks at the IT skill sets that most likely will be outsourced, and at seven skill sets CIOs will be scrambling to fill.Continue Reading

• The IT organization of the future: An enterprise within an enterprise

  The IT organization of the future is shifting to become not only a business but also a part of an integrated business services organization.Continue Reading

• CIO Briefings: IT leadership resources, business management tutorials

  To help CIOs and senior IT professionals keep up with the latest IT and business trends, SearchCIO.com has developed a series of senior-level management guides designed to provide strategic guidance and advice essential for today's IT leaders.Continue Reading

• Cost and content of social media policies vary widely by industry

  Setting social media policies is a tricky and potentially costly process that varies widely based on an industry's regulatory requirements.Continue Reading

• IT leadership and strategy guides for CIOs

  Leading your IT organization through calm and troubled waters alike requires innovative strategies and top-notch leadership skills. These CIO Briefings will help you expand your leadership and strategy skill sets.Continue Reading

• The IT roles needed for the IT organization of the future

  IT's status quo will be toppled by the need for speed and tech-savvy employees. Here's what's vital for operating the IT organization of the future.Continue Reading

• CIO Innovators: Profiles in IT and business leadership

  The SearchCIO.com CIO Innovator Profile Series highlights how CIOs use technology innovation to meet IT and business leadership objectives. Meet the leaders of tomorrow.Continue Reading

• CIO, CEO of New York Life RPS tackle IT organization transformation

  New York Life Retirement Plan Services' CIO and CEO discuss the changing role of the IT organization, and why social media is topping their agenda.Continue Reading

• A Wells Fargo roadmap to sidestep technology integration risks

  Learn how an air space analysis system helped Wells Fargo CIOs avoid technology integration disasters during the merger with Wachovia.Continue Reading

• CIOs dissect evolving role of the CIO in cloud and mobile computing

  Leveraging cloud and mobile computing is now a requisite for CIO success. Early-adopter CIOs at MIT Sloan's CIO Symposium offer their insights.Continue Reading

• Project and portfolio management dead? Try these PPM process tips

  Do you think that project and portfolio management is dead? If you do, it could be your approach that's to blame. Try these tips to breathe some life into your PPM process.Continue Reading

• The CIO's dilemma? Disruptive innovation vs. performance improvement

  CIOs focused on continuously improving their IT products and services might want to heed the lessons of now-defunct market leaders who got upended by disruptive innovation.Continue Reading

• The need for IT innovation leads to aggressive collaboration

  IT innovation is what happens when there's no money for new equipment but plenty of fresh ideas emanating from all parts of the business.Continue Reading

• CIOs looking for ways to say yes to the iPad in the enterprise

  CIOs are looking for ways to say yes to the iPad in the enterprise, despite the technological and cultural challenges associated with new mobile devices.Continue Reading

• IT innovation hinges on identifying business process levers

  D&M Holdings' growing portfolio of high-end audio and video brands sparked an IT innovation that gave marketing the tools to interact with customers.Continue Reading

• Seven categories for evaluating mobile device management products

  Do you need a mobile device management product to control an employee-driven revolt against corporate-issued devices? Consider these MDM selection tips.Continue Reading

• Cloud brokers emerge to sort out the chaos of cloud services

  Faced with a chaotic mix of cloud services, IT execs now must sort through a crowd of cloud brokers that claim to minimize risks and improve interoperability.Continue Reading