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Leadership and strategic planning

• NFC and other reasons CIOs need a next-gen mobile strategy -- now

  If your mobile strategy is about devices or replicating what you do already, you are a first-generation CIO. Learn how to become second-generation.  Continue Reading

• No measurement leads to project management failure

  One firm's attempt to create a new integrated ordering system ended up a project management failure, due to a lack of understanding of the underlying systems.  Continue Reading

• Project management competency built on agile methods, risk mitigation

  Niel Nickolaisen outlines how to develop project management competency around agile methods, risk mitigation and transparency.  Continue Reading

• BI programs should co-opt social sciences to be closer to the money

  CIOs should incorporate anthropology, economics and other social sciences into their BI programs to answer burning business questions.  Continue Reading

• Why a technology and marketing strategy alliance should be cemented

  CIOs and chief marketing officers may be at odds at times, but many signs point to the need for a stronger technology and marketing strategy alliance.  Continue Reading

• Knowledge is key in governing the extended enterprise

  Governing the extended enterprise requires a new way of thinking about relationships with suppliers and customers; each requires a strategy of its own.  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

• Unified communications about integration, not just productivity tools

  If a unified communications strategy is just about which employee productivity tools to support, it misses the point of UC, two experts say.  Continue Reading

• Cost, data quality issues still hobble CIOs' BI strategies

  Data quality remains a top challenge for business intelligence. For CIOs, this should be the question: What's good enough for the task at hand?  Continue Reading

• BI projects require open mind, deft touch

  Most organizations sit on a gold mine of business intelligence. Extracting it requires knowing how analytics projects differ from day-to-day IT work.  Continue Reading

• Business analytics: Creating one version of the truth

  Deloitte's analytics strategy expert shares ways CIOs can identify and break down business analytics barriers and avoid quick data fixes and detours.  Continue Reading

• Assessing an enterprise's analytics maturity

  Ten basic questions will help guide enterprises along the path of analytics awareness.  Continue Reading

• The path to a corporate culture enlightened by business analytics

  Deloitte Consulting's analytics strategy expert dishes on what it takes to make better use and sense of business analytics across the enterprise.  Continue Reading

• CIO career track favors process management, IT specialization chops

  CIOs concerned about their career track should take a hard look at IT specialization and find ways to become the business' BPM guru.  Continue Reading

• Is a CEO position impossible for CIOs?

  CIOs historically have had a difficult time ascending to the CEO position, but according to CEO John Weathington, it's not impossible. It's a matter of perception.  Continue Reading