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Leadership and strategic planning

• Is the time right for consumerization? Prepare your organization

  Consumerization is now. CEO John Weathington offers tips for using consumerization to align IT with the business.  Continue Reading

• Cloud computing is the source of innovation and agility

  Cloud computing is about more than just cost savings and efficiencies; it's also the source of innovation and agility.  Continue Reading

• Retaining Millennial employees: What you need to know

  Are you committed to retaining your Millennial employees? Learn about the characteristics of Millennials and how CIOs can keep them happy and productive.  Continue Reading

• CIO reveals keys to getting noticed by executive leadership

  Our IT Leadership Awards judge notices several things our award winners have in common, and reveals the keys to getting noticed -- and getting ahead.  Continue Reading

• 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