Tips

Tips

Leadership and strategic planning

• Agile project management leaders need to define 'sustainable pace'

  It is up to Agile project management leaders to set a realistic and sustainable pace for these projects.  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

• Mobile innovation makes the difference for pizza chain

  What do smartphones and restaurants have in common? Read about how one midmarket chain made the difference with mobile innovation.  Continue Reading

• Sound teamwork can help midmarket CIOs avoid innovation failures

  Creativity can make or break a CIO, and poor teamwork can be an innovation killer. CIO Scott Lowe looks at what not to do when you manage innovation.  Continue Reading

• CIOs are promoting innovation through disruptive technology

  CIOs can make a huge impact by embracing disruptive technology and promoting innovation from within their own IT department and elsewhere, according to one expert.  Continue Reading

• Why CIOs need to care about mobile business apps

  Internal mobile business apps are making and breaking IT departments. Be ready for the day when marketing will ask you to develop applications for iPad and Android.  Continue Reading

• Services-oriented architecture helps CIO spur business growth

  A CIO uses services-oriented architecture and agile project management to reposition his company for growth and modernize IT and business processes.  Continue Reading

• Benefit from an ITIL model without going all the way

  One CIO adapts the principles of a flexible ITIL model: How simple ways of thinking differently can save your IT staff time and expenses.  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

• Smart business intelligence strategy all about making better decisions

  CIOs seeking competitive advantage must make better decisions about products, markets, operations and customers. The right BI strategy can guide them.  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

• Sort out your mobile workforce confusion: Our top five mobility reads

  Your mobile workforce is ready to go -- check out our top mobility must-reads to learn which applications and tools will make you a hero in the boardroom at the end of the quarter.  Continue Reading

• The mobility megatrend: Embrace the change or get left behind

  Mobility and everything the technology is influencing could bring about more change than the Internet revolution did. How can we succeed? Embrace change and lead.  Continue Reading

• IT innovation requires managing the rogue as well as the entrenched

  CIOs seeking the greatest possible input for IT innovation note that collaboration technology and methodology depend on who comes to the table.  Continue Reading

• Easy social media tips for the midmarket you can start following today

  Dipping a toe into Twitter? Finally facing Facebook? We've got some easy social media tips to help midmarket CIOs take the plunge without risking a social media disaster.  Continue Reading