Tips

Tips

• 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

• Behind the hype: 10 facts to help you sort out virtualization benefits

  Virtualization solutions promise to do everything for your company short of growing hair on a billiard ball, but can the virtualization benefits really stand up to scrutiny?  Continue Reading

• 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

• Old ideas hinder true benefits of virtualization

  IT operations in a virtual world differ greatly from those in the physical world. Realizing virtualization's capabilities takes a new approach.  Continue Reading

• Make the most of a virtualization strategy: The virtual remote desktop

  CIOs can toss a virtual remote desktop onto their existing virtual networks for a huge bump in virtualization ROI. Our experts share how a virtual desktop can affect your virtualization strategy.  Continue Reading

• CEB survey lays out senior IT managers' public-cloud concerns

  In a new survey, senior IT managers name 19 flaws in the public cloud. Five of those flaws stand out, but many believe they all can be overcome.  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

• Security tutorial: Back to school for your risk management strategies

  Refine your risk management strategies with our tutorial highlighting the strongest tips from our information security network, tailored for the midmarket CIO.  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

• Business transformation depends on getting the foundation of BI right

  BI initiatives will succeed in leading to business transformation only if they're focused on the foundation of a data governance program.  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

• A partly cloudy forecast: Moving to a business intelligence cloud

  Without quality BI data and dedicated server space, you're missing out. Our expert Jonathan Hassell looks into the perks of the business intelligence cloud.  Continue Reading

• The best BPM implementations focus on keeping things simple

  Business process management tools often are designed to compensate for overly complex processes. Learn to strip BPM down to manageable constituents.  Continue Reading

• Quick and dirty, out-of-the-box business intelligence applications

  When considering business intelligence applications, prebuilt alternatives give you fast data and also add value without getting your hands dirty.  Continue Reading