Tips

Tips

• 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

• A CIO reveals how to avoid problems with outsourcing partners

  Our expert Scott Lowe reveals how to avoid problems with outsourcing partners on your next cloud project.  Continue Reading

• Upcoming information technology conferences for midmarket CIOs

  Check out these upcoming information technology conferences for the midmarket CIO, complete with dates, locations, topics and costs.  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

• 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

• 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

• Mobile device security is necessary but secondary to business strategy

  Many enterprises are not implementing newer network mobile device security tools. Worse, they're overlooking the business case for going mobile.  Continue Reading

• How CIOs can avoid big chaos through a BI data steward

  With big data comes big responsibility. CIOs can avoid big chaos during an ERP integration with the help of a data steward.  Continue Reading

• What's the big deal about big data analytics?

  Are businesses chasing Hadoop and Teradata just because they're the hot new thing? CEO John Weathington advises CIOs to stop and think before they jump into big data analytics.  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

• Hadoop offers big data analytics on the cheap -- if you know how

  CIOs can harness the power of data mining using the free Apache Hadoop framework, but is there such a thing as free big data analytics?  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

• Four priorities in securing the extended enterprise

  The extended enterprise encompasses mobile, social and cloud technology, and requires four decisive security countermeasures, Forrester Research says.  Continue Reading

• Cloud Identity Management as a Service: Not quite ready for prime time

  When it comes to cloud identity management, expert Jonathan Hassell suggests that midmarket CIOs may be better off waiting until the time is right.  Continue Reading

• Midmarket CIOs lead the charge with cloud-based computing

  When midmarket furniture company Telelok began lagging, it turned to cloud-based computing to stay agile and relevant in a tough economy.  Continue Reading