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Ruby Tuesday's IT chief, Nicolas Ibrahim, explains how proper metrics help his IT shop drive the business.
Interview
Cisco Systems CIO Rebecca Jacoby explains her firm's internal collaboration initiative and how it boosted productivity.
Research
Alignment alone isn’t the answer, according to Diamond Management & Technology Consultants’ new Digital IQ report. To truly see results, CIOs need to work to sharpen their organization’s performance in three key areas.
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Five key roles are critical to achieving a lean IT organization, according to a new report from Forrester Research's “Redesign IT Roles To Drive IT Cost Reduction.”
These roles offer organizations a better ability to analyze possible reductions in cost of labor, services and capital expenditures, as well as improvement in business process efficiency. Here’s a recap of what Marc Cecere, Forrester analyst and lead author of the report, had to say about these roles.
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Talent retention can be a challenge, even as bad times persist. CIOs must keep essential workers happy, be prepared to hire opportunistically and to resume growth when the economy improves. That means reacting and adapting to a changes in the job market and having flexible plans in place in order to retain and attract talent -- even as the protracted downturn changes the rules of the game.
Opinion
Maintaining worker morale, vendor relationships, revenue and projects should be top priorities for CIOs in 2009.
Article
Trying to predict the future of information technology is always tricky. CIOs need to double down on understanding both the businesses strategies of your company and the technology possibilities.
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