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CIO Insight Weekly Report, May 7, 2008

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KNOW IT ALL
By Ed Cone
Social Nets in the Enterprise: Choosing a Vendor

Tech cognescenti debate the options available and what they can accomplish.   
PARALLAX VIEW
By Eric Chabrow
Google Search to Elbow Windows as a Revenue Generator

One outlet predicts Google will overtake Microsoft next year.    
BIZTECH 3.0
By Brian P. Watson
The Trouble with Emerging Tech ROI

Different tools bring different results. And it's already hard enough proving their value. What's a CIO to do?    
READER'S VIEW
Should Customer Success Decide CIO Pay?

That's what one reader thinks. But is the right idea? 




  Expert Voices

Uptime Institute founder Kenneth Brill warns that businesses must act fast to narrow the gap between computing and energy efficiencies, or their corporate coffers will be depleted by millions of dollars in data-center waste.

Interview
Innovation expert Anthony Williams says the Web offers the public sector tremendous opportunities to transform service delivery, make smarter policies, flatten silos and reinvigorate government.   
Interview
Management expert Jim Champy sees IT as a game-changer in gaining a competitive advantage.
Interview
Benchmarking guru Howard Rubin says companies get it wrong when valuing their IT. Here’s how they must change.
News
Conventional wisdom about the CIO's reporting structure may be flawed.

 
Opinion
Interview: IBM
Q&A: On the eve of her retirement from the helm of IBM's Software Group, Janet Perna predicts the role of data and data delivery will change, and warns Oracle to keep supporting IBM customers.
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  • NEWS
    Conventional wisdom about the CIO's reporting structure may be flawed.
    Readers respond to Nicholas Carr's latest musings on the future of IT.
    The future of computing lies with the utility model, says the controversial author. And the implications may be profound.
    Futurist James Canton foresees the CIO motivating the rest of the organization, including the CEO and the board, to change.
    Two Gartner strategists say IT and CIOs haven't been this important since the dot-com boom.

    OPINIONS
    Q&A: On the eve of her retirement from the helm of IBM's Software Group, Janet Perna predicts the role of data and data delivery will change, and warns Oracle to keep supporting IBM customers.
    Sophisticated analytics and $1.9 million worth of fast, stable data storage helped Premier Bankcard pick $5.6 million worth of business out of a sea of high-risk prospects; a one-year return of almost 300 percent.
    News Analysis: eWEEK.com's Stan Gibson warns that, when setting up shop in China, establishing trust is essential.
    Opinion: Baseline columist Paul A. Strassman asks whether your CIO really has pull in your company, or is IT one of those functions management just tolerates? A Defense Department directive on its own CIO defines what it takes for a CIO to b
    Opinion: Nicholas Carr is wrong about the value of IT, writes Tom Pisello of Alinean. The key is in knowing what technology brings unique value and how to make the most of it.

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