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Al Gore may take credit for inventing it. The Department of Defense deserves credit for building out its infrastructure. But let’s face it: The real wizards behind the curtain, the first true marketeers of the Internet, and the virtuosos of virtual innovation are the Internet’s purveyors of porn. Here’s how the porn industry has helped evolve the Internet, for both good and bad.
Does your company run a strategic IT shop, or an operational one? According to the IT Governance Institute (ITGI), strategists are more forward-looking, are governed with an eye toward partnering with lines of business in order to innovate, and tend to return more from their IT investments. Operators are most concerned with cutting costs in the here and now, are governed to keep the lights on and often miss opportunities to realize value from their investments.
In a recent study conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, ITGI examined the behaviors and outcomes of these two types of IT organizations.
Insider threats from ex-employees linger when IT organizations fail to deprovision terminated workers access to all systems.
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has released its mid-year analysis of major data breaches reported so far in 2009. Though the total numbers show an improvement over the first half of 2008, ITRC is reporting the percentage of insider attacks and breaches caused by hacking is on the rise. As it does with all of its reports, ITRC warns users to remember that the number of reported breaches is likely just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to actual breach statistics. Many more incidents go unreported.
What Frontier Airlines learned during a big IT project.
See our case study on Frontier's SaaS effort. CIOs will continue struggle with iffy budgets throughout the rest of the year, according to a new poll conducted among 900 CIOs by Gartner Executive Programs. Released in mid-June week, results showed an expected IT spending decline in 2009 of about 4.7%. Figures were compared to a similar poll conducted at the end of 2008.
A survey of non-IT executives, conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers for the IT Governance Institute, shows that many business leaders believe IT investments create value, but many still view the department as an operational and tactical asset rather than as a strategic partner.
Full results can be found in the ITGI report An Executive View of IT Governance. So, just how efficient is a bureaucrat in the data center? No, that isn’t the beginning to a great joke. It is a question posed by CDW Government in its most recent survey on virtualization within federal agencies, across the civilian and defense spectrum. The company questioned 377 government IT managers in April, compiling the results in its 2009 Federal Virtualization Report released in mid-June.
Aberdeen Group conducted a comprehensive study of 130 enterprises regarding their attitudes and practices surrounding governance, risk and compliance (GRC) initiatives. This slideshow highlights findings from Aberdeen’s wrap-up report, IT GRC: Managing Risk, Improving Visibility, and Reducing Operating Costs, by analyst Derek Brink.
One detail: the GRC acronym has things out of order; Aberdeen says enterprises emphasize compliance first, IT governance next and risk management last.
In a poll of IT executives and line-of-business leaders, a recent "State of Disaster Recovery" survey found that each group still has its own ideas about business continuity. Conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of SunGard Availability Services, results show what IT workers are up against when it comes to advocating disaster recovery activities.
Leadership, teamwork and workforce management dominate the slate of the best new books out this season for IT and business executives. NOTE: all publication dates are subject to change.
One of the hallmarks of great leadership is the ability to ferret out destructive organizational problems before they impact the working culture, says Michael Roberto.
As IT departments face cutbacks and mounting workloads, management must find ways to head off issues at the pass. Author of Know What You Don’t Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen, Roberto suggests the following seven ways to keep organizational problems at bay.
IT recruitment firm Robert Half Technology has released its third quarter IT Hiring Index and Skills Report, and the results are mixed. The IT employment outlook is healthy in certain industries and certain parts of the country, but not so good in other industries and regions. Overall the numbers seem to indicate a slow march toward recovery, with more good news for IT workers than bad.
More than 1,400 CIOs from companies with at least 100 employees were polled, and here’s what they had to say about the next three months:
While the economy may show a few faint signs of strengthening, IT hiring managers still expect recessionary forces to dampen recruiting efforts for the next six months. New data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), as well as survey results from a poll of 1,900 recruiters by tech employment gurus at Dice.com, gives a picture of the current IT job market.
A survey of over 400 IT pros by data-security firm Cyber-Ark indicates that tech workers have broad access to confidential data, and that they are using that access more now than before.
As the rate of increase in new unemployment claims slows, a survey report released by outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas shows that human resource executives are resorting to salary cuts and pay freezes to cut costs, rather than cutting jobs outright. Comparisons are with an earlier survey by the firm.
The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Beth Israel Deaconess Physician Organization Electronic Health Records project team lays out the case for cloud computing.
See also: Virtualization Delivers for Health RecordsWith summer upon us, one thought permeates our collective consciousness: How do I make sure I’m making smart hires? Okay, so maybe it’s not the stuff of summer fantasies, but let’s face it: If you want to ensure that your company is positioned to take advantage of an economic recovery many are predicting will begin unfolding by the end of this year, brushing up on effective hiring methods is an advisable strategy for any IT executive.
These books will help you brush up on your interviewing skills and get better at identifying the best job candidates.
Symantec recently commissioned Applied Research to survey over 1,000 North American IT professionals about their attitudes and practices regarding green IT. The findings showed significant uptick in green IT plans, strategies and spending. Symantec grouped its statistics in five findings categories:
1. Green IT Is Now an Essential
2. Green IT Budgets Are Rising
3. IT Is Willing to Pay a Premium for Green IT
4. IT Is at the Heart of Enterprise Green Efforts
5. Green IT Initiatives More of a Priority
Accenture recently surveyed 300 senior IT professionals in North America and the UK about their ERP systems. The following slides highlight the survey results.
Many technology managers are having a hard time tracking the use of Web 2.0 technologies and protecting their organizations from the inherent risks of interactive media.
Even though most workers want to work from home at times and some would even take a pay cut to do so, more than half never get the opportunity to unshackle themselves from the office desk, according to a recent survey commissioned by Citrix Online and conducted by the firm inc./WomenTrend. Check out the results, compiled from questioning of 600 workers worldwide.
Unemployment is high, and heading higher. If you lose your job, you may be able to negotiate a better severance package than the one first offered you. Maury Hanigan of Layoffcoach.com offers this advice for the newly jobless.
Only about 80 percent of business executives rank IT as somewhat important or critically important for key activities, and only half of them see IT doing well in supporting their needs, according to Forrester Research. While CIOs can improve the way they support the business, Forrester also believes they need to do a better job communicating the ways they already do so.
The following tips come from a new report by Forrester, “Value-Based Communication Boosts Business’ Perception of IT.” The three over-arching rules are: Link IT’s internal activities to business value; personally position IT’s value to the organization; and add business value to IT’s work with other organizations.
Some highlights from the Association of Information and Image Management (AIIM) report, “E-mail Management: The good, the bad and the ugly.” The report analyzed a survey conducted earlier in the spring on e-mail management practices and beliefs.
A new survey of IT spending, the Hackett Cost Control Study, says business outlays will remain flat over the next two years. At the same time, demand for IT services within the enterprise will increase by some 17 %, creating a gap between needs and resources that departments will have to address.
Hackett Group analysts suggest improvements in IT efficiencies and processes via what the firm calls the “three levers of cost control.”
Those levers are IT cost control strategies, IT demand management, and discretionary cuts.
Our 2009 CIO Role Survey shows that CIOs expect the importance of business tasks in their portfolio to increase much more quickly than technology tasks over the next two years. This points to the need for a new skill-set for the next generation of CIOs.
Each slide shows the percentage of IT pros surveyed who responded in a particular way.
A reading list that will help you get your point across.
By Ericka Chickowski
CIOs are under more pressure than ever to influence the business bottom line, but old ideas about IT die hard, according to CIO Insight's 2009 CIO Role Survey. Top IT executives in the firms we surveyed believe strongly that the CIO role will change over time: less focused specifically on technology and more on the exploitation (and protection) of company information as part of a broad portfolio.
The Information Systems Audit Control Association (ISACA), a nonprofit group that represents 86,000 IT governance, audit and security practitioners across the globe, recently conducted a survey of 500 IT pros about technology investments and an evaluation of their returns. Here’s a recap of the findings.
Successful projects require big-picture vision, attention to detail, and persistence. Failures, meanwhile, can be highly instructive. These books show how technology jobs bring out the best and the worst in people.
As fears of a Swine Flu pandemic grow, issues of business and IT continuity come into focus. This information comes from SunGard Availability Services. By Bruce F. Webster
With IT budgets frozen or pared back, you need to handle any staff reductions carefully to ensure that you hold onto your best engineers and
managers.
[Copyright (c) 2009 by Bruce F. Webster]
PowerPoint is not inherently evil, but it sure feels that way when you are trapped in the audience for a bad presentation.
Some people just don’t get the concept. You know who we’re talking about - the folks who read each slide, word for word, instead of leveraging the illustrative and explanatory power of the medium.
But even the best of speakers look bad when they are accompanied by amateurish slide decks. If you’ve ever fallen prey to any of these blunders, it is time to think about revising your next presentation’s slides.
Times are tough and many organizations may be in survival mode, but CIOs are still spending, according to a recent survey conducted by Robert Half International. The firm’s research shows that the majority of organizations still plan on investing on IT initiatives in the next 12 months.
Robert Half International recently asked 1,400 CIOs at United States-based companies with 100 or more employees: "Which areas, if any, will your IT department be investing in over the next 12 months?"
Read Tony Kontzer's analysis of the spending report, which says the cheerful aspects are not really so cheerful. by Ericka Chickowski
Learning from your mistakes is good. Learning from others’ mistakes is even better. We looked at 12 major IT failures to learn more about how and why they happened.
Each example is unique, but they all have something in common: a chain reaction of pain that rippled through the entire business or organization. Whatever the specifics, breakdowns within the IT organization are rarely contained. They can lose a business customers, they can cause lawsuits, and in some instances they can even shut a business down.
The development of business requirements and project parameters can make or break an IT project.
The data in this slideshow comes from an IAG Consulting report called Business Analysis Benchmark, which was culled from a survey of over 100 organizations which carried out IT development projects with an average budget of around $3 million.
A key takeway: mixed project-planning teams that include business and IT people tend to get the best results.
Based on distributed computing technologies Google has publicly disclosed, Hadoop provides an open source implementation for other companies with very large data analysis challenges, including Yahoo! and Facebook.
The free software, named for a toy elephant, now runs on some of the largest sites on the Web.
Each season brings a slew of interesting books. This spring is no different. Works from consultants, academics and business leaders dominate the top offerings, covering topics like IT leadership, collaboration, IT careers, customer strategy and innovation.
Note: publication dates are subject to change.
See also: Must-Read Winter BooksBig companies like Wal-Mart are backing an electronic health
records consortium called Dossia. The impact on the business and practice of healthcare could be profound.
For an in-depth view of Dossia, see this article. Social networking and rich media bring new threats to your data security. A report from MessageLabs, a unit of Symantec, describes several problems cropping up in the Web 2.0 world.
A new study by Computer Economics, "Insider Misuse of Computing Resources," looked at security risks posted by employees who inadvertently expose their organizations to possible information loss or compromise. The survey included 100 IT security professionals and executives.
External threats to data security are clear, says Computer Economics president Frank Scavo, but the nature of internal threats may be less so. For example, over one-third of organizations surveyed lack policies against loading sensitive data onto portable storage devices like USB flash drives. This practice recently compromised a secure data network at the Pentagon.
By Ericka Chickowski
India is home to the most mature IT outsourcing companies of all offshore host countries, but no place is perfect. Indian outsourcing firms may not suit a company due to rising costs as the Indian market matures, culture and language issues, and even time zone issues. And some enterprises are looking for a way to diversify their sourcing portfolios.
The following ten countries are hotspots of ATI, or alternatives to India. This list is based on our conversations with Frank Casale, CEO of the Outsourcing Institute, and Allen Weinberg, principal and North American leader of McKinsey & Company’s Outsourcing and Offshoring Practice, as well as the recent report, “Gartner's 30 Leading Locations for Offshore Services.”
With IT resources stretched thin, enterprises are finding that outsourcing various aspects of mobile deployments can make sense. Yet CIOs are discovering that deploying and managing thousands of mobile devices can be a daunting task. These tips for mobility strategy come from Enterprise Mobile CEO Mort Rosenthal. Perception matters. Simply delivering great work is no longer enough to ensure that IT is positioned strategically versus whatever third-party services are out there in the marketplace.
Dan Roberts, president of Ouellette & Associates and contributing author to Leading IT Transformation: The Roadmap for Success, says the recession makes marketing more important than ever. “How many vendors, consultants, outsourcers and even shadow IT groups are right now pitching their services within your company?,” he asks.
While IT executives may be uncomfortable with the idea, Roberts says they need to learn how to promote their own organizations. Here are six reasons IT marketing makes sense.
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.
Support from the CEO and other C-suite executives can be critical to the outcome of major IT initiatives, and working closely with these alleged peers in senior management is a measure of CIO success.
But many CIOs, particularly those who came up through the tech ranks, find it daunting to develop a good relationship with the CEO. Relationship-building is an organic and there certainly is no magic formula to it, but there are a few ways to help the process along.
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.
The Great Recession, as some are calling it, is different in some important ways from previous economic downturns. Tom Silver, Chief Marketing Officer of Dice.com, looks at key differences for technology workers.
As economic forecasts predict an ever-lengthening recession, CIOs will continue to be called upon to trim costs and create better operational efficiencies.
We spoke with Frank Casale, CEO and chairman of the Outsourcing Institute, and Allen Weinberg, principal and North American leader of McKinsey & Company’s Outsourcing and Offshoring Practice, about IT functions with the biggest potential for outsourcing or offshoring.
The Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report, a survey of over 1,400 CIOs at companies with more than 100 employees, shows a slowdown in hiring plans for the second quarter of this year. But some jobs, industries, and regions still project solid growth.
How well do Open Source and Software-as-a-Service options stack up to traditional, proprietary products? J. Schwan, managing partner with Solstice Consulting in Chicago, compared several factors and ranked the three categories in relation to each other. Schwan says, “To be successful in this economic environment, we should find creative ways to stop paying license and support fees for commoditized services and save those dollars for what really is going to give us an edge—our people.”
Money is tight, but CIOs are planning to spend on dozens of technologies. To determine which technologies will get the most budget dollars, we created the CIO Insight Growth Score, which calculates 2009 budget growth scaled to the percentage of companies that spent in 2008, plus the change from 2008 spending.
See the rest of the spending survey: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Also, a look behind the numbers. Money is tight, but CIOs are planning to spend on dozens of technologies. To determine which technologies will get the most budget dollars, we created the CIO Insight Growth Score, which calculates 2009 budget growth scaled to the percentage of companies that spent in 2008, plus the change from 2008 spending.
See the rest of the spending survey: Part 1, Part 2, Money is tight, but CIOs are planning to spend on dozens of technologies. To determine which technologies will get the most budget dollars, we created the CIO Insight Growth Score, which calculates 2009 budget growth scaled to the percentage of companies that spent in 2008, plus the change from 2008 spending.
Money is tight, but CIOs are planning to spend on dozens of technologies. To determine which technologies will get the most budget dollars, we created the CIO Insight Growth Score, which calculates 2009 budget growth scaled to the percentage of companies that spent in 2008, plus the change from 2008 spending. See the rest of the survey: Part 1; Parts 3 & 4, coming soon. One of the better moments of the recent Academy Awards telecast involved Jessica Biel waxing ecstatic about software. The actress was congratulating Ed Catmull, who wrote the computer graphics software that's become the industry standard for Hollywood. Biel also gave a shout out to Jerry Lewis, who holds the patent on a key piece of movie-making technology.
Without technology, Hollywood wouldn't exist, and technology has continued to remake the art of film across the generations. Here's our celebration of geeks and film.
Business books are a lot like fitness books. You read them for inspiration, maybe for a stray bit of wisdom here and there. But mostly you read them to beat yourselves in the head with stuff you already know.
We get that, really we do, and we understand that part of the reason why hundreds of business books come off the presses every year with the same repackaged information is because people still need to learn those lessons.
Still, a few of the clichés, conventions and genres seem tired enough to warrant an intervention.
Part 1 of 4Money is tight, but CIOs are planning to spend on dozens of technologies. To determine which technologies will get the most budget dollars, we created the CIO Insight Growth Score, which calculates 2009 budget growth scaled to the percentage of companies that spent in 2008, plus the change from 2008 spending. See the rest of the survey: Part 2; Parts 3 & 4, coming soon. How can you make sure that your organization's business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) programs remain robust enough to protect your company during an extended economic downturn? William DiMartini, vice-president of consulting operations at SunGard Availability Services, poses some key questions to consider.
2009 seems likely to be a bad year for IT pay, but data from research-firm Computer Economics projects slight growth, with developers leading the pack. The biggest question is, of course, will even this slim growth hold up? by Bob Violino
Deloitte's 6th Annual Global Security Survey shows the top
priorities and problems revealed by internal and external audits.
By Lex Alexander
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Print journalism is in a tailspin. Embracing the Web is the obvious solution, but how is that best done? Lex Alexander, who spearheaded a well-regarded new media effort at the Greensboro, NC, News & Record, offers these tips. Notice that a few start with the word “invest,” which is counter to much recent industry wisdom. Demand for outsourcing dropped 5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 from the previous quarter, according to sourcing firm EquaTerra’s poll of outsourcing service providers and its own advisors.
The study also investigated the primary reasons why outsourcing deals get delayed, altered or killed altogether.
Even when you're traveling, useful information is as close as your iPod or laptop. Here's a selection of podcasts to keep you in the know while you're on the go.
The recession is helping to drive home the fact that open source is enterprise-ready in a lot of areas. Flexible pricing and mature products make the once-exotic software ready for prime time.
Technology alone could not have saved the financial industry from itself. But banks and investment firms can do a lot to save themselves - and us - from similar problems in the future.
10 Tips for Managing with Reduced Headcount
Need some guidance for doing your job better? Check out these 15 new and upcoming books for insight into leadership, management and technology.
As analysts scramble to update IT spending projections with smaller and smaller numbers, CIOs and IT managers know they’ll have to do more with less in 2009.
Check out CIO Insight's picks of the top achievers and underachievers of 2008.
Some huge names in the technology world had a tough time in 2008. See who's hoping for better times in 2009.
Check out CIO Insight's picks for the top technology achievers of 2008.
As expected, cost-cutting goals have expanded, but it’s not the whole ballgame in 2009. Here’s what more than 220 IT executives listed as their top priorities in business, management and technology priorities.
Some of the biggest technology headlines in 2008 were also the biggest shocks. See which stories made waves.
Our list of the most monumental events of 2008, all of which should influence the IT industry for years to come.
Here's a look at the top 40 IT firms in our 2008 Vendor Value survey.
Here's a look at the third tier of IT firms in our 2008 Vendor Value survey.
Here's a look at our third installment from our 2008 Vendor Value survey. Technology firms are ranked by overall score.
Here's a look at the top 10 IT firms in our 2008 Vendor Value survey, ranked in order of overall score.
The first installment in our four-part series from our 2008 Vendor Value survey.
Web 2.0 is changing the way business and society function. Read up on how these tools can help your company.
High-ranking IT executives are much more likely to receive strong incentive-pay packages, according to research from Computer Economics. Technical and non-technical staffers also enjoy the benefit, but not nearly as much as their bosses. Check out how the levels of incentive pay differ across different IT jobs.
Research from security software maker BitDefender reveals computer users' security concerns.
Overall IT worker confidence rose in the third quarter, signaling a degree of optimism despite the downturn. But there's a catch.
Looking for inspiration on leadership? We've picked 10 compelling books that capture what it takes to lead.
Barack Obama's use of technology could well reinvent the political `ground game` as we know it. A look inside Obama's tech strategy, which includes a heavy dose of social networking and wireless collaboration, as well as what John McCain is doing to counter.
Executives see business process improvement as a profitability booster in good times and bad, but it’s getting more attention as economic uncertainty looms. Here’s what IT leaders told us about their motivations for using BPI in the downturn.
Improving business processes is no easy task, but certain technologies help more than others. We asked 176 IT leaders about the tools they’re using for business process improvement. Here’s what they said.
Telecommuting is helping businesses see gains productivity and employee retention, but lower morale and security risks pose hurdles.
Tech pros feel strongly about making the world a better place—but the definition of IT’s role is changing to include some core IT functions.
Enterprise technology, IT management and leadership are all covered in this preview of the best books on the way this season.
Network and Windows administrators top the most-wanted skills, with virtualization, .NET and CRM pros further down the list.
Security, fear of the unknown keep businesses from adopting buzzworthy social technologies, new research finds.
Trying to keep top talent on board? Here are 11 proven tactics.
Is your company looking to go green? Here's how 227 IT leaders told us they're doing it at their firms.
We asked IT executives about their company’s motivation for launching green initiatives. The results appear to mark a drastic change in the conscience of Corporate America.
IT pros are growing more cynical about the economy and the IT job market, according to new research.
A study finds some big strategic and functional disparities between CIOs reporting to CEOs or CFOs.
A look at the most proven tactics IT shops use to combat new obstacles to corporate mobility
CIOs and other IT leaders say the rise in enterprise mobility leaves their organizations vulnerable to new security and compliance challenges.
Businesses and their employees benefit from increased connectedness away from the office. Here’s what IT leaders cited as the top advantages to increased enterprise mobility.
Here's our selection of 15 books to help business-technology professionals manage and innovate.
IT hiring will rise, but execs still face significant obstacles.
Strategic, budgetary and ROI concerns can end an IT project almost before it begins.
Businesses clearly have different motivations for investing in emerging technologies.
Who said CIOs can’t have a direct impact on revenue generation? IT leaders say these technologies help boost their companies' finances.
A number of hyped-up tools have finally hit the mainstream, according to CIO Insight’s new research.
Some of the tools used widely without IT support tend to be the ones CIOs find least strategic. Does that suggest a generational disconnect? Looking to boost your paycheck? See these characteristics of well-paid IT executives.
CIOs face significant obstacles in meshing collaboration tools into their IT strategies. Here’s a look at the biggest hurdles they face, and why they matter.
With a struggling economy and a clear shortage of qualified IT staff, what's keeping IT chiefs up at night?
Pros, Cons of Offshore Locales
IT departments are throwing more and more money into a handful of technologies. The returns they bring in could be the difference between fending off the downturn or facing the CFO's axe.
No one likes cutting costs, but for today’s CIOs, it may become a necessity. Here’s how. A look at five books that open the door to what China could become.
CFOs are increasingly overseeing IT. Here's how CIOs must respond.
A number of new issues have crept onto CIOs' radars this year.
Customer service and process improvement rank high for 2008.
Many goals remain, but their scope is widening.
Recognizing a generation gap is only half the battle. Here's how CIOs can curb potential setbacks.
How IT managers can recognize the potentially problematic gaps between different age groups.
We asked top IT executives what they expect this year. See what they're planning for.
CIO Insight picked the year's top books in management, strategy and leadership.
Alignment has been a top priority for years. These books can help CIOs achieve real results.
Red Hat get top honors in this year's rankings, with Google skyrocketing toward the top.
They have their reasons, and often they overlap. Here's why they leave, and what CIOs need to watch out for.
Keeping top talent on board is a top priority for CIOs. Here are some tactics that get results.
Looking to move up the IT ladder? First you need to see what's in your way.
A look at the most compelling works on management in recent years.
What company will be the next major success? Here are a few possibilities.
IT executives have specific criteria they look for in new workers. A glimpse of the traits they're seeking.
A skills shortage, getting IT and business aligned and understanding their evolving role as leaders are among the top management concerns of CIOs, according to a survey by the Society for Information Management conducted by Professor Jerry Luftman, assoc
Social networking appeals to business users for many reasons. The software makes it easy to find people and information, understand the relationships and communication patterns that make a company tick and create a common culture across large organization
Have you ever wondered what route CIOs have taken on their way to the top of the IT organization? CIO Insight asked 291 CIOs what experiences they had or positions they held for at least three years during their careers. What follows are their responses a
Staff expenses—salaries, benefits, bonuses, training and travel—can represent nearly one-third of IT budgets, and become prime targets for some CIOs to reign in costs. CIO Insight surveyed top IT executives to determine how they control costs,
CIO Insight surveyed 255 senior IT executives and managers about the techniques they use to manage IT costs. Here are a dozen techniques ranked in order of their potential savings.
It's tough to protect children from the dangers of the Internet because the dangers are so many and are changing all the time. Gregory S. Smith, CIO of the World Wildlife Fund, has applied the skills and research honed during his many years in IT to the c
Virtual worlds such as Second Life can help businesses achieve numerous goals such as selling products and collaborating with customers. Edward Roche, council manager for the business group The Conference Board, suggests asking eight key questions before
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The Top 100 most influential people in IT—numbers 50-26.
Slide Show: Who are the 100 most influential people in IT? Check out the list—numbers 100-76.
The Top 100 most influential people in IT—numbers 75-51.
Top 100 most influential people in IT—numbers 25-1.
Odds are your CEO has an outdated notion of what IT is and is not. Since you like your job, you'll probably never tell him. But George Colony, chairman and CEO of Forrester Research, will if you'd let him.
The slides show the number of people working in different segments of the IT industry, and the gain or loss of jobs over the past five years.
Topics cover everything from career development, to project management, to programming practices.
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