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<item><title>5 CIO Priorities for the Upturn</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:02:21 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The global economy has begun a fragile recovery from a shattering recession. CIOs must now focus on opportunities for growth and important technology trends, while continuing to drive down costs.<br/>   -  Before the global economy took a nosedive in 2008, business leaders were looking to IT to help drive their companies growth efforts. They sought to transform business processes and operations with information, and wanted IT to play an active role in attracting customers, developing new products and ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cloud Computing, Mobility Gain Focus for 2010</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:32:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Cloud computing and new mobility technologies gain focus as IT executives look beyond cost-cutting to new productivity and growth opportunities.<br/>   -  CIOs can be forgiven for feeling a bit jaded about the kind of chart shown on the right-hand page of this story. After all, how often have you heard that a new technology was going to be a huge trend this year? And how often did that actually pan out? 
Click image to download a printable PDF of the...]]></description>
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<item><title>The Secrets of Software Success</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:38:44 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Research/The-Secrets-of-Software-Success-471757/?kc=rss</link>
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<![CDATA[CIOs struggle with getting effective software adoption. They need to take stronger leadership of these deployments or take all the blame.<br/>   -  Businesses can routinely spend millions of dollars on software packages that show enormous promise. But what happens when no one uses them? 
  
Enterprisewide software adoption is always an uphill battle. And when business leaders sour on investments due to low usage, they point the blame right at...]]></description>
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<item><title>Top 40 Tech Vendors of 2009 – 10-1</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:28:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Our annual Vendor Value Study reveals what CIOs think of their hardware, software, security, telecom and networking providers in terms of value, reliability and loyalty. Here are the top winners for 2009.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Top 40 Tech Vendors of 2009 – 20-11</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:12:55 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Our annual Vendor Value Study reveals what CIOs think of their hardware, software, security, telecom and networking providers in terms of value, reliability and loyalty. Here are the vendors ranked 20 through 11.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Top 40 Tech Vendors of 2009, 30-21</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:41:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Our annual Vendor Value Study reveals what CIOs think of their hardware, software, security, telecom and networking providers in terms of value, reliability and loyalty. Here are the technology companies ranked 30 to 21.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Vendor Value 2009: IT Vendors Deliver More</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:32:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[What a difference a recession makes: Most vendors have raised their value proposition significantly over the past year, making customers more satisfied. Vendors that havent responded fell in our rankings.<br/>   -  Tough times create opportunities for those resourceful enough to react. 
Thats forcefully evident in the results of our 2009 Vendor Value Study, where vendors could not maintain their positions if they were only able to maintain their customers satisfaction levels and not improve them. 
From 2008 ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Top 40 Tech Vendors of 2009 – 40-31</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:54:09 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Our annual Vendor Value Study reveals what CIOs think of their hardware, software, security, telecom and networking providers in terms of value, reliability and loyalty. Here are how IT executives ranked Nos. 40 down to 31.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Top 40 Tech Vendors of 2009</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:41:14 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Research/Top-40-Tech-Vendors-of-2009-875633/?kc=rss</link>
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<![CDATA[Our annual Vendor Value Study reveals what CIOs think of their hardware, software, security, telecom and networking providers in terms of value, reliability and loyalty.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Increasing IT Capability While Cutting Costs</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:39:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[To best position IT operations for success, CIOs must strive to find sustainable reductions in fixed IT costs. Heres how.<br/>   -  By Jeanne G. Harris, Allan E. Alter and Michael K. Nieves
Reducing IT costs while improving IT capabilities may appear to be a paradox. But by focusing on fixed IT costs and following a strategy of sustained cost reduction, organizations can invest in new capabilities and innovation and prepare for...]]></description>
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<item><title>The 2010 IT Budget</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:15:31 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The Society for Information Management recently polled CIOs about their IT spending priorities and plans for dollar allocation in the coming year.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>CIO Priorities for 2010</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:00:44 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The Society for Information Management (SIM) surveyed CIOs and IT executive leaders about their top priorities for 2010, based on a list of 20 IT and business concerns.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>IBM CIO Study Cites Business Skills as Key Priority</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:21:01 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Big Blues new survey of more than 2,500 IT leaders finds that CIOs spend more time driving business goals than managing the IT operation.<br/>   -  IBMs newly released Global CIO study sends a loud signal to those who still focus on tactical IT operations: Its time to shift gears.
The executive summary of the study, which surveyed more than 2,500 IT leaders across the globe, states something most CIOs know: The best IT leaders are strategic th...]]></description>
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<item><title>Finding IT`s Business Value</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:52:45 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Research/Finding-ITs-Business-Value-759402/?kc=rss</link>
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<![CDATA[Both IT and the business say theyre not aligned. New research and analysis sheds light on how to overcome the disconnect.<br/>   -  In a recent Forrester survey, only 15 percent of IT leaders declared themselves to be fully aligned with the business. 
What that tells us is that IT-business alignment isnt just a problem its a plague. 
Business executives paint a similar picture. Nearly 80 percent of the 600 business executives ...]]></description>
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<item><title>The Human Element of IT</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:50:39 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Research/The-Human-Element-of-IT-894033/?kc=rss</link>
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<![CDATA[A new study reveals the impacts of personality-driven 
behavior on effective IT leadership and technology adoption.<br/>   -  IT leadership matters thats widely accepted wisdom.

But is it possible for a few key roles in the IT-business relationship to determine the level of effective IT adoption?

Can the motivations and behaviors of a few key IT players be the butterfly in the IT value tsunami?

Our recent study of...]]></description>
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