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<item><title>CIO Careers: Why You Don't Get What You Want</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:49:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If youre struggling to identify what you really want from your professional career, youre not alone. In fact, its been my experience that this is a very difficult question for nearly all CIOs to answer.   -  The reason CIOs (and most IT
professionals for that matter) dont get what they want is because they
dont know what they want. 
Think Im pushing it?
Does it feel to you like Im being a bit heavy handed? OK. Go ahead. Ask yourself. What do you really want from your professional career?
What do yo...]]></description>
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<item><title>CIOs at Risk: Four Areas to Watch</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:56:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The velocity of technological change is providing improved business functionality for organizations that have previously operated with a smaller internal IT footprint. But this change comes at a cost, creating a new set of risks that CIOs must effectively manage to be successful.   -  David Nichols is CIO Services Leader, Geoff Vickrey is Enabling
Technologies Leader, and Bob Sydow is Area Center of Excellence Leader
for Ernst  amp; Young LLP
Virtualization and cloud computing, social media, mobile and other disruptive technologies are converging to create something like the p...]]></description>
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<item><title>Managing Information in Litigation: How to Avoid Spending a Fortune</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:54:07 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The costs of preserving, searching and reviewing information in litigation can be staggering.  What costs a dollar to store on a hard drive can easily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to search and review for a lawsuit. Ignoring or destroying salient information prior to or during a lawsuit can lead to losing a case regardless of the merits of the actual claim and spending a small fortune litigating the issue of whether you have met your discovery obligations. The solution? Take steps to budget, hire and manage information properly on the front end; corral discovery costs; and avoid Luddite lawyers.   -  A bevy of published articles bemoan the escalating costs of discovery -- the process during litigation in which the parties are required to exchange information. Given the informational nature of discovery, the CIO should help effectively manage information and control the associated costs.
The dis...]]></description>
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<item><title>IT Consolidation: What Every CIO Needs to Know</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:38:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The IT team at Northeastern Illinois is severely overburdened with the challenge of managing existing IT services while also addressing new educational and operational requirements, says Kim Tracy, Executive Director of the school's University Technology Services. Enter cloud computing. &quot;By moving IT services to the cloud, we can offload the complexity of the current IT environment and improve services to our faculty and students and provide the best learning experience possible,&quot; he says.   -   For many CIOs, the following scenario is all too familiar: You step into a new role at an organization and inherit a highly fragmented IT environment and are immediately charged with consolidating processes, infrastructure and services. Such was the case when I arrived at Northeastern Illinois Univ...]]></description>
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<item><title>More Data, More Problems</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:32:53 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When it comes to data, too much of a good thing can indeed become a bad thing. These five tips will help you make sense of the exponentially expanding volume of data we're all facing.   -  I have memories of my mother telling me when I was a kid not to bite off more than I could chew. That seems to be the biggest challenge with big data.
There is so much of it, we cant seem to figure out how to capture it, store it, search it, analyze it or visualize it. It is simply overwhelming. Wh...]]></description>
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<item><title>Managing Big Data: Six Operational Challenges</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:32:48 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Its interesting to note that the performance of today's comparatively larger storage arrays isnt intrinsically much better than I was getting in 1980 -- maybe twice as fast for data retrieval. There's just a lot more data being stored, and the cost per stored bit is way down. Some of the same operational challenges are still around, too.   -  When I first started running programs that dealt with big data meaning both a lot of data about something or somebody and a lot of things or people to have some data about big was actually pretty small.
 I once built a system for a modern 300-bed hospital that ran everything (including patient reco...]]></description>
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<item><title>Big Data: How Kodak Gallery Sees the Big Picture</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:32:43 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The big data era may make some companies nervous. But we are exploiting it, leveraging it, learning from it. You might say we get the &quot;big picture&quot; into our business that big data gives us.   -  By Laurent Valadares
As an online destination for storing and transforming photos for more than a decade with more than 70 million customers and billions of images stored Kodak Gallery has the big data in-house to prove it. In addition to our massive image data sets, we process nearly 15GB of new t...]]></description>
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<item><title>Making the Most of Big Data: Four Key Technology Considerations</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:32:37 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We have two factors intersecting: a never-before-seen wealth of data from transactions and interactions, plus a new level of technology innovation to drive down costs. There are four key technology considerations for todays CIO looking to capitalize on big (and diverse) data.   -  Big data is a reality for every IT group whose job is to provide the business with information about its customers, prospects and markets in a manner that is quick, easy and efficient. Balancing this with capital and operational cost constraints is the hardest part. The good news is that we have two...]]></description>
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<item><title>IT Leadership: Overcoming Three Career-Limiting Myths</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:13:01 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Do you believe that IT leadership is only applicable to those with formal responsibility to manage others? If so, then you've fallen prey to the three false and highly limiting beliefs about IT leadership. These three beliefs are held by IT pros on all rungs of the organizational ladder.   -  What exactly is IT leadership?
Since I spend an awful lot of my time teaching leadership skills to IT professionals and managers, its a question I get asked on a regular basis.   For a while, I answered the question with a synthesized review of different academic theories of leadership and how thes...]]></description>
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<item><title>Managing Big Data: What Every CIO Needs to Know</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:23:42 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Experienced CIOs see the opportunities presented by &quot;Big Data&quot; in context. They know that maximizing big data to deliver real business results will require a focused strategy that leverages and protects their existing data assets, develops new capabilities that are production-ready and reusable, and is able to manage the deluge of new data that will be created in the process.   -  Advances in information technology over the past five decades have been nothing short of breathtaking. Consider: We are now able to place sophisticated processers, enormous memory, and high-bandwidth networks into inexpensive, yet powerful, consumer products effectively connecting billions of people...]]></description>
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<item><title>What IT Leaders Need Most in 2012</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:27:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Wishing you a 2012 filled with much professional dissatisfaction. Heres why.   -  As usual, in the run up to the New Year, tech media are littered with “top 10” lists and forecasting articles about the year to come. Consulting firms, research analysts, and tech publications (including CIO Insight) are calling on IT professionals and leaders to heed their advice and align to their...]]></description>
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<item><title>When Work Gets Personal</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:30:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We have all seen the steady blurring of the lines between work and nonwork over the past couple of decades. In far too many cases, corporate policy hasnt kept up with whats actually happening. Infrastructure isnt free, and allowing employees to use it for nonbusiness purposes has an opportunity cost, if not an actual expense. Here's a look at the emerging issues CIOs will have to contend with in 2012.   -  We have all seen the steady blurring of the lines between work and nonwork over the past couple of decades. Work at home. Work while traveling or commuting. Work while on vacation. Alongside this intertwining of business and personal time has been an intertwining of work and personal technology. We ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Making the Leap from CIO to CEO</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:29:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A CIO turned CEO shares lessons learned as he climbed the C-Suite ladder.   -  These days you hear a handful of stories of CIOs making the jump to CEO. Once a rare occurrence, such a career move has now entered the realm of the possible for some executives. Although its certainly not an easy path, if executed correctly, it can be very rewarding. As a former CIO of a large tech...]]></description>
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<item><title>Five Questions to Answer Before You Commit IT Budget Dollars</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:56:03 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Its critical to get a fresh snapshot of the business when deciding where budget resources will be allocated. Heres a mashup of questions CIOs should be answering before making those decisions, courtesy of Phil Garland, U.S. CIO advisory services leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Craig Symons, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research   -  No matter how long a CIO has been on the job, its critical to get a fresh snapshot of the business when deciding where budget resources will be allocated. (For more on this topic, check out our feature article 2012 IT Investments: Leading CIOs Share Their Plans and our exclusive research report Wher...]]></description>
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<item><title>2012 IT Investments: Leading CIOs Share Their Plans</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:48:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[CIOs from Hyatt Hotels, health care staffing company Schumacher Group and engineering firm Psomas share their IT spending priorities. A common theme runs through all industry sectors: Each is focused on ensuring that its IT environment is agile enough to handle emerging IT delivery models.   -  Welcome to budget season, the annual end-of-year hand-wringing process during which CIOs determine where precious IT budget dollars will be spent in the year ahead. Amid all of the breathless predictions about where 2012s IT dollars will go Cloud! Social! Mobile! exactly how any one particular CIO w...]]></description>
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