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<item><title>Cisco CIO: Building a Collaboration Network</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:23:38 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cisco Systems CIO Rebecca Jacoby explains her firm's internal collaboration initiative and how it boosted productivity.   -  For too long, cios viewed collaboration technologies as an experiment, a “nice to have” tool to appease certain factions of their staff. With growing pressures to cut costs and boost productivity, though, more CIOs are turning to collaboration to drive their business forward. 
Cisco Systems CIO Reb...]]></description>
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<item><title>Could IT Have Saved Citigroup?</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:25:19 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Analysis: wall street crisis   -  It wasnt uncommon for big-bank ceos to talk about the importance of IT to their operations at least, back when they still had operations worth talking about. 
They hired top CIOs, integrated them closely with the business and paid them CFO-level salaries. And why not? Banks pushed electronic repres...]]></description>
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<item><title>Big Tech Firms Get Bigger</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:25:12 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[   -  The big fish are feeding.

As we predicted in this space last year, tough economic times are turning into a buying opportunity for large technology companies. During a recession, “Corporations have the upper hand theyre not bidding against private equity, and no ones going public,” Brenon Daly, a ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Obama Half-Steps on Information Security</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:25:07 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[   -  Information security vets have been waiting with bated breath for Barack Obamas first move regarding cybersecurity. They can exhale at least a little now. 
In February, the president named Melissa Hathaway acting senior director for cyberspace of the National Security Council and the Homeland Secur...]]></description>
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<item><title>Seeing Through the Cloud</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:32:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A Q&amp;A with Howard Rubin   -  When Howard Rubin speaks, people listen. And when the subject is cloud computing, todays IT leaders many of whom are attempting to chart nascent cloud strategies are bound to lean forward a little farther in their chairs.

CIO Insight contributor Tony Kontzer recently spoke with Rubin, an IT bench...]]></description>
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<item><title>Scandal Unnerves Offshoring Clients</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:03:21 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cooked books at Satyam give customers pause.   -  The news last year was that Indian outsourcers were behaving more like their U.S. counterparts: moving up the value chain into software development and consulting and even acquiring Western companies.

The news this year is that the bad habits of U.S. companies translate, too. 
Evidence that Indi...]]></description>
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<item><title>What Is IT Transformation, Really?</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:03:18 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Is &quot;transformation&quot; just more jargon, or something real?   -  Anyone involved with information technology suffers from buzzword fatigue, and the jargon keeps coming. “IT transformation” has become a popular piece of the techie vernacular, but what it means depends on whom you ask. Query 10 CIOs or IT executives about the basic definition of transformation, and...]]></description>
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<item><title>Sex, Drugs, Rock `n` Roll and Your Web Site</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:03:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lively up your website, and the world will follow.   -  The recent request for bailout funds by pornographers Larry Flynt and Joe Francis seemingly tongue in cheek, certain to be ignored by Washington is a reminder that sex is serious business in the online age. Its not just a bad economy that afflicts the smut merchants, its competition from online porn...]]></description>
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<item><title>Planning for a Tough Year</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:03:12 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Even in a brutal economy, opportunities exist.   -  John Baschab, managing director of the staffing firm Technisource Management Services and co-author of The Executives Guide to Information Technology and The Professional Services Firm Bible, sees a tough year ahead for many IT shops and vendors. But he also sees opportunities. “Unless youre giving ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Business Process Improvement</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:25:52 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[CIOs and their deputies look to business process improvement to cut costs, boost productivity and enhance revenue.   -  The financial crisis and the subsequent market shake-ups havent rippled too horribly through IT shops, but uncertainty still looms. Should they get hit, IT leaders will face a plethora of tough decisions. 
When it comes to cutting costs, boosting productivity and enhancing revenue, CIOs and their d...]]></description>
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<item><title>What Political Polling Tells Us About Business Intelligence</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:39:59 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Nate Silver, the numbers whiz whose statistical model allowed him to call the presidential primaries and the general election, explains the implications for business intelligence and IT management.   -  Few people had a better 2008 than Nate Silver. The 30-year-old numbers whiz fed polling data and election returns into a statistical model he designed, allowing him to call the presidential primaries and the general election with uncanny accuracy and turning his Web site, FiveThirtyEight.com (named ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Telecom Firms Get Poor Reviews</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:36:51 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Each year, telecommunications providers rate far lower than their counterparts in hardware, software, networking and security. CIOs must choose very, very carefully.   -  Each year, the CIO Insight Vendor Value survey reveals some telling trends in the way businesses view their IT providers. One constant: Telecommunications firms typically rank far below their counterparts in hardware, software, networking and security. 
We rank IT firms based on an overall average ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Good and Bad News on Spam</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:32:57 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Some spam appears to be profitable, so don't expect it to go away. But that's where security technology can play a crucial role.   -  A team of computer scientists has published a paper called “Spamalytics,” which they say represents “the first large-scale quantitative study of spam conversion.” The researchers  from the nonprofit International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, Calif., and the University of California, San D...]]></description>
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<item><title>Debating IT`s True Value</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:21:03 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The rise of IT services offers a unique opportunity for IT shops to measure their true value. But not everyone agrees.   -  One of the few bright spots in these tough times has been the market for IT services. Amidst all the gloomy headlines the talent shortage, the economic and financial crises, layoffs and lowered forecasts from the tech industry, rising unemployment in the broader economy IT services employment has go...]]></description>
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<item><title>Robert Scoble on Corporate Blogging</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:05:01 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Robert Scoble, who took corporate blogging mainstream, explains the potential for Web 2.0 tools in the enterprise, and why too many companies haven't figured them out.   -  Robert Scoble is the guy who took corporate blogging mainstream and wrote a book about business blogging. In 2003, he moved his popular Scobleizer blog to Microsoft, giving the software giant a much-needed human face. 
Since then, blogs and other Web 2.0 tools have become commonplace in the enterpr...]]></description>
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