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<item><title>The Best Technology Vendors and Providers, Part 2</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:31:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Here's a look at the third tier of IT firms in our 2008 Vendor Value survey.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>The Best Technology Vendors and Providers, Part 3</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:31:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Here's a look at our third installment from our 2008 Vendor Value survey. Technology firms are ranked by overall score.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>The Best Technology Vendors and Providers, Part 4</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:31:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Here's a look at the top 10 IT firms in our 2008 Vendor Value survey, ranked in order of overall score.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>The Best Technology Vendors and Providers, Part 1</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:57:02 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The first installment in our four-part series from our 2008 Vendor Value survey.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Easing CIOs` Pain for Meeting Business Expectations</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:42:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Some well established processes can help IT become a true contributor to business success.<br/>   -  In an ideal world, CIOs would manage a well coordinated stream of requests for new and enhanced business capabilities from their customers: the managers of the businesses IT serves. 
Requests would be well articulated and sufficiently detailed so it would be easy to estimate the resources required ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Vendor Value Survey: Top Ten Charts</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[A look at how IT providers stack up in reliability, loyalty and value. <br/>   -  






Additional quick peeks at the biggest winners and losers in the Vendor Value survey: 
Most Frequently Voted Excellent or Poor

Although our ratings report the percentages who rate a vendor as either  quot;excellent quot; or  quot;good, quot; the respondents are given four choices:  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>5 Smart Practices for IT Risk, &lt;br&gt;Governance and Compliance</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:27:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[After interviewing CIOs and other experts, we offer five smart practices for IT governance, risk and compliance.<br/>   -  Even if the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 had never come along, the panoply of compliance, risk and governance issues facing American corporations in the 21st century already was expanding quite nicely, thank you. The impact of  quot;Sarbox quot; mostly was to shift things into overdrive.
  
 quot;Wh...]]></description>
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<item><title>5 CIOs on Surviving at the Top</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:18:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Leading CIOs tackle how to reward success, deal with corporate boards and know when to say,  quot;no. quot;<br/>   -  





The CIOs on…

How to say 'no'
 


Interacting with boards of directors
 


Using money to motivate staff
 


Going beyond IT (and into operations)


Roundtable participants
 
How this feature was put together



Next page: How to say 'no'
 
 'no' quot; gt;
What'...]]></description>
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<item><title>Campaign 2008</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>June 2007 Research Study: Recruitment and Retention</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[When companies don?t commit to their
employees, employees won?t commit to their
companies. CIOs must ask whether they are
better off with loyal employees or a more fluid
workforce.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Resource Center: Security</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 09:23:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[A topical collection of CIO Insight Case Studies, Expert Voices and Research.<br/>   -   


 Security 2.0

The advent of Web 2.0 brings many exciting opportunities for corporate innovation. Don't let security challenges stifle those possibilities.






 The Defense Never Rests

Think holistically, but watch your back. That's the upshot of the top trends in IT security fo...]]></description>
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<item><title>E-Discovery: What You Need To Know</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 14:53:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[New laws require corporate IT departments to locate and produce documents far more quickly than ever before. Here's how to make sure you're prepared.<br/>   -  CIOs know that employees are sending and receiving more e-mail than ever before #8212;about 4.3 gigabytes of data per user per year, according to The Radicati Group. Still, not all CIOs have a plan for storing, indexing and eventually deleting these messages. It's an issue that warrants careful atte...]]></description>
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<item><title>Methodology: How the Survey was Done</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 12:37:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[<br/>   -  CIO Insight editors designed the 2007 Security Survey together with members of the Ziff Davis Media research staff. IT executives gathered from Ziff Davis Media publication lists were invited to participate in the study by e-mail. The questions were posted on a password-protected Web site, and 187 q...]]></description>
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<item><title>Special Report: I.T. Security Findings</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 13:34:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[<br/>   -  Finding 1:IT Executives Say Security Is Adequate Despite Threats
Security snafus often make news, but most CIOs aren't rattled. As previous CIO Insight surveys have shown, very few IT executives think their companies are at high risk, and most feel their IT security measures are up to the job. True...]]></description>
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<item><title>Methodology: How the Survey was Done</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 12:13:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[<br/>   -  CIO Insight editors designed the 2007 Security Survey together with members of the Ziff Davis Media research staff. IT executives gathered from Ziff Davis Media publication lists were invited to participate in the study by e-mail. The questions were posted on a password-protected Web site, and 187 q...]]></description>
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