Allan Alter

In previous CIO Insight studies on compliance and Sarbanes-Oxley, getting and staying compliant was seen as something to achieve in the future. But in our new survey, many more respondents say they have achieved full compliance with the regulations we’ve most closely tracked: the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the […]

Stuart Madnick, a professor of information technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Business since 1972, has been thinking about how to get more value out of information longer than just about anyone. He began his career creating operating systems and studying software development, then moved on to co-direct or chair MIT’s […]

Thinking about information governance? Think about “information resource management,” too. This term, long used in the public sector to describe the IT function, gets to the heart of an often overlooked insight: Information is a resource to be managed for maximum value, be it for the business, or public, good. That’s where information governance comes […]

Ready for takeoff: Our survey of 45 emerging technologies finds team collaboration tools, business process platforms/management suites, server virtualization, and open source databases, development tools and languages are considered “most likely to provide business value” for their companies. What computing and software technologies are on your CIO’s radar screen? Click here to read our survey’s […]

Information is a resource to be managed for maximum value, be it for the business, or public, good. Unfortunately, according to this month’s CIO Insight study on information management and IT governance, corporate America’s information resources need much better management. And while many IT executives clearly realize there is room for improvement, some may be […]

Recently adopted technologies have been a success. Once-emerging technologies that have since been widely adopted almost always provide the business value their users hoped for. In fact, nearly every technology exceeded expectations more often than they failed to meet them. It’s an encouraging track record, and it should embolden companies to pursue new technologies more […]

Is IT innovation just the privilege of IT organizations? That appears to be the attitude of many IT executives. According to the June 2005 Innovation survey, CIOs believe that IT has a critical role to play in innovation, particularly process innovation. Yet most appear to be taking a proprietary, even parochial view of emerging technologies. […]

The technologies companies are deploying and testing align closely with the top priorities for CIOs from our April 2006 “CIO Role” survey: improving IT architecture, infrastructure, and data quality in order to achieve the business goals of improving processes and making better use of information. The strong interest in team collaboration tools and business process […]

The technologies companies are deploying and testing align closely with the top priorities for CIOs from our April 2006 “CIO Role” survey improving IT architecture, infrastructure, and data quality in order to achieve the business goals of improving processes and making better use of information. The strong interest in virtualization and open source tools suggests […]

CIO Insight has surveyed IT executives on emerging technologies since 2003. This year’s survey covers 45 emerging technologies in five different categories. Some, such as Web services, open source, VoIP, collaboration tools and, more recently, virtualization and SOA, are being widely and quickly adopted, while others, such as grid computing, have been slow to emerge. […]

Though well-intentioned, some attempts to bridge cultural gaps on global teams just result in creating more sophisticated stereotypes. So say two professors at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass.—New Delhi native Donald Chand, professor of information and process management, and American-born Gary David, associate professor of sociology. The two researchers are studying how global, multicultural teams […]

In my 21 years covering ­IT, I’ve long been bothered by how often CIOs are discussed as if they’re a cowering pack of insecure wimps and incompetents. Vendors have spent years trying to scare up business by claiming that the average CIO gets the boot after 18 to 24 months. “IT Doesn’t Matter” is just […]