CIO Insight Staff

How to Inspire a Healthy and Happy IT Department Self-Assured 75% of employees at companies with strong health cultures feel they have control over their health, compared to 63% of workers at organizations with weak health cultures. Under Pressure Only one-quarter of those at strong health-culture workplaces say that stress has a negative impact on […]

What Today’s Mobile Users Want Prodigies: Always On 57% of prodigies say they need to be connected to the Internet from the moment they wake up to when they go to bed. Prodigies: On the Move 51% carry multiple devices, and 72% say they access the Internet today more through these devices than via a […]

10 Signs That an Employee is Going to Quit Unique Qualifiers: Checking Out Potential soon-to-be ex-employees stop making constructive contributions in meetings, while suggesting fewer new ideas or innovative approaches in general. Unique Qualifiers: Short Timers They’re reluctant to commit to long-term projects. And they do less work overall than before. Unique Qualifiers: Disinterested Pupil […]

Organizations Struggle With Staffing Issues Mission (Not) Accomplished 58% of employers feel that “the recession is not over” with respect to business. Stagnant Sales 62% say sales didn’t increase at their companies in the last half of 2013, and 56% don’t expect sales increases for the first half of 2014. Top Staffing Challenges: Placement Problem […]

By Shivesh Vishwanathan If you are thinking of embracing mobility in your enterprise, then your existing business process orchestration, workflow management and choreography methods are likely proving to be major hurdles. That’s because they need to undergo fundamental changes to adapt to the new world of mobility. I recently attended a seminar held by Rita […]

By Kevin Sawyer Buying products and services from the U.S. government may sound like a strange concept. We tend to think about getting the things we want or need from companies in the private sector and paying our share of government expenses with taxes deducted from our paycheck. However, the federal government provides a wealth […]

CIOs Increasing Deployment of BPA Tools Buy In More than four of 10 medium and large enterprises have significantly increased their use of business process automation (BPA) technologies over the past two years. Full Participation 43% of large businesses say they deploy BPA technology in nearly all business areas, compared to little more than one-third […]

CIOs and the Retail Store of the Future Mobile Will Continue to Disrupt Retail CIOs plan to rapidly implement the following mobile technologies: Context-aware technology (32%), Mobile payments (28%), Digital signage (24%), Mobile point of sale (22%) The United Kingdom Leads, Germany Flags 73% of CIOs in the U.K. have already implemented some form of […]

By Eric Thomas As a career consultant, I’ve had the opportunity to look under the hood and see the inner workings of many different types of organizations—from the largest publicly traded corporations to the one-person startup. Recently, I have been diagnosing and solving problems for project managers, CFOs and, most often, CIOs at U.S. government […]

Nine Fascinating Facts About Today’s CIOs Inside Out 54% of Fortune 100 CIOs are internally promoted, and the rest are recruited externally. Track Record 52% of externally recruited CIOs have prior experience in the role, compared to just 22% of internally promoted CIOs. Academic Pedigree 55% of externally hired CIOs have a graduate degree, and […]

By Steve Durbin Cyber-security stepped into the public eye in 2013 with a number of high-profile cyber-attacks and data breaches. Hacktivists have evolved from solo teenagers in their parents’ basement into full-fledged global organizations, such as Anonymous and other online collectives. These groups have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to a number […]

How Virtualization Drives Peak IT Performance Budget Fluctuations Organizations at the earliest stage of IT transformation spend $31.7 million on IT system inefficiencies and failures, while companies at the latest stage allocate only $21.1 million to this. Buying Sprees Just 22% of organizations which are starting out in IT transformation anticipate a boost in tech […]