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New technologies and globalization are forcing executives to devise new business strategies. In Unstoppable, Chris Zook, author of Profit from the Core and Beyond the Core, and head of Bain & Co.’s global strategy practice, argues that new strategies can usually be found in undervalued, underutilized company assets—including IT and information assets—that are already within […]

A year after U.S. Congressman Randall “Duke” Cunningham was sentenced to prison in one the biggest federal information-technology scandals ever, details about the case continue to emerge. Story Guide: A Shroud of Corruption A High Stakes Game Outsourcing the Government Pay to Play The Money Trail Enter Mitchell Wade Busted Another Chapter? Also in this […]

Case Study: Squeezing the Servers When grape-processor Welch Foods was forced to consolidate two plants into one, it took the opportunity to consolidate servers. How? Virtualization. Virtues and Vices of Virtualization The brave new world of virtualization is bringing corporate technology closer to the Holy Grail of IT asset management: fully shared, on-demand computing. Virtualization […]

Jason Friedman, vice president of e-commerce for J&R Electronics, became a champion of Internet retailing not long after joining his parents’ company in 1997 as database manager. At the time, the family-owned business was doing just fine selling an enormous array of consumer electronics from its landmark 250,000-plus-square-foot mega-store in lower Manhattan and via catalog […]

How the survey was done: CIO Insight editors designed the 2007 Outsourcing Survey together with Equation Research, LLC (www.equationresearch.com), an Estes Park, Colo., supplier of custom research services. 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, […]

  A shortage of qualified chief information officers looms in the next few years. Growing demand for CIOs is not being offset by an increasing supply of talented, well-prepared executives, according to a just-released report, "Grooming the 2010 CIO," written for the Society for Information Management Advance Practices Council. The report looks at ways that […]

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told Congress this week that the U.S. has an I.T. skills shortage that requires it to be more open to foreign-born tech workers. Here are some observations from readers who responded to “Opinion: We Trained Them, We Should (Be Allowed To) Keep Them” by CIO Insight Executive Editor Eric Chabrow. Responses […]