CIO Insight Staff

By Barry Jaruzelski and Richard Holman 3D printers are quickly becoming more versatile and available, with new technologies, materials and uses being introduced ever more frequently. What once generated flimsy structures out of simple plastics now prints engine parts from complex titanium alloys and bone tissue from human stem cells. But the application of 3D […]

Smartphone Usage Expected to Skyrocket Smartphone Traffic Outperform the Rest This year, for the first time, smartphone traffic exceeded mobile PCs, tablets and mobile routers. Smartphone Traffic to Rocket in Six Years Smartphone traffic will grow by a factor of 10 between 2013 and 2019, reaching 10 exabytes. New Mobile Subscriptions This Quarter There were […]

By Eric Thomas President Obama recently admitted that Americans are facing difficulties attempting to sign up for insurance coverage via the healthcare.gov Website. His disappointment has been echoed by both proponents and opponents of the underlying legislation. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) explained that users “have had trouble creating accounts and logging […]

Mobile Apps Need Better Security Employees Easily Access Sensitive Data via Tablets 13% have access to customer data, 13% to contracts, invoices and customer orders, 12% to customer service data and account numbers. Employees Easily Access Sensitive Data With Smartphones 8% access company data, 5% access contracts, invoices and customer orders, 5% access customer service […]

More C-Suite Support Needed for Analytics Key Consideration One-half of IT execs base the majority of their strategic decisions upon data and analytics. Early Returns Nearly 40% are seeing rapid ROI on their analytics investment within the first six months of adoption. Vote of Confidence 66% think highly of the quality of data and analytics […]

By John Palinkas For many years, I have been telling a story about one of the defining moments of my IT career. When our new partner at The IT Transformation Institute heard the story, he said what I displayed was “managerial courage.” I recently attended SIMposium 2013 and ended up telling the story to some […]

Digital Transformation Creates CIO Opportunities Digital Technology Adoption While 21% are proficient to one degree or another; 65% still limited to e-mail, the Internet and some enterprise software. Beginners: 65%, Digerati: 15%, Conservatives: 14%, Fashionistas: 6% Transformation Will Be Crucial to Company Success Almost half of employees say transformation is already happening, while another third […]

By Kevin Sawyer Capturing and quantifying the scope and value of products and services is an important part of ensuring the success of an organization. This requires the development of comprehensive cost models based on a defensible cost allocation methodology. One such methodology is activity-based costing and management (ABC/M). ABC/M is a cost management and […]

Eight Ways to Lead During a Corporate Crisis Vote of Confidence, Part I 57% of workers believe their peers are well prepared to deal with an emergency or crisis, and 61% feel that way about their managers. Vote of Confidence, Part II 54% say their senior leaders are well prepared for an emergency or crisis. […]

Mobile Access to ECMs Needs Improvement ECM Is Not Alone Only 18% of respondents have a companywide ECM. 54% are either maintaining a companywide system for integrating document management (DM) and record management (RM) projects. ECM Is a Multi-System Landscape 35% are sticking with multiple or best-of-breed solutions. 75% have more than one ECM, DM […]

By Lois Coatney Transitioning between an insourced and outsourced services environment fundamentally changes how CIOs perform their job, both in terms of overall responsibilities and strategies, as well as day-to-day activities. Adjusting to these changes presents both organizational and individual challenges for CIOs. Internally Managed Operations In an internally managed organization, CIOs manage people and […]

By Steve Keegan and Craig Wright As IT organizations grow and evolve, their perceived value tends to decrease as it becomes trapped by poorly scaled, ineffective and inefficient project delivery and change processes. However, by employing pragmatic solutions, organizations can successfully unclog the traps–unleashing the value of IT delivery and alleviating common roadblocks while demonstrating […]