CIO Insight Staff

A cursory glance is enough to see that Joe DeTullio’s office is not the domain of a high-powered CIO. Tucked away in a midtown Manhattan high-rise, the space is constricted, dark and unfinished. A power drill, some loose screws and a measuring tape are strewn across the surface of a cramped conference table that has […]

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita displaced more than a million people along the Gulf Coast in August and September. Steve Cooper, CIO of the American Red Cross and former CIO of the Department of Homeland Security, spoke recently with CIO Insight about how technology aided Red Cross efforts to help those in need. CIO INSIGHT: What […]

Becoming a CEO may seem like a dream come true, but Joe DeTullio’s real-world odyssey, from the top tech spot at Universal Music Group to relative anonymity in a sea of start-ups, came with a steep learning curve, and the requisite share of nail-biting. Here’s how he made the decision, and how he’s living with […]

Multisourcing: Moving Beyond Outsourcing to Achieve Growth and Agility By Linda Cohen and Allie Young Harvard Business School Press, Oct. 2005 288 PAGES, $35 Most executives tend to think about outsourcing only in binary terms: Either we outsource a function (accounting, marketing, R&D) or we don’t. But as more functions are outsourced, managing a portfolio […]

At 10:00 PM, on Saturday, Oct. 22, my wife, eight days past her due date, let out a small yelp and started her Lamaze breathing. My mind racing, I dutifully fired up the car to go to the hospital and threw the bags in the back. Then I dashed back into the house to grab […]

Due Diligence: Skype Hype By Eric Nee If you’re still scratching your head at the billions eBay has committed to buying Skype Technologies, a $7 million Voice-over-IP provider, you’re not alone. But columnist Eric Nee sees more to the deal than meets the eye. As e-commerce grows up, more efficient means of communication are critical […]

A sophisticated biosurveillance network called the Automated Epidemiologic Geotemporal Integrated Surveillance system (AEGIS), designed to detect the spread of regional epidemics and bioterrorism, has shed new light on how the flu is spread. The system, designed by the Children’s Hospital Boston, collects data from emergency rooms in eight Boston-area hospitals, tracks symptoms and compares them […]

The recently announced $7 billion response plan to a potential bird flu pandemic from President Bush includes a number of information technology components including a global network of surveillance and preparedness intended to quickly detect and respond to disease outbreaks. To date, 88 countries and nine international organizations have joined this effort. Bush also called […]

In a paper in the Oct. 27 issue of the journal Nature, more than 200 researchers from Canada, China, Japan, Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States describe the initial results from their public-private effort to chart the patterns of genetic variation that are common in the world’s population. The results provide overwhelming evidence […]

Here’s a mystery for you. Every week in a certain company, every project manager turns in a chart for each of his or her projects. The first thing management looks at when they see the chart is the small color-coded box in the corner that illustrates the overall project status. Each project is rated green, […]

Privacy arguments tend to be emotional, often expressed in terms of “security versus privacy.” A new book out about the future of RFID goes far beyond that. The authors of Spychips do not hesitate to go for the emotional jugular frequently, using references and examples from the Bible, the Nazis, the Russian government and the […]