CIO Insight Staff

Search has done more to transform the Internet than anything but the Web itself. Ask any question you want and Google or one of its siblings will pick the relevant documents from the billions available online. Of course, it will also pick dozens or hundreds of others; and it can’t really verify the document’s history […]

All human organizations tend to be self-amplifying. —Angus’ Eighth Law As I explained in the first part of this deconstruction of orderly seeming groups, the natural tendency of any organization to become ever more like what it already is a silent killer of effectiveness. Managers with a certain mind set hire and promote people with […]

The Online Resource Center is a new feature of the LIGHT Initiative, which eHI established in 2004 to facilitate learning and information sharing among HIT innovators and other nations, in both the developed and developing world. “Countries around the world have become increasingly interested in the potential contributions that health information technology, electronic connectivity, and […]

According to a Center for Disease Control and Prevention official, Delta Airlines has agreed to share passenger data to help investigate the spread of deadly infectious diseases. Privacy advocates are concerned that this could further open up personal information to federal scrutiny. “The government is seeing that massive amounts of data can be useful for […]

After meeting last October, the Health Sector Assembly – a group of almost 60 public and private health care organizations, corporations, and institutions, led by the American Medical Association – recently issued a report on recommendations for improving health care access, affordability, and cost-effectiveness. The top recommendation is to better align financial incentives for insurers […]

All human organizations tend to be self-amplifying. —Angus’ Eighth Law There’s an effect that hamstrings all corporations, even the most effective ones. It’s the natural tendency of any organization to become ever more like what it already is. It’s what I call a “self-amplifying” tendency. The longer an organization has spent becoming more like it […]

With a little more than a year under his belt as CIO of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Corey Booth has been given a new mandate: Update the agency’s technology systems to better and more quickly handle the ever-growing number of corporate investigations the commission undertakes each year. It’s a tall order, says Booth, even […]

Though he is officially retired, Larry Bossidy is still in a rush. At 69 years of age, the former Honeywell International Inc. CEO is direct, brief and occasionally abrupt. He moves the conversation along briskly, trying to hammer out inefficiencies, eliminate vagueness and do away with small talk. He is trying to get to what’s […]

The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent By Richard Florida HarperBusiness, April 2005 336 pages, $25.95 Part reporting, part public- policy plea, Carnegie Mellon Professor Florida warns that the U.S. is in danger of losing its most important resource: creative people. The causes of the problem are many, but two […]

After a spate of high-profile security breaches, including those at ChoicePoint Inc., Bank of America Corp. and LexisNexis Group, U.S. lawmakers are waking up to the growing problem of identity theft. Jon Corzine’s (D-N.J.) Identity Theft Recovery and Victim Assistance Act, and Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act, are bills that […]

Democratizing Innovation By Eric von Hippel The MIT Press, April 2005 208 pages, $29.95 Here’s a simple example of what MIT professor von Hippel is talking about in this short but dense book: Windows has a perfectly fine—slow, but fine—startup process that takes you to a home screen prepopulated with options Microsoft thinks you might […]