CIO Insight Staff

By Pat O’Connell Building financial credibility with a business is critical for IT, and as the CIO you need your budget to be in order to have a shot at building and sustaining that credibility. However, this is not as easy as it sounds. “IT budgets are not taken seriously,” says Angelo Incorvaia, former CIO […]

By Vinod Chandran Companies today find themselves in an almost untenable position. Business cycles are much shorter, making long-range planning a thing of the past. Changes in technology and consumer expectations are driving companies to adapt, innovate and transform at an unprecedented pace. Simultaneously, the global economy continues to languish, so there is little easy […]

By John Palinkas I was talking with some friends the other day about financial management. Since most of the people are in IT organizations, the focus of the conversation quickly shifted to cost reductions. After a few minutes of discussion, it occurred to me that most IT organizations think of financial management only in terms […]

By Sadagopan Singam There’s no question we are entering a brave new corporate world in which customer experience will be the only differentiator between which enterprise succeeds and which fails—no matter the size of the company, the industry it operates in, or the market it sells to. Customers will possess greater power than ever before, […]

By Frank Petersmark Desperately Seeking: Executive peer who understands what I do, why I do it and how I do it. Must be a good listener with the ability to provide critical yet constructive feedback and perspectives. If this sounds like you, and you work at my company, please contact me at: needapeer@cio.losingmymind.nuts. The life […]

Savvy CIOs have policies in place to protect their networks against infected USB flash drives. That’s because most IT professionals know the amount of damage that can be caused by plugging in such a device. For instance, Stuxnet, one of the world’s most sophisticated cyberweapons, is said to have gained access to its target system […]

By Charles Araujo Have you noticed that all of the excitement seems to have evaporated out of IT organizations recently? I remember when I first started in the industry. It seemed that every day was a new adventure. We were always facing new challenges that led to unexpected solutions. It was fun and it was exciting. […]

By Pat O’Connell It seems there’s never enough time to get everything done. The idea of an eight-hour day, five-day work week that we started out with as we entered the job market changed quickly as we moved up the organizational ladder. By the time we reached more senior levels in IT management, culminating in […]

By Paul Hyman If one mobile application is good, two may be better, but there can come a time when an enterprise becomes buried under the weight of just too many apps. So how many is too many—and what’s the best way to avoid mobile app overload before the problem becomes overwhelming? Experts say CIOs need to […]

By Frank Petersmark The life of a CIO is a precarious one at best, but are CIOs contributing to their own insecurity? In some cases the answer is an emphatic yes.  First, the good news.  The U.S. economy is slowly but surely emerging from several years of soft pricing, diminishing profitability and expense containment. Enthusiasm […]

By Rajiv Sodhi One of the biggest threats to corporate competitiveness is a shortage of key skills, and nowhere is that risk more acute than in the corporate IT organization. By 2015, less than 25 percent of the current IT workforce is estimated to remain in standalone IT roles, according to analysis by the Corporate […]

By Karen A. Frenkel A year-and-a-half ago, one-third of PaceHarmon’s clients were considering bringing IT functions back in-house and requesting analyses of insourcing options. The interest in the topic prompted senior associate Christopher Stacy of the Vienna, Va., outsourcing advisory services firm to author the report “Are You Ready for Insourcing?” Buyer behavior has changed […]