CIO Insight Staff

Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas By Lou Dobbs Warner Business Books August 2004

Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom By Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap Harvard Business School Press, November 2004 304 pages, $29.95 True or false: The chief information officer is the person in charge of the company’s current data. If you answered “true,” give yourself partial credit. Your current data is certainly […]

Outsource: Competing in the Global Productivity Race By Edward Yourdon Prentice Hall PTR October 2004 272 pages, $27.99 The best thing about this work by consultant Yourdon, author of Decline and Fall of the American Programmer, is that he puts the issue of outsourcing into perspective. As he points out, the concept isn’t new: After […]

Any CIO worthy of the title knows that it’s not enough just to be technically savvy anymore. Business know-how is a must. In fact, some IT leaders say the pendulum has swung to the opposite extreme: “Five or ten years ago, it was about getting top-notch technologists, even if they couldn’t hold a conversation,” says […]

In July, Gartner Inc. warned CIOs to be wary of portable storage devices such as iPods and USB flash drives. These devices, says Gartner analyst Ruggero Contu, can present serious security threats: Not only could disgruntled employees use them to download massive amounts of sensitive corporate data, but they could also be used to introduce […]

The Internal Revenue Service is holding a sale and CIOs are the target customers. Since May 2003, the U.S. government has offered tax relief designed to stimulate capital spending. It’s called the Jobs and Growth Tax Reconciliation Relief Act of 2003 and, among other things, it allows companies to depreciate 50 percent of the cost […]

CHALLENGE Employees are clamoring for mobile devices, and IT departments are struggling to measure their impact. How much insight do you have into your mobility strategy? Can you even call it a strategy? Or is your company, like almost half of all large organizations, scrambling to keep up with the myriad devices that your employees […]

59% of CIOs expect the number of IT employees at their companies to increase 51% say IT staffing levels are not sufficient to meet corporate goals 14% of IT labor is outsourced at the average company 23% claim low IT morale is harming productivity and effectiveness 61% believe IT graduates are unprepared for the business […]

Expert Voices: John Kotter With Edward H. Baker For leadership guru John Kotter, creating a culture of alignment often means changing a company’s culture at its roots. But cultural change isn’t just a matter of holding two or three “change management” meetings. It requires specific efforts that bring specific benefits before those new habits sink […]

93% of executives with a collaborative management culture say IT is aligned at their company. 37% of business executives say their IT department’s culture conflicts with their company’s culture. 68% of companies are good at insuring mutual understanding of IT and business strategies. 69% of IT executives say their company has a culture of alignment. […]

Barbra Cooper’s career in IT spans two decades and five different industries, and that experience has taught her to listen, observe, and then act. Since taking over the top tech post at Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., in 1996, she has revolutionized an aging it infrastructure while navigating the company’s pervasive corporate culture. Because of her, […]