CIO Insight Staff

The Way of Go: 8 Ancient Strategy Secrets for Success in Business and Life By Troy Anderson Free Press, August 2004 256 pages, $23 You probably have at least a passing familiarity with Go, a 4,000-year-old Chinese board game in which two players use their respective stones to compete for territory, staking out areas that […]

To download results, click here. 53% of CIOs say their IT project prioritization is politically driven 40% of cios use a portfolio management approach to it projects 66% of it projects during the past 12 months came in on or below budget 13% of IT projects failed to meet the goals of it and business […]

To see this month’s C-meter, click here. With one exception, there’s been no significant change in our latest (and final) installment of the Confidence Meter. Our respondents’ confidence in the outlook for their own companies went up three-tenths of a percent, to 7.1 percent, thanks to half-point-plus increases in the business consulting, financial services and […]

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My Personal Best: Life Lessons from an All-American Journey By John Wooden with Steve Jamison McGraw-Hill, April 2004 192 pages, $19.95 Not so hidden in this autobiography of the man who led UCLA to ten national championships in 12 years is some of the best advice on leadership you will ever read. “Don’t worry about […]

The Myth of Leadership: Creating Leaderless Organizations By Jeffrey S. Nielsen Davies-Black Publishing, April 2004 208 pages, $25.95 You can argue with consultant Nielsen’s endpoint—that work would be more fulfilling and more efficient if there were no bosses—but what is worth paying attention to here is his belief that organizations invest too much power in […]

IT executives are slightly more optimistic about business prospects than when the Confidence Meter last appeared in the April issue. While confidence in the overall economy hasn’t caught up yet to the levels of late 2003 and early 2004, levels in our respondents’ own industries and own companies are at or near their highs. With […]

To download results, click here. 5.5% more CIOs called themselves early adopters this year than last year 79% of CIOs say they’ve received a significant payoff from emerging technologies 54% say business executives get involved in testing and deploying new technologies 42% of companies won’t adopt technologies if it means changing business processes 55% of […]

For CIO Insight’s May 2004 issue, reporter Debra D’Agostino spoke to Bob Tillman, director of public affairs for the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA International). What follows is an edited transcript of her interview in which Tillman discusses the deliberate ambiguity of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, predicts aggressive enforcement by the Securities and Exchange […]

Due Diligence: SOX in a Box By Eric Nee Surprise! Software companies are trying to market Sarbanes-Oxley to their own benefit. Of course, it’s not the first time vendors have tried to profit from the trials and tribulations of corporate IT departments, notes columnist Eric Nee. As in the past, CIOs should look before they […]