CIO Insight Staff

Even now, no one knows exactly how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 will be enforced, or the precise criteria the SEC will use to justify and launch investigations. What we do know is that the speed with which the act became law surprised many executives, several of whom had to reset fiscal budgets, reshuffle projects […]

To download a PDF of the Document Management Factsheet, click here. To download a chart detailing the lifecycle of a document, click here. Problem No software exists that will make your firm—presto!—Sarbanes-compliant. Bob Tillman is worried. At a recent tech conference in New York, Tillman, director of public affairs for the Association of Records Managers […]

To download results, click here. 88% of CIOs say their IT departments are very involved in compliance 67% say their companies are investing in financial systems to aid in compliance 59% have no IT executive specifically responsible for compliance 44% say their companies will require their CIOs to certify financial results Complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley […]

Strong Signals: The Pursuit of Productivity By John Parkinson In this month’s column, John Parkinson, who’s also the chief technologist for the Americas at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, looks at how best to increase productivity, first by getting more output out of each hour worked, then by cutting the total number of hours required […]

CIO Insight: After the telecom crash, the scandal and the bankruptcy, MCI reduced its staff by 30,000. It also cut the IT budget by 40 percent. How did you continue to function? Jim Gwinn: There were several contributing factors. One is the ability of the workforce and IT staff to go above and beyond. The […]

I come from a point of view that says, at the end of the day, 80 percent of business is the same, so you ought to focus your energy on the 20 percent that’s different. I’ve listened to countless executives over the years who say, “You don’t understand, we’re different, we’re unique.” So I ask […]

Make the Rules or Your Rivals Will By G. Richard Shell Crown Business, April 2004 336 pages, $27.50 Here’s Wharton School Professor Shell’s argument in a nutshell: He who makes the rules wins. And the best way to make the rules is to literally help write the law. In typical discussions of business strategy, it […]

Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations By Alan G. Robinson and Dean M. Schroeder Berrett-Koehler, April 2004 250 pages, $27.95 One of the most frequently uttered (if not always followed) comments in management in the past 15 years or so has been “we need to push the authority […]

MBA in a Box: Practical Ideas from the Best Brains in Business By Joel Kurtzman with Glenn Rifkin and Victoria Griffith Crown Business, May 2004 448 pages, $34.95 The twist here is simple: Instead of focusing on the nitty-gritty taught in business school—how to do a regression analysis, for example—why not have Mike Milken talk […]

To download fact sheet, click here. Problem Long considered a rogue application, company executives are finding that instant messaging is a potential liability. Since its May 1997 debut as a free feature on AOL, instant messaging has caught on like wildfire. And if it began as a killer app for chatty teens, professionals were soon […]

CIO Insight: How many companies are formally using IM? Root: Less than half of those who use IM at work use a system mandated by their employer’s IT department. About 35 percent of all North American companies are considering or piloting an IM management product in 2004. But about half have no plans, which is […]