CIO Insight Staff

By Mark Ball To maximize returns on IT investments, it is critical for CIOs and IT leaders to manage the performance of current IT assets in the organization’s portfolio. Therefore, they must possess the answers to questions such as: What IT assets does the organization own? Which IT systems and projects are mission critical? What […]

By Eric Thomas Do you remember 1996? Of course you do. President Clinton was re-elected, Atlanta hosted the Olympics, and the Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) was passed into law. The CCA, otherwise known as the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996, was a seminal moment in federal IT management. Before the CCA, the General Services Administration (GSA) […]

By Paul Hyman CIOs who still consider social media “just a fad” need to become familiar with what the technologies can do for the enterprise, which is mainly improving collaboration and communication. According to a recent McKinsey report, an average worker can spend an estimated 28 percent of their work week managing e-mail and nearly […]

By James Riley Powerful forces are exerting pressure on CIOs and IT departments today. Companies are competing in markets where structural constraints, such as cost of entry and geography, are greatly diminished. Success is dependent upon a company’s ability to continually differentiate its products and services against increasingly agile global competitors. A new breed of disruptive technologies–in-memory […]

By Eric Thomas Your leadership warns of severe budget cuts. You are fairly confident that you have redundant systems and technologies in your infrastructure, but that is difficult to verify because your internal repository of IT assets is incomplete. Your boss wants more reliance on mobile, cloud and other wireless connectivity to customers, but you are unsure about […]

By James C. Hamilton   Companies that practice operational excellence in delivering internal IT services enjoy a distinct advantage over their competitors. Despite all the marketing hype from computer vendors about the latest “gee whiz” technology or killer app, the true and lasting competitive edge from IT is achieved by a disciplined commitment to operational […]

By Karen A. Frenkel Last year, Israel Lang, CIO of Pinnacle, an IT consulting practice in Indianapolis, faced a dilemma. A difficult customer was mistreating his engineers and four of them had quit in frustration. But the customer paid Pinnacle five figures a month for its services, “so it was hard to walk away from […]

By Paul Hyman  During the eight years Tracy Riggio has been an IT manager at Temple University Health Systems, the amount of data collected by the academic medical center has skyrocketed from 18 terabytes in 2005 to 1.8 petabytes today. And at American Municipal Power (AMP), a wholesale supplier of power for municipal electric systems, vice president of information technology […]

By Andy Lewis The very essence of virtualization is to fool us. That is, it takes what is real and makes it infinitely more valuable by making its “realness” disappear. This ability to fool us provides the key enablement for solutions such as IT as a service (ITaaS) and Cloud. That is, solutions like ITaaS […]

By Shami Khorana CIOs continue to find themselves under constant fire. They are called upon to be technologists and strategists, and are increasingly looked upon as service providers working to meet the needs of the various constituents and departments within their organization. While many have questioned CIOs’ viability, few have taken the time to ask […]

By Paul Hyman Nearly one in four IT employers says it’s harder to find the right talent today compared to a year ago, especially in the areas of mobile app development and programming, data network, and data center. They expect it will become even more difficult as the economy recovers. That’s according to a December, […]

By Mark V.B. Partridge It’s a common problem. A company learns that a former employee copied confidential computer files–proprietary source code, marketing plans, customer lists and pricing information–before leaving and has used the information to start a competing business or has shared it with a competitor.  The first instinct is to challenge the conduct as […]