CIO Insight Staff

Participants: Joseph Barkley, Vice President and CFO for Global Information Technology, American International Group Inc. (AIG) Bobby Cameron, Principal, Forrester Research Inc. Denise K. Fletcher , Managing Director, FA Group Christopher Gardner, Partner and Cofounder, iValue Asiff Hirji, Executive Vice President, CIO, Ameritrade Holding Corp. Pamela Cohen Kalafut, Director, Intangibles Practice, Cap Gemini Ernst & […]

Q&A with Dave Clementz, former CIO of ChevronTexaco Corp. What wasn’t right before about the way the company accounted for what IT contributed to the business? We had to get everybody to bill their time, but we didn’t have a way for them to do so. We had to come up with an electronic time […]

The results are available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. To download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in, click here. To download research results in PDF format, click hereclick here 70% of CIOs say their companies currently outsource some IT function or application 80% say their company outsources as much or more than two years ago […]

Web logs—or blogs as they are sometimes called—are Web pages filled with the thoughts and musings of people with opinions to share, no matter how useless or useful they may be. Some blogs have become mainstream and are highly valued by their readers, such as patrickweb.com, ex-IBM Internet strategist John Patrick’s daily take on life […]

Strong Signals: The Ultranet By John Parkinson Three trends—RFID tags, wireless mesh networks and ultracompact PCs—are converging and will soon transform the way people use computers, says columnist John Parkinson, who’s also the chief technologist for the Americas at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. The result: a pocket-size personal computer that will perform secure transactions […]

This month’s Confidence Meter poll reached a milestone: IT executives are more optimistic about their own companies’ economic situation than at any time since we initiated our survey in May 2001. Respondents rated their prospects a 6.9 on a 1-to-10 scale; financial industry executives were particularly bullish, at 7.5. Our respondents also rated both the […]

The digital revolution is shredding, forever, the curtain that once hid all sorts of information about corporate behavior, operations and performance from public view. Yet few companies are ready to handle the new scrutiny—and this transparency is proving to be increasingly costly and upsetting for companies struggling with new levels of exposure. In their just-released […]

The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth By Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor Harvard Business School Press September 2003 320 pages, $29.95 In his 1997 book The Innovator’s Dilemma, Christensen, a professor at the Harvard Business School, argued that by doing what they were supposed to do—satisfying the needs of their best […]

Due Diligence: Seek and Ye Shall Find By Eric Nee Having done a pretty good job conquering the consumer Web search business, Google is now going for the corporate search market. It’s not the first company to take aim at this potentially lucrative area: Lots of specialized players are already involved. But by following the […]

While jobs continued to be lost during the jobless recovery, other positive economic news helped to slightly boost this month’s Confidence Meter survey, conducted from August 21 through September 4. The period saw advances in both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Exchange. Consumer confidence rose too, as measured by the Conference Board, from […]

The results of this month’s research are available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. (To download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in, click here.) Are Successful Leaders Born or Made? 81% Of CIOs Believe Leadership Can Be Taught 68% Say Their Companies’ Overall Quality of Leadership is High 74% Of CIOs are on their companies’ executive […]

For a generation, the post-World War II Baby Boomers defined the economic, political and business agenda. But that worldview is getting a jolt from the arrival in the workplace of the Net generation-the first to be born into an all-digital world. These newcomers arrive with their own culture, and they’re just starting to impose it […]