CIO Insight Staff

Our government and business leaders are building architectures of citizen and customer surveillance that may be hard to dismantle, warns computer scientist and privacy activist Marc Rotenberg, founder and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. An edited version of his interview with executive editor Marcia Stepanek follows. Consider for a […]

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.) Is Your Security Comfort Level Too High? 90.2% of CIOs say their domestic security measures are adequate 82.2 % of IT executives say their companies have an information security policy 28.4% of […]

Richard Clarke on Security PolicyClarke, the former White House special adviser for cyberspace security, says neither the public nor the private sector have done enough to protect the nation’s telecom and information technology systems against terrorist attack. The critical factor for companies: articulating and sticking to a clear security policy. Jonathan Zittrain on Trade-OffsHarvard Law […]

CIO Insight reporter Debra D’Agostino spoke with Dr. David A. Bader, a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and researcher at the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of New Mexico, about the differences between Linux clusters and supercomputers, and the challenges CIOs can expect to face when evaluating the two […]

Linux clusters give scientists the opportunity to compute previously impenetrable large-scale algorithms, opening up a new world of possibilities not just for businesses, but for society at large. CIO Insight reporter Debra D’Agostino spoke to Rob Pennington, senior associate director of computing and data management for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) about the […]

VNSNY is the largest nonprofit home healthcare organization in the U.S. Through referrals from more than 60 area hospitals, 2,300 representatives make an average of 24,000 visits to patients’ homes, every day. It’s a critical differentiator for VNSNY to provide the best technology available to improve the quality of care and attract high-quality staff. Top […]

74%of CIOs say speed to market is critical in their industry 69%of CIOs say they can respond to changing conditions faster than competitors 69%say improving response time has led to reduced costs 55%say their budgeting procedures help rapidly change IT investment priorities 35% say they failed to respond fast enough to a business opportunity in […]

How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate By Andrew Hargadon Harvard Business School Press, June 2003 320 pages, $29.95 If you want to understand how most technology breakthroughs happen, don’t turn to your old physics, engineering or even management books. Instead, dust off your Elvis Presley records. That’s the logical conclusion you […]

Due Diligence: The Big Bad Wolf By Eric Nee A couple of serious efforts to slow the growth of Linux have emerged, with SCO Group’s suit against IBM a minor speedbump compared with Microsoft’s openly declared war. What, asks Eric Nee, would the world look like if Microsoft won that war? Microsoft wants more than […]

This month’s Economic Confidence Meter pulled back somewhat from last month’s highs on every front—perhaps the result of the reality of the aftermath of the Iraq war setting in. CIOs’ confidence in the chances for a recovery in the overall economy in the next three months fell three tenths of a point, to 5.5 from […]

Viewpoint: Harriet Edelman Is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 encouraging boards to hire CIOs? I believe the seeds of increasing interest in CIOs as board members preceded Sarbanes-Oxley. At the same time, I think that Sarbanes-Oxley is adding some fuel to that trend, both directly and indirectly. Directly, Sarbanes-Oxley requires boards to have a high […]