CIO Insight Staff

Solvay IT provides shared services to four U.S. business units of chemicals and plastics manufacturer Solvay S.A., with aggregate annual sales totalling $1.6 billion. Solvay IT was an SAP customer for eight years, providing application support for up to 1,600 users who accessed enterprise applications for activities like plant and quality maintenance. Vice President of […]

Organizational Behavior: Forgive and Remember By Robert I. Sutton Mistakes are inevitable at even the best companies, but the difference between good employees and bad ones is that the good ones admit and learn from mistakes while the bad ones deny making them, focusing their energies instead on pointing the finger at others. Columnist Robert […]

When we polled CIOs for this month’s Economic Confidence Meter, the war in Iraq had just about ended—and the results show it. CIOs’ confidence in the chances for a recovery in the overall economy in the next three months jumped more than half a point, to 5.8 from 5.2 on a scale of 1 to […]

Digital asset management isn’t just for media and entertainment companies anymore. Now, companies from finance to pharmaceuticals are getting in on the act. CIO Insight Reporter Debra D’Agostino spoke recently to Michael Moon, president and founder of GISTICS, an independent research firm that tracks digital asset management use, about the trend. CIO Insight: Can you […]

With nearly 100,000 information assets to keep track of, executives at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia were quick to realize that an efficient system to catalog its many articles, television shows and radio spots wasn’t just common sense, it could actually save money. CIO Sheila Beauchesne spearheaded a digital asset management project and recently spoke with […]

While digital asset management can prove itself valuable for both cost savings and repurposing content for profit, Gartner Research Director Toby Bell tells CIO Insight Reporter Debra D’Agostino that CIOs need to make sure they have a well thought out plan before jumping on the bandwagon. What follows is an edited transcript of his remarks. […]

60% say they’re poor or fair at making BI accessible to employees 66% believe it’s critical to analyze and report operational data in real time 71% believe technology can effectively structure unstructured market data 81% of companies plan to increase their business intelligence efforts With almost two thirds of companies making organized efforts to collect, […]

Collaborative logistics is key to Land O’Lakes’ push to cut costs and manage its own transportation strategy. Teaming up with other companies to shave warehousing costs is the next step, says logistics manager Patrick Johnson. But sharing, on any level, is not easy. CIO Insight: How does sharing truck loads with other companies fit in […]

It was Friday afternoon, March 21, roughly 48 hours before the curtain was to rise on ABC’s live broadcast of this year’s 75th annual Academy Awards ceremony, and Ted Sann had a problem. It was 3 p.m. in Manhattan and Sann, the chief creative officer and chairman of the New York flagship of BBDO Worldwide, […]

Due Diligence: The Customer Is Always Right By Eric Nee The history of Silicon Valley is full of companies focused on technology-driven innovation. They thrived during the boom years, even when they paid no attention to customer needs. But that model just won’t cut it under the current economic conditions, which are driving corporate CIOs […]

How does DAM change the status quo? It digitizes the flow of work, from the conceptualization of an idea, or the creation of a particular ad, all the way through to the rough cuts and the process of actually creating those ads, down to the final delivery of those ads to the network for broadcast. […]