CIO Insight Staff

This month’s Economic Confidence Meter survey was conducted just as the war in Iraq began, and the results indicate a slight rise in confidence, now that the doubt has dissipated. CIOs’ confidence in the chances for a recovery in the overall economy in the next three months inched up two tenths of a point, from […]

As the possibility of war with Iraq sank in, the results of this month’s Economic Confidence Meter dropped significantly in all three major categories. Our respondents’ confidence in the chances for a recovery in the overall economy in the next three months plummeted a half a point, to 5.0 on a scale of 1 to […]

CIO INSIGHT: How did Archimedes get started? EDDY: The origins go back a long way. This project is really the culmination of my career. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, I began to build mathematical models of diseases. Each model was focused on a particular disease, like cancer of the breast or cervix, and […]

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With soda sales in a slump, Pepsi’s largest bottler, Pepsi Bottling Group Inc., is turning to technology to help its salespeople push new products and get a better handle on customers. The goal? Sell more soda, of course. PBG’s vice president for supply chain logistics and technologies Paul Hamilton sat down recently with CIO Insight […]

For decades, Pepsi truck drivers guessed how much soda they’d sell, then loaded their trucks and sold, to stores along random routes. Not anymore. There are now dozens more beverages being sold by Pepsi, including waters and juices—in all, too many to fit on one truck and one store display. What to do? Separate sales […]

Do web services bring simplicity or complexity? CIO Insight chatted briefly with Barry Bloom, Chief Software Architect for cosmetics company Mary Kay Inc., about his web services projects, designed to support Mary Kay’s 950,000 door-to-door salespeople in the field. CIOI: Are you worried that Web services will be tough to create? BLOOM: I fear that […]

55% say employee demand drives adoption of mobile technologies 46% support instant messaging over mobile devices 75% say mobile devices greatly increase security risks 37% say mobile technologies let them better capture and analyze data 12% say mobile efforts have not yet produced business value Mobile technologies are here to stay—indeed, their use is growing […]

With the economy continuing to send mixed signals and the country on the brink of war with Iraq, this month’s Economic Confidence Meter barely budged for the third month in a row. CIOs’ confidence in the chances for a recovery in the overall economy in the next three months stayed level—5.5 on a scale of […]

Trends: Rogue IT By Perry Glasser With their credibility on the line and cost-cutting at fever pitch at many corporations, many CIOs are cracking down on “Ghost IT”—those “shadow” technology projects that happen when a business unit goes off and starts spending its own money to get a tech project done, under the radar of […]

Expert Voices: Paul Romer With Edward H. Baker Thanks to his role as the originator of the New Growth Theory, a key tenet of which holds that economic progress is dependent on advances in technology, the work of Paul Romer, who teaches economics at Stanford University’s business school, was taken up as part of the […]