CIO Insight Staff

In early May, we again asked CIOs to indicate, on a scale of 1 to 10, how confident they are that economic conditions will improve significantly in the next 90 days for their companies, their industries and the economy. CIOs remain more optimistic about the short-term prospects for their companies than for the economy as […]

Net Value: Valuing Dot-Com Companies—Uncovering the Reality Behind the Hype by Peter J. Clark and Stephen Neill Amacom, 2001 250 pages, $27.95 In Net Value, two international consultants on corporate value take a tough look at the Internet stock bubble and what we can expect in the future. The book examines what the authors call […]

Meta-Capitalism at Work: Taking Revolutionary E-Business Concepts from Theory to Practice by Grady Means and David Schneider John Wiley & Sons, 2001 208 pages, $27.95 Two consultants from PricewaterhouseCoopers, building on management concepts for start-up companies from their previous book, Meta-Capitalism, describe how established companies can use the same techniques to transform themselves. Drawing on […]

Place to Space: Migrating to eBusiness Models by Peter Weill and Michael R. Vitale Harvard Business School Press, 2001 464 pages, $35 Weill, director of the Center for Information Systems Research at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and Vitale, dean and director of the Australian Graduate School of Management, team up to describe how traditional […]

Now or Never: How Companies Must Change Today to Win the Battle for Internet Consumers by Mary Modahl HarperBusiness, 2001 272 pages, $16 A vice president of research at Forrester Research, Modahl describes how companies can create Internet strategies that make sense for them. The book also features insights from interviews with thousands of Americans […]

The Change Monster: The Human Forces That Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation & Change by Jeanie Daniel Duck Crown Business, 2001 320 pages, $27.50 A senior vice president of Boston Consulting Group, as well as a psychologist, Duck focuses on the reactions of people involved in corporate change, including mergers, reorganizations and executive turnovers. The […]

The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution is Changing Our Lives by Frances Cairncross Harvard Business School Press, 2001 320 pages, $16.95 A substantially revised edition of Cairncross’ 1997 best-seller, this book underscores the fact that communications technologies are rapidly obliterating distance as a relevant factor in how we conduct business.

Change Agents By Laton McCartney The slowing economy is giving new clout to CIO-led business project teams. These teams aim to help firms harness the Net to cut costs and change the way companies relate to customers and suppliers across the globe. In the process, these agents of change are also rewiring corporate culture one […]

CIOs are an optimistic group, especially when it comes to their own companies. They are significantly more confident about the short-term prospects for the companies for which they work than they are for the economy as a whole. In April we asked CIOs to indicate, on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being most […]