Edward Cone

Doreen Wright knew she would have a lot of work to do when she arrived at Campbell Soup Co. as chief information officer in 2001, but she didn’t expect to be doing two jobs at once. For almost a year though, she served as both CIO and interim head of human resources for the venerable […]

Al Etterman didn’t sign up for a caretaker’s job when he joined JDS Uniphase, in November 2004, with the title of CIO and senior vice president of customer advocacy. But coming into a company that had outsourced the management of some key enterprise software represented a new challenge for etterman, who served most recently as […]

Signaling a major change in the way intelligence is handled, the Department of Homeland Security is embarking on an ambitious new Web portal project, designed to integrate the information systems of the 22 member agencies that constitute the two-year old organization. Lee Holcomb, chief technology officer at DHS, says the agency is moving from a […]

Piggly Wiggly Carolina Co. may have a funny name, but its approach to cutting costs is all business. The Charleston, S.C., grocery chain recently finished testing biometric scanners that allow shoppers to pay for purchases with nothing more than a fingerprint. Now it is preparing to roll out the machines at its 80 stores. “The […]

Larry Ellison isn’t the only person predicting widespread consolidation for the software industry—he’s just the most colorful. “We are now going through this stage of consolidation where Silicon Valley will resemble Detroit more than Silicon Valley of old,” Oracle Corp.’s CEO said at a company conference last year. More recently, he told a financial analyst […]

It’s just before midnight on election night in Raleigh, N.C., and Erskine Bowles approaches the podium to address his supporters. The mood in the room is sober. Standing in front of a huge American flag, Bowles concedes that he has lost to Republican Richard Burr in a hard-fought race to represent North Carolina in the […]

Every Sunday during the fall—game days in the National Football League—Dan Smith gets ready to take some big hits. Not on the field, but at CBS SportsLine.com, where traffic spikes from about 1,000 hits per second to 50,000 hits per second during the hour before the 1:00 p.m. kickoff. As SportsLine’s vice president of technology, […]

Privacy is a very big deal in the hotel business, so elemental to the customer experience that every hotel room comes equipped with a card to hang on the doorknob asking for more of it. Service is expected to be welcoming but discreet. For Tim Harvey, chief information officer at Hilton Hotels Corp., the same […]