Edward Cone

Students at Baruch College of the City University of New York can choose a brand-new, interdisciplinary minor this semester: “Information Technology and Social Responsibility.” The course work includes topics familiar to any corporate IT manager, such as workplace diversity, but it also gets into areas such as the ethics of information sharing and the ins […]

The $750 million purchase of British consultancy Axon Group by Infosys Technologies, announced in August, was the latest sign that the Indian technology industry is entering a new stage of maturity. The size of the deal, one of the biggest foreign acquisitions by a subcontinental technology firm, made it notable. But more important is the […]

Many or most corporate mergers fail to meet their objectives. One thing that might up the success rate: getting the CIO involved in due diligence from the start. “The CIO needs to have a seat at the table” in the merger-planning process, says Nan Morrison, a partner in Accenture’s Strategic Information Technology Effectiveness practice. Traditionally, […]

Psst. People are talking about your firm’s Web 2.0 efforts, and it’s not flattering. Forrester Research says most B2B blogs are “dull, drab and don’t stimulate discussion.” Deloitte says a majority of online communities set up by businesses attract few members. A big problem is that companies use Web 2.0 technology without embracing the 2.0 […]

The power of networks is a truism of the Internet age, with the idea embedded in the phrase “Internet age” itself. That power puts businesses at a “jump point,” writes Tom Hayes–a place of change “so startling that we have no choice but to regroup and rethink the future.” Hayes, a veteran Silicon Valley executive, […]

It’s been a long time since Silicon Valley was known for silicon. The eponymous element has been superseded many times over in the popular imagination: by the boxes powered by those silicon chips, and the software that runs on the boxes, as well as the pipes that connect them and the communications and commerce that […]

Information technology has traditionally been a male-dominated field with an insular culture, but it is also a global business in which skilled workers are at a premium. One of the most influential companies in IT history, IBM, has a long record of leadership on diversity issues–not just in IT, but in the corporate world. Its […]

Outsourcing a health-plan service center to India provided the expected business benefits to the CIO of one Fortune 500 company. But it also brought some unexpected problems back at headquarters in the southeastern United States. “We’ve heard jokes–more than jokes–about not being able to understand the accents of people at the call center,” says the […]

Technotopianism was in short supply at this year’s Personal Democracy Forum. That was a good thing. The annual conference on politics and the Net, held in New York in June, attracted a high-wattage cast from both worlds. The mood, while hopeful, reflected some realities too often overlooked in the first blush of love between policy […]

Research from Cutter Consortium’s Benchmark Review shows that momentum is growing for green IT at firms that don’t yet have eco-friendly policies in place. European firms are ahead of their U.S. counterparts when it comes to plans to reduce their “environmental footprints,” with nearly 60 percent having plans in place, as opposed to just 37 […]