Ellen Pearlman

Since CIO Insight launched in May, every issue has included the results of a monthly poll (see “Confidence Meter“)in which we ask CIOs and other IT executives to rate on a scale of one to 10 their opinion of the chances of economic recovery in the next 90 days. Past results have meandered from a […]

What’s so hard about getting IT and business on the same page when plotting and carrying out policies and strategy? Judging from the experience of JoAnn Heisen, CIO of Johnson & Johnson Inc., much of the problem revolves around the need to rejuvenate the entrenched structures and habits of years. “We are not a young […]

In November 1951, when the inventors of the Lyons Electronic Office, or LEO, turned their machine on, they couldn’t possibly have imagined how far the IT industry would travel between then and now. After all, our 20-gigabyte hard drives are a far cry from the mercury delay line memories used by LEO. As archaic as […]

I am writing this editorial letter almost three weeks after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. I live and work in New York, and the city has returned to some degree of normalcy, at least on the surface. But no one here feels the way they felt before Sept. 11. The old […]

How high are our expectations for the software and data infrastructure on which our computers, our networks, our very businesses depend? Not high enough, according to Peter G. Neumann, chief scientist at Stanford Research Institute’s International Computer Science Laboratory (“House of Cards“). We take much too much for granted: guarantees of network and Internet security, […]

This month’s issue of CIO Insight delivers a ringing call to arms from Gary Hamel: “My question to the IT community is: What is the contribution you are going to make to produce incredible new value for customers?” (Flying Blind). It’s not enough, in other words, for CIOs merely to develop and install technology that […]

The concept of power is embedded deeply in just about every aspect of our culture—our religious beliefs, our political thinking, our views of physical strength, the language we use to talk about business management and strategy, the purposes to which we put the technology we create and the energy required to drive it. Everything is […]

Welcome to the premiere issue of CIO Insight, a new magazine for today’s business leaders and technology strategists. Across the corporate landscape, the role of the CIO is changing dramatically: He or she is now expected to participate fully in corporate strategy and know how technology will help pay off for the business and the […]