Tony Kontzer

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The phenomenon of medical identity theft is on the rise, and healthcare companies face more challenges in addressing the issue than their counterparts in the financial services industry, a panel of experts agreed Thursday at the RSA 2010 conference in San Francisco. The Federal Trade Commission estimates the number of American patients victimized by medical […]

Yuvi Kochar is stuck between a cloud and a hard place. On the one hand, the CTO and VP of technology for The Washington Post Co. sees enough immaturity in cloud computing to characterize it as unfit for large companies. On the other hand, he’s an enthusiastic proponent of the cloud who’s eager to tap […]

David Smoley is no stranger to cloud computing. The CIO of Flextronics International has overseen no fewer than four software-as-a-service implementations during his three-year tenure, with two of those currently being rolled out. See Also: Cloud Computing’s Sky-High Hype A new cloud-based IT management tool is not only less expensive to implement when compared with […]

Frank Wander has what he thinks is the perfect technique for getting the most out of the slowly maturing cloud computing market: Move slowly along with it. Wander, the corporate CIO for Guardian Life Insurance, is no stranger to the cloud. Guardian uses software-as-a-service products to run Guardian’s expense management system, as well as some […]

Hype and IT go hand in hand. From local area networking to the Internet, new computing paradigms regularly come on the scene with much fanfare, only to have reality set in as the kinds of functionality and business models IT shops need take five, 10, even 20 years to evolve. At this point, it’s safe […]

About 18 months ago, when Medtronic CIO Mike Hedges saw signs that the economy was headed into a prolonged downturn, he took a step to protect his company’s future. Hedges started reaching out to future IT workers at universities throughout Minnesota, where the medical technology provider is based. He did presentations about IT at Medtronic, […]

Carl Gilchrist, who leads the North American Information Officer Practice for executive search firm Spencer Stuart, has seen his share of CIOs come and go, and he says their staffing decisions often determine how successful they are. With that in mind, he offers CIOs some tips on how to stay on top of the recruitment […]

With the hiring market such a potential minefield of unknown risks, many CIOs are finding that one of their best recruitment strategies is to hold on to their most treasured current employees. As any CIO can tell you, this isn’t a great time for staff morale. Bonuses and perks that once were commonplace are almost […]

As Bud Albers prepared to lead Disney Interactive Media Group through a transformation that would centralize The Walt Disney Co.’s shared services, virtualize its infrastructure and rethink how it allocates technology costs to the various lines of business, it became apparent that better alignment with the business was needed. Albers, Disney Interactive’s CTO, is responsible […]

Three years ago, when Holly Morris took over as CIO at Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a faith-based, not-for-profit insurance provider, it was clear that IT was in no shape to support a business transformation effort already under way. Morris went to work on a five-year plan that would rethink IT as a reflection of business […]