2/23/2010
CIOs are Gearing Up for Greater Success
Using smart investment and leveraging enterprise decisions, CIOs are helping position their companies to come out of the downturn at full speed
2/23/2010
12/18/2009
Recession Lessons from Whirlpool CIO
Kevin Summers says the big lesson of the recession is a focus on organization fundamentals
12/18/2009
Develop Your External Leadership Skills
Download this collection of essays from CIO Executive Council members on understanding and developing the external-facing leadership competencies of "customer focus," "commercial orientation" and "market knowledge."
12/17/2009
2010 State of the CIO: Today's Focus for IT Departments - Business Opportunities
The recession has deepened CIO understanding of and commitment to business beyond IT. It's not just about installing BI tools or upgrading ERP, but about working side by side with other company leaders to build IT into new goods and services.
12/10/2009
Tiger Woods and Accenture: A High (and Now Low) Performance Relationship
Will Accenture's multimillion-dollar one-man marketing machine ("Go on. Be a Tiger.") have disastrous consequences for Accenture's brand and business lines, now that Woods is a pariah?
12/10/2009
10 Predictions for 2010
No doubt, a leading IT story in 2010 will be the role that sector will play in the expected economic recovery, as well as how IT markets themselves recover. OK, so that's a no-brainer to predict, but we're latching on to some more specific details in that regard, and we've found a limb or three to walk out on as well. In no particular order we present the 2010 edition of our annual predictions.
12/10/2009
SAP Launches Sustainability-Tracking Application
SAP's emerging line of green IT software got a boost Thursday with the announcement of an application that helps companies pull together data about their corporate sustainability, analyze the information and create reports.
12/9/2009
Forrester: CIOs Should Embrace Consumer Tools
The consumerization of IT, the rise of agile software development and the explosion of cloud computing technologiesare three big trends that today's CIOs must embrace, a group of analysts at Forrester Research Inc. said Tuesday.
12/3/2009
No Quick Resolution Likely for SAP KPI Saga
SAP's attempt to convince users that its Enterprise Support service provides enough value to justify a higher price tag may drag on well into 2010.
11/30/2009
Collaboration: Interaction Disconnect
It is easier to set the goals for collaboration systems than to achieve the intended results.
11/24/2009
IBM's Black Friday-Like Promotion Pushes IT Equipment Leasing
IBM is in the midst of a promotion aimed at pushing its leasing program and used IT equipment to customers hesitant to spend in a down economy.
11/17/2009
Business Strategy: The "Best Determinant" of Project Success
New project management research indicates that to be successful, projects must tie directly to business strategy, and project managers must understand how the project supports the strategy.
11/16/2009
Book Review: Four Steps to Becoming a Top-Tier CIO
The authors of The Real Business of IT show how CIOs can demonstrate and communicate the value of IT in terms the CEO will understand.
11/13/2009
AMD and Intel Patch Things Up, HP Buys 3Com
We had a blockbuster deal this week, with Hewlett-Packard saying it plans to buy 3Com, and a blockbuster settlement, with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel ending a long-running legal dispute. By midnight tonight, Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers are supposed to file a revised book-search settlement proposal, which could add to our top stories list for the week. For now, though, what follows are our top IT headlines of the moment.
11/10/2009
For CIOs, a Silver Lining in the Recession
A survey from the the Society for Information Management finds a lot of interest among companies in how IT can be used to reduce the cost of business.