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Stories by: Thomas Wailgum

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    CIOs in 2011: The IT roles and strategies in high demand 08 December, 2010 07:25:00

    CIOs have finally emerged from the dark days of budget-slashing, cost-cutting and headcount-reducing. The metaphorical knives, axes and saws can all be put away.
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    How one CIO remains in lock-step with the business 17 November, 2010 06:16:00

    Every Thursday afternoon at 1:30 p.m., Tom Uva's senior IT team gathers in his office. They do not assemble to shoot the breeze or grumble about the potent weather in Syracuse, N.Y., where their company, Sensis, an aerospace and defense manufacturer selling to a host of three-letter acronym U.S. government agencies, is headquartered.
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    Biggest barriers to business analytics adoption: People 12 November, 2010 06:01:00

    Business analytics is atop most companies' apps wish lists. The business goal, of course, is to make sense of the enormous amount of data and information housed in their servers -- and stop making critical decisions from the gut.
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    7 essential CIO leadership skills that get results 20 October, 2010 05:59:00

    In the new book The CIO Edge: Seven Leadership Skills You Need to Drive Results, the trio of authors argue that CIOs' leadership and people skills are the biggest determinate of their success -- or failure.
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    ERP rollouts: Why SMBs say no 13 October, 2010 06:15:00

    At what point in a fledgling company's existence does purchasing an ERP system make financial, operational and technological sense?
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    10 Ways To Know You're in the Twitter Twilight Zone 17 September, 2010 00:13:00

    All too often, it seems like there's a full moon out when it comes to Twitter: People who use the microblogging service do some very strange things.
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    Why IT Costs Must Come Out of the Black Box--Now 01 September, 2010 05:01:00

    For decades, the inner workings of IT departments everywhere have been referred to as a Black Box, since non-tech executives typically had little insight into or appreciation for IT's dark arts.
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    The New New CIO Role: Big Changes Ahead 21 August, 2010 01:42:00

    CIOs know all about change management--from jettisoning legacy apps, to prodding line of business VPs to share virtualized resources.
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    Inside American Eagle Outfitter's 8-Day website nightmare 10 August, 2010 08:19:00

    HANG IN THERE. That was the first plea American Eagle Outfitters offered its nearly 1.5 million Facebook friends three days after its trio of e-commerce sites had crashed.
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    Top 10 Ways CIOs Can Prepare for Recession No. 2 31 July, 2010 03:44:00

    Recessionary talk is in the air once again, thanks to the good folks at Gartner. In a July report, Gartner urges CIOs to prepare for a second economic downturn-if one should ever occur.
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    RFID tags arrive on store floor as retailers go after ROI 29 July, 2010 05:11:00

    For the retailing industry, the adoption of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology this decade has been one long, strange journey: Periods of irrational exuberance followed by times of great frustration and confusion; expensive pilot projects riddled with technical, standards-based and cost complexities; and a widespread belief among those retailers or CPG manufacturers that were forced into the RFID universe that it is a technology solution in search of a problem.
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