When these companies went global, they leveraged IT to unify, localize and lay the foundation for future growth

Keep Frontline IT People In-House

A new index from the CIO Executive Council rates IT suppliers on 20 characteristics of truly strategic partners

Giving Power to Clients

How CIOs are optimizing their infrastruture to meet changing business needs

An interview with Tom Priselac, president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Health Systems, and Darren Dworkin, CIO.

Scenario: Keeping Critical IT Knowledge In-House

Norm Chambers All our products rely on nonresidential new construction, and that market in this country is more than 45 percent below average right now. We've had three consecutive years of decline, and in 2009, we were at risk of bankruptcy. The question was: What are we going to do to survive? And we answered that by asking: What are we going to do with technology?

How to get information users - not IT - to spearhead development of business intelligence systems

Senior VP and CIO Doug Porter and President and CEO Scott Serota discuss Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association's business intelligence tools.

An interview with Michael McCain, president and CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, and Jeff Hutchinson, CIO.

Scenario: We are just finishing a two-year redesign of our job families, and we're now ready to look at other support structures that help lock in both technical and soft skills. I have a variety of pilot mentorship programs and am starting two summer projects to create a development activities guide and an improved onboarding program.

Scottrade CIO Ian Patterson and Scottrade Bank President Joe Pope discuss relationship banking.

Scenario: Enhancing IT's reputation by using business intelligence to help make better decisions

Scenario: Managing change across a newly information-based company