Saturday | 19 July, 2008
Stories by: Susan H. Cramm
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The Pull of Persuasion 06 August, 2007 11:37:01
You would think that the executive who consumes, on average, nearly 50 percent of the capital invested by businesses would have a lot of power. You would be wrong - +
Be Better Than You Really Are 12 April, 2007 15:07:02
CIOs, like other executives, often fail in their responsibilities because they don't have the self-awareness and humility to mitigate their weaknesses and avoid overusing their strengths. Very few of us, in fact, are able to see ourselves through the eyes of others. We require some kind of external feedback - +
True Colours 03 April, 2007 13:02:21
In my experience, most people are good. Walk the halls of any company and you will find committed parents, involved community members and hardworking professionals. How then to explain the fact that on a daily basis many of us behave badly, demonstrating such self-defeating behaviours as pessimism, selfishness and insecurity? - +
Leadership Under the Influence 05 March, 2007 12:09:32
IT leadership is never easy, but some people make it harder than it has to be. - +
Good CIOs, Bad Choices 07 February, 2007 15:50:59
After only three years, Tom, a publishing industry CIO, got the boot. It's amazing that an IT leader with such intelligence and years of experience could mess up so badly in such a short time. - +
CIO in the Round 11 December, 2006 13:00:29
CIOs can push their leadership skills to the next level by using a 360 review to understand what they do well - and to start doing it better. - +
A Good Offence Is a Good Defence 06 November, 2006 12:56:06
Why it pays CIOs to map their plays before a dictate to outsource comes down from on high - +
Value? Added 09 October, 2006 13:30:31
How CIOs can engineer a "tipping point" to speed up adoption of value management practices and prove - once and for all - that IT matters - +
Hard Problems, Soft Answers 05 September, 2006 09:10:00
You know your team is delivering quality, but the organization is not seeing it. Why? Because you're not delivering on your relationships - +
The Folly of Finger-Pointing 04 August, 2006 12:45:56
If individuals don't accept personal responsibility when things go wrong, their organizations will become dysfunctional and stay dysfunctional - +
IT's Good News 07 July, 2006 16:58:07
CIOs need to help their staffers understand that if they can hold on during the tough times, the pay-off is just around the corner
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Lessons learned from the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability 18 July, 2008 10:25:47
What do we know about the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability, and what has come to light in the time since the initial announcement?There has been a lot of speculation devoted to the impending release of information about a DNS vulnerability discovered and initially announced by Dan Kaminsky almost two weeks ago. A lot of the coverage has been back and forth arguing about whether what has been discovered is relevant or not but the best thing to have done in the intervening period is to have sat on your hands and waited. - +
How CAPTCHA got trashed 15 July, 2008 09:02:49
The wiggly words are now most useful for malware authorsCAPTCHA used to be an easy and useful way for Web administrators to authenticate users. Now it's an easy and useful way for malware authors and spammers to do their dirty work. - +
Five lessons learned about computer security 16 July, 2008 11:15:22
How a hacker turned an illegal hobby into a useful career.Reformed hacker-turned-security-consultant Kevin Mitnick served five years in federal prison for breaking into phone and software company networks. He talks about his past hacking exploits, computer security, and how he turned an illegal hobby into a useful career. - +
Insider threat looms as San Francisco crisis plays out 17 July, 2008 07:54:00
City trying to wrestle its network off jailed 43-year-old who is still refusing to relinquish controlThe unfolding cliffhanger in San Francisco this week -- in which a city network administrator has been arrested for allegedly holding the network hostage -- represents an extreme example of the insider threat that IT security vendors and others have been sounding the alarm about for years. - +
Hack a million systems - earn a job 16 July, 2008 16:12:54
The idea of employing an admitted botnet creator and carding software author might not be palatable for many, but not so for an 18-year old New Zealander.It has been a number of years since the fantasy that hackers will be offered a job by those who they hacked was even a potential reality, but there are reports that this might still be the case in New Zealand.
Satyam’s Q1 revenue up by 43% and Net Profit by 45% YoY; revises revenue and EPS guidance upwards for FY09 18 July, 2008 16:58:00
Informatica Reports Record Second Quarter Results 18 July, 2008 13:01:00
Tumbleweed Releases MailGate 3.6 18 July, 2008 10:01:00
Convergys to Acquire Intervoice, Enhancing Leadership in Relationship Management 17 July, 2008 14:41:00
Borland Management Solutions Put the "M" in Application Lifecycle Management 17 July, 2008 13:43:00
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