Stories about: Core Technology

Intel just came to the same conclusion about Vista that so many of you enterprise IT leaders have made. From Steve Lohr at the New York Times came the delicious tidbit this week: Intel will pass on upgrading most of its employees' PCs to Microsoft Vista. They're going to stick with Windows XP, having found no compelling reason to upgrade to Vista on a large scale.

Name a department at Wells Fargo & Company, and it's likely that Avid Modjtabai has held a senior position in it. From online personal finance services to human resources and consumer deposits, Modjtabai has been there, done that in her 14-year tenure at the company. Her experience has not gone unnoticed; in addition to being named one of the "most powerful women in banking" by U.S. Banker, she also received accolades from the San Francisco Business Times as of one of the "100 most influential women in Bay Area business." Elizabeth Garone spoke to Modjtabai about her career and the benefit of moving across functions. Edited excerpts follow.

A generation ago, if you could claim a 10-year career as CIO, you were probably nearing retirement. After all, the position was only really formalized in the mid-1980s.

The Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs yesterday announced a three-year deal with IBM for core technology services as part of its $495 million Systems for People project.

To avoid extinction, CIOs must move from an orientation that revolves around technology to one centred on business processes

IBM's pitch that on-demand e-business will reduce IT costs and make everything work better sounds good, especially to CEOs who don't understand that the technologies to make it happen just don't exist.

It is time to start thinking like an accountant if you truly want to maximise the organisational bang for buck on IT investments.

CIO asked independent telecommunications consultant Stephen Coates to explore some of the issues and technologies at the telecommunications coalface.

You've heard it before: work fast, save money, build better software. But, as with everything it touches, the Internet has escalated that mandate. Is CBD the e-business silver bullet?

Web-enabled applications demand careful infrastructure

At the heart of Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, John Seely Brown boards an elevator in the rabbit warren of a building called Xerox PARC and greets a colleague. "Still making trouble?" he asks. "You bet," comes the hearty answer. "That's good. That's good," nods Xerox's director of research. He means it. Brown encourages his researchers to upset apple carts and hurl the occasional monkey wrench that jams conventional wisdom. Brown believes no company can survive the long haul without accepting the risks that come with a commitment to radical innovation.