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    15 Ways to Create Innovation with IT 26 October, 2007 12:19:37

    Top Tips from the CIO 100: Ideas you can use from CIO 100 winners to make yourself a better innovator.
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    The Value Inside 01 May, 2006 11:31:06

    CIOs should be treating success with an application as an invitation to see what else the software can do for their business
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    Architecting Services 09 November, 2004 11:11:59

    The SOA concept isn't new, it's not a technology per se, it isn't just the use of XML and Web services, and it's a good deal more than a development methodology.
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    The Powers That Should Be 09 October, 2002 10:30:00

    David Drew used to have his own supergroup for IT decision making at 3M: the Information Systems Steering Committee. He had all six business division chiefs in there, along with the top functional leaders, meeting together six times a year to do nothing but jam on IT strategy, endorse IT projects of more than $US1 million and prioritise IT resources
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    Know Your Customer 20 September, 1999 09:28:14

    Intimacy, relationships, one-to-one - it's a giant lovefest out there.
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    Driving Cultural Change 11 August, 1999 10:17:20

    Until recently $10 billion global distribution company Inchcape Motors knew everything about cars but relatively little about people. Sue Bushell considers how the company is implementing CRM to change the way both it and five franchises do business
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    Great Expectations 03 May, 1999 12:58:28

    Tight nexus between information systems and business strategy is the grail for the global corporation. To date the grail has been chimerical for most chief executive officers, whose expectations of technology have rarely been matched by practice. Yet they remain optimistic. They have to.
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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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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    SOA What? Why You Need SOA Governance Framework 04 December, 2008 08:32:00

    Adopting services oriented architecture (SOA) in your enterprise without thinking through IT governance can cause something like the Gold Rush in the 1800s; extreme rates of growth and minimal law and order which produce unexpected outcomes.
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    The Myth of Cloud Computing 04 December, 2008 08:25:00

    Why the rapid spread of virtual technology is becoming a security risk
    Why the rapid spread of virtual technology is becoming a security risk.
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    Who Pushed Vendors Toward Better Security? 04 December, 2008 09:38:00

    Hint: It had something to do with pressure from customers and government agencies, writes Oracle CSO Mary Ann Davidson
    Hint: It had something to do with pressure from customers and government agencies, writes Oracle CSO Mary Ann Davidson.
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    CPO & CISO: A Comprehensive Approach to Information 04 December, 2008 08:42:00

    GE CPO Nuala O'Connor Kelly advocates greater CPO/CISO cooperation to place the right value on information assets.
    GE CPO Nuala O'Connor Kelly advocates greater CPO/CISO cooperation to place the right value on information assets.
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    Virtually every Windows PC at risk, says Secunia 04 December, 2008 08:00:00

    Almost all PCs scanned by patch tool have an unpatched app; 46% have 11-plus.
    More than 98% of Windows computers harbor at least one unpatched application, and nearly half contain 11 or more programs at risk from attack, a Danish security company said Wednesday.
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