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Ticked Off at Tick the Box Mentality 04 February, 2008 13:01:15
Does your executive search firm know the difference between an MIS manager and a CIO, and if it does, can it explain that difference to its corporate clients?Does your executive search firm know its MIS managers from its elbow? Does it even know the difference between an MIS manager and a CIO, and if it does, can it explain that difference to its corporate clients? - +
It Is the Business, Stupid 10 December, 2006 13:59:51
When projects go pear-shaped it's usually because there's too much focus on technology, and not enough on business outcomes and associated changeIn a 2005 article"Why Software Projects Fail", Cutter Consortium Fellow Robert Charette narrates an infamous anecdote about a disappearing warehouse. - +
Just Say "Know" 06 November, 2006 11:35:51
The boss may assume that outsourcing is the answer to everything. But CIOs can't afford to assume anything. They have to know.It's a scenario scary enough to induce night sweats in even the steeliest CIO. Your CEO, just back from a conference in Port Douglas, strides into your office. Yesterday, he played golf with the vice president of sales for one of the big IT services companies and now he's telling you that this company could take over most of your IT functions and cut your company's IT budget in half. Not only that, they can deliver better services levels. After all, it's what they do! - +
How to Hook the Talent You Need 09 October, 2006 13:54:59
Things to do today and tomorrow to keep your evolving IT department stocked with the best and most useful employees.WANTED - Experienced IT professionals with broad technical competency and working knowledge of both emerging technologies and legacy systems. Should have top-notch analytical and problem-solving prowess, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work well independently and as a member of a team. Must have experience in business process management, certification in project management and a solid understanding of enterprise architecture. Customer service attitude required. Vendor management background a plus. - +
The Post-Modern Manifesto 05 June, 2006 09:00:00
CIOs will need to transform themselves into innovation leaders, not merely infrastructure stewards, and they will have to remake their departments in that imageThe service-fulfilment model for IT is dying. A new philosophy of innovation and productivity is being born. Here's what CIOs need to do to usher in a new age of IT
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Uncovering network holes 21 July, 2003 12:15:56
Let’s face it: network vulnerabilities are rampant, worm writers are looking for the next server application to exploit, and malicious hackers are breaching the moat and climbing up the castle’s walls. How does an organisation defend itself? It finds all the network and server holes, using a new breed of vulnerability assessment tools, and plugs them. - +
EMC move fuels storage shakeout 16 July, 2003 08:20:36
A steadily consolidating storage market veered into the fast lane last week with EMC's US$1.3 billion purchase of Legato Systems Inc. And experts see nothing but open road ahead for more mergers and acquisitions. - +
Databases: Powerful engines set on cruise control 14 July, 2003 14:47:19
No longer unwieldy beasts needing armies of attendants, relational databases still follow the concepts of Father Ted. - +
Mobile Computing: Laptop luggables to palm top promise 14 July, 2003 12:34:36
Mobile computing can trace its roots from the shoulder sagging 14kg “luggables” of the early 1980s. Dramatic improvements have followed, but there remains some way to go. - +
Case Study: Sticking to policy at OneBeacon 10 July, 2003 10:41:47
Two years ago, OneBeacon Insurance Group was bleeding out US$50 million a month from inefficiencies throughout the company, including an IT department rife with cost overruns, poor accountability and poor communication with the business side of the house.
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Outsourcing to India can provide a huge payback - if you're willing to work at it. Two offshore veterans share their hard-earned lessons to help you determine if Indian outsourcing is right for your company.
Don't bother trading horror stories about outsourcing to India with John Doucette. He'll trump you every time. "I was doing this back when you didn't want to be doing this," says Doucette, CIO of Hartford, Connecticut-based United Technologies, who first sent coding work to India more than a decade ago when he worked at General Electric. "Most CIOs don't have any clue what it used to be like. You had people who couldn't speak English. The telecommunications were terrible. It was awful trying to transfer files back and forth."
Head down the highway 16 kilometres to Otis Elevator in Farmington, one of United Technologies' six business units, and you won't get much sympathy from offshore veteran David Wood either. "Back then, there was not a lot of capability in India," says Wood, who set up a captive development centre in India in the early 90s when he was CIO of Otis Asia Pacific in Singapore. "It was a phenomenon that was only just starting," adds Wood, now Otis's director of systems development.
Today, however, Indian outsourcing is one of the best ways for CIOs to cut application development and maintenance costs, deal effectively with the peaks and valleys of software demands, and focus on more strategic work. Depending on whom you ask, anywhere from one-half to two-thirds of all Fortune 500 companies are already outsourcing to India, and, according to Forrester Research, the amount of work done there for US companies alone is expected to more than double this year. If you're not already sending some development or maintenance work to Mumbai or Chennai, chances are you're either looking into it or your CFO, salivating over potential labour cost savings of 70 per cent, is wondering why you aren't.
But despite its popularity, successful outsourcing to India is still difficult. While the market has matured, telecommunications have improved and English fluency in India has flourished, challenges still remain. Cultural issues creep in, service-level expectations are set too high, transitional costs can be forbidding, and ongoing relationship management is expensive and labour-intensive. And although United Technologies is an Indian outsourcing success story, to be sure - the company has already saved $US50 million and attributes $US30 million annual savings to it - United has had to overcome some obstacles. Even old hands like Doucette and Wood make missteps, and they agree that outsourcing to India is a work in progress - a journey, not a destination. But they are still big believers of the India phenomenon. They recently shared with CIO some of the lessons they've learned along the way.
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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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Citibank debit card fraud highlights ATM vulnerabilities 08 July, 2008 08:17:53
'Back-end servers are kind of a joke,' and the trouble doesn't end thereMalicious ATM intrusions, such as the late-winter breach that resulted in the compromise of Citibank debit card data, are not at all surprising given the vulnerable state of many of the servers and other components involved in processing such transactions, according to some industry representatives. - +
How to not have your Web site hacked like Sony's 07 July, 2008 08:23:22
A SQL injection attack was used to plant malicious code on pages of two popular Sony Playstation games - SingStar Pop and God of War, reports security company Sophos. Hundreds of Web pages from other businesses have also been compromised.The US Sony Playstation Web site is the latest high-profile victim of a hacker attack on business sites that's spreading malware at breakneck pace, says a security vendor. - +
AG launches review into national e-security 07 July, 2008 11:07:49
Howard's security agenda dragged over coals.A review of Australia's top e-security projects lead by the Attorney-General's Department has been launched to scrutinise the Howard's government's $73 million E-Security National Agenda. - +
Selling zero-day exploits has a down side 07 July, 2008 10:16:36
There is an ongoing argument about the ethics of selling 0-day exploits on the open market: It helps if you don't sell exploits targeting the company you work for.Information Security can sometimes be a funny field to work in. Some days it seems as if anybody with their hands on unpublished exploit code can sell it for all they're worth, and others it seems that they are set to become the target of law enforcement and the companies the code affects. It does help if you don't work for one of the companies that is set to be affected by the exploits you are trying to sell and aren't trying to bootstrap a competing company in the process. - +
'I have a lost laptop horror story for you' 30 June, 2008 10:08:14
The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow...The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow: Russ Jones tells a tale of woe that isn't particularly dramatic -- or rare -- and yet it's exactly the kind of story that worries me enough to ignore my better judgment and buy identity-theft protection from my insurance provider.
VideoMate Vista E900F PCIe Dual Hybrid TV tuner Card_ The First and Only twins tuners card in the world 09 July, 2008 18:30:00
WatchGuard Unveils Vision of Extensible Network Security 09 July, 2008 16:53:00
Bridgewater Systems Wins Inaugural Internet Telephony 2008 Wimax Distinction Award 09 July, 2008 15:42:00
WD’s New My Book® Mirror Edition™ External Hard Drive Provides The Safest Place For Valuable Personal Content 09 July, 2008 15:00:00
Zepto release the Mythos, the 2nd installment in the Centrino 2 refresh 09 July, 2008 12:05:00
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