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Blog: Second Acts: Why CEOs Get Them And CIOs Don't 18 January, 2008 12:36:09
Last week's news about Howard Schultz's return to the helm of Starbucks as CEO got me thinking about second acts. They're fairly common for CEOs. A year ago, Michael Dell was called back to the executive suite to revitalize the computer maker's growth. And Charles Schwab was reinstalled as CEO in July 2004, after having stepped down from that same role just 14 months earlier, in May 2003. - +
C-Level Execs Miss The Business Model Innovation Boat 28 November, 2007 08:25:35
CEOs, SVPs and CIOs talk a good game about wanting innovation. But I think it's all talk, not much action. - +
Blog: More on Organizational Realignments and How They Affect CIOs 03 June, 2008 14:29:24
IT leaders are well-positioned to benefit from and facilitate organizational changes inside their companies, according to one executive recruiter. - +
Blog: More Outsourcing Innovation Consternation 18 September, 2007 11:01:01
Some numbers from Forrester Research further illustrate the gap between expectation and reality when it comes to the level of innovation brought to bear by IT services providers.
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Influencing the market 04 February, 2008 10:18:57
Upheavals in the marketplace are forcing everyone to re-examine what it will take to build a vibrant ICT industry in AustraliaWhat a week! Investors are bailing out of technology stocks and several companies are seeing the need for new leadership. Things change quickly in this industry. - +
Consultancy points to its own research to justify IT outsourcing 12 December, 2007 09:01:02
IT rejects high project failure ratesBusiness executives and board members accept failed IT projects as "the norm" labelling them a "necessary evil" according to new research released yesterday by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). - +
Users rein in IT budget increases 26 November, 2007 08:14:06
Large organisations lead the way in belt tighteningLarge organisations are pulling in the reins on IT spending growth, according to a Computer Economics survey of 125 IT decision-makers in the US and Canada. Although 66 per cent of respondents expected budget increases next year, the size of those increases -- only 2.5 per cent at the median -- were relatively conservative when compared to the rising growth rates over the past three years. - +
CPOs replace CIOs but support CSOs and CTOs 10 January, 2007 09:35:14
More acronyms mean better businessThe increasing importance of business transformation has led to the creation of a new C-level title - the Chief Process Officer (CPO). - +
Hess outsources IT to IBM; move affects 50 employees 15 October, 2007 07:45:38
Energy company says IBM will help its global expansionUS-based Energy supplier Hess is outsourcing its IT infrastructure to IBM in a five-and-a-half year contract valued at US$73 million, the company announced last week.
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A recent SIM International study finds that fewer CIOs are reporting directly to the CEO. Instead, they're answering to less strategic executives, such as the chief operating officer or chief financial officer.
Baby boomer CIOs are retiring and being replaced by less business-savvy (and less expensive) successors. Regulatory concerns are eating up the bulk of IT's time and budget, while increased outsourcing and automation are changing the way business views IT overall. And not always in a good way.
Taken together, these trends don't seem to bode well for today's CIOs and their influence on the business side of the house. But what's the reality? When CEOs and company presidents and boards of directors think of their CIO, do they think innovation? Do they think competitive advantage? Or do they think of someone who just keeps the IT lights on?
While findings like SIM's are troubling, many experts say today's CIOs are actually gaining influence.
"I'm not concerned -- well, not overly concerned," says Jerry Lofton, vice president of academic affairs at SIM International and a co-author of the study. "If we saw the trend continuing, perhaps that would be an indicator. But other findings such as the fact that IT resources, as well as IT funding, are on the rise are very positive in comparison to looking at where the CIO reports."
In fact, IT spending overall is on a growth spurt, with North American IT expenditures increasing 5 per cent in 2007, compared with a 4.1 per cent increase in 2006, and a 2.5 per cent increase in 2005, according to Computer Economics' latest IT spending and staffing survey.
And other data seems to run counter to the SIM study. "We see exactly the opposite," says Harvey Koeppel, executive director of the Center for CIO Leadership in New York. "CIOs really are finding their way to a seat and voice at the table and being fairly heavily involved in setting strategic direction and becoming business partners with the rest of the C-level suite."
In fact, in research conducted by IBM and the Center last June, 80 per cent of the 175 CIOs polled felt they were valuable members of the executive leadership team, with 69 per cent indicating significant involvement in strategic decision making.
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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.
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
Symantec Data Protection Solutions Preferred by Users and Industry Experts 09 July, 2008 11:56:00
Frost & Sullivan: Australia’s Mobile Advertising Spend to Grow 300 Per Cent in 2008 09 July, 2008 07:57:00
DIARY ALERT - Symantec data leakage prevention seminars 08 July, 2008 17:20:00
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