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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. - +
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. - +
Microsoft hires supercomputing guru 13 November, 2007 09:12:35
Dan Reed, Microsoft Research's new director of Scalable and Multicore Computing.With AMD and Intel duking it out on the multicore processor front, and server and PC makers pushing ever more scalable systems, Microsoft is looking to stay in lockstep.
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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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New Ways to Approach Security in a Web 2.0 World 08 September, 2008 09:32:00
Web 2.0 technologies have ushered in a new age of security threats. Brian Foster, vice president of product management with Symantec, shares his insight on what you need to do to safeguard your company in today's business environmentBusiness isn't what it used to be. - +
Skills for leading a converged security operation 08 September, 2008 12:30:00
The cultural challenges are significant, and the CSO has to lead the way in learning and changing. We spoke with several converged CSOs for their take on building the necessary skills to hold the job.John had a massive challenge to tackle. A former IT security officer at a large bank in New York, he and his wife packed up and moved across the country so he could take on the role of chief security officer with a well-known provider of loans, retail financing, and other credit related products. - +
Information security governance: Centralized vs. distributed 05 September, 2008 10:15:00
Should security policies, procedures and processes be managed within a central body, or distributed at an individual level? You need to find the middle ground.The management of information risk has become a significant topic for all organizations, small and large alike. But for the large, multi-divisional organization, it poses the additional challenge of determining how to deploy an information security governance program among what are often disparate business units. Should the policies, procedures, and processes that define the program be developed and managed within a central, corporate body? Or perhaps responsibility would be better placed at the individual unit level? Is there a workable middle-ground? - +
DNS error brings Sophos antivirus updates to a halt 05 September, 2008 13:40:00
Optus, Internode and Equinix affected among others.A sporadic Domain Name Server (DNS) error has blocked Sophos anti-virus updates around the world. - +
Ouch! Security pros' worst mistakes 04 September, 2008 08:05:00
We've all done regrettable things on the job, but does any valuable wisdom come of it? Four security pros candidly explain their biggest blunders and what they learned in the processIt was a mistake so bad the person who made it asked that his name and company not be mentioned here. Let's call him Frank.
From Indian roadside selling candles to three Australian Business Awards: OCA Group divisions triumph 08 September, 2008 16:46:00
NetSuite First with Native Support for Google Chrome 08 September, 2008 11:07:00
Frost & Sullivan: Soaring Demand For Hosted Web Conferencing Services 08 September, 2008 08:44:00
Viva la Verticals! Key to Vendor Growth is Through Vertical Market Opportunities, Says IDC 05 September, 2008 11:05:00
F-Secure delivers fastest protection in the online world 04 September, 2008 16:50:00
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