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Good CIOs, Bad Choices 07 February, 2007 15:50:59
Smart IT leaders know the key to better decision making is to take a hard look in the mirror and identify what they need to work on to build credibility with the businessAfter only three years, Tom, a publishing industry CIO, got the boot. It's amazing that an IT leader with such intelligence and years of experience could mess up so badly in such a short time. - +
Financial Disciplines 07 February, 2007 15:25:03
IS is being called on to provide a wider range of business services. Its financial approaches need to evolve as well"Budgets are not something I agonize over any more" said one CIO contributor to some of our recent research. Many CIOs have to invest time and political capital to hone their IS budgets because the fact is that annual budgets are today's near-universal means of providing oversight, transparency and direction for most IS organizations. This particular CIO at least has got budgets right. - +
Something of Value 11 December, 2006 12:23:49
The importance of creating competitive advantage with existing data.Every enterprise grows by meeting the needs of its customers. The information value chain links these needs to the enterprise's activities. The CIO has a clear role to play in strengthening this chain. - +
The PMO Evolution 09 October, 2006 12:22:21
CIOs should also devote resources to developing competent project managers through formal training, coaching and mentoring. Not all projects require the same level of experiencePMOs come in three types of increasing complexity. The choice of which one is right for you depends on the business problem you are trying to address - +
The Urge to Emerge 05 September, 2006 09:00:00
For the CIO, the best approach involves three phases. The investigate phase - one to three months - focuses on gathering information about business needs and the emerging market environment, to decide the best blend of standardized and customized IT for the emerging marketTo achieve growth targets, many enterprises are moving into emerging markets - +
Measure for Measure 04 August, 2006 13:20:38
Flawless development and operations might be OK. But what the business really cares about is not systems, it's pay-offBenefits realization is a persistent need - +
Building Business Smarts 07 July, 2006 16:50:29
It's not unusual these days for the IT team to be called on to assist with business process design. IT people are ending up responsible for all manner of projects — many of them increasingly unrelated to ITIS's technical prowess is no longer sufficient to contribute to the business. IS must also have business smarts - +
Changes All Around 05 June, 2006 09:00:00
Given the high stakes involved and abundant natural resistance to change that already exists within most enterprises, it's not surprising that CIOs are tempted to view change management like they viewed project management in the 1980s: if it works out right, it's more by luck than judgmentCIOs can use many of the disciplines already at their disposal to make their enterprises more successful at change management - +
Turnaround Artist 03 May, 2006 14:54:41
A turnaround CIO does not have to be someone that comes in from the outside, though. Fortunately current CIOs can learn from turnaround CIOs to use a combination of leadership, management and organizational techniques, to drive resultsTurn the IS ship in time or hit the iceberg! - +
Keeping Score 03 April, 2006 12:24:31
Practising feedback analysis and understanding how your peers learn enhance the CIO's ability to communicate complex topicsTired of justifying your seat at the executive table? Get your peers to stop thinking of the CIO as a service provider and start treating you like a business partner. - +
Harnessing Good Ideas 08 March, 2006 13:17:16
Today' raw material of successful growth is good ideas, put to work as new services, products and business processes. But creating sustainable business growth is hardGood ideas are a great driver of business success but can lose their momentum if not tied to a repeatable growth process - +
Change Is the Name of the Game 03 February, 2006 10:23:05
Business process change is not new. In various guises, business process change has been the foundation of most improvements in business efficiency and agility for years. What is new is that, after a few false dawns, IT is finally have a big role to play it making it workBusiness process change presents opportunities and threats for CIOs and IT - +
Quick Change Artistry 12 December, 2005 13:06:23
Agility, the most important enterprise survival mechanism, is something you build. It's not something you can buy "out of the box" despite what technology vendors and consultants might sayHow well an enterprise can change determines whether change is a threat or an opportunity - +
Breaking With Tradition 22 November, 2005 17:48:30
Ten years ago IT risks were "contained" within the four walls of the data centre. Today, IT risks are public and they can have dramatic personal ramifications.The nature of IT risk is changing, reducing the effectiveness of traditional risk management approaches - +
Time to Get Real? 11 October, 2005 09:41:04
There are three strong reasons why real-time infrastructure isn't practical yet: It's almost impossible to make a business case for it; it's not yet technically feasible; and vendor licensing agreements have not kept up with the technologyIs real-time infrastructure too good to be true or a potential new source of reduced cost and increased agility?
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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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'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. - +
SQL attacks lobs onto pro tennis site 02 July, 2008 11:52:19
Wimbledon perfect time for crook's criminal racket.Visitors to the Association of Tennis Professionals Web site have potentially been infected with spyware after apparent lax security allowed a malicious script to be injected across its pages. - +
Hacking tools: A new version of BackTrack helps ethical hackers 30 June, 2008 10:57:21
BackTrack is the quickest way to get access to hundreds of (legal) hacking toolsVersion 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the world's most popular open source or freely distributable hacking tools. - +
Japanese military loses data again 02 July, 2008 08:17:21
Japan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data on joint US-Japan military exerciseJapan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data pertaining to a joint US-Japan military exercise last year, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. - +
ACLU, EFF sue US gov't over mobile phone tracking 03 July, 2008 08:37:23
Two civil liberties groups sue the US Department of Justice over mobile phone trackingThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the US Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency's tracking of mobile phone users.
Ballarat Grammar Improves Student Access to Computer Based Learning with HP ProCurve 04 July, 2008 16:49:00
Media release: 40 Per Cent of Australian Businesses Do Not Validate Their Data 04 July, 2008 10:29:00
Kaseya helps turbo charge BlueFire’s service delivery model 03 July, 2008 17:23:00
Computershare Selects Symantec for Data Loss Prevention Globally 03 July, 2008 14:52:00
DST International moves to new Shanghai office 03 July, 2008 13:21:00
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