Friday | 16 May, 2008
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How to Develop the Next Generation of IT Leaders 16 May, 2008 12:09:13
Retirement, outsourcing and a tight talent supply are thinning IT's leadership ranks. CIOs talk about the problem and share tactics for growing tomorrow's leadersRetirement, outsourcing and a tight talent supply are thinning IT's leadership ranks. CIOs talk about the problem and share tactics for growing tomorrow's leaders - +
Five Things William Cohen Has Learned from Peter Drucker 16 May, 2008 12:10:18
The author of A Class with Drucker shares what he learned while working with this business and management visionaryThe author of A Class with Drucker shares what he learned while working with this business and management visionary Leave a comment - +
CIOs Must Learn to Think Like a Customer In Order to Shape Value Proposition 16 May, 2008 15:08:39
Joined-up thinkingWith Brighton rock, you can see the name of the seaside resort spelled out all the way through the sweet, from edge to edge. And in the same way that you see a name through a piece of rock, a CIO can see through an organisation end to end. In fact, I can't think of any role other than that of the CIO which touches every single facet of the business. So, it's imperative that the CIO's vision and touch extend through to the organisation's end customer. - +
What Do Business Analysts Actually Do for Software Implementation Projects? 13 May, 2008 12:39:09
Everyone knows who the business analysts are in their organization, but not everyone knows what they actually do and what they are responsible for during software implementation projectsEveryone knows who the business analysts are in their organization, but not everyone knows what they actually do and what they are responsible for during software implementation projects - +
Secrets of Successful IT Teams: Socially Connected Employees 13 May, 2008 12:37:34
Successful IT management requires leaders to understand the strengths, weaknesses and connections of the people on their team. A software developer tells how his former boss used social network analysis tools to identify rising stars and strengthen his benchSuccessful IT management requires leaders to understand the strengths, weaknesses and connections of the people on their team. A software developer tells how his former boss used social network analysis tools to identify rising stars and strengthen his bench
Case Studies
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Planning Helps Data Centre Move Go Smoothly 21 June, 2007 16:15:51
Moving a data centre isn't easy under the best of circumstances. And no matter how hard you plan, there are still things that you don't think aboutIt isn't often that you have access to your local neighborhood data centre, literally a few steps down the block. But I did. I live in a residential area of the US state of St. Louis called the Central West End, and I pass by the offices of the Regional Justice Information Service (REJIS) almost every day. When I learned that it was going to be moving its data centre, I knew that I had to be there for the actual move. - +
Linux, Open Source Software Pay Off for PayPal 26 March, 2007 09:20:43
PayPal's upgrade path is 'unbelievably cost effective', ex-Visa CTO says.When Scott Thompson left Visa to take the CTO role at PayPal in 2005, the Web company's data centre surprised him. "Wait a minute," he recalls saying, "they run a payment system on Linux?" - +
Gartner, Align Thyself 14 December, 2001 12:40:43
The company is now applying its own advice internally and using the lessons it learned in restoring alignment between its own IT department and its business side.When Gartner's current CIO took the helm and called attention to terminal misalignment, was it a case of the emperor's new clothes? Here's a candid look at where Gartner's been and where it's going. - +
Change in Perspective 08 September, 2001 11:00:00
Announced in 1996, AMPlus, the IT alliance between AMP and then Andersen Consulting, was hailed as an "engine of transformation" by then CEO George Trumbull. Today, AMP is minus the "plus" and going it alone - welcome to IT@AMP
Interviews
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Q&A: IT is a moving target for Six Flags CIO 06 May, 2008 10:36:44
The Six Flags CIO talks about running a seasonal business that literally moves, keeping lines short and paying the roller coaster's electric bill.With 20 parks and nearly US$1 billion in sales, Six Flags is the second-largest amusement park operator in the world. Since coming to Six Flags as part of a management reorganization two years ago, CIO Michael Israel has overseen a bottom-up rebuilding of the IT architecture in the parks and in the company's data center, which moved from New York to Dallas. Israel describes the amusement park business as a shopping mall with rides. "Spend per attendee is everything," he says. - +
Business and IT Tie the Knot 01 May, 2008 13:43:32
Traditional, arranged marriages over the Internet. Try selling that to conservative and technology-shy Indian parents. Laughable. That's what the concept behind Shaadi.com must have seemed in the early 90's. - +
Hustling IT Along 23 April, 2008 14:05:18
Ajay Kaul, CEO, Domino’s Pizza India, says that in a company where a minute too late means money lost, IT is the base on which speed is builtIn the early 90's, Domino's outlets in the US called off their 30-minutes-or-free program after a woman sued the company when a harried delivery-person hit her. Media pressure to safeguard the lives of pizza delivery people soon came to India. Suddenly, pizza chains eased away from their 30-minute guarantees. Some companies moved to a 39-minute promise while others decided to forgo the concept entirely. - +
Interview: Douglas Merrill, Former Google CIO 18 April, 2008 14:17:19
Searching for meaning among CIOsMerrill spoke to us before he announcing his move from the search giant. - +
Highly recommended ways to dispense IT advice 03 April, 2008 10:20:27
A "chief advice officer" might become the person who drives technology-driven advisory networksMichael Schrage has some advice, and it's not just for IT managers.
Opinions
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More Support For Business Value Management 12 May, 2008 14:33:41
CIOs must stop focusing on constantly rebuilding their IT systems 'engine' and get strategic about IT as a business value generatorCIOs have long heard the advice from the C-suite, consultants, analysts, and the press: Stop focusing on constantly rebuilding your engine and get strategic about IT as a business value generator. Now there's proof from The Hackett Group that this advice is true. - +
The IT manager as pack rat: e-discovery advice 05 May, 2008 10:22:49
What a lawyer thinks is important may not be relevant to a technology professional, according to a panelist at a discussion on legal issues. How to avoid trouble if your company gets suedSymantec hosted a virtual round table last Friday that touched on some of the e-discovery issues troubling IT managers today, including the challenge of knowing what to chuck and what to keep. - +
IT's Recovering Complexaholics 08 April, 2008 14:35:21
The first step is agreeing that you have a problem. The road to simplicity is not hardThere's a standing joke that business people never have to ask IT how long something will take and what it will cost because they already know the answers: it always takes a year and costs millions - and that's just for the simple stuff. - +
The 10 Secrets of Bad CIOs 25 March, 2008 11:09:46
Avoid these behaviors, and you may be embraced by the organization for many years to comeIn my decade as a CIO, I've seen a lot of turnover in the IT industry. Each time I hear about a CIO being fired, I ask around to learn the root cause. Here's my list of the top 10 ways to be a bad CIO. - +
Where's the glass ceiling? 17 March, 2008 12:02:42
Running enterprise IT is definitely not the career path of choice for most womenZero point one per cent. That's about the number of women out of the pool of CIOs in India. Given that a tad over 15 per cent of engineering graduates are women, why do their numbers thin out so massively by the time they are ready to run IT in an enterprise? Why is it that tracking down a woman CIO is tougher than finding water in Rajasthan?
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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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Phishing botnet expands by hacking legit sites 15 May, 2008 08:10:59
Plants SQL injection attack tool on bots, hacks business, education sitesA botnet is now using a SQL-injection attack tool designed to hack legitimate Web sites, a move meant to add more hijacked PCs to its collection, according to a security researcher. - +
Which IT security skills are most important? 14 May, 2008 09:21:43
There are two types of security skills that might be needed in a company: tactical security operations and strategic risk management.I often hear from IT executives that it is hard to recruit and retain "good security people." Many lament the shortage of skills in this area and cannot reconcile the skills offered with the positions that need to be filled. Is there really a shortage of good security people? Or just a mismatch in the skills and the jobs? - +
Icy encryption tool protects laptops from "cold boot" attack, vendor says 14 May, 2008 08:36:43
Vulnerable encryption keys erased by HyBlue's IceLockThe vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers with a laptop security product announced Tuesday. - +
Great Wall of Australia: Industry cops sanitised Internet 14 May, 2008 16:45:04
Content filtering gets budget go-aheadCommunications Minister Stephen Conroy has pushed ahead with the controversial [[artid:420013177|national content filtering scheme|ISP filtering]] with a $125.8 million budget allocation announced today. - +
Hacker writes rootkit for Cisco's routers 15 May, 2008 07:07:51
A hacker has written rootkit software that works on Cisco's routers.A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco Systems' routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic.
F-Secure Represented On The International Advisory Board IMPACT 16 May, 2008 13:42:00
Quantum announces General Availability of Industry's First Solution Designed to Match De-Duplication Functionality to Specific B 16 May, 2008 10:44:00
Hansen Technologies Extends Contract With Tokyo Electric Power Company 16 May, 2008 09:44:00
More Than 140 Higher Education Institutions Worldwide Use RightNow on Demand CRM 15 May, 2008 18:06:00
DST International Names Rob Gould as Director of Business Development and Strategy for Australia 15 May, 2008 15:40:00
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