Tuesday | 14 October, 2008
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Why More Is Less 08 October, 2003 10:20:31
Unfortunately, even in the face of the mounting scientific and anecdotal evidence (not to mention individual blood pressure and stress levels) that multitasking doesn't work, companies cling to it like shipwrecked survivors to flotsam.Recent evidence shows that multitasking is an enormous waste of your time and your company's money. - +
Here in Body Only 11 September, 2003 13:01:47
A staff beset by warm-chair attrition is a staff that has little sense of its contribution to the organisation or faith in its future role. It's the job of the CIO, not the HR department, to address both of those issues directlyYou don't have to do anything to retain employees when they have nowhere to go. But doing nothing now will lead to problems tomorrow - +
Big Brother 14 July, 2003 10:46:09
IT systems are too often used to monitor and punish rather than recognise and rewardWith more and more corporate transactions going network, a company's ability to cheaply and thoroughly audit itself leaps by orders of magnitude - +
Support Users 05 February, 2003 15:27:42
If IT ducks responsibility for training users, it gives up control of innovation. - +
The Job-Hunting Abyss 06 September, 2002 10:47:28
When it comes to changing careers, sometimes you have to leap and trust you'll land smoothly. But the process itself can be enervatingOne of the most challenging aspects of the CIO's career is finding another job. It's a personal journey upon which I've recently embarked, and the strategy I pursued was a particularly risky one. I left my previous job before finding a new one. - +
What's Going On? 05 September, 2002 10:30:00
IDC's end-user analyst finds himself singing along with a Marvin Gaye classicJobs or no jobs? That is the question. At present, you'd be hard-pressed to find the answer in the press with so many conflicting viewpoints about the employment prospects for an out-of-work IT professional. This was classically highlighted on July 9 when two articles in the general press gave completely contradictory versions. - +
How Does Your Workforce Grow? 05 August, 2002 11:40:59
Effective leadership requires equal parts of long-range planning and regular pruningGardeners constantly do three things: pick the best quality seeds, prune regularly to keep the plants shapely and healthy, and spend hours preventing pests and then treating the plants for any damage sustained. Those same three things should dominate any leader's approach to people management and staffing, whether on the small scale of a team or through a worldwide performance management system - +
The Mix and Match Method 05 August, 2002 11:46:41
A CIO in the insurance business shares his success with a management approach that relies on rotating IT staff around for different projectsTwo years ago, the IT group at my company, a national think tank on workers' compensation insurance, faced a dilemma. One of the goals we had set for ourselves was to use our Web site to provide the best internal and external customer support and to deliver high-quality tools to our customers. What made it a challenge was the fact that most of our programmers spent much of their time supporting existing legacy systems, while most of the new product development was being done by external consultants. Our staffers were not getting the chance to build new skills so that they could take over our new Web-enabled platform. - +
Time to Go 08 July, 2002 10:30:00
Deciding to leave a company can be one of the toughest choices a leader has to make. Here's how to do it rightWhen is it time to go? The go or stay decision could be one of the most critical career decisions you make. Here are some considerations. - +
How to Negotiate Compensation 03 December, 2001 12:17:00
While for CIOs the boom times of multiple job offers and stock options that would make King Midas jealous are over, that doesn't mean you can't land a new job with a swell compensation package. - +
Tales From the Trenches 10 August, 2001 09:00:00
If the daily environment in which we place our staff does not reflect a commitment to quality, what right do we have to expect it in return?If you want to improve the quality of your employees' output, try walking a kilometre in their shoes.
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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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Cutting Through the Spin of Recent Vulnerability Disclosures 13 October, 2008 10:53:00
The FUD surrounding the ClickJacking and TCP/IP vulnerabilities has the world seemingly frozen in fear. But once you cut through the spin, the vulnerabilities aren't all that they were made out to be.There are a few highly publicised vulnerabilities at the moment which haven't completely been disclosed and which, it is claimed, could threaten the whole Internet as-we-know-it. Only, when the vulnerabilities are finally disclosed, it seems that the whole incident has been somewhat Chicken Little. - +
PCI app security: Who's guarding the data bank? 13 October, 2008 11:09:00
Compliance strategies for PCI's new application security requirementsWhile Willy Sutton never really said it, the truth is that people rob banks because that is where the money is. Today's criminals don't walk into banks with loaded guns and get-away drivers. Rather they connect from a remote location using a browser and are armed with hacking tools and spyware. - +
Data-center security tools to not overlook 10 October, 2008 11:37:00
With the rise of security suites, it's time to consider some emerging security tools and rethink othersProtecting a corporate data center is like trying to keep an elephant safe from a swarm of flies. Despite your best efforts, bites happen. As the staples of security -- such as firewalls, antivirus software, spam and spyware filters -- come together in suites of products that allow for sophisticated management, there are other security tools either emerging or worth a rethink. - +
IBM, Secret Service, others study identity/cybercrime issues 09 October, 2008 10:09:00
Center for Applied Identity Management Research organization teams experts in criminal justice, financial crime, biometrics, cybercrime and cyberdefense, data protection, homeland security and national defense.IBM, LexisNexis and the Secret Service are among a group of corporations, government agencies and academic institutions that has formed to study and help solve identity management challenges around cybercrime, terrorism and narcotics trafficking. - +
Strange account management at Amazon 09 October, 2008 09:51:00
A careless login led to the discovery of some strange ccount management practices at one of the Internet's largest retailers.Via the RISKS mailing list comes an interesting tale of poor online account management at a major online retailer. According to Graham Bennett, accounts with Amazon display an odd behaviour that doesn't seem to have attracted much attention in the past.
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