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Effective 'Goldilocks' Decision Making 01 July, 2008 13:48:03
Successful CIOs use “just right” processes, organizational structures and communications to create an environment in which good IT decisions are made and executedIn IT, we all make lots of decisions: What tools to buy, who to hire, what to invest in. Decisions are often complex and politically sensitive, involving a large number of stakeholders - +
Strong to the Core 07 March, 2008 15:08:31
Getting the basics right is a prerequisite to doing all the fancy stuff, such as taking advantage of information analytics,Gartner continues to receive enquiries from frustrated IT leaders and their business bosses seeking to up the performance of their IT organizations. Yet recent research reveals that CIOs are surprisingly sceptical about the strength of their own core operations. Of the 1440 CIOs that responded to the annual Gartner CIO Survey in 2007, only 9 percent strongly believe that their IS organization's service levels are meeting business expectations - +
IS's Seven Levers of Growth 04 February, 2008 13:12:50
CIOs and their IS organizations need to play a greater part in enterprise top-line growth. The challenge is to understand that growth and contribute in the right wayGrowth remains the top priority for most business executives. In most enterprises, this means make more profits - +
Performance Artist 10 December, 2007 13:06:09
Business performance is the measure of IT value — full stopThe value of a business investing in IT - like investing in any other asset, such as real estate, a new factory or a TV commercial - is its ability to support and improve business performance. This means that IT value is business value and is expressed as the ratio of business performance to IT investment - +
Mastering IT Portfolio Management 05 November, 2007 13:57:43
IT portfolio management’s benefits increase with maturityMost CIOs face demand for projects that far outstrips their ability to deliver. Moreover, some of these projects duplicate systems already being used elsewhere in the enterprise, and most enterprises are cluttered with IT assets - +
Fluid Dynamics 02 October, 2007 09:57:55
Enterprise dynamics fill a gap between strategy and tacticsConventional management thinking evolved to handle a business environment of relatively predictable change and competition. During the past decade, though, this stability has been supplanted by accelerating change in business and technology, causing the traditional notions of strategy and tactics to be less effective - +
The Sum of IT's Parts 03 September, 2007 14:21:14
Workforce synergy lies behind high performing IT organizationsIncreasing business expectations mean more pressure on IT organizations to deliver. More stakeholders and more complexity means more multi-disciplinary teams. Synergy — the productive interworking of IT staff with business, suppliers, partners and customers, is key to enterprise growth and increased competitiveness - +
Reaching Out 06 August, 2007 12:23:34
Collaboration between enterprises unlocks new value. The CIO plays a critical role in newer forms of collaboration and, in many cases, has the opportunity to leadEnterprises conduct most of their business processes internally to limit transaction costs and keep intellectual capital confidential, but also partly out of habit - +
Landing Your Next Job 06 August, 2007 11:31:51
CIOs — and the bosses who hire them — reveal what it takes to ace that critical job interviewBy now, one might assume that all of you senior IT execs out there know how to conduct a job interview - +
Driving Customer-Centric IT 05 July, 2007 10:05:09
CEOs are focusing on the customer as the source of growth, and reorganizing to become more customer-centric. The good news for CIOs is that IS has a major role to playGrowth remains a top priority for CEOs. Revenue growth and increasing market share outstrip lowering the cost base as strategic priorities. Enterprises seek to deepen their penetration in home markets, and enter new markets - +
Managing the Legacy Portfolio 14 June, 2007 11:00:00
High-value, high-risk systems present the CIO and the business with special problems. High value makes migration a difficult decision. High risk makes it imperativeAs one of the contributors to recent Gartner EXP research into legacy assets observed: "A legacy system is a hindrance that fills a business need — so you can't just get rid of it"
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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.
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