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  • Think Tank: An elevator pitch for your project

    When you are a project owner, manager or a sponsor you are often asked what the project is about. It is important because bosses, employees, customers, and partners all need to ‘buy-in’ and become excited about your idea. They will form an initial impression in three minutes or less. This first impression is the lens through which everything else is viewed.

    Written by Hemant Kogekar • 07 Feb. 12 12:02

  • Continuous delivery — the next step in agile management

    Continuous delivery is a fairly new concept in agile management. It is designed to speed up the project delivery process so that businesses can stay ahead of the competition.

    Written by Rebecca Merrett • 06 Feb. 12 10:53

  • Presidential candidates' mobile websites still works in progress

    Despite pronouncements that they are pro-technology, all of the U.S. presidential candidates have made fairly feeble attempts at building mobile campaign websites.

    Written by Matt Hamblen • 03 Feb. 12 22:10

  • Internet broadcast rights in doubt following court ruling

    The landmark ruling by the Federal Court, which found Optus did not breach copyright by broadcasting NRL and AFL matches via its new TV Now service, has cast a doubt over the financial viability of internet broadcast rights.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 03 Feb. 12 09:38

  • Dual-mode 3G M2M asset tracking can span regions

    Enterprises can track assets all over the world using one M2M (machine-to-machine) device with both CDMA and GSM radios, announced on Thursday by Sprint and partner OnAsset Intelligence.

    Written by Stephen Lawson • 03 Feb. 12 09:24

  • Work anywhere, win anywhere

    They are coming — the invasion of mobile devices has begun. The four little letters that are keeping many a CIO awake at night are BYOC, or bring your own computing, aka bring your own device. And 2012 will be the biggest year yet for this new kind of mobility.

    Written by Bruce Carlos • 03 Feb. 12 07:36

  • Lease program would offer users new phone every year

    Wish you could have the latest hot smartphone even with a year left on your contract? TMNG Global has devised a leasing program that could let you upgrade your phone every year.

    Written by Nancy Gohring • 03 Feb. 12 05:33

  • Project management salaries show earnings growth, career potential

    Project management may not be the most exciting job in IT these days, especially when most of the talk about hot IT jobs pertains to software developers, information security professionals and business intelligence analysts.

    Written by Meridith Levinson • 03 Feb. 12 04:19

  • Eight CRM trends you need to watch

    Last year, the two hot customer relationship management trends to watch— and adopt — were social CRM and mobile CRM. To find out whether they will continue to dominate the CRM landscape and what other trends organizations should pay attention to, CIO.com talked to leading CRM solution vendors and analysts. In the process, we came up with eight CRM trends to watch—and implement— in 2012.

    Written by Jennifer Lonoff Schiff • 03 Feb. 12 04:17

  • Salesforce.com launches Desk.com help-desk service

    Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled a new SaaS (software as a service) help-desk application called Desk.com that can reach end users through social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 31 Jan. 12 16:09

  • Resume makeover: How an information security professional can target CSO jobs

    Cole Hanson's career goal is to become an information security executive. Currently, he serves as a high-level information security professional with the U.S. Army. In February, Hanson, who is also a reservist with a rank of Lieutenant, will start a new job with the Marine Corps as the technology integration officer and deputy for its Communications Directorate. In this new position he will act as a project manager and oversee a major network infrastructure replacement.

    Written by Meridith Levinson • 28 Jan. 12 10:18

  • Maple Leaf Foods digests rapid, vanilla ERP transformation

    An interview with Michael McCain, president and CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, and Jeff Hutchinson, CIO.

    Written by CIO Executive Council • 28 Jan. 12 10:07

  • Juniper's financial challenges continue

    Juniper Networks' challenges are due to timing with new product rollouts and shifts in investments from customers and channel partners.

    Written by Jim Duffy • 28 Jan. 12 08:18

  • How to make IT irreplaceable

    We all know that, given the availability of hosted software and cloud options, going around IT is easier than ever. So how can we make sure that our IT service customers become our biggest fans and start to think of IT as irreplaceable?

    Written by Niel Nickolaisen • 27 Jan. 12 11:12

  • Why pricing should be done on more than just instinct

    Sometimes complexity is our friend. We tend to forget that in the barrage of talk about simplicity that surrounds us these days (blame it on the election year). Yet easy answers to complex problems are always, as H.L. Mencken once observed, "neat, plausible, and wrong."

    Written by Maryfran Johnson • 27 Jan. 12 09:58

  • Career Watch: In job interviews, be aware of what your body is saying

    The president of Positive Communications Media & Speaker Training and author of The Well-Spoken Woman says body language is important in public speaking and job interviews.

    Written by Jamie Eckle • 24 Jan. 12 02:59

  • Stupid user tricks 6: IT idiocy loves company

    You'd think we'd run out of them, but technology simply hasn't advanced enough to take boneheaded users out of the daily equation that is the IT admin's life.

    Written by InfoWorld staff • 24 Jan. 12 01:38

  • Paul Glen: The 'Low Affect' Effect

    In my exploration of the differences between technical and business people, nothing surprised me more than this: Business people tend to think that we don't care about anything. One of their biggest complaints is that we don't share their passion for the business. When-ever I hear this, I have an immediate, visceral reaction of outrage: "How could you possibly think I don't care about anything? I work like a dog to try to turn your visions into reality!"

    Written by Paul Glen • 23 Jan. 12 22:11

  • CIO movers and shakers

    A look at recent movements among Australian CIOs

    Written by Georgina Swan • 20 Jan. 12 12:00
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    Should you consider a generic top level domain?

    Chief information officers understand the importance of domain name registrations in maintaining the integrity of their organisation’s brand. Now a study estimates the .au domain contributed $475 million to the Australian economy in 2011 and created more than 4300 full-time jobs.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 20 Jan. 12 10:08
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