business decisions news from FierceCIO

Google is giving local businesses a break by making sure their data is listed correctly online and giving them access to zip codes where a local search originates. All this is part of Google's effort Read more...

It's the New Year, and InfoWorld.com suggests it is time to reassess your priorities. Resources will be limited and business pressures will be intense, but you can't withdraw or go into reactive Read more...

So, the Wall Street meltdown is IT's fault? Well, not exactly. But former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan told Congress last week that this "once-in-a-century tsunami" was aided by Read more...

Until recently, the CIO was considered an afterthought at many companies. But a new study at MIT and Harvard shows that 80 percent of the 175 CIOs polled now consider themselves a valuable member of Read more...

Although the CIO has a vital role in the process, business decisions need to be made by the business, not by IT. That means forming a group with the skills to identify all relevant risks, costs Read more...

The rapid-fire introduction of new technological capabilities and vulnerabilities means that CIOs must fund and deploy security operations that keep pace with a constantly changing landscape. Read more...

Sometimes you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. CIOs take a lot of flack for either being seemingly unresponsive or unnecessarily creating roadblocks that stall business development. Read more...

There's more software development going on in the business world today than ever before and for tech leaders that means boosting management measures, better assessment (so that software projects Read more...