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You are pulled from the left and from the right. And now you are pulled by your company's business line. A new study by Gartner finds that CIOs realize the importance of using IT in changing business... Read more...
Sometimes the CIO has to convince the boss that he's on the right path. To help him do that, Forester Research put together a list of best practices that can offer some help in making IT work well.... Read more...
Meanwhile, when it comes to spending, a new study from the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) notes that security accounted for 20 percent of technology spending last year and that... Read more...
First there were chief security officers, then chief innovation officers, and now, Michael Hammer is adding a new title to the mix: chief process officer. In the early 1990s, Hammer and James Champy... Read more...
SOA may be offering CIOs new levels of flexibility, but many are also expressing worries about a loss of control over applications that are managed and perhaps even deployed outside of the IT... Read more...
Recent toy recalls might be making corporate executives a bit nervous about their outsourcing agreements. Mark Cioni, president of Mv Cioni Associates, a company that helps global businesses improve... Read more...
As wide-area wireless network technology becomes a standard element in just about every enterprise network these days, a growing number of companies are exploring new ways to wrench out more speed... Read more...
For many CIOs, hiring and recruiting--like cleaning the house or mowing the lawn-- is not a favorite activity. But we all know how critical it is to hire the right people for our... Read more...
As hot as the outsourcing trend has been, there appears to be a bit of an expectations gap regarding the performance of this strategy. According to an A.T. Kearney study, 60 percent of companies... Read more...
As data centers get more complex, executives are turning to technologies and processes like ITIL, storage capacity management and virtualization to consolidate and simplify their environments,... Read more...