Business Processes news from FierceCIO

The big data phenomenon is spurring a shift in information analysis, leading companies to model complete data sets rather than subsets. Analyzing an entire data set may tend to bring forth outlier Read more...

The transformation of the role of CIO is an ongoing story, and the 2010 chapter has seen its share of action. As the year begins to draw to a close, experts and observers are reviewing the changes Read more...

The complexity of an IT system is directly correlated to its chance of failure, maintains Roger Sessions, CTO of ObjectWatch. A system that costs less than $750,000 may well succeed, but a system Read more...

New technologies can help companies transform their businesses, but without commensurate changes in business processes and structures, the technologies can amount to a loss, writes Faisal Hoque, CEO Read more...

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...