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People are paramount in successful mergers

Word has it that a busy merger and acquisition season could soon be upon us. Experts foresee considerable consolidation in the tech industry, and a recent survey of tech CFOs found that 78 percent

Is your technology moving too fast?

The pressure on the CIO to help build, sustain, improve and expand the business seems to growing. A scan of last week's tech press shows the beginning flow of year-end reviews and forecasts, looking

"Buy-In" and other books for the CIO reading list

A host of new books dealing with corporate culture, leadership, negotiation and other career-boosting topics are on sale this fall. CIOInsight's Dennis McCafferty put together a list of 13 that might

Get your CFO to buy into IT projects

If you can convince your chief financial officer that your IT project can make money, you will have a worthy advocate in your corner. A new survey from CFO Research Services and Micro Focus finds

Changing roles of CIOs and CFOs

There are plenty of changes taking place in the enterprise, especially if you are the CIO. For starters, the needs and demands of the CFO are spilling over to the CIO and the IT department. The CFO

CIOs at a crossroads

The role of the CIO is forever changing. Are you the top IT person? Are you part of the business team? Do you report to the CEO or should you? These kinds of questions keep evolving as the job

Mass targets: evil email with a twist

Meanwhile, CNET is reporting that personalized email attacks are on the rise. The most recent trend involves an illicit campaign that focused on some 500 executives in what is believed

Survey: CIOs reporting to CFOs decreasing

Optimize's fifth annual "Defining the CIO" survey--a survey of 575 business and IT professionals about the evolving role of the CIO in business--reverses the trend in the number of CIOs

Strategy and flexibility: keys to CIO success

Successful CIOs are those who are as comfortable talking about business as they are about technology and innovation. It's all about being able to see both sides of the coin and say the same thing

CIOs reporting to CFOs: Not a pretty picture

According to a CIO survey of more than 500 IT leaders, having the CIO report to the CFO destroys value in nearly every possible way. Not only does it provide CIOs with less exposure to