The CIO Role Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
In 1987, I was working at The Pillsbury Company under Vice President of Information Management John Hammitt (the title of CIO was not widely used at that time) when Be More Strategic Benchmark your C-level leadership competencies Leadership ... [... more]
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Managing IT as a Business: A Survival Guide for CEOs
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Contemporary Chief Information Officers: Management ...
Contemporary Chief Information Officers: Management Experiences explores the experiences of contemporary Chief Information Officers in the United States, Taiwan, and New Zealand, who agreed to participate and to be identified by name and company. The CIO [... more]
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1. Be the kind of boss you'd be excited to have.
When Eugene Nizker, then CIO of Custom House Currency Exchange in Vancouver, first met Jessica Raichl, he doubted her ability to be a great assistant. For one thing, she seemed young for the responsibilities of the job (she was 24). For another, ... [... more]
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Social Networking Startup Goes Self-Service
Social-networking site provider Socialcast announced a "self-service" pricing model on Tuesday that allows smaller customers to get up and running without the need for a formal sales process. Smaller companies also face deployment challenges, .. [... more]
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Members of the House Homeland Security subcommittee are prepared to grill Charbo and other DHS officials on their information security budget and efforts to identify and fix vulnerabilities in the department's computer systems. According to ... [... more]
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ABC: An Introduction to ERP
How do on-demand and software-as-a-service ERP applications work? Enterprise resource planning software, or ERP, doesn't live up to its acronym. Forget about planning-it doesn't do much of that-and forget about resource, a throwaway term. But ... [... more]
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After Theft, Tech Support Call Lands Man in Jail
Here's a tip: if you steal a printer, don't call the manufacturer asking for driver software. It's a lesson that Timothy Scott Short learned all too well this month, when he was arrested after placing a couple of calls to Digimarc Corp.'s tech ... [... more]
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CTO: A Dangerous Title
The chief technology officer (CTO) job title has been floating around the IT industry for at least a decade now, so it's had enough time to settle in. And the places that it's settled are rather unsettling. The title originated in technology ... [... more]
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Data Explosion Shakes Up IT
In just three years, the bytes of data generated by digital cameras, mobile phones, businesses IT systems and devices will equal the number of grains of sand on the world's beaches. It's a mind-boggling estimation from market analysis company ... [... more]
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Wal-Mart Buys SAP Financials
Wal-Mart's decision to purchase SAP's ERP Financials, announced on Oct. 18, provides another piece of evidence that the IT strategy of the world's biggest retailer is shifting in favor of packaged applications. An SAP press release said that ... [... more]
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Google Video Makes (Another) Google Pitch for Business Users
Google is attempting to bring YouTube to businesses by allowing users to upload, share and view video over its paid Google Apps suite starting Sept. 2, the company said. Google Apps is an online software package that costs companies $50 per ... [... more]
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