Pretend for a moment that you are a CEO, and you learn that an asset that costsyour company a cool quarter of a million dollars a year is chronically underutilized. Wouldn’t you want to do something about it? Well, with the …
Is your IT shop the place where great business ideas grind to a halt? Here’s how to speed things up. Really listen to CIOs these days, and you’ll hear something in their voices: impatience. It’s not always overt. And it’s …
As someone with a mild-to-moderate addiction to Bare Escentuals cosmetics, I have to admit that my heart skipped a beat while reading Kim Nash’s cover story (“ Four Kinds of IT Professionals CIOs Need to Hire Now“). For a fleeting moment, …
Mobile devices could be the next information technology asset removed from the core of agency information technology budgets. Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra says the phenomenon of “employee-owned” mobile, what analysts often call the consumerization of IT, represents a …
Ixaris, an innovator in global electronic payments, today announces the appointment of Tim Murfet as CIO. Tim’s previous role was the Managing Director for Technology Consulting in the UK. The new CIO will be responsible for both developing new solutions …
Takeaway: It’s far easier to keep the people you have than it is to hire new ones. Here are five management tenets that are critically important to staffing success. Finding and retaining good staff is extremely difficult, but it’s even more …
This article is commissioned by Microsoft Corp. The views expressed are the author’s own. In addition to elevating the status of cloud computing (whichI wrote about here), Gartner’s 2011 CIO Agenda Survey issues a sweeping call for CIOs to “reimagine” IT, with …
What the top boss expects you to deliver Probably the most important relationship a CIO has is with the CEO. A good relationship between these two people means the business understands the potential benefits the IT team can deliver to …
Heartland Payment Systems® CIO honored for his pioneering work in end-to-end encryption and payment card security Steve Elefant, chief information officer (CIO) at Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE: HPY), one of the nation’s largest payments processors, has been named a “2011 …
Is your IT strategic plan set up for success over the next 10 years? If you’re like most enterprises today, the answer is no and the amount of change you will see far exceeds your expectations. Forrester sees three forces …