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Customer feedback management: Is anybody listening?
20 Nov 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: SOA best practices, ITIL, ITSM, app consolidation
16 Nov 2009 -
UMD CIO Forum highlights the role of IT innovation, Web 2.0 potential
- TechTarget 13 Nov 2009
I recently made my first big purchase -- a new vehicle -- and I made my mind up pretty much before I entered the showroom floor, thanks to customer feedback I gathered on the Internet. What ...
Last week was a busy one for SearchCIO.com, with SOA topping our slate. We have best practices for SOA implementation, SOA for business process transformation, SOA in action at Amtrak...you get the ...
Last week at the University of Maryland’s 10th Annual CIO Forum, a succession of CIOs from the government, health care and publishing industries described how they are harnessing IT innovation with ...
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CIO weekly wrap-up: IT outsourcing templates, SOA implementation
09 Nov 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: IT's value, agile methodology, outsourcing and SOA
02 Nov 2009 -
Gen X, not Gen Y, leads adoption of social technologies in workplace
- Editor 09 Oct 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: CIO mistakes, qualities of a good leader and ITIL
05 Oct 2009 -
How Google and Yahoo improved data center energy efficiency
- Senior Vice President of Editorial 24 Sep 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Service portfolio management, ITSM, email scandal
21 Sep 2009 -
Three ways to reach out to women in IT: Mentor, advocate, encourage
- TechTarget 18 Sep 2009
Good morning! We're enjoying some beautiful Indian summer weather here in the Northeast -- if only every Monday could start like this! Last week on SearchCIO.com, we talked to Virginia's CIO about ...
Happy belated Halloween! I hope everybody who celebrated had a great time -- any creative IT-related Halloween costumes you'd like to tell us about? Last week on SearchCIO.com, we talked about ...
CIOs should look to Generation X, not Generation Y, to be the early adopters of new and social technologies within their organization. Contrary to what you’d think, Generation X workers (roughly ...
In a few hours, I'll be bound for Chicago to learn more about IT services and sourcing, but don't think I would leave you without your weekly wrap-up of CIO content! Check out the latest pieces to ...
Running large data centers is expensive and getting worse. No one knows that more than Google and Yahoo. At a panel on green data centers at MIT’s Emerging Technologies Conference this week, ...
Good afternoon! This past week, SearchCIO.com looked at the importance of service portfolio management and culture management as part of ITSM and ITIL implementations. We also took a look at an ...
A dinner this week on women in IT focused on midlevel women in technology and their challenges in getting ahead, given their frequently high family responsibilities and their own perceptions ...
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IT services outsourcing: Do you have an ‘India-plus-one’ strategy?
28 Aug 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Pros and cons of outsourcing, ITIL framework, PPM
24 Aug 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: IT outsourcing, PPM vs. SharePoint, cloud risks
10 Aug 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Leveraging talent, change management, cloud trends
03 Aug 2009 -
A disaster recovery plan meets cloud computing
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 31 Jul 2009 -
How will IT outsourcing play out in companies’ recovery plans?
23 Jul 2009 -
What is transparency, and how is it relevant to IT?
- Editor 17 Jul 2009 -
Is Google Chrome OS a turning point or yawner?
- Senior Vice President of Editorial 08 Jul 2009 -
Satyam scandal: Has it affected your IT outsourcing and offshoring?
25 Jun 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: BI strategy, PPM software, compliance in the cloud
15 Jun 2009 -
PPM projects: If portfolio management works, why is it so rare?
11 Jun 2009 -
Twitter for business: A help or a hassle at IT conferences?
28 May 2009 -
Why don’t connected healthcare information systems work?
- Editor 22 May 2009 -
Adding a 'business downturn' clause to your telecom contracts
- Editor 07 May 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Challenges of a state CIO, BPM, SOA and ROI
04 May 2009 -
Oracle buys Sun: When strategic vendors go bye-bye
- Senior Vice President of Editorial 22 Apr 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Private cloud, ID management, security compliance
30 Mar 2009 -
Cost savings on IT contractors: How to get the best rates
20 Mar 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: BI strategy, sourcing contracts and IT governance
16 Mar 2009 -
IT centralization grows as approach to IT consolidation
- TechTarget 13 Feb 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: SaaS contracts, vendor management, data protection
09 Feb 2009 -
Desktop virtualization tradeoffs and benefits: What did I miss?
06 Feb 2009 -
Windows 7 migration: First thoughts
- Senior Vice President of Editorial 16 Jan 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: 2009 IT trends, network access control, CPM and BI
12 Jan 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Cutting IT costs, virtualization and more
08 Dec 2008 -
Social networking sites, credit fears leading to new spam attacks
04 Dec 2008 -
A top 10 list for how to be a successful CIO
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 01 Dec 2008 -
SaaS integration easier said than done
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 25 Nov 2008 -
Tech warriors on the offensive
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 31 Oct 2008 -
Halloween costumes for techies
30 Oct 2008 -
Information technology ‘down but not out’ this time around?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 27 Oct 2008 -
Sunrise, sunset: Sun Microsystems’ Bechtolsheim decamps to take on Cisco
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 24 Oct 2008 -
How Microsoft takes stock of your online experience
15 Oct 2008 -
Three men arraigned in alleged IT kickback scheme
02 Oct 2008 -
Work email: When it just can’t wait until morning
25 Sep 2008 -
A CIO by way of Jack Welch
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 25 Sep 2008 -
Think like a hacker (and other World of Warcraft-inspired musings)
05 Sep 2008 -
Take this, viruses!
11 Aug 2008 -
Driving while surfing?
31 Jul 2008 -
Maybe I should just keep my money under a mattress?
24 Jul 2008 -
Does it matter who CIOs report to?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 23 Jul 2008 -
Who wants to be a CIO Millionaire?
16 Jul 2008 -
Boston Globe: Cognos contract with state “raises ethical issues”
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 07 Jul 2008 -
All Ears: Susan Cramm on ITopia
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 29 Jun 2008 -
Playing the numbers
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 24 Jun 2008 -
Title Town – it’s all in the stats
24 Jun 2008
For quite awhile, many U.S. companies have focused their IT services outsourcing strategies on India due to its market share, low cost of labor and robust vendor market. But now, some companies are ...
Good morning! This past week, SearchCIO.com looked into the pros and cons of outsourcing in several countries in Asia, put out our latest FAQ on the ITIL framework and put your project and ...
Welcome back from the weekend! Ease yourself into your Monday morning by checking out the latest content from SearchCIO.com on IT outsourcing, using project and portfolio management (PPM) software ...
Good afternoon! This past week on SearchCIO.com, we highlighted tips for leveraging employee talent, looked at ways to avoid IT project failures using change management strategies, and examined ...
David Shacochis, vice president, research and development at IT provider Savvis Inc., reminded me the other day that there is a big difference between a disaster recovery (DR) plan and business ...
As IT outsourcing is one of the core areas I cover for SearchCIO.com, I am, of course, interested in how both offshoring and onshoring will fare in the coming months. According to some ...
We’ve all heard about Obama’s promise for government transparency, but what about IT transparency? First, what is transparency? Transparency is basically defined as openness and accountability in ...
Nothing fuels the tech press like wars. So I have no doubt that we will see an endless string of reports from the battlefield over the next many months on the struggle between Google and Microsoft ...
For those keeping an eye on IT outsourcing and offshoring, there were a couple of noteworthy pieces of news this week regarding the artist previously known as Satyam Computer Services Ltd. First, ...
This past week, SearchCIO.com looked at developing a business intelligence (BI) strategy, implementing project and portfolio management software, practicing innovation in a time of economic crisis, ...
My story this week on the University of Utah's project and portfolio management (PPM) program stood out from other PPM pieces I've reported because, in this case, the portfolio piece of the program ...
I'm still reflecting on last week's MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, where my colleagues and I gathered a lot of good information on CIO leadership, IT outsourcing, health care, CIO innovation and more -- ...
In a perfect world, connected healthcare information systems would be easy to use, offer doctors a way to effectively communicate with their patients without any barriers or restrictions and give ...
Telecom providers will do whatever it takes to keep your business, even in a business downturn. And that’s not just lip service. Did you know that you can insist on a “business downturn” contract ...
This past week, SearchCIO.com was all over business process management, from BPM and service-oriented architecture (SOA) and how they work together to how to find fast ROI using BPM. We also ...
This decade has seen a lot of consolidation among both software and hardware vendors. Sun bought StorageTek, Sun bought MySQL. Oracle bought Sun, Oracle bought BEA (one of many midsized middleware ...
Welcome back from the weekend! Here are the latest stories from SearchCIO.com, dealing with the private cloud, identity and access management, and some very newsy security standards for compliance ...
I was talking to IQNavigator the other day. They have software that helps companies manage what they spend on contingent workforces, such as IT contractors, and on vendor services, among other ...
This past week, SearchCIO.com homed in on business intelligence strategy, IT transformation, cost reduction tips for your strategic sourcing contracts and IT governance in an economic recession. ...
Of interest to me this week: stories of how CIOs are approaching IT consolidation not just in the data center, but also in their organizations. It’s no surprise that flat or reduced budgets impel a ...
Welcome back, readers! This past week at SearchCIO.com, we covered desktop virtualization, Software as a Service (SaaS) contract negotiations, IT vendor management offices and data protection ...
A couple of recent stories, "VDI vs. fat clients: The tradeoffs," and "Virtual desktops and virtualized applications: An FAQ for IT executives," caused a few readers to reach out to tell me I ...
OK, there’s no getting around it. This year is going to be the Year of Reading Endless Speculation and Lightly Informed Commentary About Windows 7. Feature Bingo, Shipping Date Roulette – you’re ...
Post-holidays, we're back in full swing here at SearchCIO.com. Here are our latest stories and briefings: Looking forward: Trends in IT management and budgeting for 2009 - Consider this your ...
In case you missed it, we've had a very active discussion on FatWire's sex-site demo at a Boston Web 2.0 conference. Feel free to add your own views and, while you're at it, check out our stories ...
Symantec has released its MessageLabs Intelligence 2008 Annual Security Report, and social networking sites and the credit crisis are providing new platforms and fears upon which new spam attacks ...
The Society for Information Management recently asked a panel of CIOs to talk about the attributes of a successful CIO. For CIO Karan Sorensen, an emphasis on the greater good is a must --from ...
Questions for you Software as a Service (SaaS) devotees about SaaS integration: Did your vendor give you enough information up front about the potential difficulties of integrating the SaaS ...
Downturn, shmownturn. Your peers at technology companies apparently don't need a global recession to get their juices flowing. A new survey of 151 U.S. technology company executives by Deloitte ...
In honor of Halloween, Kristen Caretta, associate editor of SearchCIO-Midmarket.com, and I decided to get a bit silly and dream up our top 10 Halloween costumes for the IT set. Wear these to your ...
Forrester Chairman and CEO George Colony has a reassuring blog out this morning on the impact of a global recession on tech. His take? Technology had its Great Depression in 2001-2003, and this ...
Sun Microsystems co-founder, early Google backer and computer engineer extraordinaire Andreas von Bechtolsheim is leaving his job as chief architect at Sun to apply his considerable talents to ...
At the Web Experience Forum in Boston yesterday, Mark Hydar, principal group manager for global quality of service (QoS) initiatives for Microsoft, discussed "Microsoft Live: Reinventing the MS ...
Three Boston-area men have been arraigned in connection with allegedly setting up kickbacks from a vendor in exchange for securing computer software and service contracts for Partners Healthcare. ...
With the growing popularity of smartphones and business VPNs, it's getting tougher and tougher to let an email just sit in your inbox unread for any period of time - even in what are technically ...
I recently interviewed Carole Cotter, CIO of Lifespan Corp., a health care system affiliated with Brown Medical School in Providence. R.I. Cotter talked about how her IT department balances the ...
Yesterday, I attended Forrester's security forum in Boston. In one of the morning sessions, "Exploiting Online Games," Gary McGraw, chief technology officer at Cigital (and co-author of a book by ...
From the "tools you can use" file, CNN.com has a video report today on protecting yourself from unsavory e-mail attachments. CNN's computer expert Ken Colburn is a big proponent of the web site ...
As if having a computer at the office and at home - with a BlackBerry to tide you over when you're not at either of those places - weren't enough, now comes the AutoNet Mobile, which transforms ...
There have been a lot of scary bank-related headlines the past couple of weeks, but I have to say that this one frightened me more than most: "Security flaws in online banking sites found to be ...
Gather the typical left-brain, articulate, umm-less group of CIOs around a conference lunch table and, guaranteed, the talk will eventually turn to reporting relationships. You answer to whom? ...
How's this for a headline: "Meet the Millionaire CIOs." In a study of the filings of the 1,000 biggest U.S. companies and their compensation, 47 top technology executives were listed at the top ...
News flash: The Boston Globe reports today that a representative of Cognos ULC, the business intelligence software maker, improperly offered a Massachusetts state official a job in 2006 when the ...
Earlier, I wrote about Susan Cramm, former CIO of Taco Bell turned "leadership" coach, talking about how IT and the business could -- should! -- function in 2015. Cramm was the keynote speaker at ...
Enterprise search stinks: Who doesn’t like a survey that corroborates a pet peeve? Data out today from the nonprofit AIIM finds that 50% of business users believe their company’s internal search ...
I don't look anything like a basketball player, or even the stereotypical fan. I'm 4'11". I prefer high heels and dresses to jerseys and sneakers. Even some of my closest friends said they didn't ...