Every year, the CIO 100 Awards honor 100 companies that demonstrate excellence and achievement in IT. In 2006, our winners were some of the most innovative information technology uses in the world. Below, you'll find links that will give you insight into how these companies use IT to gain an advantage in an increasingly competitive world.
In-depth coverage of how our winners innovate their way to success.
You can't win standing still. Our 100 honored companies prove that creative investment in IT is key to marketplace success.
Robots. Supercomputers. AI. Five CIO 100 honorees are boosting revenue, cutting costs and maybe saving the planet with these and other cool technologies.
After years of focusing on the bottom line, CIOs are setting their sights on top-line growth.
Service-oriented architecture is a route to IT anarchy if you don't effectively manage the development and use of services.
New wireless networks and devices create more productive work environments. They can also generate anxiety. Here's how to cut the wires so that employees still feel connected.
Use our database to find out more about this year's champions.
Go behind the scenes and see IT at work with a trio of winners
Get detailed statistics about the technologies, techniques and business drivers behind the winning entries. (PDF format)
Information on the CIO 100 Symposium and Awards Ceremony.
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Browse through our winners from previous years.
The Teamwork of Innovation
Gentry Lee, chief engineer for planetary flight systems with the Jet Propulsion laboratory, gives compelling advice about how to balance risk and innovation when developing new technology.
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Talking Innovation with a Hall of Famer
Bill Walsh, lauded for his innovative thinking on the football field, talks techniques for applying innovation to every job.
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View online or download a PDF version of "Make IT Matter for Business Innovation" from Forrester Research (valid email address required for access).
Google finally unveiled its Chrome operating system, promising a cloud-based OS that will be fast, simple and secure on netbooks. CIO.com's Shane O'Neill rounds up the latest Chrome OS reviews and news analysis stories. Full Story »
No mouse, no keyboard, no computer screen. It's all about hand gestures. Full Story »
There's a lot of buzz about Windows 7 out there. Each month in our webcast series, listen to analysts and customers discuss how Windows 7 and the Windows Optimized Desktop is impacting large companies around the world. Learn how they evaluated Windows 7, including the cost of deployment, deployment strategies, and tangible benefits.
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Service Level Management Best Practices Life Cycle Overview - Improve Service Levels
Best practices for Service Level Management (SLM) is a process for consistently meeting customer requirements and delivering on IT's promises. See the steps required to ensure high-quality SLM.
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Keeping Your Members Safe from Online Scams and Predators
In order to keep fraudsters out, romance sites must deploy effective solutions that look at information independent of what is supplied by users. A device fingerprinting solution such as iovation ReputationManager™ provides unique insight into the computers being used to create multiple accounts and exposes hidden device-account relationships that identity-based fraud solutions often miss.
Sponsored by iovation
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