CIO Magazine

May 1, 2007 Content

Features

Awards Coverage

How to Unleash Your Leaders

CIOs who want to succeed as business partners and strategists can’t do it alone. Success requires unshackling the leaders within your IT organization and letting them run. Full story »

Awards Coverage

Ones to Watch

The most successful CIOs make developing leaders at all levels of their organization a strategic priority. Full story »

Awards Coverage

The Mid-Market CIO, What Are the Challenges?

Tight budgets. Leadership churn. Meeting business demands. Four Ones to Watch winners from the mid-sized organizations discuss their approaches to meeting key leadership challenges. Full story »

Awards Coverage

A Ones to Watch Dynasty

A 2007 Ones to Watch winner notes his rise depends in part on a mentor relationship he formed with a 2005 winner of the award. Full story »

Feature

The Risk of Becoming Big Brother

CIOs who are asked to monitor employees' use of corporate IT will enter a difficult area for managers, as recent litigation shows. Here's how to do it right. Full story »

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Are You Shipshape?

CIOs who are asked to use IT to monitor workers in other parts of the business should run a check on their own departments. Full story »

Feature

A study at Carnegie Mellon's CERT center examined pyschological, technical, organizational and other factors that lead to insider sabotage and made six observations to help CIOs anticipate trouble. Full story »

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Your Security Toolbox

A sampling of information security products CIOs are using to monitor and filter enterprise content, to prevent users from visiting phishing sites, and monitor who is accessing what online. Full story »

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The Standouts

Five winners stood out for their accomplishments as a change agent, innovator, team builder, business strategist and project driver. Find out who these standout winners are. Full story »

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The Judges

All nominees were critiqued by three members of our judging panel, which this year was made up of 31 esteemed IT executives. Full story »

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How We Chose the Winners

Nominees were selected on the basis of several criteria, including their expertise in a range of business and IT functions, their experience in leading a large project or conceiving a new product, and their ability to turn around a troubled project or organization. Full story »

Columns

Peer to Peer

The Harmonious Leader

Tom Murphy, CIO of AmericsourceBergen, says the key to becoming a better leader is to align your own values with what's important to your organization. Full story »

Endline

The Origins of Geek

The words we use shape our thoughts. But what shaped the words? Here's where geek, kiosk, dashboard and other important terms from the IT business lexicon come from. Full story »

Departments

Editor's Letter

Watching You

If you want your people to embrace your organization's mission, you have to let them own it. Which means you have to let go. And that takes guts. Full story »

Publisher's Letter

Left Behind?

Today, problems with IT education can sabotage our attempts to compete globally, says CIO Publisher Gary Beach. Do you agree? Full story »

Essential Technology

Stuck in the SOA Alphabet Soup

Some help for dealing with the alphabet soup of industry standards that have emerged around service-oriented architecture. Full story »

Essential Technology

How to Sail Smoothly in a Sea of Specs

Three tips for navigating the sea of service-oriented architecture standards. Full story »

Trendline

Virtualization School

IDC reports that most large companies in the U.S. have implemented a server virtualization strategy, and 15 percent of companies have created special IT teams to manage this function. Full story »

Trendline

Learning to Love Lean IT

When Pat Quinn became VP of information systems and technology at Acuity Brands Lighting two years ago, his team gave him a welcome gift: a clock set to count down 18 months—the longest any of his predecessors had lasted. He credits IT's embrace of lean manufacturing principles for his outlasting the clock. Full story »

Trendline

Test the Safety Smarts of Your Developers

How solidly does your development staff write its code? How can you judge the security skills of a potential developer you'd like to hire? A new testing process could help. Full story »

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