Extreme Outsourcing

The days of the lump-sum outsourcing deals and blunt offshore labor arbitrage are gone. The future is about disaggregating IT processes -- and then figuring who is best equipped to handle them and where they are located. Here's how to do it right. Full story »

Feature

How to Educate Your Business Leaders

CIOs need to know business issues. But business people don't need to know about IT—a fact that can hurt a business and IT executives. Here's how to educate businesspeople without alienating them. Full story »

Columns

Career Strategist

Take Yourself to Market

Why it pays to treat an IT executive job search like a product launch, with branding and marketing campaigns, as well as interviews and networking. Full story »

Strategic CIO

The CIO of the Future

In this first edition of The Strategic CIO column, two veteran CIOs provide advice on how to take the CIO role -- and the contribution IT makes to your company -- to a higher level. Full story »

One Question ...

IT Education: Where Have All the Young Geeks Gone

Low enrollments in computer science and engineering programs mean few students are choosing technology careers. Five experts in IT education and training suggest ways to reverse the trend. Full story »

Departments

Editor's Letter

Get Out!

To lead business innovation, CIOs must focus on interacting with business colleagues and customers, Editor in Chief Abbie Lundberg argues. Full story »

CEO Letter

A New Ball Game

CXO Media CEO Michael Friedenberg says why you have to keep investing in new technology. Full story »

Essential Technology

BPM Choices

A snapshot of who offers what in the business process management (BPM) tools space. Full story »

Essential Technology

Nail Down BPM Success

When working with BPM tools, it's essential to emphasize that the effort is about business processes (not just the tools). Full story »

Trendline

South Africa Courts BPO Market

South African companies establish a new front in the global BPO market. Full story »

Trendline

Streetlamps Light Up Wireless Network

Researchers at Harvard University and BBN Technologies have designed an intriguing wireless network capable of reporting real-time sensor data across an entire city, Cambridge, Mass. Scientists will initially use the CitySense network to monitor urban weather and pollution. The network could eventually provide better public wireless Internet access. Full story »

Trendline

Google, Rivals Battle for Big Bucks on Small Screen

The big names in web search -- Google, Yahoo and Microsoft -- are looking to mobile handsets as the next front in the growing market for online advertising. Full story »

Trendline

Weather Bots Get a New Ride

Warren Jackson, an engineering graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, never cared all that much about the weather. Yet when he scanned news reports about how the National Weather Service and independent researchers collected weather data, some facts didn't make sense. Full story »

Trendline

Vista Marketing Called Deceptive in Lawsuit

Microsoft unfairly labeled PCs "Windows Vista Capable" even when the computers could run only the most basic form of the operating system, according to a lawsuit filed in March. Full story »

5 Things I've Learned

Thoughts on leadership, ethics and the 21st century from Carly Fiorina, HP's former CEO. Full story »

Trendline: By the Numbers

Boards Should Walk the IT Strategy Talk

Corporate boards think IT's importance has increased over the past few years—but they need to start taking action to prove it, says new research from Deloitte. Full story »

Making IT Work

Power to the Users

To succeed, IT executives need to have business and technology experts involved when setting priorities and making choices about new systems. Full story »

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