Al Tarasiuk, the CIA's CIO, is on a mission to modernize the agency's IT practices and connections to the intelligence community. It's just like any other IT-business alignment project, except that he has to get disparate departments to share data while supporting the White House's war on terror. Full story »
As the struggling retailer makes a massive effort to win e-commerce success, can it capitalize on any late-mover advantages? Borders IT and business execs take CIO.com inside the technology effort, the early results and the competitive challenge that you can call nothing but Amazonian. Full story »
At the struggling automaker, private-equity ownership drives IT to slash costs through outsourcing and retool to compete globally. Full story »
The qualities you like in salespeople apply to you, too Full story »
As developments such as Web 2.0 change business models, enterprise architecture and IT portfolio management provide strategic tools that CIOs can use to innovate and efficiently execute change. Just remember that these tools are not about IT, but about people, collaboration and culture. Full story »
This issue of Trendlines from the 9/1/08 issue of CIO magazine covers IT budgets, the return of the desktop, SaaS and the fight against cancer, why developers think the CIO is clueless and recent changes in the C suites around the country Full story »