The Secrets of a Change Agent

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 »

Inside the E-Commerce Strategy That Could Save Borders, Part 2

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 »

Saving Chrysler

At the struggling automaker, private-equity ownership drives IT to slash costs through outsourcing and retool to compete globally. Full story »

Start

Editor's Letter

Things Change

CIOs need to position IT for both action and reaction Full story »

Publisher's Letter

Look in the Mirror

The qualities you like in salespeople apply to you, too Full story »

Columns

Think Tank

Tools for Leading Business Change

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 »

Departments

Trendline

Trendlines: New, Hot, Unexpected

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 »

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