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Innovative Thinking Gets a Kick in the Pants

CIOs share ideas to encourage innovation with senior management, including leveraging vendor knowledge and alignment with business strategy.

 
30 Skills Every IT Person Needs

An IT manager's guide on how to be better at what you do, no matter how experienced you are.

 
Business Analysts: A Key to Companies' Success

Companies look to business analysts to facilitate IT-business communication and help determine technology strategies that will drive greater revenue.

 
Tales from the Darkside: 8 IT Strategic Planning Mistakes to Avoid

Want to prevent your next plan from landing in the trash? Avoid these most common pitfalls.

 
Anatomy of an IT Strategic Plan

Your plan should focus on business needs, the ability of IT to meet those needs, how to close any gaps, how decisions will be made and how to measure progress.

 
How to Get Real About Strategic Planning

Everyone agrees that having a strategic plan for IT is a good thing but most CIOs approach the process with fear and loathing. In fact, the majority of CIOs (and the enterprises they work for) are faking it when it comes to strategic planning. Isn't it time we all got real?

 
How IT Departments Can Learn to Say Yes to End Users

You say yes when business colleagues ask for something new, but usually you don't really mean it. That won't fly anymore. An expert in IT organizations advises how to adjust your (and your team's) attitude.

 
People More Important Than IT Business-Alignment

Alignment takes backseat to retention, says SIM study.

 
How Wal-Mart Lost Its Technology Edge

Two decades ago, the world's number-one retailer used IT to reinvent global supply chains. The world caught up and now Web 2.0 technologies are forcing retailers to pay more attention to customers. No longer a leader, Wal-Mart's IT is at a crossroads.

 
Containing Supply Chain Costs Won't Help Customer Service

Business needs to align strategic goals with supply chain priorities.

 
 
 
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Enterprise Content Management: From Strategy to Solution

Enterprise content management (ECM) has become an important competence and infrastructural technology, particularly for large and medium-sized organizations. Hear about industry trends for ECM and why standardizing your ECM platform is so critical to your success during this roundtable discussion.

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The CIO's Guide to Wireless in the Enterprise

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The Universal Wireless Client

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Why Leaders Fail

Total Leadership columnist Mike Hugos talks about how bad strategy undermines good leadership--and what CIOs can do to avoid getting trapped by poorly conceived initiatives.  Read More »

 

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.  Read More »

 

What Makes for Good IT Governance

Peter Weill, director of the Center for Information Systems Research at MIT's Sloan School of Management and co-author of IT Governance, discusses lessons he learned while researching his book.  Read More »

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Rethinking the Corporate Help Desk: Learn how to deliver anywhere, anytime incident response

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