CXO Outlook

How to Transform Your IT Department from Order Taker to Innovator

CIO 100-winning IT leaders from Washtenaw County, Mich.; Foley & Lardner; DePaul University; and Pitt Ohio Express describe how they energized their staffs to take risks with new technology and generate fresh value for their businesses.

IT Innovations That Generate Revenue and Get You More Customers

Best Buy, Hilton Hotels and Washington Mutual dug into their data and revamped their business processes to empower customers and increase sales. Here's how they did it.

How We Chose the 2007 CIO 100

Our method for selecting this year's winners

Top Tips from the CIO 100: 15 Ways to Create Innovation with IT

Making businesspeople comfortable and using technologies you already have are just two ideas you can steal from CIO 100 winners to make yourself a better innovator.

Huawei Services, STEPS to cloud

Five strategies that will make Huawei a leader in cloud transformation services

Collaborative Innovation: Five Steps to Successful Technology Partnerships

More companies are turning to outsiders for help with innovation. Three CIO 100 winners learned how to get the most from a partnership with an industry peer.

User First, Business Second

Another Big Product Recall, Another Chinese Supplier Implicated

Ingenuity: The Spark That Belongs to Everyone

From the Jesuits to NASA to Google you'll find examples of ingenuity leading to success.

Five Reasons Your Next PC Refresh Could Be a Perfect Storm

PC refreshes have become a routine job for IT, right? Wrong: Factors like virtualization, consumer IT and new manageability tools are converging to make your next refresh more complex and risky. Hereu2019s advice on how to navigate it successfully.