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CIOs Need a New Generation of Business Problem-Solvers
Your company’s capacity for innovative, cost-effective IT depends on up-and-coming leaders who understand people, processes and technologyNews
Mobile Startups: Tip of the Iceberg, Say Venture Capitalists
At this week's DEMO Fall 2011, mobile startups trying to bridge the physical and digital worlds often didn't aim high enough and received mixed reviews from venture capitalists and former entrepreneurs.Forrester for CIOs
Consumerization, Innovation, And The Future Role of Sourcing and Vendor Management
Consumerization, strategic partnerships, and the demand from the business for emerging technologies are quickly becoming the key drivers of the Sourcing & Vendor Management (SVM) agenda. In fact, without SVM making significant changes in how it does business, many SVM teams will become irrelevant.Opinion
R-E-S-P-E-C-T…
How to influence, even when we lack authority, is one of the finest arts a finance professional can learn.Feature
How Collaboration Enables Affordable Innovation
Top companies are turning to crowdsourcing on public and private networks to pave the way to more affordable idea creationTip
Finding the Right Road to Successful Innovation
You don’t have to be famous, or a CEO, to be a successful innovator. But to lead others in creating something new, you need a clear idea of what you’re trying to do.Feature
Your Next Competitive Advantage
Economist and author Umair Haque says future economic prosperity depends on using IT for more than improving efficiency. CIOs need to focus on making consumers’ lives better.Opinion
Why CIOs Still Like DIY Software Development
Companies from NYSE Euronext to Alcoa are bypassing ready-made software and developing their own programs in-house in hopes of creating competitive advantageNews
Apple's Spaceship Campus: What's the Message?
Apple wants a campus that looks like a "spaceship," says Steve Jobs. A Silicon Valley designer sees mixed messages in the analogy: Is the future temporary?Practical Advice for Working CIOs
Dealing with crazies
Craziness can be good. Positive feedback loops can be good. It's like steak and hot fudge … two good things that aren't so good when you put them together.How-To
An App For Your Home Decorating Toolbox
PPG Industries' mobile app matches paint colors to homeowners' inspirationFeature
2011 CIO 100: The Judges
Each of the 300-plus applications for the 2011 CIO 100 Awards was reviewed by two members of our judging panelTip
2011 CIO 100 Winners: Innovating With IT to Create a Greener Enterprise
A greener enterprise requires new tools for managing critical business processes. Three 2011 CIO 100 winners turned to IT to meet the need.News
Leadership Lessons from Apple CEO Steve Jobs
What can CIOs learn about leadership from Apple CEO Steve Jobs? Plenty. Executive leadership guru Paul David Walker says tech execs should take cues from his marketing savvy and confidence. But leave the arrogance at home.News
ENIAC Still Influencing Enterprise IT 68 Years Later
What does the world's first electronic computer contribute to today's enterprise IT environment, almost seven decades after its first parts were being assembled? Plenty, including many of the foundations we still use today, says a University of Pennsylvania computer science professor.Practical Advice for Working CIOs
News flash! IT does its best to circumvent capitalism!
Capitalism depends on two principles — the law of supply and demand, and the ability of every customer to take his, her, or its business elsewhere (I include "its" because the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are people too, but hasn't commented on their gender).Feature
IT Outsourcing: How Offshoring Can Kill Innovation
Harvard Business School professors David Pisano and Willy Shih argue that overzealous offshore outsourcing can cripple a company's ability to innovate. Pisano and Shih discuss what CIOs can learn from the manufacturing sector about how 'not' to approach offshore outsourcing.Deciphering Enterprise Apps
IT Failure: Some Ideas Deserve a Second Chance
Innovation is about trying, even when you fail. It's about trying until you succeed. That's the secret behind many innovators who helped bring us the technologies we use every day. Iridium Communications Inc. has never forgotten this concept.Practical Advice for Working CIOs
CIO Time Management at the Speed of Light
According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, time is just another linear dimension, no different from forward and backward, up and down, or right and left.News
Augmented Reality: Where's the Killer App?
Mobile augmented reality apps fall short of expectations, yet Apple continues to bet heavily on the technology.Feature
For San Francisco Giants, Dynamic Pricing Software Hits a Home Run
Factors such as starting pitchers and Friday-night fireworks help the San Francisco Giants boost revenue by matching ticket prices to demandTip
How Random House Overcame 3 Common Enterprise Collaboration Obstacles
Enterprise collaboration tools can foster better communication and elicit transparency from business units. Here's how Random House implemented an enterprise collaboration suite, encouraged adoption and is measuring its success.The Agile Business
Rebuilding IT post-recession: Hire for the future, not the past
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How Do You Generate Innovative Ideas? Highlight Examples From Your Team
If you want to encourage innovation, try rewarding those who take the initiative to solve problems, no matter how small.Feature
Facebook's CIO Shares IT Innovation Successes and Failures
Facebook CIO Tim Campos shares five lessons he's learned about innovation, along with stories about his IT department's successes and failures.How-To
4 Ways CIOs Can Get Outsourcers to Focus on Business Value
A recent outsourcing survey shows that customers are achieving cost savings from their arrangements with their services providers, but they aren't getting much else in the way of business value. Here's how buyers can change that.Opinion
Turning Cool IT Ideas Into Revenue
CIO entrepreneurs tell how they’re creating new businesses with internal ITTip
Trust Yourself to Be a Leader
Your behavior as a leader can either stymie change or inspire it. To guide your team successfully, you have to follow your intuition and practice fundamental leadership skills.Feature
How to Turn a Great IT Idea Into a Commercial Success
Entrepreneurial CIOs at Union Pacific, FedEx and other companies tell how they’re transforming internal IT into revenue-generating productsTip
Yum Brands’ Recipe for Global Collaboration
The KFC and Taco Bell franchisor wants to make its internal global collaboration and social-networking site a must-visit destination for employeesTip
3 Ways to Get a Bigger Bang for Your IT Buck
Getting the most value from IT investments is an art. Try these three techniques to cajole and nurture end users into exploiting new technologies fully, or change course when the business needs change.Opinion
Time to Showcase America’s Tech
The United States needs a big, public technology event to show off our IT innovations.News
CIO Salaries, Satisfaction, and Standing Rise
Results of a recent CIO survey conducted by executive search firm Harvey Nash show that CIOs are earning more money, expanding their responsibilities, and enjoying greater strategic standing and job satisfaction inside their companies.Tip
Why You Should Stop Worrying and Let End Users Have Their iPads
When employees have technology they like, they’ll make themselves productive in ways you never dreamed. So let them have their iPads and Android tablets.Feature
Give Middle Managers Better Collaboration Tools
It’s not enough to share documents, says Geoffrey Moore, the consultant and expert on technology adoption. Daily decisions can be made more quickly if employees, especially middle managers, can use text messaging, video and social-media tools to engage directly with each other.News
IT Outsourcing: Study Highlights Impediments to Innovation
Most IT organizations and outsourcing providers remain too bogged down in the day-to-day management of their outsourcing arrangements to focus on innovation, according to the results of a recent study on outsourcing innovation.Tip
Make IT Innovation Everyone’s Job
How JetBlue’s CIO instills a culture of innovation throughout his IT organizationVirtualization and Cloud Advisor
Cloud Computing: A Sustaining or Disruptive Innovation?
Is cloud computing a disruptive innovation, as defined by Clayton Christensen? CIO.com's Bernard Golden explores whether internal data centers will go the way of companies that are innovated out of business.How-To
How CIOs Can Devise a Social Business Strategy
What does it take for businesses to successfully harness the power of social media? A new report from Forrester Research says that a social business strategy is key. Here's how to create one.Tip
Three Ways to Find Fresh IT Ideas on the Cheap
How to learn about emerging technologies without spending lots of time or moneyOpinion
5 Innovation Opportunities for CIOs in 2011
Are you the kind of CIO that Chris Curran calls an ambidextrous innovator? Here's a look at 5 areas with plenty of innovation potential in the year ahead.Opinion
The Power of IT Drives Businesses Forward
There is a better, faster, more efficient way of doing things, and IT can make it happen. IT must do more than 'align' with the business it must be part of the business in order to spearhead growth.Feature
AltaVista's View Was Nice, for a Moment in Time
AltaVista will be "sunsetted" soon–reminding us that even though the bubbly mid-90's seems like a century ago, the Web is merely a toddler.Feature
Inside 4 Companies’ Facebook and Twitter Strategies
Capturing customer data and building communities on Facebook and Twitter isn’t easy. Learn how four CIOs are integrating social media with business data to draw more attention to their companies’ products and deliver better service.News
Innovation Means Risk, CIOs Warned: 'Get Over it'
Chief information officers should be leading the charge to adopt innovative social media if their organizations aren't leveraging the technology, a Canadian IT professor has told an audience of CIOs.Feature
Taking Business Risks With Your IT Budget
New IT-enabled business models can be created only when CIOs take risks, says Vinnie Mirchandani, an expert in outsourcing and author of a book on disruptive technologies.Opinion
How Do You Measure Innovation?
A practical hands-on guide for measuring your IT innovation program. Measure performance, competence and strategy to take the black art out of innovation.News
7 Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs
What makes Steve Jobs such a great innovator? Carmine Gallo has unearthed seven principles that have led to Jobs' success in his cliché-filled new book, The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs.Feature
The Internet of Things: How CIOs Can Influence the Next Wave of Product Innovation
CIOs must seize the opportunity created by new data streams from smart products—the Internet of Things—to put IT at the center of business innovation-
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