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New Household Robot Promises to Make Virtual Visits Easy
iRobot's ConnectR, a new robot in beta testing, allows you to be in (almost) two places at once.Feature
How to Get Started in Virtual-World Operations
A service provider can help you build a virtual-world environment for your network operations or data center. However, there's a lot you can do on your own that's comparatively easy and affordable—some even free.Feature
3-D Printer RepRap Clones Itself—Well, Almost
The self-replicating printer can print three-dimensional objects–and it's been released as open source.Feature
What Your Team Can Learn About Innovation from The Simpsons
Creating the longest-running primetime animated TV series — in which it takes nine months to produce an episode — is more like IT management than you might think. Joel Cohen, an associate producer of The Simpsons, shared lessons about encouraging creativity and collaboration based on his own product development experiences.Feature
2008 CIO 100 Awards: The Judges
This year's CIO 100 applications were each reviewed by two members of our judging panelNews
Why You Need To Plan for Innovation Today
Groupe Danoneu0019s CIO for North America created a team to explore innovative technologies and to find ways to mainstream then into the businessNews
How to Fund IT Innovation
Struggling to find the time and money for innovation projects? Take advantage of your IT governance process to get business buy-in for infrastructure investments, training and inventive applications of technology.Opinion
Enterprise 2.0: Five Innovations the CIO Shouldn't Miss
Technology managers can't afford to ignore Web 2.0 collaboration technologies, such as blogs, social networking, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and converged communications.News
Pizza, Pigskin, Beer and IT
From Super Bowl ad nostalgia to Bill Belichick's management style, CIO gives you an IT-centric pre-game roundup.Feature
Delivering Customer Happiness Through Operational Business Intelligence
ECourier, a London-based courier service, used operational business intelligence to keep tabs on customer service and customer satisfaction.nFeature
Eight Signs of Evil in High-Tech Companies
Microsoft has been branded as immoral for years, and Google famously pledged that it would never be evil. But as many have learned, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Here are eight signposts on the path to wickedness. How many of them does your own company exhibit?Feature
Three Tips for Creating a Business-Savvy Information Technology Staff
Your information technology staff is a great resource for competitive advantage, but only if you help your employees understand how the company makes money.Feature
Amazon.com's IT Leader Leaving Huge Customer Service Infrastructure as Legacy
CIO Rick Dalzell is leaving Amazon.com after 10 years of constant change, inventions in personalization, product and service offerings. Here's a look at Amazon.com's evolution during Dalzell's tenure.News
Study: Who Gets the Most for the R&D Buck?
Want to reap more rewards from R&D spending? Think strategic alignment and customer focus.Feature
HealthVault: Can Microsoft's Personal Health Records System Change the Face of Healthcare?
Microsoft's new system to track personal health information aims to make it easy for patients to manage their health care. The program must overcome privacy concerns and win buy-in from many different players.Feature
Power to the Patient: Mount Sinai Puts Medical Records Snapshot on Smart Cards
At New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center, an innovative program gives patients a personal medical snapshot on an encrypted smart card. The goals include improving care, reducing errors and speeding revenue collection.Feature
Can't Innovate? It's Management's Fault (Really!)
Business strategy guru Gary Hamel blames obsolete management practices for your failure to establish a culture of innovation. One solution: Stop focusing on efficiency.Feature
Technologies We're Glad Are Dead
It's easy to cry over the products we loved and lost. But let's take time to appreciate the many ways in which technology really has improved, and the many geeky things we no longer need to worry about.Opinion
Want Innovation from Outsourcing? You Have to Pay for It
To get new ideas from your outsourcer, you have to be willing to rethink your approach, including how you pay for the services.Feature
What Does It Take to Get IT Outsourcers to Innovate?
IT leaders say they want outsourcing providers to go beyond traditional services. And the providers want to market themselves as partners in innovation. So why isn't it happening?Feature
Five IT Projects That Need Your Attention Right Now
You have only so much funding and time, so don't waste either of them. These projects can make you a hero or at least can save you from one of those terrible "learning experiences."Feature
Three Ways to Be More Creative: Relax, Exercise and Sleep More
If you're stressed out, tired and out of shape, so is your brain. No wonder it's hard to come up with new ideas. nFeature
CIO's Exclusive Outsourcing and Innovation Survey
Disappointment with innovation provided by outsourcers broad and deep.Feature
Indian Outsourcer Wipro's Strategy: Innovation Push, Global Hiring, Acquisitions
Wipro's marketing chief talks about the offshore service provider's global strategy, which includes acquiring a U.S. vendor, hiring U.S. and European IT workers and warily eyeing China.News
Beyond Benchmarking
Benchmarking is a useful tool but to make a great leap forward, you need to move beyond it to study something completely different.CEO Letter
Open Your Doors to Innovation
Is R&D a core competency you have to own? Not if it costs too much and bogs you down.Feature
Collaboration for Innovation: How to Bridge the Gap
Everyone admits that collaboration for innovation is good. It’s also rare. And when it works, it’s beautiful.Feature
The Secrets of IT Innovation
Before you can innovate, you first need to demonstrate your mastery of IT and how it helps your company make profits and cut costs, says innovation consultant James P. Andrew.News
CIO 100 Plus One Award Winners Announced
Five companies receive special distinction for innovative information technology projects.Feature
The Role of IT in Innovation: Friend or Foe?
To innovate and stay competitive, companies must partner with IT, and IT must stay in step with where the business is headed.Feature
Six Keys for Creating an Innovative IT Team
Before IT can innovate, it needs to build a solid infrastructure and demonstrate business-savvy.Opinion
20 Years of 100: In Search of Business Technology Excellence
Today we focus the CIO 100 on significant projects that demonstrate the double virtues of innovation and value to the business. We look at companies large and small in the public, private, nonprofit and government sectors.CEO Letter
CIO 100 Winners Invest in IT, People to Lead Business Innovation
This year's CIO 100 winners demonstrate a commitment to building IT organizations that drive business value.Feature
2007 CIO 100 Winners: How IT Can Harness the Power of Innovation
Winners of the CIO 100 awards have more than technology and great ideas. They have IT departments that understand what makes their companies tick and IT leaders who can translate vision into reality.Feature
Using IT to Transform the Business: Three Keys to Success
See how CIO 100 award winners including Merrill Lynch and Johnson & Johnson generated companywide excitement for their projects that led to results.Feature
How to Transform Your IT Department from Order Taker to Innovator
CIO 100-winning IT leaders describe how they energized their staffs to take risks and generate fresh value for their businesses.Feature
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.Feature
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.News
Ingenuity: The Spark That Belongs to Everyone
Promoting and supporting ingenuity may not be second nature for corporations, but columnist and consultant John Baldoni finds compelling examples to guide us—from the Jesuits to Google.Feature
The Top Five Consumer Websites: What They're Doing That You're Not
Accenture gives the scoop on how leading consumer websites score with customers.News
Executives' Frustration with Innovation Spending Grows, BCG Study Finds
Risk-averse culture and lack of speed remain barriers to growth.Feature
Five Steps to Managing Innovation
New ideas require more than inspiration: they require a lot of advance planning to lay the groundwork. Here are five tips to get going.Feature
Seven Highly Effective Ways to Kill Innovation (and Seven to Make Sure You Don't)
Find out if you or your company is guilty of squashing good ideas and their growth.Feature
Official Rules for CIO “Making History” Contest
Enter the "Making History" Contest and win prizes!How-To
Balanced Scorecard Definition and Solutions
Most organizations can benefit from a balanced scorecard approach, which can raise the profile of key projects, increase functionality, and predict future performance—and it often leads to greater financial return.Feature
No Talent Shortage, Just Talent Recognition Shortage
There are four guiding principles to ensure that your organization has the ability to recognize talent when it sees it.-
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