CIO Magazine: December 1, 2011

Opinion

Make Your Vendors Work For You

CIO magazine editor in chief Maryfran Johnson discusses vendor relationships and our December 1 cover story on how to truly partner with your vendors through a vendor collective

How-To

Bold Hiring Strategies From Fearless CIOs

Sure, the economy might be scaring the crap out of us, but these CIOs aren’t letting that cramp their hiring style. In fact, they see it as a critical business strategy to continue to make long-terms plans and hire accordingly.

Best Practice

Why Yammer Is Snatching Up Enterprise Customers

Yammer looks a lot like a work-friendly Facebook, and it’s yielding new enterprise users as a result. Here are 5 things you need to know about the social networking site.

Feature

Rules of Engagement

How Shell gets 11 vendors to play nicely together

Best Practice

AmEx Helps Customers Cash In On Foursquare

Credit card issuer American Express looks to turn location-based social network Foursquare into a new revenue stream with cash incentives for customers.

Feature

CIOs Forge Vendor Collectives to Extract Business Benefits

Shell and other big businesses use their clout to get normally hyper-competitive vendors to work together on IT projects and reveal their R&D plans

Opinion

Big Data Can Yield Extra Profit

Using real-time data, instead of intuition, helps you meet the evolving needs of your high-value customers and earn an agility dividend

Feature

The Inside Story of Why Puma Dumped Four Cloud Vendors for One

Puma simplified its cloud strategy and saved money by consolidating from using four cloud vendors down to just one. Here’s what they did and why they did it.

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