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Facebook in the enterprise

Posted by James Lawrence | Wed 28 Jul 2010

Facebook may be poised to follow other consumer-first brands, such as Google, into the corporate space ...Read more

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A question of gender

Posted by Kim Thomas | Mon 19 Jul 2010

Only one in five IT professionals is female - at least in Western economies. How can CIOs rebalance the workforce by attracting that vast, untapped skills-base? ...Read more

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Global CIO appointments

Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 12 Jul 2010

Our regular round-up of the latest CIO appointments from around the world, including a special focus on the online business sector ...Read more

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Global CIO appointments: North America

Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 12 Jul 2010

A round-up of the latest CIO appointments from the US and Canada ...Read more

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Global CIO appointments: EMEA

Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 12 Jul 2010

A round-up of the latest appointments from Europe, the Middle East and Africa ...Read more

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Global CIO appointments: Asia-Pacific

Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 12 Jul 2010

A round-up of the latest CIO career moves in the Asia-Pacific region ...Read more

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This Way Up: Aviva's Toby Redshaw

Posted by Andy McCue | Mon 28 Jun 2010

Hire experts, line them up and play a disciplined game, says Toby Redshaw, CIO of UK-based insurance giant Aviva. It certainly worked for him… ...Read more

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Wider roles for CIOs

Posted by Thornton May | Wed 9 Jun 2010

Acclaimed futurist and CIO coach Thornton May argues that the sky's the limit for CIOs - provided they take a proactive approach to innovation ...Read more

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Essential reading for CIOs

Posted by Kenny MacIver & James Lawrence | Tue 25 May 2010

Two of the latest must-reads for CIOs: a business maverick's story and a novel approach to Lean and Six Sigma ...Read more

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Should employees be allowed to buy their own PC? Part 2

Posted by Jim Ginsburgh | Mon 10 May 2010

Jim Ginsburgh, former VP of enterprise architecture at BP, argues that BYOC is the only way for enterprises to go ...Read more

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Should employees be allowed to buy their own PC? Part 1

Posted by Alain Fontaine | Thu 6 May 2010

Increasingly, IT leaders are having to respond to demands to support end-users' own devices in the workplace. But how far should organisations travel down this road? Alain Fontaine, head of IT at online portal atHome International Group, shares his own experience in this area ...Read more

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"Cloud liberates you from a dead paradigm," says Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff

Posted by Kenny MacIver | Thu 22 Apr 2010

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, corporate maverick and software-as-a-service pioneer, speaks exclusively to i-cio.com about the new world order of cloud computing, the creation of "a Facebook for the enterprise" - and how he tied a ribbon around the App Store for his hero, Steve Jobs ...Read more

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Global CIO appointments

Posted by i-cio.com staff | Thu 22 Apr 2010

Our regular round-up of the latest CIO appointments from around the world, including a special focus on the automotive sector ...Read more

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CIOs who blog - update

Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 19 Apr 2010

Surprisingly few heads of IT see the value - or feel they have the latitude - to float their thoughts in the public blogosphere. Here's our updated list of the top 20 active CIO bloggers ...Read more

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CIOs who tweet

Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 12 Apr 2010

Our list of 50 leading CIOs who regularly use Twitter and are worth following ...Read more

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This Way Up: Annette Vernon, UK Home Office

Posted by Andy McCue | Mon 22 Feb 2010

A lifelong public servant, UK Home Office CIO Annette Vernon worked her way up through the Civil Service from admin officer to chief information officer. Today, she manages an extensive IT remit that covers policing, counter-terrorism, immigration and the government’s ID card scheme ...Read more

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How should CIOs support the business use of social media? Part 2

Posted by Anthony Bradley | Mon 1 Feb 2010

Are Web 2.0 platforms a vital component of the connected enterprise? Anthony Bradley, managing VP at Gartner and an adviser on the enterprise employment of Web 2.0 technologies, says yes - but you need to manage them correctly ...Read more

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How should CIOs support the business use of social media? Part 1

Posted by Toby Redshaw | Mon 25 Jan 2010

With over 50% of CIOs banning the use of social networking in the workplace, the debate rages over whether Web 2.0 platforms are a vital component of the connected enterprise. Toby Redshaw, global CIO of Aviva, believes Web 2.0 can make the insurance giant "big and agile" ...Read more

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Global CIO appointments

Posted by Kevin White | Mon 18 Jan 2010

Our regular round-up of the latest CIO appointments from around the world, including a special focus on the automotive sector ...Read more

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Adding financial muscle to IT

Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 18 Jan 2010

Want to become the CEO of IT? Then hire a CFO of IT. It's a role that has long been championed by analyst group Gartner, but only in recent months has the title started to appear with some frequency on recruitment sites ...Read more

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This Way Up: ABB's Haider Rashid

Posted by Kevin White | Mon 19 Oct 2009

As group CIO and head of real estate at power and automation engineering company ABB, Haider Rashid manages nearly $2 billion of costs and around 4,000 internal and outsourced employees. His management roles at some of the world's largest life science companies, where he led major consolidation and strategy projects, provided the grounding for a shift into one of the top jobs in global IT ...Read more

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Should CIOs blog publicly? Part 2

Posted by Andrew Keen | Mon 12 Oct 2009

A small but growing band of CIOs are maintaining public blogs. Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur and self-styled challenger to the "mad Utopians of Web 2.0", argues that they're wasting their time. ...Read more

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Should CIOs blog publicly?

Posted by John Suffolk | Mon 5 Oct 2009

A small but growing band of CIOs are maintaining public blogs. In part 1 of our debate, John Suffolk, the UK government's CIO, explains the value of putting his thoughts online. ...Read more

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CIOs who blog

Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 5 Oct 2009

Surprisingly few heads of IT see the value - or feel they have the latitude - to float their thoughts in the public blogosphere. Here's our list of 13 active CIO bloggers... ...Read more

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Reid Hoffman: Zero degrees of separation

Posted by Kenny MacIver | Wed 30 Sep 2009

Reid Hoffman, founder and chairman of LinkedIn, is on a mission: to disrupt the fabric of business by cutting across the traditional lines of professional interaction. In our exclusive interview, he argues that the revolution in corporate social networking is creating rapid innovation, competitive edge and accelerated learning... ...Read more

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CIO appointments

Posted by Kevin White | Wed 30 Sep 2009

The latest CIO appointments from around the world, including a special focus on the retail sector ...Read more

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Essential reading for CIOs

Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 10 Aug 2009

Successful environmental strategies from "green" business leaders and the inside track on Apple's ruling genius - two of the latest must-reads for CIOs ...Read more

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This Way Up: P&G's Filippo Passerini

Posted by Kevin White | Mon 6 Jul 2009

Innovation and agility have been decisive factors in the successful career path of Filippo Passerini, P&G's president of global business services and CIO ...Read more

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"Control can mean money. Quite a lot of money," says leading open source expert

Posted by Andrew Donoghue | Wed 1 Jul 2009

The French government's experiment in open source has led to huge public sector cost savings and unprecedented levels of control over its software. Professor Roberto Di Cosmo, one of Europe's leading open source experts, explains why the rest of the world should sit up and take notice ...Read more

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Special Report: The CIO dream team

Posted by Kevin White | Wed 1 Jul 2009

The key to success for any leader is having the right blend of people around you. Our special report examines how top CIOs have assembled and managed their own world-beating teams. ...Read more

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CIO appointments

Posted by Kevin White | Wed 1 Jul 2009

The latest CIO appointments, with a special focus on the public sector - where many bodies are taking advantage of the current climate to upgrade their CIO teams with talent from companies in the most extreme turmoil. ...Read more

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This Way Up: 3663's Jane Scott

Posted by Andy McCue | Fri 1 May 2009

Jane Scott is CIO of food service distributor 3663. She joined the company in 2003, after seven years of working internationally, including in the US and Japan, for Mars and Coca-Cola Schweppes. Here, we chart her rise to the top ...Read more

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Dr Doom: “It’s revolution or war”

Posted by Charlotte Moore | Mon 30 Mar 2009

“Dr Doom” Marc Faber has a knack of predicting economic traumas, and he believes the current crisis is so dire that it could result in a revolution or war. We meet the outspoken economist to discover his predictions for the future and find out why, despite being a pessimistic Swiss economist, he’s definitely not dull ...Read more

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CIO movers and shakers

Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 30 Mar 2009

The impact of the recession has meant considerable changes in the CIO landscape, particularly in financial services. Here’s a round-up of CIOs on the move and the top positions currently vacant ...Read more

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Personal Details Exposed Via Biggest U.S. Websites

europe.wsj.com: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:07:50 +0000

The largest U.S. websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time—a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.

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How to Avoid Prying Eyes

europe.wsj.com: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:51:38 +0000

The Internet is rife with surveillance technology, but you can protect your privacy by following these steps.

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The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets

europe.wsj.com: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:20:51 +0000

A Wall Street Journal investigation finds that one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet is the business of spying on American consumers. First in a series.

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