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Make or break: Why M&As need CIO involvement
Posted by Hüseyin Tanriverdi | Mon 1 Mar 2010
CIOs play a critical role in ensuring that M&As create business value, argues Dr Hüseyin Tanriverdi, associate professor of information, risk and operations management at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business ...Read more
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Governments buy into apps stores
Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 8 Feb 2010
State CIOs around the world are following Apple and Salesforce.com and becoming increasingly sold on the idea of cloud portals ...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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"Europe must open its digital borders," says European commissioner Viviane Reding
Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 18 Jan 2010
For the past five years, EU commissioner Viviane Reding - the most powerful person in European ICT - has pursued the vision of a single digital market for Europe. In our exclusive interview, she explains what that means for global CIOs ...Read more
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Mastering M&A
Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 18 Jan 2010
Business leaders rarely give due consideration to the IT component in any merger, acquisition or spin-off. But as most CIOs know to their cost, that can determine the whole business outcome ...Read more
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Outsourcing 3.0
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 18 Jan 2010
Our latest Special Report examines how new sourcing models - from the cloud to outcome-based agreements - are transforming the landscape of IT service delivery ...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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Shared vision for apps outsourcing
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 18 Jan 2010
A team at London Business School has been examining the differing perceptions and measures of success held by business, finance and IT executives in applications outsourcing initiatives ...Read more
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Governing risk: On board IT
Posted by Blaize Horner Reich | Mon 7 Dec 2009
When it comes to IT governance, board members often neglect their responsibilities, argues Dr Blaize Horner Reich ...Read more
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21st Century Free
Posted by Chris Anderson | Mon 30 Nov 2009
Chris Anderson, author of the acclaimed bestseller The Long Tail, predicts a time when, thanks to the digital economy, the default price of everything will be zero ...Read more
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CIOs who blog - update
Posted by Kenny MacIver | Fri 23 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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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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The US government's IT dashboard
Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 5 Oct 2009
Vivek Kundra, appointed by Barack Obama as the US government's first CIO, has launched an online dashboard that candidly exposes the current spending and schedule metrics of the 800 major projects that make up the bulk of the federal government’s $76 billion annual IT spend. ...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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De-risking IT
Posted by Kevin White | Wed 30 Sep 2009
Technology projects have a far from perfect record for delivering value to the business. But CIOs are taking this problem in hand, with initiatives designed to eliminate failure and maximise benefits ...Read more
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The efficiency imperative
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Wed 30 Sep 2009
Economic and environmental pressures have put IT at the centre of the business efficiency drive - and convinced CIOs to target wasteful energy burn-rates. Our special report examines how the twin goals of cost cutting and a lower carbon footprint can be achieved. ...Read more
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Lean lessons from Japan
Posted by Jeffrey Liker | Mon 31 Aug 2009
You think lean and IT make uncomfortable bedfellows? Not at Toyota, argues Dr Jeffrey Liker, a world authority on the creator of lean - although it's only seen as one of many means of driving efficiency ...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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Lean: Doing more with less
Posted by Kevin White & Charlotte Moore | Wed 1 Jul 2009
As the global recession continues to bite, every organisation is searching for ways to improve efficiencies and increase agility. Is lean the answer to the CIO's recession-busting pressures, or just a euphemism for "slashing the budget"? ...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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Book review: What Would Google Do?
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 18 May 2009
For a company only born a decade ago that has changed the face of the internet and has a market cap of $96.5 billion, it’s not unreasonable to ask: “What would Google do?” Jeff Jarvis tries to answer the question ...Read more
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Creative destruction
Posted by Richard Foster | Mon 11 May 2009
The recession will spell the end for some corporate dinosaurs but, as US history shows us, this natural selection can pave the way for a new breed of innovators, argues Richard Foster ...Read more
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Windows 7, Vista or XP?
Posted by Rachel Ebrey | Tue 5 May 2009
When it comes to operating systems, should it be out with the old and in with the new? Fujitsu's CTO Marc Silvester offers his expert advice ...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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Special Report: Cloud computing
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 30 Mar 2009
An in-depth investigation into the benefits of cloud computing: should your company be adopting it? What are the merits? And what are the pitfalls you should be aware of? ...Read more
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Technology investment key to recession survival
Posted by Jessica Twentyman & Andrew Donoghue | Mon 30 Mar 2009
Smart companies recognise that IT isn’t an overhead – it could also be key to dragging their business back into the black. Investment in innovation is just as important to boosting financial performance as cutting overheads ...Read more
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