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Data Breach Fears Prompt IT to Secure Cellular/Voice Communications

Concerns of potential data breaches via cellular/voice communications are leading CIOs to investigate solutions to address the issue before it's too late, according to a recent survey.

CIO 100 Plus One Award Winners Announced

The Real Measure of Great End-User Services

Escaping the SLA trap.

How to Justify an IT Project With Uncertain Returns (And Still Make Your CFO Happy)

A cash-strapped IT manager makes the case for a business intelligence system one data analysis at a time.n

New IT Recruiting Firm Promises to Serve the Needs of Employers and Job Seekers

Ready to Hire offers hiring managers a database of prescreened candidates and provides job seekers with high-touch recruiting relationships.

The CIO Role Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Marriott International CIO Carl Wilson tells why it's up to today's IT leaders to teach future CIOs tomorrow's skills.

New Tool Exposes Self-Edits in Wikipedia

Google Slips StarOffice Into Google Pack

Google's quiet insertion of Sun Microsystem's StarOffice into Google Pack gives users more features and legal protection to boot.

Activity-Based Budgeting Aims for the Right Target

The right destination, but a flawed path.

8 Tips to Help IT Reduce, Recover from BES and Exchange Server Downtime

How Blogging Can Boost Your Career

Writing a blog can enhance your company's credibility and help you establish your credentials.

Smartphone Software Syncs Multiple Meeting Calendars

How to Influence People

Purdue University CIO Gerry McCartney approaches executive collaboration and influence by building alliances with the people behind the decision makers

Communicating with a Corporate Superstar: Lessons from Kobe Bryant

Recent trade demands and interaction between all-star shooting guard Kobe Bryant and Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss provide CIOs and corporate managers with the perfect refresher on five key aspects of corporate communications.

Your RFID Battle Plan

Electronic tags still don't top CIO strategy lists. But as a tactical weapon, RFID can be used to fight old problems in new ways. Here's a report from IT executives in the trenches with RFID.

Innovation Generation Attempts to Help Students Develop Passion for Science

New forays into educational development for U.S. technology and innovation.

Why Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue Thinks IT Can Make Government Work Better

As a small business owner in the days before the Internet, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue was an early LAN and e-mail adopter who learned to program in Unix. But he won't deploy the latest and greatest technology for state agencies unless it makes th

Beware These Hazards to Functional Engagement in IT Projects

We all know good functional leadership is key to IT project success, so why do we keep forgetting it?

Nokia to Add Microsoft PlayReady Mobile DRM to S60, Series 40 Devices

Ingenuity: The Spark That Belongs to Everyone

From the Jesuits to NASA to Google you'll find examples of ingenuity leading to success.

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse: Why Cellular Service Goes Down During Disasters

It happens all the time when calamity strikes. Here's what you should know to prepare for the next one.

Executives’ Frustration with Innovation Spending Grows, BCG Study Finds

Risk-averse culture and lack of speed remain barriers to growth.

PCI Is Security Simplicity, Not Complexity

Payment card industry data security: the standard that makes people stupid.

The TCO of Operating Systems: Compare the Big OSes

Financial reasons for and against adopting Mac, Linux or Windows operating systems in the enterprise.

Open Source Helps Stop Traffic Accidents

To send help to accidents faster, engineers at the University of Maryland are using an open-source database to connect disparate traffic data.

Seven Ways to Ensure Your Resume Doesn’t End Up in a Recruiter’s Trash

Knowing when to summarize and when to be specific is the key to writing a resume that stays in a recruiter's keep pile.

The Aces of Stock Options

Rethink Your Storage Infrastructure to Save Money, Simplify Management

Smart IT leaders are using techniques like tiering and iSCSI to consolidate and simplify storage. They're saving money and creating efficiencies at the same time.

Google, Sprint Team on WiMax Mobile Services

Virgin America Stalled by Web Attack, Finally Starts Selling Tickets

The new airline promises a low-cost, high-tech in-flight experience that's already wowing the geek brigade. But first-day website problems have some scratching their heads.

Managers Don’t Take Enough Vacation

Time to get away?

Study Provides Evidence That Technology Execution Leads to Business Performance

BTM Institute says "converged business technology management" leads to improved business performance.

An Autocratic Approach to User Support Will Fail

Turn end-user services departments from reactive technology troubleshooters to business process improvers.

Time to Rethink Your Relationship With End Users

As the rise of shadow systems attests, end users can build their own systems. If you want to stay relevant, you need to stop developing applications for them and start working with them.

Survey: Enterprises Increasingly Address Consumer IT Security Threats

700MHz Spectrum Auction and Open-Access Rules: A Quick List of Winners and Losers

With the FCC expected to attach open-access rules to some of the 700MHz spectrum slated for auction early next year, we give you our list of potential winners and losers.

Balanced Scorecard

Balancing Scorecards With Reality

How to make Balanced Scorecards work for your organization

CRM Growing, Partially Due to Demand for Software as a Service

AMR Research predicts customer data integration and data quality will be the two big initiatives seeing the heaviest investment in the coming years. The study also reports an increase in inquiries about mobile technology and customer relationship man

A-GPS Service Enhances Nokia Mobile Phone-Based Navigation

CASE STUDY 3: Why You Keep Score

BNSF Railway uses the Balanced Scorecard to prove IT's value and to create synergy with business strategy

Bad Decisions

Cloning velociraptors? Staying at that quiet little Bates Motel? Sometimes one wrong decision can ruin your whole implementation.

Cell Phone Users Dial DIR-ECT-IONS for Free, Text Message-Based Driving Instructions

Acts of God (and Others)

Sometimes the blame for information technology catastrophes cannot be laid at the feet of the IT department.

Click and Save with Our Interactive Global Outsourcing Map

Explore our interactive map to get insights into what's happening in offshore outsourcing markets around the world.

Multi-Channel CRM: It’s in Your Future

Answer the phone!

Questions to Make You a Better Leader

Take an example from the famed leadership consultant Ram Charan.

SIM-Sponsored Summer Camp Teaches Kids about Technology

Teen Tech Camp is one of a number of programs sponsored by professional technology organizations whose goal is get kids excited about careers in IT.

Guiding Your IT Department on the Road to Change

After two mergers, the CIO of logistics provider YRC Worldwide had to carefully apply change leadership techniques to blend three IT departments into one.

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