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Tips for Training Your Tech Vendors

How to Sell Your Staff on Dashboards

Mellon Fights ID Fraud With New Authentication Technology

Mainframes Under Fire

Demonstrating big business value from the big box.

Salaries: Seven Tips for Getting What You Want

The trick is not to talk dollars and cents.

What the Chip War Means for Your Data Center

Should you standardize on AMD or Intel? It depends, say our experts.

Distractions at Work

Distractions and interruptions are legion, but the worst culprits are e-mail and the crisis du jour.

Six Steps to Data Governance Success

Without a doubt, data has become the raw material of the information economy, and data governance is a strategic imperative.

Where IT Reports

Is it really that important to report to the CEO, not the CFO?

Yahoo CTO Calls It Quits

After 10 years with the Internet company, Farzad Nazem says it's time to slow down.

How to Learn from Your Leadership Mistakes

What Banks Tell Online Customers About Their Security

Six months after the FFIEC's rules for strong authentication took effect, we test what the country's three biggest banks tell their customers about online security.

Spam Grows, But Study Finds Users Equipped to Deal

Pew study says users less bothered, more ready to deal with ever-rising spam.

Quality Doesn’t Just Happen

If developers and managers both want to create software that users love, why is it that so many shoddy software projects escape from the Quality Assurance department?

Creating Synergy and Pride in Software Testing Departments

In this chapter from Judy McKay's Managing the Test People: A Guide to Practical Technical Management, you'll learn valuable skills in motivating QA teams.

Five Approaches That Don’t Work With the CEO

Don't fall too far into one of these roles when pitching ideas to C-level executives.

How One CIO Was Converted to Agile

The real-life story of a skeptic won over.

How a CIO Sold Her CEO’s Vision

The boss was convinced neural net technology would be the answer to his company's problems. The CIO proved it.

Forget About Security and Privacy: Focus on Trust

For strong relationships with customers and business partners, invest in protecting their data.

A Search Engine for Open-Source Code

Krugle wants to become a verb for searching and finding open-source software code.

Business Objects Buys Inxight, Upgrades EPM

When Your Move Up Doesn’t Fit

User Input Spurs Innovation

Employees are CIOs' secret weapons when expectations are high but resources for IT are limited.

Three Basic Approaches to Cutting Telecom Costs

Master Data Management: Truth Behind the Hype

What’s Wrong With Security?

Five experts share their ideas for fixing information security's most pressing problemsn

For Companies to Survive, CIOs Must Transform Them

Change is inevitable. It's how quickly and completely your company changes that will determine its marketplace fate.

Estonia’s E-Government and E-Commerce Sagging Under Prolonged Cyberattack

Being one of the most advanced users of the Internet in the world makes the country particularly vulnerable to Web-based attacks.

Bringing the Benefits of IT to Emerging Markets

It's time to examine opportunities in emerging markets.

CFOs Credit Experience, Technology Systems with Trimming Sarbanes-Oxley Costs

A new survey says that companies are using experience and IT systems to cut compliance costs, but that auditing services are still expensive.

TJX Takes $12 Million Hit in First Quarter for Data Breach

In spite of after-tax charge, the discount retailer manages to meet its financial plan for the quarter.

Roping Telecom Chaos

Most companies mismanage telecom expenses and planningu2014and are now asking the CIO to fix the problem. Here's how to take stock and clean up the mess.

SAP Fills Gaps With Two Nordic Acquisitions

Pay Attention to Your Network

The future of your business depends on your network. That's why you should oversee it yourself.

Google and Web Search Rivals Battle for Big Bucks on Small Screens

The big names in web search are looking to mobile handsets as the next front in the online advertising market.

GPS Innovation Gives Weather Bots a New Ride

Harvard, BBN Use Streetlamps to Light Up Wireless Network

Real-time sensor data is being collected throughout Cambridge, Mass., via a wireless network designed by Harvard University and BBN Technologies.

Boards Should Walk the IT Strategy Talk

Becoming a Change Leader

If you want to lead your organization to achieve its goalsu2014and stand out from the pack when competing for jobsu2014you need to learn how to lead change effectively.

Strategic Orientation: How To Engage Business Executives And Make IT Strategic

The CIO of Toyota Motor Sales USA used focus groups and a critical analysis of IT systems and business needs to bridge silos, craft a long-term vision and make a strategic difference.

Who Offers Business Process Management Tools?

As you evaluate software in the big BPM market, focus on the problem you're trying to solve.

Five Bad Habits to Lose on the Road to Success

To achieve more lofty goals, let go of bad habits in order to adopt new behaviors that will enable you to succeed.

Ideas for Attracting Young People to IT Careers

Five experts in IT education and training suggest ways to get more students into computer science and IT careers.

Put the Emphasis on “P” for Process in Business Process Management

When working with BPM tools, it's essential to emphasize that the effort is about business processes (not just the tools).

Microsoft Reportedly Still Interested in Yahoo

Going from CIO to CEO

CIOs who aspire to be CEOs should stop their pursuit of technology.

Is Your IT Organization “Highly Effective”? Check Out These 6 Common Traits

Virtualization, SOA and ITIL implementation can be enhanced by adopting social networking strategies.

The Origins of “Geek” and Other Terms of Note

The words we use shape our thoughts. Here's where some of those words come from.

Tibco to Acquire Spotfire in BI Move

The Strategic CIO: Using Leadership Skills and IT to Create Competitive Advantage

In this first edition of The Strategic CIO column, two veteran CIOs provide advice on how to take the CIO role — and the role of IT –to a higher level