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2007 CIO Ones to Watch Standout Winners

Honoring the five individuals who represent the key qualities of successful CIOs today.

The 2007 CIO Ones to Watch Awards

To succeed today, CIOs need to invest in tomorrow's leaders.

Ones to Watch Winners Discuss Keys to Meeting Mid-Market Challenges

Tight budgets. Leadership churn. Meeting business demands. Four Ones to Watch winners discuss their approaches to meeting key leadership challenges

How to Turn Your Employees Into Leaders

CIOs who want to succeed as business partners and strategistsn canu2019t do it alone. Success requires unshackling then leaders within your IT organization and letting them run.

The Importance of a Mentor to an Up-and-Coming IT Leader

A Ones to Watch winner from 2005 acts as mentor to one of the 2007 winners

Full Cost: It’s Time to Pay Attention

Most IT leaders don't have a clue how important their business and cost planning processes are.

Server Virtualization Snapshot

Summary stats on the prevalence of server virtualization implementations

Adobe Takes on .Net, Java Web Development Tools

Unveils tool to run Web-based desktop apps without a browser

Learning to Love Lean IT

Eliminating waste doesn't just apply to scrap metal.

Demystifying Master Data Management

Organizations must understand that improving their datau2014and building the foundation for MDMu2014requires them to address internal disagreements and broken processes.

Dell Looks Beyond Direct-Sales Model

3 SOA Implementation Tips

Three tips for navigating the sea of service-oriented architecture standards.

Personal Time During the Workday

With the amount of work businesspeople face today, the line between work and personal matters can blur.

SOA Help Wanted: Balancing Outsourcing, Insourcing and Re-Skilling

What's the best strategy for staffing enterprise service-oriented architecture initiatives? You might be surprised.

RIM Readies Software Client for Non-BlackBerry Devices

How to Master Professional Speaking

Vary your style so people listen.

Google Still Searching for Ways to Master Media

Despite the search giant's enormous success and future potential, many media companies see Google as more of a threat than an ally.

How to Navigate a Sea of SOA Standards

Facing too many emerging standards — and not enough vendor support for them — in your service-oriented architecture implementation? Consider these steps in your planning.

To Lead, Align Your Values with Your Organization’s Goals

The successful integration of high performance and organizational culture starts with the CIO.

Hot Jobs: Windows Administrator

Leadership and Generation X

How understanding the relevance of generational dynamics can invigorate your leadership potential.

Boost Security With Outbound Content Management

Sensitive data slides out your company's door every day. New outbound content management tools can help you identify problem spots and bolster security.

5 Steps to a Smart Outbound Content Management Strategy

Fuel Cells Equal Cleaner Backup Power for Data Centers

FlipStart Takes Handhelds Beyond the BlackBerry

Outsourcing Lessons Learned in China

Specialists vs. Generalists

In these days of specialization, it can be more and more difficult for some to see and keep sight of the bigger picture at work.

IT at the Department of Defense: Adding Insult to Injury

U.S. veterans of the Iraq War continue to struggle with Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Data Point: Consumer Data Storage and Your Company

How important is storage and information management to your company's future?

How TerraCycle Built a Corporate Network With Discarded Hardware and Open Source Software

Can you run a business using discarded technology equipment and open-source software? You bet.

The World’s Best Wide Area Networks (WANs)

Optimizing a WAN has never been more important.

‘Optical Cloaking’ Could Render Objects Invisible

WS-I Publishes Basic Security Profile 1.0

Parasoft Releases C++test 7.0 and Parasoft Insure++ 7.1

New Algorithms from UCSD Improve Automated Image Labeling

Electrical engineers from UC San Diego are making progress on a different kind of image search engineu2014one that analyzes the images themselves.

Lead Your IT Department Toward Environmental Sustainability and Increased Profits

Profitability and environmental consciousness are increasingly going hand in hand.

Beneath the Buzz: Top Management Support

If you need it, you don't deserve it.

Hot Jobs: Program Manager

The ITIL-SOA Connection

How to increase SOA project satisfaction.

The Hottest Jobs In Information Technology

ITIL Goes Strategic

The new update to the IT Infrastructure Library could help you improve IT-business alignment and change your focus from nfire fighting to service delivery.

Brazil Offers Free Internet to Indians in the Amazon

Technology helps expand rain forest conservation efforts

Your Role in National Intelligence

What is the government's approach to using IT as an intelligence tool? What role doesu2014and shouldu2014corporate America play?

Web Services

The "wave" of Web services has been a long time breaking. We've been tracking the trends, cautionary advice and hopeful outlooks.

Vendor Management 101

This Special Report takes a look at how CIOs can set the tone and the ground rules for good partner relationships.n

Technology Policy

This special report covers the government's attitudes and approach to outsourcing, R&D, spam and spyware, and other technologies and technology issues that will ultimately change the way you run your IT department. Because before you know it

Service-Oriented Architecture 101

Combine easily connected chunks of code written to accurately describe business services, and you have the foundation of a service-oriented architecture. Determining if you can benefit from SOA requires in-depth analysis of your company's needs.

Running IT Like A Business

Evolving from a cost center, IT is taking on the character, rigor and practices of a business within a business.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Vendors Eye Mid-Market

The Interim CIO Jinx

Recent CIO turnaround at Kaiser Permanente reflects a trend.