Collaboration may be the hottest trend to hit the enterprise this year. But what makes it so hot? Why now? According to "Benchmarking Your Collaboration Strategy," a new report from Forrester Research, two key trends make collaboration important to the enterprise right now: The amount of content...
No one person has all the answers all of the time. The world is just too complex, moves too fast and has too many variables for an executive to know everything and be right every time. Great executives, including great CIOs, know this...
What can CIOs learn about IT disaster recovery planning from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) recent computer problems, which caused flight delays and cancellations at airports across the country? Plenty, say disaster recovery experts. The root cause of the FAA outage was reportedly the...
When Chuck Conaway took over as the chief executive of Kmart, he gave himself two years to resuscitate the discount retailer, get the right products on its shelves and make it competitive again with the new kings of general merchandising, Wal-Mart and Target. September 6 may...
The accounting fraud at Satyam Computer Services was 40 percent larger than what the Indian software company’s former chairman had said, the Central Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday. Investigators found 28.09 billion rupees, or about $607 million, in additional accounting fraud at Satyam, V.V. Lakshmi Narayana,...
Managing a data center is going to get harder in 2010. That's according to researcher Gartner, which says problems associated with energy, space, and technology are set to worsen. As a result, IT managers would be smart to start looking for pragmatic ways to deal...
Dr. David Blumenthal, HHS’ National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has launched the blog Health IT Buzz, that will allow readers to learn more about health information technology (health IT) and provide a space for consumers, providers, policymakers, and technology experts to share their ideas...
If it ever was a question, 2009 put an end to any doubts about the resiliency of IT. Navigating severe budget cuts, unanticipated reorganizations, and quickly evaporating revenue opportunities across most markets in the wake of financial turmoil, IT retrenched, pushed ahead, and launched new endeavors...
LinkedIn is hoping to let its users tap into their professional network across the Web. On Monday, LinkedIn will make its technology available to software developers who want to use it in their own sites and applications. By incorporating information about someone’s professional profile and connections,...
Great CIOs are business leaders and see business results. The time was that being a great CIO involved being a great technologist. The relationship between leadership and mastery of a subject matter is strong, particularly in technical disciplines. After all how can a...