Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
While information technology introduces opportunities to achieve enormous efficiency and cost gains, it also creates a level of disruption that would have been unthinkable only a decade ago. Barcode readers built into smartphones are a perfect example. They, along with easily available information about products and pricing via the Internet, have introduced showrooming—which has fundamentally…
It’s 2014, and the digital age is well under way. Yet, many businesses seem hopelessly behind the times. To catch up and keep pace, business and IT executives need to focus on these critical areas: E-signatures: Purchase a car, buy a house or try to sign a contract online, and you’re typically presented with a…
One of the remarkable things about today’s smartphones and tablets is the extent to which they disintermediate and disintegrate longstanding tools and industries. We used to rely on a spate of separate devices: a camera, digital audio recorder, landline phone, video camera, DVD player, MP3 player and various remote controls. All are gone or rapidly…
How can CIOs and CSOs work together better? What has made CIO-CSO relationships work in situations you’ve observed? In order for the CIO and CSO to have an effective working relationship, they must have clear boundaries of responsibility. Typically what works best is for the CSO to define the proper level of security, the CIO…
By Jack Rosenberger In the wake of the news that Target’s profit fell more than 40 percent during the fourth quarter of 2013, due in large part to a data breach that affected up to 110 million customers, CIO Insight interviewed Eric Cole, a SANS Institute Faculty Fellow and the head of SANS’s Cyber Defense…
By Larry Bonfante It’s impossible to not notice that the way we do business today has changed dramatically from how we conducted business just a few years ago. Whether your company directly engages consumers in a B2C model or whether you are engaged with other businesses on the value chain in a B2B model, much…
By Shravan Goli Twenty years ago, I graduated from the University of Maryland with my Master’s degree in computer science. From my first days as a developer in the 1990s to my steps into management, I’ve always looked at my career as more than a series of steps up a ladder. I’ve viewed my career…
The Second Pillar: Bridging Silos and Building High-Performance Teams Transformational initiatives are most often undermined by an insidious enemy: organizational silos. Silos have become such a common part of life in IT that we almost don’t question them any longer. But as we move into the new era of IT, silos will be the single…
By Charles Araujo “Do you want to know a secret?” The “secret game” is a favorite of almost all young children. It is exciting and exhilarating to have a bit of secret knowledge that others do not. So they slyly ask this question, reveling in their secret information while inwardly dying to share it with…
Career website Dice.com is out with its annual Linux Jobs market report and once again demand is growing. The report is sponsored by the Linux Foundation, which does of course have its own particular bias when it comes to Linux, though there are still a few surprises in it. “Based on our work with the…