Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
When I was given this assignment it was posited as a question: Should a CIO consider implementing WAP? My immediate response was absolutely not. My experience with WAP was roughly eight years ago. Back then, it was a light-weight protocol for displaying modified versions of webpages on a small text only screen. To “WAP-ify” a…
Smartphones are invading the enterprise record numbers especially now that several models have a price tag of under $100 (with carrier subsidies). The question for IT is whether they’ll get ahead of this trend or struggle to catch up (as they did with WiFi, laptops, and removable storage devices). “People don’t treat smartphones the same…
Despite Web-enabled conference tools and the rise of telecommuters, travel remains a business inevitably for many companies: deals have to be struck, contracts realized, products delivered, and services rendered, literally, on the fly. That puts CIOs in a precarious position since data must roam beyond company walls in order to get the job done. According…
Columns like this are a bit formulaic. I know it, you know it, yet we all read them: “10 best movies of 2008”, “10 best books of 2008”, “10 worst technologies”, and on and on. Heck, Fox Sports devotes half of its programming to those annoying Best Damn countdowns. What most of us balk at…