Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Don’t think your competitors are not eyeballing your best employees. The recession has hit IT, head counts are dwindling so it’s time to wake up and smell the scent of executive search: recruiters are looking to cull the very people you cannot afford to lose. The worse news is that now is the perfect time…
The Green CIO – November 13, 2006: Going green is easy and good for your company, your customer relations and the environment, writes CIO Update columnist David Thompson of Symantec. Data Center Optimization is Within Anyone’s Reach – April 16, 2008: You don’t have to be big to go green in the DC, writes CIOUpdate…
The latest benchmarking data estimates that you spend over 70% of your time and resources keeping current operations running, i.e., keeping the lights on. Gartner estimates this at over 80%. Whatever the number, those of you I have talked with agree. It’s a big number. One of the biggest credibility issues CIO’s face is that…
Software Project Failure: The Reasons, The Costs – When a major software project fails, the results can be devastating to an organization. This article uses economic criterion to define what it means for a project to fail and examines common traps that contribute to or accelerate project failure. Effective Project Management, ITIL and BSM –…
Today many organizations are considering whether to keep IT functions internal or outsource them to a third party. There a number of factors that need to be considered when choosing a service provider. (Or, if you already have one, you can still evaluate their role in your organization using these guidelines.) First and foremost this…
I have loved every one of my years in the IT business, which, to give you an idea of how long that’s been, was called EDP, or electronic data processing, when I started in 1966. But lately I have come to realize that I had a career, not a profession. By definition, a profession implies…
An important responsibility for many CIOs today is aligning IT with the overall business. Regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have made this a priority as companies evaluate how their IT systems can be more secure in the context of larger…
Effective Project Management, ITIL and BSM – It’s complicated but, taken together, these three could decrease IT budgets by 70%, writes CIOUpdate columnist Hank Marquis of Enterprise Management Associates. Software Project Failure: The Reasons, The Costs – When a major software project fails, the results can be devastating to an organization. This article uses economic…
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption is on the rise—promising businesses improved agility, closer alignment between system solution and business need and increased efficiency through reuse. To the CIO, an SOA approach expands options for cost reduction, speed-to-market and custom solution fit. As businesses realize the early benefits of SOA deployment, adoption has increased significantly. In addition…
In the Information Age, collecting information alone is not enough; it’s what you do with that information that counts. In a trend marked by urgency, if not downright panic, investors and CEOs are looking to CIOs to figure out how information can be used to speed extra cash to bleeding company coffers in the midst…