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by Scott Wilson on December 13, 2007
CIO Magazine has delivered their annual "State of the CIO" article covering a survey of nearly 600 CIOs and aggregating the responses into an overall view of the profession. The best part...
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by Scott Wilson on December 11, 2007
Apparently Senior management has arrived at a Zen-like "I'm okay; you're okay" place with regards to IT projects now; Larry Dignan reports on a recent survey by Dynamic Markets...
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by Scott Wilson on December 05, 2007
Cisco announced today that they have hired Padmasree warrior away from Motorola to serve as Chief Technical Officer. Warrior wraps up a 23 year career at Motorola that was capped with a stint as CTO...
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by Scott Wilson on November 29, 2007
Take a page from ex-Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott, change industries and job title! Scott, dismissed in early November for "violation of corporate policies" at the Redmond software company,...
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by Scott Wilson on November 13, 2007
According to Marc Andreesen, "In general, there are two kinds of IT departments - call them "early adopters" and "stuck in the mud". "Early adopters" want to...
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by Scott Wilson on November 07, 2007
I don't want to turn this into a gossip blog, but it's been a slow tech news day, and Seattle P-I blogger Todd Bishop has turned up another interesting detail regarding the...
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by Scott Wilson on November 06, 2007
For "violating company policies" according to Todd Bishop at the Seattle P-I. That's a nice broad swath of possibilities that can cover everything from "we found kiddie porn on his...
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by Scott Wilson on October 31, 2007
Dave Berlind finds himself with a few parting words to say before the theme music kicks in and the closing credits roll. Dave is commenting on a rather brief debate that was kicked off, at least in...
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by Scott Wilson on October 20, 2007
Gartner's IT Symposium in Orlando last week generated the usual amount of news and interest from that annual gathering and the last gasp has been summed up in this Baseline article, "CIOs...
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by Scott Wilson on October 16, 2007
Ah, the venerable beige box-one beneath every desk in corporate America before manufacturers discovered the color "black" and got all trendy on us. But perhaps no longer, according to...
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by Scott Wilson on October 11, 2007
Or so it would seem according to a new survey from the Society of Information Management, indicating that the number of CIOs reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer has dropped...
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by Scott Wilson on October 03, 2007
And I haven't seen it yet. But Larry Dignan over at ZDNet has! Quite a bit of information available in Larry's post. The big takeaways seem to be that Dell's star is diminishing while...
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by Scott Wilson on October 02, 2007
So odds are if you read this blog you are either a CIO or you aspire to become one, and in either case, the recent series of articles over at Information Week by Bob Evans, titled and themed...
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by Scott Wilson on September 10, 2007
On the face of things, the fact that fewer CIOs are considering Linux these days isn't terribly surprising to me at this point. It seems to me that if the OS wars aren't over (of course they...
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by prashanth on August 21, 2007
Excerpts from a computerworld article: For any leader, one of the most potent tools for influencing others is a strong sense of self. If IT's leaders don't know who they are, don't...
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by prashanth on August 06, 2007
Unbelievably encouraging. A year and a half ago, it felt OK. this is what Szygenda said when asked - if you had to sum up Oracle's acquisition strategy in a word or two, what would you...
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by prashanth on July 31, 2007
Marc Lewis, CEO of Westport, Conn.-based Leadership Capital Group LLC, an executive search firm that has placed several turnaround CIOs in large corporations comments, Agility is key, he says....
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by prashanth on July 29, 2007
Gartner offers these four suggestions to CIOs looking to make an impact on the bottom line: Clarify enterprise growth levers and where IS should contribute. Build deep business knowledge and...
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by prashanth on July 25, 2007
Mckinsey Quarterly has an interview with Diane Schueneman, Head of Merril Lynch's Operations & IT, Below are excerpts from the same, The model - Merrill Lynch is one of a growing number of...
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by prashanth on July 18, 2007
Its earning season for the Indian IT Services companies and after revenue and the impact of the strong rupee the other stat thats of interest to all is attrition. On this topic i came across a set of...
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by prashanth on July 16, 2007
The title means CIO doesnt mean Career is Over. Increasingly there is a trend of rising prominence of "new school" CIOs - individuals that possess an optimal blend of technical skills and...
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by prashanth on June 13, 2007
My Current reading includes The Long tail, by Chris Anderson. I really like the book so far, I like the simplicity with which the concepts have been explained.But this post isn't about the book or...
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by prashanth on June 04, 2007
IT Project = Change management program Most IT projects are fundamentally Change management projects, So the required care & steps need to be taken for the same. All the stake holders in the...
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