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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A survey of 172 CIOs conducted by recruitment firm Harvey Nash Co. and was sponsored by KPMG LLP, Made the following findings 80% of CIO's think their roles are becoming more strategic to their...

PricewaterhouseCoopers has a report on IT Governance below are some of the insights/findings from the report based on interviews conducted: IT alignment is the highest rated driver and outcome of IT...

In a recent Forrester presentation on the Closing Gap between the CEO & CIO, there were some interesting slides, below are a couple of them: First on the CEO's satisfaction levels with IT:...

Mckinsey Quarterly has an interview with BP's CIO "John Leggate", below are some excerpts from the same: The Quarterly: How do you identify new technologies? John Leggate: We collaborate...

Excerpts from an article at Mckinsey Quarterly: Two trends in information technology will become increasingly important to CIOs in 2007: a migration to service-oriented architectures and the...

Found this article on Mckinsey Quarterly , of an interview with the Credit Suisse CIO Tom Sanzone. Below are excerpts from the interview:The Quarterly: What challenges and opportunities attracted you...

The IDC blog (podcast also available) has an interview with the CIO of P&G, some excerpts from the same: How does your boss know you're doing a good job? What are P&G's KPIs for...

Strassman has written whitepaper titled "7 Places to clean the clutter in i.T." , Below are some excerpts from the same: Hewlett-Packard is on track to do that under a five-year business...

EDS has a whitepaper titled "The Future, Multidimensional CIO" , which is an attempt to cover how the role of the CIO has changed since its inception in the 1970's. "role continues...

Information Week is carrying a piece with the results of a survey/study conducted by Forrester of 115 CIO's in North America. Summary of the results: CIOs in the 4th qtr of 2006 were more...

Baseline highlights the New Year Resolution of Jeff Peterson, CIO of UNICCO Service Company, a $700 million facilities and equipment management company, who has big plans for 2007 the resolutions are...

IBM SOA Launch YouTube Video....Interesting Via: Prashanth Rai......

SAP today announced that it has hired Uwe Herold as its new chief information officer.As of October 1, 2006, Herold will be based in Walldorf, Germany, where he joins the Board area Human Resources,...

Baseline has an article discussing the survey released by the Society for Information Management on Sept. 18. Key Highlights: 51.8 percent of those surveyed said 2007 IT budgets would be higher than...

Nearly 60 percent of CIOs anticipate increasing their software spending through the rest of 2006, while only 33 percent expect spending to remain flat and 2 percent expect a decrease in spending -...

An Old concept in the IT world seems to be surfacing again, an recent article at computer world focusses on Centralization of IT. A quote from an old Oracle Presentation "By 2004 over 75% of IT...

Wal-Mart-arguably the world's largest retailer with 6,601 stores and 240 distribution centers worldwide (221 are in the United States)-has been the standard bearer for RFID in the retail sector....

Baseline's 2006 CIO compensation ranking shows that most of the 46 technology executives on the list got fatter wallets last year. Twenty-seven of them saw their total compensation increase in...

IT Leadership academy recently conducted a survey of 300-plus first-level IT executives (those who report to the CIO), second-level executives (who report to the first level) and third-level...

Harrah's is a very popular case for analytics, well covered in the HBR article Competing with Analytics (a must read), now a recent article has highlighted thier efforts on the "Operational...

Computerworld has an interview with Ex-CIO of Kraft foods, who is now the CIO of NYPD ...Jim Onalfo. NYPD was recognized for its data warehouse at the Computerworld Honors ceremony in the government...

Speaking at the Government UK IT Summit, Glyn Evans, director of business solutions and IT at Birmingham City Council warned: "Unless IT people grasp the transformation agenda they will cease to...

New research from Gartner shows that IT budgets globally will increase by just 2.7 per cent in 2006, hence the analyst firm has titled IT as a "non-growth industry" now, with spending...

HBS Working Knowledge has an article on Technology Negotiations, Highlighting the complexity & difficulty faced by executives in / during technology based negotiations. It states that the four...

Intel Corp. CIO John Johnson delivered a keynote address at Mobile & Wireless World in Orlando yesterday, offering up details about a five-year, $25 million initiative aimed at increasing mobility...

As a part of the Fortune Magazines "C-Suite Strategies" series, there is an interview with the CIO of Fedex Rob Carter.(Bio here) Excerpts : Rob Carter, the CIO of FedEx, the job may seem...

Strategy+Business has an article titled "The Coming Software Shakeup" here they highlight the trends in the software market and how they are expected to be moving forward....You can get the...

Corporate users will increasingly combine traditional enterprise software with online capabilities to create composite applications, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said today.....Looks like Bill Gates...

"For an IT company, my budget is really lean," Vass said in an interview earlier this week. "It doesn't compare to Oracle or Dell or IBM or HP."- Sun CIO Bill Vass Vass expects...

"We need to create an environment where that information can live safely," said Frank Buytendijk, a research vice president at Gartner Inc., at the company's BI conference in London...

ComputerWorld has a piece on the advice section, by Marjorie Luke and James D. Roberts, Co-Efficiency LLC on how organisations should go about the measuring the impact of IT on the Bottom Line....

ComputerWorld has an article with the comments of Ciscos CIO on Mobile Enabling of the Enterprise...And the difficulties there in: Despite improvements in recent years, the wireless industry has done...

IT has become a leading conveyor, sustainer, enhancer---and, often, destroyer---of brand identity and image., among the various roles of IT, this is one important & key role. The topic is covered...

ComputerWorld has a Whitepaper/Pdf available on Software as a Service, Its a good complination of interesting articles on Saas. Summary as provided by ComputerWorld - The more heavily organizations...

Chief information officers of the Indian operations of multinational companies are increasingly managing software development and other IT work for their parent companies. The CIOs are taking on these...

Computerworld hosted slides (part of its Premier 100 IT Leaders 2006) offering statistics on IT projects, spending priorities and staffing for this year's Premier 100 IT Leaders. (Here) Here are...

Podcast interview with Stephanie Reel, Vice Provost/Vice President and CIO, Johns Hopkins Medical Center and University at Talkingpotraits, You can get the MP3 here and the streaming option here....

Working through my aggregator, I cam across this article by Robert B Carter, Executive VP & CIO, Fedex, titled "Every Framework has its place". Here Robert highlights the framework that...