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by Scott Wilson on March 15, 2010
There are probably some Human Resources blogs somewhere where you can read the official view on the use of Internet-based background screening on new-hire candidates, but for the most part what I se...
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by Scott Wilson on March 12, 2010
It's usually pretty easy to get to the "Duh" moment in reading any study commissioned by Microsoft. I get the impression that those released for public consumption are generally the ones...
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by Scott Wilson on February 26, 2010
It's funny how often you find yourself reading two otherwise unrelated articles exhibiting diametrically opposing points of view in short succession on the Internet these days. This morning, for m...
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by Scott Wilson on February 24, 2010
Perhaps you need a crisis every once in a while to practice your crisis management skills.
Toyota has been admired and revered in the manufacturing and production world for so long, and their veh...
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by Scott Wilson on February 22, 2010
It's your CEO's fault! But then, you already knew that, right?
Of course, in some senses, everything that happens in the business is the CEO's fault, or fortune, as the case may be. The...
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by Scott Wilson on January 25, 2010
So, on the heels of last week's shocker that most enterprises apparently still view IT as an internal business, there is more evidence that the general perception of work happening over the past...
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by Scott Wilson on January 21, 2010
So alleges Bob Lewis in an excellent InfoWorld article dissecting the traditional perspective that IT departments should operate as internal mini-businesses with other departments within the company a...
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by Scott Wilson on January 1, 2010
That's the new buzzword, anyway; "new normal" meaning "still pretty crappy but you had better get used to it."
Not surprisingly, people are getting used to it, including bot...
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by Scott Wilson on December 4, 2009
Michael Krigsman at ZDNet's Project Failures blog has posted a podcast interview with General Services Administraiton CIO Casey Coleman here. The GSA has a massive mandate to supply the government wi...
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by Scott Wilson on November 13, 2009
McKinsey says it's "Time to raise the CIO's game" and I couldn't agree more. Don't get me wrong, I am as hesitant as ever to jump on the "this changes everything" bandwagon. I didn't buy into the "w...
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by Scott Wilson on November 12, 2009
Microsoft's new CIO Tony Scott likes the idea of using the company's in-development products operationally within the business as they are being developed, but hates the traditional label attached t...
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by Scott Wilson on October 26, 2009
The statement in the title requires some additional explanation, as most such claims do. First, the sample size of the polling data is far too small and self-selected for any meaningful result... twe...
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by Scott Wilson on October 15, 2009
Something that's been sitting on a back burner over here for a while is a post commenting on Chris Curran's post last month at CIO Dashboard asking "Can a CIO be Successful Without IT Experience?" It...
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by Scott Wilson on October 13, 2009
First, an aside: don't think I wasn't thinking of some flashy, impressive title like "Half Reports Half of CIOs block social networking sites!" for this... aren't you glad I restrained myself?
But ...
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by Scott Wilson on August 13, 2009
John C. Dvorak's accusation that Obama appointee to the US CIO role, Vivek Kundra, is a phony seems to be mostly a flash in the pan so far but it seems like the sort of thing that the mainstream m...
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by Scott Wilson on August 6, 2009
HP has named former Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman as their senior VP of Global Information Technology.
Dillman is something of an HP success story, having worked at the company as a lowly computer opera...
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by Scott Wilson on July 1, 2009
So, after running across the CIO Dashboard of Twittering CIOs last week, I had been toying with the idea of doing a post on dashboards in general. I'm of mixed opinions on them, generally; I think...
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by Scott Wilson on June 21, 2009
If you are one of those CIOs who likes to know what other CIOs are up to, then you have probably spent some time scouring the blogosphere and tools like Facebook and Twitter for accounts of other CIOs...
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by Scott Wilson on April 10, 2009
I found the most interesting part of Wednesday's TechExecs CIO Panel Forum to be, well, the panel forum. Moderated by Boeing System Analyst and University of Phoenix professor Bill Allen and compr...
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by Scott Wilson on April 8, 2009
I left Seattle TechExecs CIO Panel Forum earlier today burning with unanswered questions.
The event was interesting and informative, but I couldn't help but feel that it didn't live up to its...
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by Scott Wilson on April 8, 2009
I'll be at the TechExecs Seattle CIO Panel Forum today, listening to regional CIOs and technology executives presenting and discussing their takes on a variety of topical subjects, including socia...
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by Scott Wilson on March 25, 2009
All Things Digital has posted an internal memo from recording industry giant EMI's CEO Elio Leoni-Sceti announcing the departure of recently hired ex-Google CIO Douglas Merrill from the label'...
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by Umair Khalid on March 4, 2009
Meridith Levinson posted an editorial yesterday calling on job-seekers to stand up to employers who are doing background research on the Internet and demand respect for their privacy.
Your first thou...
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by Scott Wilson on February 7, 2009
The much ballyhooed position of CTO for the United States which President Obama included among his campaign promises looks to be going the same direction as most campaign promises, which is to say, by...
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by Scott Wilson on January 29, 2009
The problematic hiring of former IBM executive Mark Papermaster by Apple last year which resulted in a messy non-compete lawsuit has been resolved out of court.
I had been following the suit because ...
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by Scott Wilson on January 20, 2009
BusinessWeek is reporting that the Obama transition team has narrowed its choices for the newly created CTO position down to two: cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior and current city of Washington DC CTO Vive...
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by Scott Wilson on December 10, 2008
The FBI, at least, does not seem to subscribe to the oddly popular notion that the catastrophe on Wall Street was caused or significantly contributed to by poor IT leadership. Or at least they seem no...
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by Scott Wilson on November 8, 2008
So now that Obama has been elected the inevitable speculation has begun around his potential cabinet appointments. This happens with every president-elect, of course, but this time around, CIOs have s...
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by Scott Wilson on November 4, 2008
You may have been, as I have, vaguely following the IBM versus Apple shootout (now seemingly destined for litigation after the opening press release bombardments have failed to budge either party) ove...
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by Scott Wilson on October 13, 2008
Just when CIOs didn't need any more threats to their autonomy and importance, tightening budgets as a result of the global financial crisis are piling on and causing a sudden reversal in what had ...
