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by Scott Wilson on April 30, 2008
Although I think most of us realize that the traditional IT department is not quite as much under attack from outsourcing, SaaS, and social networking pressures as various pundits (this pundit...
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by Scott Wilson on April 29, 2008
CNET News is reporting that Google will name former Morgan Stanley executive Benjamin Fried as it's CIO in May, replacing the departed Douglas Merrill who left for EMI last month. So what does it...
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by Scott Wilson on April 11, 2008
Larry Dignan and Jason Perlow have been covering Gartner's Emerging Technologies conference in Las Vegas for the past week or so and have turned in some posts worth reading. They're all...
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by Scott Wilson on April 02, 2008
CNET news is reporting that current Google CIO Douglas Merrill is leaving the company to take the helm at music industry giant EMI's digital unit. It hasn't been so long since February's...
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by Scott Wilson on March 14, 2008
Paul Murphy has been posting excerpts from his book in process, "The Board Member's IT Brief," regularly on his blog, and today's entry covers a subject near and dear to our hearts...
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by Scott Wilson on March 13, 2008
Late adoption is sort of the anti-innovation, and since innovation is such a major theme in technology blogs and the IT world in general, I thought I would take a moment and give equal time to the...
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by Scott Wilson on February 27, 2008
That seems to be a bit of a theme today. First up, on Slashdot, we have "Gaffes that keep geeks from the boardroom," a discussion of the various clothing, attitude, and personal hygiene...
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by Scott Wilson on February 16, 2008
Very brief interview up over at Information Week with Google CIO Douglas Merrill. Doesn't much go into the nuts and bolts of his domain at the notoriously secretive search giant, but he does talk...
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by Scott Wilson on February 08, 2008
Most CIO's feel the squeeze of hardware or software lock-in at some point, the overt or covert mechanisms which keep us from easily switching between technology products. For quite a long time,...
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by Scott Wilson on January 24, 2008
One might imagine (at least, I have certainly always imagined) that being CIO for a professional sports team, particularly one of the most successful teams in the NFL, might be a pretty exciting job....
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by Scott Wilson on January 17, 2008
You can stop holding your breath. Microsoft has selected former Disney CIO Tony Scott as the new head of their internal IT organization. The rest of you are no longer in the running. Sorry. Scott...
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by Scott Wilson on January 12, 2008
Bryan Crynes, Chief Information Officer for Starbucks, the multi-national coffee giant based out of Seattle, Washington, finds himself out on the street today as part of a general corporate shake-up...
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by Scott Wilson on December 21, 2007
For a snapshot of how the other half lives (CIOs at major technology companies-oh, to be employed by a business whose business is your business!), see this recent Information Week interview of IBM CIO...
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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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