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Friday, July 3, 2009
CIO Insight
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Eight Ways Porn Changed the Internet
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Al Gore may take credit for inventing it. The Department of Defense deserves credit for building out its infrastructure. But lets face it: The real wizards behind the curtain, the first true marketeers of the Internet, and the virtuosos of virtual innovation are the Internets purveyors of porn. Heres how the porn industry has helped evolve the Internet, for both good and bad.
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Culture Czar
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Corporate culture is critical to social media projects.
- Decide whether to buy or build, choose features and functionality, weigh security and privacy concerns, consider ROI its easy to get bogged down in discussions over social media. While those discussions are crucial, theyre only chapters in a larger, more strategic narrative. That larger story, say...
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Are You a Strategist or an Operator?
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Does your company run a strategic IT shop, or an operational one? According to the IT Governance Institute (ITGI), strategists are more forward-looking, are governed with an eye toward partnering with lines of business in order to innovate, and tend to return more from their IT investments. Operators are most concerned with cutting costs in the here and now, are governed to keep the lights on and often miss opportunities to realize value from their investments.
In a recent study conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, ITGI examined the behaviors and outcomes of these two types of IT organizations.
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Finding the Essence of Innovation
Monday, June 29, 2009
The term innovation means different things to different CIOs. Finding the right meaning has never been more important.
- Amid a dizzying array of management philosophies\ and business strategies, one thing stands out in the daily scramble to create viable products and services: Above all, success centers on a companys ability to innovate. Equifax CIO Robert Webb understands the concept well. The ability to transfor...
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IT Drops the Ball on Former Workers
Monday, June 29, 2009
Far too many ex-employees retain access to sensitive data.
- As the economy weakens, more and more companies face the risk of mischief from once-trusted insiders, even when theyre no longer inside the organization. A survey conducted by access management firm Courion found troubling new evidence that many companies employ inefficient methods to shut off a...
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Dangerous Former Employees
Monday, June 29, 2009
Insider threats from ex-employees linger when IT organizations fail to deprovision terminated workers access to all systems.
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Six Myths of Innovation
Friday, June 26, 2009
Not everything you think you know about innovation is true.
- Technology drives innovation. Youve heard this one before, but its easily lost amid the daily hubbub: Technology merely facilitates innovation. Social networking, cloud computing, virtualization, you name it, do not intrinsically drive business improvements. In fact, they can diffuse and dilute inno...
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Insider Security Breaches Increase
Friday, June 26, 2009
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has released its mid-year analysis of major data breaches reported so far in 2009. Though the total numbers show an improvement over the first half of 2008, ITRC is reporting the percentage of insider attacks and breaches caused by hacking is on the rise. As it does with all of its reports, ITRC warns users to remember that the number of reported breaches is likely just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to actual breach statistics. Many more incidents go unreported.
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Disrupting the Recession
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Keeping innovation alive in a down economy.
- If cutting costs and boosting productivity are the biggest concerns for CIOs right now, then where does that leave innovation? Right smack in the middle, argues Scott Anthony, president of consulting firm Innosight. In his new book, The Silver Lining, he describes how businesses can keep innovation ...
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Project Management Lifts Frontier
Thursday, June 25, 2009
SaaS effort lifts airline in turbulent times.
- See our slideshow based on Frontier's experience, 10 Ways IT Can Help the Business. Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc., the operator of Frontier Airlines, has hit some turbulence recently. The Denver, Colo., company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year, and is facing significant cha...
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10 Ways IT Can Help Business Out in Tough Times
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
What Frontier Airlines learned during a big IT project.
See our case study on Frontier's SaaS effort.
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The Legal Risks of SaaS
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Weigh the legal pros and cons of SaaS before rushing into a project that might not benefit your organization.
- Even in this economic downturn, software-as-a-service continues to grow. IDC recently raised its 2009 projected growth rate for SaaS from 36 percent to 40.5 percent. SaaS advantages over traditional software licensing, such as simpler transitions and low to no up-front costs, are well known. How...
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IT Spending Outlook Still Uncertain
Monday, June 22, 2009
CIOs will continue struggle with iffy budgets throughout the rest of the year, according to a new poll conducted among 900 CIOs by Gartner Executive Programs. Released in mid-June week, results showed an expected IT spending decline in 2009 of about 4.7%. Figures were compared to a similar poll conducted at the end of 2008.
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What Business Managers Really Think of IT
Monday, June 22, 2009
A survey of non-IT executives, conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers for the IT Governance Institute, shows that many business leaders believe IT investments create value, but many still view the department as an operational and tactical asset rather than as a strategic partner.
Full results can be found in the ITGI report An Executive View of IT Governance.
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The Human Element of IT
Friday, June 19, 2009
A new study reveals the impacts of personality-driven
behavior on effective IT leadership and technology adoption.
- IT leadership matters thats widely accepted wisdom. But is it possible for a few key roles in the IT-business relationship to determine the level of effective IT adoption? Can the motivations and behaviors of a few key IT players be the butterfly in the IT value tsunami? Our recent study of...
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