IT Leadership

Enterprise Startups: A Long Road Ahead

This year's crop of DEMO startups targeting the enterprise space face big challenges.

Private PaaS: The Convergence of Private Cloud & Enterprise Architecture

Private cloud and enterprise architecture have converged into Private PaaS which will not only change the private enterprise IT landscape, but will lead to the next era of enterprise IT for years to come.

Tech Titans We Will Miss and Ones Better Off Dismissed

In the wake of Carol Bartz's firing from Yahoo, let's take a look at how tech CEOs' personalities and business tactics defined or are defining their companies, for good or ill. Here are 10 dynamic current and former tech CEOs, some we

One CIO Shares the Secrets to Successful IT Transformation

David Banks, the first CIO ever at Cumberland-Gulf, kept asserting the importance of the CIO role while accelerating the companyu2019s IT transformation.

Define Your Social Ecosystem

One of the many interesting topics of discussion we get into in our Social Business Strategy workshops is around the social ecosystem. This is the name I have given the collection of business capabilities potentially enhanced by one or more social te

The Language of C-Suite Deceit

Fascinating Stanford paper instructs how to tell if a CEO, or a CFO, is lying about the numbers

What Jobs Crisis? CFOs Seek Finance Hires

Despite overall worries about how to reduce joblessness -- which President Obama will put on display tonight -- the fourth quarter looks like a strong one for finance hiring, CFOs say.

I Create, Therefore I’m a CFO

Half the battle in finance, though, is getting others to see the creative streak in finance -- and recognizing it ourselves.

Spiceworks Spices Up Interactions Between IT Pros

Leaders Have to Learn the Job, Just Like Everyone Else

Newly promoted leaders, and leaders promoted to higher levels of leadership, need to learn new techniques to succeed in their new roles. Fail to give them the opportunity to learn these techniques and you're setting them up for failure.