IT Leadership

How IT Innovation and Mobility Empower Unilever

Rod Hefford, CIO for Global Customer Development and Supply Chain at Unilever, discusses they key goals of their Compass strategy, how IT is organized to drive innovation globally. Hefford also explains how mobility is empowering Unilever to respond

Inside Facebook’s Hackathons: 5 Tips For Hosting Your Own

Facebook's all-night innovation sessions, which have produced features such as Timeline, Chat and the Like button, attract hundreds of employees. See what Facebook has learned from its hackathons and how those lessons can apply to your business.

6 Ways the Cloud Enhances Agile Software Development

Cloud computing and virtualization let you create virtual machines and use of cloud-based services for project management, issue management and software builds with automated testing. This, in turn, encourages agile development in six key ways.

5 Tips for Creating an EA Assessment Model Quickly

EA maturity/assessment models are a common and excellent way to track EA's progress and influence plans. Here are some tips for creating and EA assessment model quickly before other priorities get in the way.

Cloud Service Providers Challenge Traditional IT Outsourcing

Organizations require the agility, resiliency and innovation that comes with the right IT services platform.

Cloud Service Providers Challenge Traditional IT Outsourcing

IT organizations' reluctance to hire and make capital investments will keep the outsourcing market chugging along, but according to Gartner, cloud-based services will begin to take a bigger piece of the pie.

An IT Lesson From Grandma: Don’t Let Sunk Cost Get Out of Control

A fable that CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle heard from his grandmother many years ago still resonates today. The message is simple--if you pour salt into a pot of tea, pour it out and start over--and it applies to many an IT investment.

Why Your Company Should Hire a Dedicated SEO Specialist

SEO specialists need to interact with multiple departments, sites, analytics, social media, Web Development and infrastructure. For those reasons you should be asking yourself if this role is best-suited for an internal staff position or outsourced t

Before You Invest in CRM Software, Assess Your Needs

Smart car buyers don't get a Ferrari when a Fiat will do. The same philosophy is true of CRM systems, which can be as utilitarian or as luxurious as you want them to be. The key is determining whether the extra features will improve profitabilit

Going social part II: Fight for the users

How to Secure Data by Addressing the Human Element

Your sensitive data is only as secure as the weakest link in your organization, and in many cases the weak link is your employees. A properly established security awareness and training program can pay huge dividends.n