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How PMOs can balance time, cost and quality

u2018Triple constraintu2019 is a term often heard in project management. But how does it translate into achieved or missed project and organizational objectives? Here are six questions project managers need to ask themselves.

How IT leaders can engage employees with appreciation

Seven out of 10 of your employees are disengaged from the work you want and need them to do.

How the cloud makes data integrations easier

Integrating data between applications has always been hard, but the cloud can make it a little easier

ownCloud announces bug bounty

Android Wear for iOS gives iPhone owners more smartwatch options

A new iOS app from Google lets iPhone owners see phone notifications on Android Wear smartwatches. It has a few drawbacks, but, overall, it's great news for Apple users who seek variety in watch styles.

Policy engine aims to provide security for big data infrastructure

The BlueTalon Policy Engine, now certified for Cloudera, provides authorization, fine-grained access control, dynamic data masking, stealthy analytics and auditing across applications and enterprise data stores.

Find your sources of inspiration

If you want to get your creative juices flowing, you want to know what your sources of inspiration are. Whether you want to resolve an issue, respond to a risk, craft a project strategy, you need to be able to tap into the creative zone of your brain

iOS 9: Use a gray background in Safari Reader

How to make all web pages resemble Daring Fireball in Safari Reader in iOS 9

Virginia shooting exposes dark side of social video

The tragic killing of two reporters during a newscast last week played out live on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The alleged shooter's use of social media raises questions about how popular social services manage auto-play video.

Why Industrial IoT platform is best hope for IT and OT convergence

The right Industrial Internet of Things platform is an enabler for making IT and OT convergence a reality.

8 tips for managing outsourced projects

Project management and outsourcing experts share their advice on how to effectively manage far-flung or internationally outsourced projects.

How Docker can transform your development teams

Dockeru2019s capability to speed up software testing should make it a no-brainer for any development team. Hereu2019s why.

CIOs create formal processes to get innovative tech from startups

IT leaders can get an innovation injection by tapping into the startup ecosystem via tech incubators, advisory boards and word of mouthu2029.

Excellent experience at Best Buy spotlights lousy Lenovo support

A recent trip to Best Buy to purchase a new PC turned into a great experience for one CIO.com blogger. Unfortunately, Lenovo's terrible tech support quickly put a damper on the situation.

Mobile app helps American Cancer Society gather donor data

The nonprofit uses a homegrown mobile fundraising app to take credit card donations at events and develop ongoing relationships with supporters

5 tips to keep your value-added reseller spend in check

Your reseller isnu2019t your BFF. How to stop overpaying your VAR and keep them honest.

CIOs boost their careers doing double duty

Many CIOs find it exhilarating to take on business functions outside of IT. But CIO-plus roles require a new mindset and trusted deputies.

7 things to do today to improve your outsourcing relationship

How to do the difficult work of harnessing human nature for outsourcing success.

OnlyBoth cracks big data wide open

The benchmarking engine, OnlyBoth, uses 'discovery algorithms' to ferret out unique aspects of persons, places or things in a database; compares them to others in the database; then describes results in natural language. The engine discover

Engineers get rapid-fire access to giant files in the cloud

Milwaukee Tool's designers in the U.S. and China no longer have to wait hours for their CAD files to open. They can open the latest files instantly in a cloud-based storage system.

The future of A.I. ethics is in our hands

When so many of the world's smartest people warn us about 'killer robots' and other ethical issues inherent in artificial intelligence, we should heed their call to make sure A.I. is used for societal good

Questions to ask before you hire an agile coach

Before you hire an independent agile coach, ask yourself this: Do I already have the knowledge and experience in-house?

Some exciting Chromebook improvements you’ll soon see

These are some of the new features and improvements currently being tested in the experimental channels of Chrome OS.

CIO Quick Takes: Tech leaders prep for new college year

As students return to campus, college and university CIOs share how they prepared for the new academic year.

10 years after Hurricane Katrina: IT lessons learned

Ten years after Katrina devastated New Orleans, IT pros say being less dependent on physical locations is just one of the keys to ensuring your company doesnu2019t go out of business when disaster strikes.

Law firm makes a case for security certification

A big law firm handling sensitive documents uses its ISO security certification as a competitive differentiatoru2029.

Millennials will move, take less money for IT jobs

A new survey suggests millennials seeking IT jobs are willing to accept less money and relocate in exchange for positions they're passionate about, but they also aren't afraid to quickly move on if they are dissatisfied with current employe

What Fiorina and Trump can learn from SWOT

A SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats analysis can help your company face its greatest challenges and achieve success. Columnist Rob Enderle demonstrates how to use the SWOT framework by applying it to the two Republican presidenti

How double-duty CIOs cope with non-IT responsibilities

CIOs who take on additional business functions are impressive, but how do they they do it all without having a nervous breakdown? The answer: great teams, trusted deputies.

Traction Watch: Looker aims to get that data out of the silos

Growth happens when you create opportunities for other companies and Santa Clara-based business intelligence and data discovery service, Looker, is doing just that, by giving organizations insight into their data. Their service allows workers to acce

Facebook M virtual assistant could be all about ads

Facebook has big plans for M, its new virtual assistant that provides a mix of human and machine-driven intelligence, but it will have to earn the trust of users if M is to rival Siri or Google Now.

Former Apple CEO launches stylish Android phones

How to create a physical space for innovation

A look at how companies find unique ways to embrace innovation and invest in new ways of thinking.

How to select enterprise software that maximizes ROI

Selecting best-fit enterprise software is a difficult task, and you canu2019t please all the people all the time. This article outlines a data driven and auditable process to pick the software that maximizes ROI and minimizes buyeru2019s remorse.

Think you’re agile? You’re probably wrong

A new study by Oracle and Opinium Research finds that businesses around the world overestimate their ability to flexibly manage workloads or rapidly develop, test and launch new applications.

How emerging technology is changing K-12 classrooms

While students in K-12 classrooms are building robots in their makerspaces, IT professionals are building the infrastructure needed to keep up with the latest technologies in the 21st century classroom.

7 cloud services that make great gifts

Not every great present comes wrapped in a box. These cloud-based gift ideas for the digital denizen in your life will add a little premium-level pizzazz to the party.

How ‘Digital Masters’ drive transformation from the top down

Leadership, not technology, drives transformation. CIOs have a lot to offer in the digital conversation. Great digital leadership means crafting a compelling transformative digital vision and then helping your organization to make it a reality thro

Why Microsoft Edge browser’s lack of add-ons is a deal breaker

Microsoft's new Windows 10 OS may eventually prove to be a hit, but the lack of support for browser extensions in Edge is an Achilles heel that needs to be addressed sooner than later. Unfortunately, Microsoft won't say when Edge will get a

OS X El Capitan: Find your cursor by shaking your mouse or trackpad

How to easily locate your cursor by shaking your mouse or trackpad

Why social media could swing the 2016 presidential election

Candidates in the 2016 U.S. presidential election use more social networks than politicians of the past, in hopes of tapping the millennial market. However, it's difficult to measure real ROI, and the social trail is fraught with political peril

OS X El Capitan: Mute all tabs in Safari

How to disable sound in all tabs in Safari

This CEO fosters a data-oriented company culture

BNY Mellon Investment Services uses a data dashboard, analytics, APIs and a social network to enhance the customer and employee experience, says CEO Brian Shea

Traction Watch: StayMobile to grow 161% in next 12 months using multi-pronged business model

StayMobile's core mission is to focus on the ecosystem around phones. To do this, they cover three main areas, in addition to Protection Plan offerings for your mobile device, they offer same day repair for your damaged mobile device as well as

Traction Watch: CartoDB jumps 300 percent in revenue this year, attracting 100,000 users

By offering a cutting edge map analytics engine, and offering it up as open source, the Madrid based SaaS solution provider, CartoDB is striking gold in the location-based services market.

How digital business disrupts the five forces of industry competition

Exactly why is digital business so disruptive to traditional business models and traditional notions of industry competition?

KDE’s Plasma 5.4: The most advanced and beautiful Linux desktop

Plasma 5.4 brings some much-awaited improvements to the KDE desktop environment.

How Georgia successfully overhauled IT

COO of Georgia Technology Authority discusses the sweeping enterprise-driven privatization push that's improved security, cut costs and upended the state's IT culture.

Security education on phishing can save companies millions

A new research report by Ponemon Institute finds that a comprehensive security training program with a continuous training methodology can improve the phishing email click rate an average of 64 percent.

CIO succession planning critical as IT drives business growth

CIOs say proper succession planning is a crucial part of their responsibilities. But it's not an easy job at a time when talented IT staff can rake in big salaries working on innovative projects, without putting themselves under the C-suite micr