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8 Tips to Make Sure Your Staff Meeting is Worth the Time

Staff meetings can be great opportunities to move the organization forward. Bob Ronan identifies best practices and common pitfalls to help focus the senior management team — as well as the broader organization — on the initiatives that are most i

Who’s paying for your tech certification?

Professional Development u2013 such as continuing education or tech certifications u2013 remains one of the best ways for businesses to boost employee engagement and retention. If you haven't taken advantage of this perk, it's well worth lo

Outcome-Focused Response to 1.2B Stolen Credentials

Maintain an outcome-based focus while determining a course of action when announcements are made about large-scale credential theft.

Is Amazon Web Services Really Down and Out?

It's daft to say that AWS is in trouble just because it may have had one bad quarter. If anything, the ongoing price war between Amazon, Google and Microsoft reflects broader changes in the future of IT infrastructure. If anyone should be worrie

Why Unlimited Wireless Data is a Myth

"Unlimited" data plans simply do not exist in the United States anymore. All of the major U.S. carriers u201cthrottleu201d customers who use too much data, and Verizonu2019s new policy is tougher than its competitors' policies.

What Does the Future of Work Look Like?

Users increasingly come to the office clamoring for the same functionality, utility and speed that they enjoy on the devices they have at home. This is profoundly affecting the future of work (and the future of IT) in four key ways.

Why Small Windows 8 Tablets Deserve Your Attention

The eight-inch Windows 8.1 tablet market is in flux right now, but the small machines have some big advantages over their larger counterparts.

How Marketing Picks Tech Vendors (and Who Decides)

The head of digital architecture at MasterCard says marketing should bring in IT at the beginning of technology vendor discussions. The director of customer engagement at Cox Media Group agrees, but she adds, u2018There's a time and place for r

2014’s Starting Salaries for College Tech Majors

As summer is winding down and colleges and university are about to kick it into high gear, it's time again for us to look at how college technology majors stack up in regards to starting salaries.

CIOs Need to Understand Every Facet of How Tech Impacts Business

Forrester advises CIOs to focus on winning, serving and retaining customers by keeping the customer at the center of conversations and decisions when crafting a business technology agenda.

Forget Five 9s, Splunk Promises 100 Percent Uptime

With its new service level agreement, Splunk assures its Splunk Cloud customers that their machine data analytics will be available 100 percent of the time. Splunk reports that is is also cutting costs and adding making its service tiers more flexibl

3 Good Ideas From Government Software Projects

Yes, many of the worst examples of software projects come from the public sector. But good news doesn't necessarily make for good headlines. Here, then, are three positive lessons to be learned from government software projects.

How to Survive 4 Cloud Horror Story Scenarios

For all its promise, the cloud still brings some peril (like sleepaway camp or that dirt-cheap fixer-upper on the outskirts of town). Here are four cloud horror stories u2013 along with spoilers so you know how to make it out alive.

CIO and CMO at Omnichannel Crossroads

To determine the state of their often-examined relationship between CIOs and CMOs, this study looked at how each group perceives their role, ownership of the digital roadmap, and responsibility around technology funding and staffing.

Is Apple on Its Way to Being a Mobile Enterprise Player?

Apple's decision to team up with IBM is a watershed moment for enterprise mobility. What that means exactly remains to be seen. The only fairly certain assumption is that the partnership will bring more iPhones and iPads into the enterprise.

Abandoned Dogs, Rehabilitation, and the Team

Time, patience, and expectations

IT Outsourcing Customers Mad as Hell, Ready to Walk

IT outsourcing customers are demanding more from their providers and consider showing the door to those who can't move up the value chain of IT services, according to recent survey.

The CIO and CMO Perspective on Big Data

CMOs now command more of the tech budget than any other executive outside of the CIO. With big data being one of the main drivers of technology spending, a strong relationship between IT and marketing is critical to business success.

User Beware: That Mobile App is Spying on You

A recent study of the 400 most popular iOS and Android apps reveals that nearly all free apps, and many paid ones, collect users' personal data.

How AWS Helped Scale App for World Cup Social Media Hub

if you're going to operate the official social media hub for the FIFA World Cup, you've got to be able to overcome the problem of scale. Spredfast did it with flying colors with the help of Amazon Web Services.

Two New Ways to Find Your Next Favorite Mobile App

Apple and Google don't always make it easy to discover the best new apps. CIO.com contributor James A. Martin shares his two favorite ways to find new mobile apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

Top 25 DIY Tips for Better SEO

You don't have to be an SEO expert to boost your website's search engine cred. The SEO community shares tips on how individuals and organizations without SEO expertise can increase their sites' search engine rankings.

What Google I/O Moves Mean for Developers, Small Businesses and Consumers

CIO 100 2014 Winners Database

The 2014 CIO 100 Winners: Showcasing the Transformative Power of IT-Business Innovation

Audience Is Dead, Long Live Active Content Consumers

Today's hyperactive users present brands with exponentially more opportunity than the passive audiences of years passed. On YouTube, users are seeking out and finding the content they want with no direction. To tell your brand's story there

10 Social Media Certifications and Classes to Advance Your Career

While some social media masters may have learned their trade on the streets, formal training and education is a safer bet for the rest of us. To help you stay on course, here are some of the top certification programs and classes to advance your care

Why Hospitals Still Struggle to Sell Telehealth

Yes, the technology can get complicated. Yes, licensure and reimbursement remain a regulatory mess. That said, telehealth is arguably one of healthcare IT's few 'easy wins' for physicians as well as patients. If your organization has y

Data Scientist Role Shifting to Focus on Developers

Anant Jhingran, one of the luminaries that helped develop IBM's Watson, says that as big data becomes more mainstream, data scientists must begin to think of their role as enabling developers to deliver business value to end users in the lines o

‘Provider Sprawl’ Complicates Government Move to Cloud

The market for cloud providers catering to the federal government is getting crowded, challenging CIOs to keep up with the available applications and services while taking pains to stipulate management responsibilities in their SLAs.

Twitter Scores by Moving the Goal Posts

Twitter is at a crossroads as it strives to improve user experience and leverage greater opportunities in advertising and commerce. With a user base just one-fifth the size of Facebook, the company is beginning to change the script — and it's w

Security, Budgets Slow Mobility in Government

Officials at state and local agencies are slowly warming to a more mobile workforce, but telework remains the exception amid tight budgets and security concerns.

Construction Company CIO Builds a Better Business With the Cloud

The CIO of Webcor Builders talks with CIO.com's Sharon Florentine about the cloud, changing older workers' minds, technology cheerleaders and the future of construction.

CIO 100 Winners Turn Analytics Into Money-Making New Products

GE Capital, Procter & Gamble and other winners of our 27th annual CIO 100 awards say big data brings IT a chance to break new ground in generating revenue and improving customer experience.

How to Extend Your Home Wi-Fi Network

If your router is one room and your TV is in another, your home Wi-Fi network might not be strong enough to reach it. Here are four ways to solve the problem.

CIOs and CMOs Suffer From Failure to Communicate

The CIO-CMO relationship is taking center stage in the age of the digital customer. It's more important than ever that these two executives join forces. So why canu2019t they communicate?

The Internet of Things and Paradigm Shifting Hyperbole

IoT is the hottest conversation over the past few months but does it warrant the attention?

18 big data certifications that will pay off

Data scientists and data analysts as well as engineers and developers with the skills to work with big data technologies are sought after and well-compensated. Want an extra edge looking for your next job? Get big data certified. (Originally publish

How to Get Started With GitHub

CIOs Describe Turning Points In Their Careers

New members of the CIO Hall of Fame recall the watershed moments when they learned the hard lessons of great leadership. (Plus: CIO 100 Hall of Fame winners offer IT leadership advice in a CIO.com video.)

Architectural Firm Puts Giant Data Files in the Cloud

A global architectural firm sees big advantages in putting building design data in a cloud-based storage service. The results: lower costs and easier collaboration.

Analytics Project Wins New Business for Insurance Company

Insurer Bankers Financial wins a CIO 100 award for a new system that helps sales agents generate more accurate quotes that customers are more likely to accept.

Real-Time Analytics Helps Virginia Credit Union Prevent Fraud

The credit union used agile development to build an analytics system to stop fraudsters who, with only a bit of personal information, can con call center workers.

10 Biggest CIO-CMO Relationship Hurdles

To reach digital customers, CIOs and CMOs have to get a lot of things right. They need to work together with speed and precision. Unfortunately, at many companies the partnership between these two executives is still a work in progress.

It’s a Seller’s Market for IT Professionals

In a job market where available IT pros can name their price and are rejecting poor offers, businesses need to step up their game or risk losing out on top talent.

Tips for Measuring and Improving Employee Engagement

Do you want better productivity from your team and a higher retention rate, all while improving your customer's overall experience? Then it's time to build an engagement strategy for your organization.

New Executive Skill Sets Emerge in CIO 100 Award Winners

IDG CEO Michael Friedenberg spots a trio of skills that signal greater business success for IT: marketing, market knowledge and communication.

Full-time Health IT Workers Aren’t As Happy As Consultants

Business Leaders Who Think Strategically About IT Infrastructure Drive Results

According to a new study by IBM, organizations with a strategic vision for IT infrastructure focused on driving competitive advantage and optimizing revenue and profit tend to significantly outperform their peers.

Is Silicon Valley’s Image Going Up in Flames?

Itu2019s getting ugly in the Valley. And it's not just about gentrification. Tech companies are under fire for indirectly helping con artists dupe the public, secretly manipulating people's emotions and engaging in what looks an awful lot c

For Top CIOs, Success Breeds Success

CIO magazine Editor in Chief Maryfran Johnson congratulates this year's CIO 100 and CIO Hall of Fame honorees, and takes a look at what these success stories have in common.