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Arizona State’s Radical ERP Rollout

Becky Wanta Joins Best Buy as North America CIO

Productive Changes in the Office Suite Market

Borders Tries to Open New Chapter with Website Relaunch Separate from Amazon.com

New website to debut in 2008 central to struggling retailer's turnaround strategy.

Challenge the Conventional Wisdom

Small business is the engine that drives America's new economy. In The Engine of America, former administrator of the SBA Hector Barreto reveals the winning business strategies of CEOs from 50 companies. We share an excerpt about the value of &q

Three Ways to Be More Creative: Relax, Exercise and Sleep More

If you're stressed out, tired and out of shape, so is your brain. No wonder it's hard to come up with new ideas. n

IBM Tries to Patent Offshoring

When Employee Blogging Goes Bad: Office Mobile Upgrade Leaked by Microsoft Staffer

Tear Down that Silo: Compliance in the Executive Suite

Treating compliance as a one-time project may cost your business up to 10 times more for IT measures than for those who take a proactive and integrated approach.

Can Muni Wi-Fi Be Saved?

While no one is ready to write the municipal Wi-Fi obituary, the fledgling endeavor is on some serious life support.

Managing Your Reputation Online

The results that appear when recruiters and hiring managers search for your name online may determine whether or not you get called in for an interview. To improve your profile online and increase your career opportunities, take advantage of blogs an

Valuing IT Assets – Up the Blind Alley, Again

What Service-Based Costing Really Means

A concept from ITIL could make a huge difference this budget cycle.

Is Your Workplace Like the TV Show, The Office?

Looking Back: The Growth of the CIO Role and IT Value

From green screens to flat screens; from a desk in the basement to a seat in the boardroom. Twenty years in review.

How To Go From Acting CIO to Actual CIO

Three CIOs on how to make the most of an interim job and turn it into a permanent one

20 Years of Following the CIO

IT has come a long, long way. So letu2019s celebrate!

The CIO Hall of Fame: 20 IT Leaders of Accomplishment

Meet the 20 CIOs whose influence and accomplishments have earned them a plaque in CIO's Hall of Fame.n

CIO to CEO: Dawn Lepore’s Lessons Learned

Dawn Lepore won Web success as CIO of Charles Schwab. Now CEO of drugstore.com and a CIO Hall of Famer, she tells her own CIO that all IT investments should be customer-focused.n

2007 to 2027: The Shapes of Things to Come in IT

We asked 20 people who understand the present and think about the future what the coming years may hold for IT, CIOs, business and (why not think big?) the whole human race.

20 Years of IT History: Connecting Devices, Data and People

The story of the past 20 years of technology has been all about connecting the dots between computers, data and the people who use them.

Information Systems versus Information Technology: How much do people care?

Seek first to understand OR Shoot and ask questions latter

Week 8: Handling Slow Periods in a Job Search

Give 1 XO, Get 1 XO: OLPC to Make its “$100 Laptop” Publicly Available

Enterprise Developers Programming Speed? Check. Time to Fix Bugs? Not So Fast.

Extreme Democracy using wiki, New Zealand style

Talking About IT’s Business Value

An IT report to the business should never be about IT.

Why CEOs Don’t Get More Value from Their “Human Capital” (a.k.a. People)

Wikipedia’s Awkward Adolescence

Like a startup maturing into a real business, Wikipedia's corporate culture seems conflicted between its role as a harmless nouveau-digital experiment and its broader ambitions.

5 Things I’ve Learned About Privacy

Privacy guru Dr. Larry Ponemon on the "privacy age gap" and having his own data breached

Too Few Manners at Work

Want to make an impression? Be polite.

Outsourcing Your Way to Innovation: IT Leaders Question the Value

A survey of 290 IT executives finds that more than three quarters believe that in-house IT activities contribute the biggest benefit to innovation.

Eight Steps to More Effective Meetings

Meandering or unnecessary meetings cost money, waste time, deflate morale and contribute to turnoveru2014all the more reason to adopt these suggestions to run meetings more efficiently.

Want business influence? You may already have more than you think!

BPM Success: How a Travel Giant Turned Its Ship Around

Declining sales. Cost pressure. Customers who wanted change, fast. Maritz Travel's COO tells how a group travel giant facing all of these pressures revamped its business processes, and how business and IT came together to make the effort pay off

CIO’s Exclusive Outsourcing and Innovation Survey

Disappointment with innovation provided by outsourcers broad and deep.

How Different Are The Rules for Billion Dollar Outsourcing Deals?

How to Move Up During Restructuring

Sometimes, you can make lemonade when your company is reorganizing or being acquired.

Buzzwords: Why Doesn’t Anyone Speak Plain English Anymore?

Tech speak has infiltrated our business and personal livesu2014and it's not going away anytime soon.

How to Say Goodbye to Spreadsheets

Want to trade in your company's ancient spreadsheets for more nimble business intelligence applications? We talk to CIOs who've done it.

Get a Grip on Vendors

What's a vendor management office and who wants one? A quick peek at the state of the VMO.

Bookmark it: In This Web Life, How Will You Stay Organized?

What IT Can Learn from the Marketing Department

Exploiting Web 2.0: The Barbarians Inside the Firewall

Web 2.0 makes businesses vulnerable to a new class of security threatsu2014attackers using Web browsers and Web traffic to sneak undetected past legacy firewalls, intrusion prevention systems and URL filters.

Global Wi-Fi Hotspot Use on the Rise, Driven By Business

Worldwide use of Wi-Fi technology is increasingly rapidly and that's largely due to how often businesspeople connect in airports and hotels, according to a recent report.

Indian Outsourcer Wipro’s Strategy: Innovation Push, Global Hiring, Acquisitions

Wipro's marketing chief talks about the offshore service provider's global strategy, which includes acquiring a U.S. vendor, hiring U.S. and European IT workers and warily eyeing China.

Making Strategy That Sticks

Rule One: Never approach strategy making as a purely analytical exercise

Enterprise Architecture: breaking out of IT

Week 7: Prioritizing Leads in a Job Search