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Technology Showdown: The Bar Code Versus RFID

The much-hyped RFID challenges the UPC bar code, for decades the tried-and-true, black-striped workhorse of businesses everywhere. Putting them head to head, let's see who wins.

Five Steps to Managing Innovation

New ideas require more than inspiration: they require a lot of advance planning to lay the groundwork. Here are five tips to get going.

Seven Highly Effective Ways to Kill Innovation (and Seven to Make Sure You Don’t)

Innovation doesn't just happen, it comes from careful tending of creative teams. Find out if you or your company is guilty of squashing good ideas and their growth.

10 Things You Should Never Put in E-Mail, and Other Communication Tips

Your colleagues form opinions about you by your e-mail writing. Check out these practical tips on how to improve your electronic missives and enhance your reputation as a strong communicator, even if you're a time-pressed CIO with a BlackBerry

5 Questions, 10 Tips to Help Create Effective Acceptable-Use Policies for E-Communications

An Autocratic Approach to User Support Will Fail

Turn end-user services departments from reactive technology troubleshooters to business process improvers.

Building Sustainable High-Performance IT Teams

Teams play major roles in almost every area of IT, but it's a challenge to build high-performance teams that can stay together and generate top-quality work. Here's how.

Time to Rethink Your Relationship With End Users

As the rise of shadow systems attests, end users can build their own systems. If you want to stay relevant, you need to stop developing applications for them and start working with them.

Survey: Enterprises Increasingly Address Consumer IT Security Threats

Dearly Departed: Companies and Products That Didn’t Deserve to Die

Some products just didn't deserve to die. But they did, because the companies made bad business decisions. We revisit several of our favorites–from minicomputers to software utilities–and mourn the best and brightest that died an untimely deat

Can a blog change the world ?

Google Isn’t Going Anywhere

How to Recruit in a Hot Market: Four Tips for Attracting the Shadow Market of IT Recruits in the Business

Super users, business project leads, members of the "shadow" IT department: They may all be great additions to your IT organization

How to Recruit in a Hot Market: Four Tips for Recruiting More Top IT Professionals

Targeting existing IT professionals for your open positions is a no brainer, but the pool of talent is bigger than you think.

How to Recruit in a Hot Market: Four Tips for Attracting Millennials (and Beyond)

Four tips for recruiting the best in college graduates and student interns.

How to Recruit Talent in a Hot Market: Everything You’re Doing Is Wrong

Your old recruiting methods aren't going to cut it if you want to woo top IT professionals today. Here's what works now.

700MHz Spectrum Auction and Open-Access Rules: A Quick List of Winners and Losers

With the FCC expected to attach open-access rules to some of the 700MHz spectrum slated for auction early next year, we give you our list of potential winners and losers.

Seven Ways Technology Vendors Blow the Sales Pitch

Every decision-maker is the target of a salesperson with a monthly quota and a PowerPoint presentation. But most of those pitches fail. IT leaders share the mistakes salespeople make when trying to get their business.

How BI Uncovered Rip-offs

The Value Of Plastic

Top Enterprise BI Vendors

CERN’s Search for God (Particles) Drives Massive Storage Needs

Think your storage headaches are big? Try being the guy in charge of storing the 1GB of data per second every day for a month coming off CERN's large hadron collider (LHC).

Balanced Scorecard

Balancing Scorecards With Reality

How to make Balanced Scorecards work for your organization

CRM Growing, Partially Due to Demand for Software as a Service

AMR Research predicts customer data integration and data quality will be the two big initiatives seeing the heaviest investment in the coming years. The study also reports an increase in inquiries about mobile technology and customer relationship man

New CIOs at Ameristar Casinos, Kinetic Concepts and more

CIOs of FedEx, Shell and Harvard Medical Join Boards

Executives Are Still Not Sold on Unified Communications. But I Am!

Washington Round Up

A Pointed Question from a Job Applicant: How Would You Answer This?

RIM Dual-Mode Cellular/Wi-Fi BlackBerry 8820: Why Enterprises Should Take Note

A-GPS Service Enhances Nokia Mobile Phone-Based Navigation

What Managers Can Learn from “Made to Stick”

Managers need to give their messages impact, so that subordinates understand the intention and urgency. Learn from this popular business book how to craft a message that packs a punch and gets your colleagues and staff to act with energy and passion.

CASE STUDY 3: Why You Keep Score

BNSF Railway uses the Balanced Scorecard to prove IT's value and to create synergy with business strategy

IBM Gets It

Former Trump CIO Joins Isle of Capri Casinos as Pres. and COO

Who Do You Trust

Even with a watertight contract, you can't afford to cede project management responsibility

YEAR 2000 CHALLENGE: Countdown to Rollover

Has the world done enough to prevent Y2K?

Bad Decisions

Cloning velociraptors? Staying at that quiet little Bates Motel? Sometimes one wrong decision can ruin your whole implementation.

Official Rules for CIO “Making History” Contest

Where Do Good Ideas Go?

Make History; Win Prizes! What Was the Worst IT Disaster?

Net Neutrality Advocates: Not Just Your Average Hippie

How to Spot a Failing Project

Often, the difference between success and failure is spotting critical early warning signs that a project is in trouble. Here are a few ways to identify the symptoms.

Can This Project Be Saved?

You've identified that your IT project is in trouble. What are the best ways to save the situation?

The Hiring Manager Interviews: Patrick Tisdale Shares His Techniques for Sussing Out Candidates

The CIO of Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe always asks about a candidate's past work environments, community service and work-life balance concerns.

Five Tips for Getting the Vacation You Need

IT departments may be "always on," but IT leaders need to know how to take some time off

New CIOs at Borders and Raytheon IIS

Sit Your Way To Success At Meetings

Cell Phone Users Dial DIR-ECT-IONS for Free, Text Message-Based Driving Instructions