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An Ounce of Prevention: Guarding Against IT Outsourcing Failure

A three-part approach to maximizing the value of an IT outsourcing deal.

The Promise of Promotion

The Hiring Manager Interviews: Northern Trust CTO Nirup Krishnamurthy Looks for Candidates with Impact

Conversations with IT managers on how they hire the best

Be prepared to be intentionally spontaneous.

Father’s Day for the CIO

Brian Secord Joins InnerWorkings

Anti-Social Networking

8 Tips for Outsource-Proofing your IT Organization

What will stay, what will go

Some knowledge work will be outsourced. That's inevitable. But other work will be outsourced only if you fail to compete

8 Tips for Outsource-Proofing Your IT Organization

Don't want to be replaced by outsourcing? These tips will show you how.

How to Outsource-Proof Your IT Department—A New Game Plan

Coordination and communication expenses erase much of the savings derived from offshoring work.

Seeking the Perfect Laptop Bag

Finding the best case for toting a notebook (and sundry other necessities) wasn't easyu2014but it was worth it, thanks to the eBags Firewall.

How Server Virtualization Tools Can Balance Data Center Loads

Virtualized servers create power and hardware savings, but also come with management headaches. A growing set of tools can help.

Dual-Mode, Voice Over Wi-Fi Phones and the Enterprise

Large IT Shops Branded “Regressive” and “Poisonous”

Google Does Evil

Google co-founder Sergey Brin's nepotism calls his company's benevolence into question.

Management Lessons from the Sopranos

Tony Soprano is a survivor who has guided his u201cbusinessu201d through some heavy competitive waters, using street smarts, guile and an ability to read people. Think you could learn something from this?

Questions about The Power of Persuasion

Reader questions about forging internal relationships and exerting influence

The Manager’s View of GPL Version 3: Two (and a Half) Things to Like and Two More to Look Out For

IT departments that embrace open-source software are uncertain about the new version of the GNU Public License, arguably the most common FOSS license. Learn whatu2019s in the works, and how GPLv3 may change the way your company adopts new software.

The Power of Persuasion

Putting competitive intelligence to work

In the current cost-focused climate, plenty of organizations are calling on competitive intelligence to help reach educated strategic decisions.

Authenticity and Vulnerability

Boiling the Frog

TJX Elects Safeway CIO to Board of Directors

How To Create A Know-It-All Company

Even in the best of times, it's a battle to convince employees to participate in knowledge management programs. But in tough times, the tendency is for employees to horde what they know. Here's how some companies convinced individuals to

Collecting Its Due

The Big Apple's Department of Finance makes the bit of municipal licensing fees less painful. n

The Supple Supply Chain

Agile companies can adjust their operations to cope with unexpected events, whether it's a surge in new business or a backlog in the warehouse. Four CIO 100 honorees tell how IT makes them and their trading partners flexible.

New Group for Private Equity CIOs To Launch

The mission: Let's make a deal and share war stories.

The Price Is Always Right

Marriott applied its business wisdom to building an IT system that has successfully tackled its greatest challenge — maximizing revenue.

Hurdling Risks

Botched or canceled IT projects cost companies enormous amounts of money. Applying some basic principles of finance to your IT investments will help you better manage these risky ventures

The IT Measurement Inversion

Are your IT investment decisions based on the right information?

An Audit Tale

In a post-implementation audit of its intranet, Mitre Corp. focused on the benefits of knowledge sharing and collaboration.

How One CIO Performed Database Magic in 6 Weeks

Critical Analysis

Try Simulation

Keep on Trackin’

Schneider National took a scientific approach to evaluating and selecting an emerging technology.

All the Right Stories

Underwriting Knowledge

When insurance giant CNA had to consolidate and share what its employees knew, it turned to the Net-and knowledge networks.

The Big Payoff

CIOs play a critical role in reducing a companyu2019s procurement costs.

Define Your Corporate Culture

What you don't do can be as important as what you do do.

Nick Carr KOs Another Straw Man

Promotions at Shaw Group, Kellwood and more

How You Can Fight Cybercrime

Online crime is organized, it's growing and so is your organization's risk of being attacked. Here's how to mitigate that risk.

How Organized Crime Uses Technology to Make Money

Stock scams, identity theft, you name it, this character has seen it. A fictional "CIO to the mob" explains how organized crime profits from IT.

Innovation Lessons from Adult and Gaming Sites

Rarely acknowledged by the mainstream, adult and gaming sites collect a healthy percentage of web traffic and account for a good deal of innovation, too.

An Introduction to Vendor Management

The combination of innovative IT and a cooperative orientation toward vendors leads directly to better vendor performance and firm profitability.

Leaders in Trouble

When a leader, or more especially his or her behavior, becomes larger than the performance of the company, it is time to go.

CIOs Look Beyond Cops for Help Fighting Cybercrime

When cybercriminals strike, law enforcement agencies are often overwhelmed. So CIOs are looking elsewhere for help.

Stop End-Users Before They Click Again on Risky Websites

Educating users wonu2019t prevent them from giving upn info to fraudsters. Take them out of the loop.

Building Effective Corporate Cultures One Decency at a Time

By making decency a habit, leaders can surreptitiously and effectively protect a corporate cultureu2014not just the experience of work, but also the company's moral underpinning.

Review: TeleNav Track Uses GPS to Manage Your Mobile Workforce

TeleNav Track is a cell phone-based GPS tracking service that can help manage your mobile workers. Read on for a list of reasons why you might love itu2014and why you might not.