IT Leadership

Spiceworks Spices Up Interactions Between IT Pros

Leaders Have to Learn the Job, Just Like Everyone Else

Newly promoted leaders, and leaders promoted to higher levels of leadership, need to learn new techniques to succeed in their new roles. Fail to give them the opportunity to learn these techniques and you're setting them up for failure.

Behind the Replacement of Yahoo’s Carol Bartz

Yahoo chief financial officer Tim Morse -- a veteran of the power General Electric finance-development powerhouse -- has been chosen on an interim basis to replace the fired Carol Bartz.

Cases of Ex-CFOs in Legal Trouble Wrapped Up

It has been a relief-filled week so far for ex-CFOs facing difficult legal circumstances -- one from New York drugstore chain Duane Reade, and the other a former finance chief at AOL.

Apple Gets Cozy with SF Police

Like a George Orwell novel, it's getting hard to distinguish between Apple private investigators and police officers.

Conquering The Technology/Marketing Divide

The new "it" couple is the CIO and CMO. Why? In the digital world we live in today, which Forrester defines as the Age of the Customer, empowered buyers demand a new level of customer obsession.

CIO Alert: Five Cures for What Ails IT

IT groups often struggle to stay efficient as a business grows and evolves. Here are five tips for CIOs needing to improve budgeting and vendor relationships and align IT and business priorities. First step: Go to lunch.

LinkedIn Deciphers the Entrepreneur

What sets entrepreneurs apart and where do they come from? LinkedIn scoured more than 120 million profiles to paint the picture of today's entrepreneur. Here's what they found.

Still the “Toughest Job in the World”?

If IT leadership isn’t the “toughest job in the world” … the world of business, that is … it’s pretty high in the rankings. And you thought you were just having a bad day or two. Or three. Or 365

5 Signs Your Competitors Will Steal Your Best IT Workers

Michael Greco, a partner in the Employee Defection & Trade Secrets Practice Group at law firm Fisher & Phillips LLP, identified several warning signs that indicate your best IT employees may be ready to accept job offers from your competitors