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• Seeing the obvious is an IT project management skill

  Having good IT project management skills can mean knowing when you don't need them. Continue Reading

• Quotable quotes on the role of the CIO

  The best comments on the role of the CIO often don't make it into stories. Here's a collection of insightful and often humorous CIO side comments. Continue Reading

• Reading the tea leaves on the CIO job shakeup at BofA

  What do companies want from their CIOs? This week's shakeup in the CIO job at Bank of America suggests the question is not given to easy answers. Continue Reading

• Analytics racing past our ability to 'gestalt' it

  The Gartner BI summit on the promise of analytics technology pointed up our losing battle to harness and humanize technology. Continue Reading

• Strategic outsourcing and vendor management guide

  Get strategic outsourcing tips and IT vendor management best practices in this IT outsourcing guide for enterprise CIOs. Continue Reading

• Business transformation and the human touch

  Business transformation, and how the CIO can bring this to bear through adaptability and a bit of a human touch.Continue Reading

• Teamwork is important, folks at the top say

  Teamwork is important. Two born leaders tell CIOs why.Continue Reading

• Personal cloud solutions part of a frictionless future

  By 2015, analysts say, personal cloud products will displace PCs as the hub of consumers' digital lives, with annual spending topping $2 trillion.Continue Reading

• Will cloud service providers create a jobs boom?

  Are cloud service providers fueling major job growth, or just re-employing workers bumped by the cloud?Continue Reading

• Spring is here, and innovation is in the air

  In this week's roundup of news and notable bits from around the Web, spring brings thoughts of innovation.Continue Reading

• A tale of two data quality theories

  Data quality still hobbles business intelligence efforts. The question is what to do about it.Continue Reading

• Siri, find me a good lawyer

  In this week’s roundup, a legalpalooza: Yahoo sues Facebook, someone sues Siri and a lawyer slowly backs away from her Pinterest boards.Continue Reading

• Where are the women in computer science?

  Women are nearly at parity with men when it comes to bachelor's degrees in science and engineering. So, why are so few women in computer science?Continue Reading

• How big data improves an information security strategy

  A security guru discusses new ways of looking at the intersection between big data and an information security strategy.Continue Reading

• Who’s afraid of the iPad 3?

  This week’s bits include why the iPad 3 should put a scare in the competition, and an example of how CIOs who consider the consumer come out on top.Continue Reading

• The love-hate nature of unified communications

  A unified communications strategy where workers are empowered to make decisions comes up against management's need to control.Continue Reading

• Self-service BI: Power to the user

  Self-service BI is another sign that user empowerment is well under way at many enterprises.Continue Reading

• Security woes and a different kind of Net threat

  We're feeling a little vulnerable this week. Maybe it's because our cache of tech bits is a little heavy on security issues.Continue Reading

• The 2020 vision for ERP

  The look and feel will change, but the value of ERP will remain as strong as ever through the next decade and predicted "frictionless enterprise."Continue Reading

• Enterprise business intelligence tutorial for CIOs

  In this enterprise business intelligence tutorial for CIOs, learn how to get started, what makes BI successful and the future of BI technologies.Continue Reading

• Data loss statistics: Emerging culprits

  Social networking, cloud computing and mobile technology create business opportunities. But data loss statistics show these advances create risks too.Continue Reading

• Silence on business analytics speaks volumes

  The next time your CIO pals clam up about business analytics, watch out. They're on to something. You should be too.Continue Reading

• No need to search, they know what you want

  Tidbits of news and analysis from the week that was, including another manipulation of big data, three steps to becoming the CIO you know you are and one mobile device that might give you headaches.Continue Reading

• BI strategies evolve for big data analysis needs

  "Big data" is a buzzword no more. CIOs are adapting their BI strategies to meet the challenges of big data analysis.Continue Reading

• Mission-critical systems taking on dual roles

  As CIOs take on new roles, they are finding new uses for mission-critical systems -- and that in turn is making their role more business-critical.Continue Reading

• Shaping data in ways both scary and sweet

  Interesting bits from the Internet that you might have missed, including Target's data analytics and Google's riding the consumerization-of-IT wave.Continue Reading

• Is technology leadership training lacking?

  A lack of technology leadership training specific to the CIO position leaves the up-and-comers fending for themselves.Continue Reading

• No honor-student bumper stickers for Steve Jobs

  A roundup of items you might have missed from around the Web, including Steve Jobs' high school GPA and a possible storm over cloud privacy in the EU.Continue Reading

• Days are dwindling for successful Windows 7 migration

  If you've been hitting the snooze button on Windows 7 migration, it's time to wake up -- you're already late.Continue Reading

• 2012 Global IT Forecast

  TechTarget asked 2,642 IT professionals and business analysts around the world for their IT forecasts for 2012. The direction of IT budgets and the technologies getting attention may surprise.Continue Reading

• Big data is dead? Long live analytics apps?

  The view of BI as an enterprise-wide system similar to ERP is giving way to a more tactical, "disaggregated" approach based on analytics apps.Continue Reading

• Is SaaS BI in your 'best interest'?

  There's so much to say about cloud-based business intelligence tools. Until the next big story, here are some SaaS BI tidbits to tide you over.Continue Reading

• Shared services strategy guide for enterprise CIOs

  With a shared services strategy, enterprises can save on computing costs by not duplicating resources and boost security by keeping services in-house.Continue Reading

• Who's the 'insider' security campaigns target?

  Can CIOs learn anything from a security campaign launched by the military more than 60 years ago?Continue Reading

• Shared services model puts focus on external customer

  For Owens Corning CIO David Johns, a shared services model is key to a low-cost, high-value IT and business services delivery strategy.Continue Reading

• Enterprise CIO Decisions Ezine

  The Enterprise CIO Decisions Ezine offers senior IT executives insights on pressing technology and management issues.Continue Reading

• Cloud-based BI tools a trend with legs

  Some are using them already; others want to but aren't. Everyone, however, seems to be talking about cloud-based business intelligence tools.Continue Reading

• The CIO and the extended enterprise

  The CIO role is stretching further into the outer limits of the "extended enterprise."Continue Reading

• CIOs: Should your next IT hire be a consumer advocate?

  How IT shops are changing and whom CIOs need to hire are big topics in the age of cloud and mobility. Should consumer advocates be on the list?Continue Reading

• Is rogue technology the cost of end user freedom?

  CIOs inherit their predecessors' IT foundation, but as they clean up past mistakes, could they be laying their own foundation for rogue technology?Continue Reading

• CIOs proving the value of technology investments

  There's no easy way to prove the value of technology investments, but smart CIOs are finding new ones -- and smarter still, being proactive about it.Continue Reading

• IT chargeback rankles the ranks and IT

  IT chargeback is often called a necessary evil for shared services, but many IT executives are saying, "No, thanks" to such service charges.Continue Reading

• Re-evaluating endpoint security tools

  Has technology advanced to the point that some endpoint security tools -- and the staff needed to support them -- will go away?Continue Reading

• Rosy outlook for services broker model may have thorns

  The IT services-broker model might be good for your business, but one CIO cautions against letting the label define your role.Continue Reading

• Overtime pay limit could put CIOs in a tough spot

  A bill limiting overtime pay for IT workers is one more example of politicians putting corporate interests ahead of individual workers, opponents say.Continue Reading

• 'IT as a services broker' model will carry beyond 2012

  IT leaders are positioning themselves as facilitators or IT services brokers rather than as the managers and mainframe minders of yore.Continue Reading

• CIOs have to be passionate and in fighting trim

  To be executive material for the CIO job these days, you'll need more than a well-cut suit.Continue Reading

• Application portals for managing mobile devices no joke

  CIOs are turning to application portals to meet mobile needs while protecting corporate IT policies.Continue Reading

• GE's journey from waterfall to Agile practices

  General Electric Co. turned to Agile practices to revamp software development in its Energy division. Now Agile is making its way across the company.Continue Reading

• The need for IT innovation leads to aggressive collaboration

  IT innovation is what happens when there's no money for new equipment but plenty of fresh ideas emanating from all parts of the business.Continue Reading

• IT offshore outsourcing markets, options on the rise, Gartner says

  The never-ending quest to cut IT costs is opening up new IT offshoring markets. Here are a look at Gartner's latest assessment and a new index from IT advisory firm TPI Inc.Continue Reading

• CIO podcasts: Information technology and leadership news and tips

  At SearchCIO.com, we're always looking for new ways to deliver the latest IT news and trends. Download these podcasts and listen on the go!Continue Reading

• Data storage management tips, techniques and options for SMBs

  With a growing number of storage options available to SMBs, it's important to nail down a data storage management strategy. Learn tips, strategies and techniques in our guide.Continue Reading

• IT budgeting and spending strategies guide for CIOs

  IT budgeting and spending is a balancing act between needs and wants even in a strong economy. Are you ready to figure out what your IT department will need? Check out this CIO Briefing for IT budgeting and spending strategies.Continue Reading