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• Forrester CXi shows CIOs key to improving customer experience

  Companies that excel at customer experience work hand in glove with CIOs and IT, according to the Forrester 2013 Customer Experience Index. Continue Reading

• At MIT Sloan, CEOs talk innovation strategies while China attacks

  The innovation strategies of the nation's most innovative CEOs seem oblivious to the greatest security hack in history. Why is that? Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery infrastructure revamp gets industry attention

  A disaster recovery infrastructure revamp spotlights IT's ability to be a game changer for the business and industry. Continue Reading

• #MITCIO tweets and tips on architecting the enterprise of the future

  Six takeaways from the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium on architecting the enterprise for cloud, big data, mobile, you-name-it. Continue Reading

• As companies become more data-driven, the CIO role keeps on changing

  What's the CIO's role in today's data-driven, mobile, social, cloud business environment? That was a major theme for MIT Sloan CIO Symposium tweeters. Continue Reading

• Are Multi-Hypervisor Environments Worth It?

  Are multi-hypervisor environments the right solution to virtualization oligarchy? Find out in the latest issue of CIO Decisions ezine.Continue Reading

• Students-first mentality drives IT innovation at Athabasca University

  CIO Brian Stewart put students first in an overhaul of IT systems at Athabasca University. Read more about this IT Leadership Awards finalist.Continue Reading

• Exploring the 'Big Data Frontier'

  IT business strategist Harvey Koeppel draws on historical data to explore the 'Big Data Frontier' and its potential to profoundly change the world.Continue Reading

• For effective cybersecurity, communicate and cover your assets

  Learn how to tackle cybercrime from former White House CIO Theresa Payton and former federal Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt.Continue Reading

• C-suite looking for team members, not captains of industry

  Is the decider-in-chief, an industry relic? One CIO headhunter says so. The new C-suite ideal is the collaborative team player.Continue Reading

• A CIO's five-point plan for managing endpoint security

  Niel Nickolaisen offers a five-point solution for managing endpoint security for the hyper-connected enterprise -- starting with data governance.Continue Reading

• Harnessing potential, avoiding problems with smaller PaaS providers

  Smaller PaaS providers or the usual suspects? Gartner's Yefim Natis discusses the pros of partnering with PaaS startups and how to avoid the cons.Continue Reading

• Hybrid cloud management myths and integration challenges

  A successful hybrid cloud management strategy means asking the right questions. Gartner analyst Chris Wolf shares the top queries CIOs need to make.Continue Reading

• Putting a price on information: The nascent field of infonomics

  Putting a monetary value on informationContinue Reading

• CIO's collaborative technologies and social media guide

  In this CIO Briefing on enterprise collaborative technologies and social networking, learn how these tools can foster teamwork and drive business success.Continue Reading

• Rainmakers: Three CIOs who made revenue generation their business

  CIOs know alignment with the business is vital, but as IT emerges as a center of innovation, smart CIOs are taking charge of revenue generation.Continue Reading

• Living the e-life amid security threats, privacy issues

  Businesses are advised to enlist employees in the effort to protect against security threats. That won't be easy for a generation living the e-life.Continue Reading

• To be a better leader be a team player: CIO leadership lessons from a pro

  Former CIO of Marriott, now personal coach, Carl Wilson talks CIO leadership and the importance of integrating IT with the business.Continue Reading

• Mastering digital business: This is not your father's Oldsmobile

  Digital business requires CIOs to use technology differently from how it was used to fuel innovation in the e-commerce age -- just ask Oldsmobile.Continue Reading

• The Value of PPM

  Project and portfolio management helps IT bucket its most pressing initiatives, leading to better project spending and accountability.Continue Reading

• A CIO boosts the business value of IT by helping customers make money

  CUNA Mutual Group CIO Rick Roy talks about building up IT business value by focusing on the customer -- the paying customer, that is.Continue Reading

• Strategic agility planning guide for enterprise CIOs

  In this CIO Briefing, learn how to develop IT projects and practices at your organization through Agile methodologies.Continue Reading

• Corporate data center guide for enterprise CIOs

  In this CIO Briefing, learn how enterprise CIOs can enable greener IT and the march toward mobile, virtualization and the cloud.Continue Reading

• IT disaster preparation and recovery guide for CIOs

  In this CIO Briefing, learn how CIOs are protecting their organization from security breaches and equipment failures.Continue Reading

• DR Ascends to the Cloud

  Advances in cloud computing are taking backup strategies skyward and easing common business continuity concerns. Learn more in the latest issue of CIO Decisions ezine.Continue Reading

• ITIL and ITSM strategy guide for enterprise CIOs

  In this enterprise guide to ITIL and ITSM frameworks, learn how CIOs can align the delivery of IT services with the needs of their organization.Continue Reading

• Six ways the CIO job description is changing

  Our annual Role of the CIO survey points to a transformation in the CIO job description and the skills it entails. Learn more in this slideshow.Continue Reading

• Mobile IT Network Revamp

  Mobile IT is radically changing how CIOs look at security, network capacity and their own IT users and customers.Continue Reading

• Social media guidelines and strategy for CIOs

  In this social media primer, learn how CIOs are establishing social media guidelines and strategies aimed at improving their enterprise network.Continue Reading

• Should cloud service providers take a vertical tack?

  A specialty approach could be the answer for cloud service providers looking to ease enterprise CIO risk and compliance concerns.Continue Reading

• Consumerization of technology guide for CIOs

  In this guide to the consumerization of technology in the enterprise, learn how CIOs are using emerging platforms to maintain competitive advantage.Continue Reading

• A guide to IT sustainability practices for CIOs

  In this guide to IT sustainability practices for CIOs, learn how to make your company greener through technology innovation.Continue Reading

• Virtualization management guide for enterprise CIOs

  In this guide to virtualization management for enterprise CIOs, read about launching or updating a virtualization strategy, VDIs and use cases.Continue Reading

• Virtualization technologies for DR, desktops

  This FAQ explores the ways CIOs are expanding the reach of virtualization technologies in their organizations and managing this growth.Continue Reading

• Enterprise mobile apps and business software guide

  Are enterprise mobile apps taking your business software to the next level? Establish a strategy for enterprise mobile apps with this guide.Continue Reading

• CIO skills in most demand: The ability to 'helicopter'

  Does your CIO skills repertoire include the ability to "helicopter"? Then do I have a job for you!Continue Reading

• The revolution is here, but is the CIO’s role about cleaning up the mess?

  Welcome to the revolution, err, MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, complete with bomb throwers, cautionary tales and pondering about the CIO role.Continue Reading

• FAQ: Info-on-demand era calls for mobile strategy

  With the rising demand for access to information anytime, anywhere and on any device, a strong mobile strategy is paramount to CIO success.Continue Reading

• Enterprise CIO project management resources guide

  Project management success requires proper planning, a dedicated team and a deft CIO touch. Learn more in this project management resources guide.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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Private cloud computing is more than a virtualized environment

  Private cloud computing will take hold in 2011, experts say, as enterprises move beyond a virtualized environment to such cloud attributes as metered use and chargeback.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

• 10 must-have steps for an effective SMB information security program

  No information security program would be complete without these security tips from the NIST, which has compiled advice just as security threats to smaller businesses are on the rise.Continue Reading

• Chapter excerpt: Decision-making processes and IT governance

  Find out how sound decision-making processes form the foundation of IT governance policies by allocating decision rights and accountability.Continue Reading

• What should be included in a managed services agreement?

  A well-written managed services agreement should provide a common understanding of the services to be performed by the managed services provider for the client. Learn why the managed services agreement is often the first step taken by MSPs, the ...Continue Reading

• Managed services contracts

  Value-added resellers venturing into managed services need to consider the details of the managed services contract they provide to customers. Learn what goes into a managed services contract in this edition of Channel Explained.Continue Reading

• Computer recycling: Dangers for even the well intentioned

  Recycling computers involves more than just passing them off to another company for cleaning. Due diligence requires CIOs to go even further to make sure data is eradicated.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