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• How to test your DR/BC plan

  Woe to the IT organization that hasn't taken its DR/BC plan out for a spin. The right kind of testing will close the gaps and save IT and the business a lot of grief. Continue Reading

• Free statement of work template examples for CIOs

  Statements of work are critical in helping CIOs keep projects on track and meet business goals. Check out these free statement of work template examples. Continue Reading

• How organizational agility will save and destroy your company

  Aiming for organizational agility? Prepare to change how you scope work, structure teams, develop talent, practice leadership, and deliver and sell your products. Continue Reading

• IT asset management strategy: License compliance and beyond

  In this Q&A on IT asset management strategy, read up on what it's like to run afoul of software companies' license compliance requirements and how IoT will impact ITAM. Continue Reading

• How to govern your IT outsourcing provider after the ITO deal is done

  The best ITO deals need tweaking as time goes on. Good governance ensures that you and your IT outsourcing provider are on the same page. Continue Reading

• McCormick spices up food market with digital platform business

  Former McCormick CIO Jerry Wolfe talks about his role as CEO of the spice company's new tech spinoff and why a digital platform is so essential to reaching today's foodies.Continue Reading

• CIO guide to project management basics, DevOps and Agile

  In this Essential Guide, learn project management basics and get expert advice on how to get the most out of DevOps and i an Agile digital strategy.Continue Reading

• Ten analytics success stories in a nutshell

  Analytics success stories from the likes of Burberry, CBS, Coca-Cola and L'Oreal. The Data Mill reports.Continue Reading

• Private cloud termination agreement: What CIOs need to know

  Relationships between companies and their cloud providers can be fleeting. Knowing this, it's important for CIOs to think about exit strategies before they sign that cloud contract. David Rutchik, a partner at Pace Harmon LLC, offers advice.Continue Reading

• SMAC strategy and governance: A CIO quiz

  The intersection of social, mobile, analytics and cloud is transforming IT strategies. Are you properly governing your SMAC strategy? Take this quiz to find out.Continue Reading

• A tale of two retailers profiting from big data

  A young and an old retailer shed light on how they're profiting from big data. (Hint: The secret is in their approach to project management.)Continue Reading

• 7-Eleven guru's eight-step program for building an innovation team

  IT innovation is on every CIO's agenda -- or it should be. Before plotting your strategy, consider these eight tips from 7-Eleven's innovation guru.Continue Reading

• Quiz: IT project management essentials for growing a business

  Are you keeping your project pipeline in check? Review our recent stories and take our quiz to assess your knowledge of IT project management essentials.Continue Reading

• Jim Highsmith offers a 2015 prescription for adaptive CIO leadership

  Agile development guru Jim Highsmith makes the case to CIOs that adaptation is tantamount to business survival. Here is his prescription for adaptive leadership.Continue Reading

• The effect of SOX on corporate governance and IT operations

  Compliance mandates established by the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or SOX, are not new, but many organizations still grapple with the myriad effects of SOX on corporate governance and IT operations. In this SearchCompliance handbook, we explore the ...Continue Reading

• SOX compliance reliant on data governance strategy, with IT support

  SOX compliance hinges on an effective data governance strategy, but much needed help is available from information technology tools and processes.Continue Reading

• How PayPal rallied a 4,000-strong move to Agile

  PayPal’s wholesale move to an Agile methodology was built on ‘four pillars,’ took seven months and changed the way 4,000 IT and product people did their jobs. Here’s how it got done.Continue Reading

• CIO Innovator profiles: Industry groundbreakers, great IT leaders

  SearchCIO's award-winning CIO Innovator profile series features IT executives who are applying information technology to enable, grow and transform business.Continue Reading

• IT leaders explain how to assign a value to your data assets

  In the latest CIO Decisions, CIOs and IT experts share their thoughts on infonomics -- placing a value on data assets -- and other of-the-moment IT concerns.Continue Reading

• Can automated segregation of duties benefit regulatory compliance?

  In this feature, Michael Rasmussen explains why automated SoD reduces compliance costs as well as the potential for fraud and lawsuits.Continue Reading

• The CIO cloud blueprint: A strategic planning guide

  In this CIO Essential Guide, learn how to craft an enterprise cloud blueprint that supports your organization's software and infrastructure needs.Continue Reading

• Leading the digital enterprise: Five tips on how to get there

  This year's MIT Sloan CIO Symposium focused on the digital enterprise and how the line between internal and external customers is blurring.Continue Reading

• Cloud computing risk management, governance and compliance

  Cloud computing risk management, governance and compliance processes are evolving as organizations increasingly turn to cloud services for storage, infrastructure and software needs, rather than running their own. But in moving to the cloud, ...Continue Reading

• Seven not-so-obvious roles your analytics pro will have to play

  What skills do CIOs need to develop or bring in-house to take on big data and advanced analytics? Here are some not-so-obvious candidates.Continue Reading

• Prescriptive Analytics: The Next Frontier

  Is an optimized future within our grasp? With prescriptive analytics, it just might be. Learn more in this month's issue of CIO Decisions e-zine.Continue Reading

• Free IT templates for CIOs and technology managers

  SearchCIO rounded up free IT templates from around the Web to help technology managers organize their IT departments, projects and service offerings.Continue Reading

• CIO careers: A guide to getting ahead

  In this CIO Essential Guide, learn how CIOs in high-level careers in IT are driving their enterprises -- and profession -- forward.Continue Reading

• Out of the shadows: Rogue IT is becoming CIO business as usual

  The consumerization of IT and increasing demands for business agility are forcing the evolution of rogue IT. How are CIOs responding?Continue Reading

• Free project management template examples for strategic IT planning

  These free project management template examples from around the Web provide project guidelines and strategic IT planning tools to CIOs and IT leaders.Continue Reading

• CIO/CTO shapes up shared services strategy and puts the fun into ITSM

  Bart Murphy was hired by CareWorks Family of Companies to create and carry out a shared services strategy; he transformed IT and became CIO/CTO.Continue Reading

• CIO guide: Protect information like a pro

  Providing adequate protection for corporate data is a top-of-mind concern across IT. In this guide, learn how to protect your information assets.Continue Reading

• The new BPM program: A focus on data-driven business outcomes

  With an emphasis on data-driven business results, the new BPM program is giving CIOs the tools to help grow the business.Continue Reading

• HoneyBaked Ham IT and marketing veeps find secret sauce in big data

  At The Original HoneyBaked Ham Co. of Georgia, there's no such thing as data for data's sake.Continue Reading

• Many enterprises missing out on value of internal social technologies, collaboration

  Even as enterprises become increasingly comfortable with the sometimes-dicey world of external social media, most fail to see the value of embracing enterprise social media technologies.Continue Reading

• Best project management practices for CIOs and IT managers

  The best project management practices emphasize efficiency over chaos, so we've gathered some top project management tips from our sister sites.Continue Reading

• Preparation underway for Dodd-Frank conflict mineral disclosures

  Dodd-Frank conflict mineral provisions create new disclosure rules for public companies. In this tip, learn how to prepare for the regulations.Continue Reading

• CIO tip: Learn how to present a risk-management plan to the board

  CIO tip: Companies are getting serious about risk management plans -- and leaning on CIOs to help them.Continue Reading

• Leadership tips in a challenging environment from three health IT CIOs

  At the 45th annual SIMposium, health IT CIOs talked about how technology is changing just about every aspect of health care, except one: the importance of leadership.Continue Reading

• Three strategies to align organizational compliance and security goals

  Compliance and security departments sometimes have an adversarial relationship, but organizations can benefit from aligning their strategic goals.Continue Reading

• Quiz: Mobile BI strategy, techniques and practices for CIOs

  Mobile business intelligence techniques are a hot topic in today's IT departments. Test your knowledge in our mobile BI strategy quiz.Continue Reading

• Creative destruction and the cloud: Why it's a good thing

  The creative destruction brought on by the cloud is an imperative and unavoidable part of your IT and business strategy.Continue Reading

• Cloud: A disruptive technology that's worth the disruption

  Cloud computing is a disruptive technology that promises to upend the enterprise, but the upsides are worth the risk.Continue Reading

• Why is Microsoft licensing so complicated?

  Live from the 2013 Gartner Symposium ITxpo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discusses why Microsoft licensing is so complicated.Continue Reading

• The future of mobility: A BYOD guide for CIOs

  In this Essential Guide, learn how CIOs are planning for the future of mobility, aligning consumer devices with bring your own technology trends.Continue Reading

• Free technology roadmap template examples for CIOs

  These free technology roadmap templates and examples will clear up your organization's strategic vision, combining detail with overarching goals.Continue Reading

• Agile principles, for IT and across the enterprise

  Agile principles push beyond the boundaries of IT and across enterprise.Continue Reading

• The history of cloud computing and what's coming next: A CIO guide

  In this enterprise guide, learn about the history of cloud computing and how to successfully implement cloud technologies in your organization.Continue Reading

• All aboard: CIO wins the battle, initiates centralized IT organization

  Our SearchCIO IT Leader of the Year Award winner, CIO Eric Hawley, explains how he built a centralized IT environment -- starting with listening.Continue Reading

• The 2013 IT Leadership Awards: Our finalists

  The 2013 SearchCIO IT Leadership Awards honor the effective leadership styles of leading CIOs and IT executives. Here, we introduce our finalists.Continue Reading

• The 2013 IT Leadership Awards: Meet our CIO finalists

  The 2013 SearchCIO IT Leadership Awards honor the top CIOs and IT executives in the enterprise space. Here, meet our finalists.Continue Reading

• The GRC maturity model and value proposition

  In this CIO Matters column, Harvey Koeppel takes a look at the GRC maturity model and how CIOs can turn risk management into business value.Continue Reading

• Multi-hypervisor environments: Making it work or not worth the work?

  There are potential benefits to running a multi-hypervisor environment but are they worth the management challenges?Continue Reading

• Four steps to defining and articulating the role of risk management

  Risk management programs are under pressure from all quarters. Here are four steps to defining and articulating the role of risk management.Continue Reading

• Free cost-benefit analysis template examples for CIOs

  Check out this collection of free cost-benefit analysis examples to determine, in a systematic way, which decision or project is the most beneficial to your organization.Continue Reading

• Project management lessons learned shouldn't be limited to postmortems

  Making project lessons learned part of the project management lifecycle through Agile best practices.Continue Reading

• Data storage strategy: Pre- and post-cloud computing

  CIO Niel Nickolaisen lays out how the cloud has simplified his data storage strategy … and satisfied his company's data dumping resistance.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

• Free mobile device policy template examples for CIOs

  Is the influx of mobile devices out of control at your organization? These free mobile device policy template examples can help you create guidelines.Continue Reading

• Free IT organizational structure chart templates for the CIO

  Use these free IT organizational structure chart templates to illustrate the relationships and hierarchy between various IT roles in your enterprise.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

• Making a business case for data storage and backup

  CIO Niel Nickolaisen lays out how he gets the business to invest in storage and backup technologies starting with a business case for the value of data.Continue Reading

• Free IT service catalog templates for the CIO

  Creating and updating an IT service catalog can keep your business running smoothly. Check out these free IT service catalog templates on the Web.Continue Reading

• Creating competitive advantage through data analytics

  In this week's roundup, as the title suggests, read three different ways of creating competitive advantage. Plus, why CIOs need to start questioning the green-ness of cloud.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

• Olympic-size woes and the dark side of tech innovation

  This week's roundup finds former tech stars who won't be up on a podium anytime soon, the dark (Hat) side of innovation and heroic leadership lessons.Continue Reading

• CIO's green technology solutions cut money, time, carbon footprint

  Green technology solutions are a vital part of Janet Claggett's CIO role.Continue Reading

• Scary-good tech innovation

  This week's roundup of bits from around the Web includes some amazing tech innovation, social collaboration tips and a rather forgettable anniversary.Continue Reading

• Why you don't want to Excel at virtualization capacity management

  As more of your data center becomes virtualized, succeeding at capacity management increasingly depends on using the right tools.Continue Reading

• Girls who code may become women in computer science

  Girls Who Code seeks to give teenage girls the skills to pursue degrees in technology and join the sparse ranks of women in computer science.Continue Reading

• Is Yammer a solution to a CIO problem or a trap?

  Has Microsoft just solved a huge CIO problem with its acquisition of Yammer, or laid a trap for IT in a bring-your-own-device era?Continue Reading

• Eliminating change management process chokeholds

  Learn which aspects of the change management process cause bottlenecks, as well as ways to get around them.Continue Reading

• What the Queen of Soul can teach about social CRM

  In this week's roundup of interesting items from around the Web, we present a musical key to social CRM, Google's search for love and more.Continue Reading

• Relocated, remote workers may be worth financial risk

  Fearing the financial risk, many companies are missing out on IT talent by not considering hiring remote workers or paying for relocation.Continue Reading

• Access is necessary but not sufficient for mobile IT

  It's easy to forget how breathtakingly quickly mobile IT made its way to the enterprise. Educating, not just providing access, will be key for CIOs.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

• Social media tips and other helpful lists

  In this week's roundup, we have a list made up primarily of lists -- how meta! Included are social media tips and a general how-to on being a good CIO.Continue Reading

• Filling soft skills gap may be easier than you think

  Some of our readers responded to a recent story about the perceived soft skills gap in IT suggesting the talent leaders are seeking could be all around them.Continue Reading

• CEOs: CIOs earn seat at the table by creating competitive advantage

  CIOs who master new technologies and wring value from legacy systems are great, but what CEOs really want is a partner in creating competitive advantage.Continue Reading

• Even a minor lapse in security protocol can lead to major costs

  When security protocols are neglected, data isn't the only loss. A breach in Utah cost the state CIO his job and possibly his reputation.Continue Reading

• Really big deals: Facebook IPO and SEC guidance on cybersecurity

  Read about this week's biggest tech news, including Facebook's long-awaited IPO and the SEC's guidance on cybersecurity.Continue Reading

• Of motherhood and mobile strategy

  In this week's roundup, we make a highly unscientific link between motherhood and mobile strategy and get a glimpse of Siri's possible true calling.Continue Reading

• Mobile spending seeding a business revolution

  Mobile computing is burning up the enterprise in more ways than one. A new report on mobile spending adds a piece of kindling to the rage.Continue Reading

• BI? Website relaunch? It's all about mobile app design

  Whether it's a conversation about websites, business intelligence, sales, you name it -- all roads lead to mobile app design.Continue Reading

• Sometimes tech innovation is the only option

  This week's roundup of bits from around the Web includes two interesting looks at tech innovation. Plus, could your Facebook profile help save a life?Continue Reading

• Do CIOs care about gaining a competitive advantage?

  Do CIOs care enough about gaining a competitive advantage—or is collegiality the secret of success in IT?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

• Four ways to improve your change management strategy

  What creates the most bottlenecks when it comes to a change management strategy? One expert outlines the biggest offenders.Continue Reading

• Promoting innovation, from boss-less offices to tweaking big data

  This week's roundup of tidbits from the Web includes ways of promoting innovation, as well as talent in the workplace.Continue Reading

• Privacy concerns surround Google cloud storage service

  Soon after Google launched its Drive cloud storage service, data privacy and security worries arose.Continue Reading

• CIOs get no respect? They should follow the money

  CIOs don't get any respect from CEOs on innovation leadership. Don't get miffed, follow the money.Continue Reading

• 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

• CIOs want exit options from cloud service providers

  Security and compliance remain top concerns for CIOs seeking cloud service providers, but vendor lock-in isn't far behind.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