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- CIO
- (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. All systems design, development and datacenter operations fall under CIO jurisdiction. CIOs have...
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- Questioning IT
- This is the 16th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. This section is concerned with things you should talk to your CIO about - informally, but with attention. Topic Two: Maintaining Information Integrity Mainframe and Client-Server Architectures...
- Tags: CIO, PC, Information Technology, Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Mainframes, Security, Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Servers, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Blue Nile's Web 2.0 diamond search tool
- Darrell Cavens, senior vice president of marketing and technology at Blue Nile describes the company's new Web 2.0 application that makes it easier for users to search for a diamond based on an individual budget.
- Tags: Web, Search Tool, Nile, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, CIO
- Videos 2008-04-28
- Centrelink CIO: John Wadeson
- John Wadeson, CIO of Centrelink recently spoke to ZDNet Australia about the challenges running Australia's welfare payment business. He also discusses how the company manages the millions of transactions and billions of dollars flowing through the organization every week. by Administrator
- Tags: CIO, Payment, Operational Accounting, Finance, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Questioning IT
- Questioning IT This is the 14th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. This section is concerned with things you should talk to your CIO about - informally, but with attention. Topic one: disaster avoidance Basically...
- Tags: CIO, Data Center, Information Technology, Credit Card, Clustering, Membership Database, Data Centers, Backups, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- The CIO profession: driving innovation and competitive advantage
- Can the CIO profession evolve rapidly enough to match the pace of global competition and technological change?Last year, the prospects were far from encouraging. In 2006, CIOs felt that senior management did not understand the transformative power of technology and did not appreciate the contribution that CIOs could make to...
- Tags: Innovation, CIO, Competitive Advantage, Leadership, Strategy, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-04-18
- The new CIO: Insights from the Center for CIO Leadership
- Read this white paper to see what Harvey Koeppel, executive director of the Center for CIO Leadership, says around the challenges facing CIOs today and the emerging role of the CIO as a business leader helping to drive change and innovation.
- Tags: CIO, Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-04-16
- Delivering 1 second load times
- Brent Cromley, director of development at Zappos discusses the company's plan to improve the user experience by delivering faster load times and creating a more seamless checkout process.
- Tags: Development, Director, CIO
- Videos 2008-04-11
- DHS to name new CIO
- The Department of Homeland Security said this week that it will name Richard Mangogna CIO. Mangogna comes to the DHS from Mason Harriman Group, where he was a senior advisory to the firm's agencies. He also was CIO at JP Morgan Chase, the division head of Business...
- Tags: CIO, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Leadership, Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- How IT can save us from recession
- IT staff to the rescue. They have to both identify and solve business needs to lift the country out of a financial downturn, says Gartner analysts. IT innovation will be a key factor in helping the US to get out of recession, said a Gartner analyst on Monday. ...
- Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, IT, business, enterprise, company, e-business e-biz, online, computer, software, hardware, network, peripheral, MIS, CIO, IT pro
- News items 2008-04-09
- "10 secrets of bad CIOs"
- John Halamka is CIO of the CareGroup Healthcare System, a practicing emergency room physician, and proprietor of the Geekdoctor blog; the dude knows his stuff. I therefore read The 10 secrets of bad CIOs, his ComputerWorld opinion piece, with real interest. Here are...
- Tags: CIO, John Halamka, Blogging, Telecommunications, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Gartner's latest pep talk: CIO as corporate change super hero
- It's time for chief information officers to step up and be the big difference makers in their companies. Welcome to another CIO pep talk. This one comes from Mark McDonald, analyst at Gartner. His pitch at the Gartner Emerging Technologies conference in Las Vegas: The CIO role...
- Tags: CIO, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- IT failure at Heathrow T5: What really happened
- Anyone having the misfortune to pass recently through Heathrow's new Terminal 5 knows the huge project debuted as a case study in full-blown systems failure. Most reports have focused on stranded customers, a crazed supermodel, and Queen Elizabeth's grand opening speech, which called the terminal "a 21st Century gateway to...
- Tags: Software, CIO, Baggage, British Airways Plc., Information Technology, Problem, Terminal 5, BA, Vanderlande Industries, Vanderlande, Bags, Paul Coby, Airports Authority, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Buy techies with trust and freedom, not dollars
- Rewarding techies This is the 12th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. The biggest problem you will face in hiring a good CIO is that, in systems, failure succeeds and success fails. In IT:...
- Tags: Job, CIO, Information Technology, Finance, Help Desk, Call Centers, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, It Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Google CIO to jump to EMI; And what does he know about music?
- Google CIO Douglas Merrill will reportedly jump ship to EMI to become president of the music label. His mission: Figure out this digital music thing. Merrill's move--reported by John Furrier and confirmed at numerous other news outlets--is a curious move. For EMI, Merrill brings technical know-how and...
- Tags: Google Inc., CIO, EMI Group Plc., Music, Strategy, IPO, Digital Media, Leadership, Digital Music, Management, Financial Services, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Survey: Your IT leaders are an antsy bunch
- CIOs and technology managers are less strategic than they were a year ago, pondering job jumps and still struggle to deliver projects on time and under budget. Yet these folks want to be more intertwined with their respective businesses. A Harvey Nash/KMPG survey of 258 respondents paints...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Leader, Survey, Marketing Research, Outsourcing, Strategy, Marketing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- For Unix: hire a leader; for others: hire a manager
- This is the eleventh excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From Chapter 3.2: For Unix: hire a leader; for others: hire a manager The most difficult issue to get your...
- Tags: Job, CIO, Data Center, Information Technology, Leader, Leadership, Data Centers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Australian Tax Office CIO: Bill Gibson
- Bill Gibson, CIO of the Australian Tax Office, talks to ZDNet Australia about why he doesn't completely trust open source software; how the ATO handles security and why competing vendors will have to learn to work together. He also discusses new collaboration technologies he's exploring within his organization, such...
- Tags: CIO, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Leadership vs. Management
- This is the tenth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. Note that this is a draft for a new bit to be inserted before the extract published last week - a response to the many...
- Tags: CIO, Leadership, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Zillow's emerging advertising software
- David Beitel, CTO of Zillow discusses how the company is using its new patent-pending, ad-serving technology to analyze user traffic patterns and send targeted display advertising to its users.
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, CIO
- Videos 2008-03-10
- Goodwill Industries CIO: Steve Bergman
- Steve Bergman, CIO of Goodwill Industries talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about innovating technology for the non-profit. From an open source web portal to geo-spatial mapping tools for the organizations retail site. Bergman also shares his business approach to inventory management, and the...
- Tags: CIO, Industry, Portals, Open Source, Internet, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
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