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cio sessions: Colonel John Hayes of the Air Force Reserve

In this CIO sessions interview, Colonel John Hayes, Chief Information Officer of the Air Force Reserve command, talks about the challenges of managing IT in battlefield situations, deployment of wireless technologies, Web 2.0 and about tapping into the technology expertise of its recruits and 'citizen warriors' for the development of...

Tags: Business Intelligence, CIO Sessions, General, Government, Hardware Infrastructure, Innovation, IT Management, Mobile, Security, Software Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless

Blog posts 2007-06-06

cio sessions: San Francisco Giants CIO Bill Schlough

In this CIO Sessions interview, SF Giants CIO Bill Schlough outlines his multiple roles, managing back-end operations for the business of Giants baseball and AT&T Park and applying technology to improve profits and player performance and development with sophisticated digital video systems. He also talks about the free wireless access...

Tags: Entertainment, CIO Sessions, General, Mobile, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless

Blog posts 2007-05-15

cio sessions: Alcatel-Lucent's Ray Gilbert

In a CIO Sessions interview, Ray Gilbert, assistant vice president for IT Enterprise Collaboration at Alcatel Lucent discusses how the telecom services provider is addressing mobility needs and convergence challenges for the next generation of devices. Watch the video More CIO Sessions videos Boeing CTO: Vaho Rebassoo...

Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, VOIP, Telecommunications, Mobile, IP Telephony, General, CIO Sessions

Blog posts 2007-04-30

cio sessions: Tim Stanley, Harrah's Entertainment

In this CIO Sessions video, Harrahs Entertainment CIO Tim Stanley talks about his high-tech vision for attracting customers to the world’s most popular casino destinations, from implementing business intelligence software to deploying wireless gadgets and RFID. Stanley is also Harrahs chief innovation officer. As part of his innovation mission, he...

Tags: Business Intelligence, CIO Sessions, Datacenter, General, IT Management, RFID, Software Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Wired & Wireless

Blog posts 2007-03-07

cio sessions: Harnessing wireless wagering at the Kentucky Derby

In a CIO Sessions video, Jay Rollins, the CIO of Churchill Downs, talks about turning around the venerable race track with 21st century technology, such using wireless networks and mobile devices for wagering. He equates the technology requirements of horse racing for wagering elements and data collection and analysis to...

Tags: CIO Sessions, General, IT Management, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless

Blog posts 2007-02-22

cio sessions: Vanguard's Paul Heller

According to Paul Heller, CIO of The Vanguard Group, over 80 percent of client contact is done via the Web. In our CIO Sessions interview Heller explains how Vanguard applies technology to lower the cost for Vanguards financial investors."We’re just very well situated in a sense right now, because there’s...

Tags: General, IT Management, CIO Sessions

Blog posts 2007-02-20

cio sessions: Gideon Sasson of Charles Schwab

As part of our CIO Sessions series, I interviewed Gideon Sasson, CIO at the financial services giant Charles Schwab. He has been with Schwab for 11 years, mostly in technology management, but he also did a three-year stint as president of Schwab’s Active Trader retail business. Sasson talks openly about...

Tags: Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., CIO Sessions, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2006-12-08

cio sessions: Harvard Medical School CIO John Halamka

John Halamka is a practicing emergency care physician, but in the course of his medical career he caught the technology bug. As the CIO and Associate Dean for Educational Technology at Harvard Medical School, as well as CIO at CareGroup Healthcare Systems with 14,000 employees and 3,000 doctors, Halamka is...

Tags: CIO Sessions, General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Security, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Mobile, John Halamka

Blog posts 2006-11-28

cio sessions: Randy Spratt, McKesson Corp.

Randy Spratt heads up IT for McKesson, the $88 billion healthcare giant headquartered in San Francisco. In our video interview transcript here Spratt described one aspect of McKessons business as the Amazon.com of healthcare. "We’ll do a billion and half dollars of pharmaceuticals every month through our online capabilities," he...

Tags: Spratt, General, IT Management, CIO Sessions

Blog posts 2006-11-22

cio sessions: Motorola's Patricia Morrison

Last week I interviewed Patricia Morrison, Motorolas CIO. She joined Motorola in July 2005 after stints at Office Depot, Quaker Oats where she engineered the integration into PepsiCos systems after the acquisition and GE Industrial Systems. She is used to working with budgets in the hundreds of millions and trying...

Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Mobile, CIO Sessions

Blog posts 2006-11-21

Additional Resources

10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test)

Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business. The high incidence of IT failure demonstrates the extreme difficulty of juggling business and technology goals that are sometimes in direct...

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Indecision, Asset Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-15

WWDC08: Tickets sold out

According to Macworld Apple today confirmed that its Worldwide Developer Conference WWDC, held 9-13 June 2008 in San Francisco, has sold out for the first time in the history of the event. "Response to this year's WWDC has been off the charts and we are delighted with the show...

Tags: Apple iPhone, SDK, Conference, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Putting Workday on SAP's radar

Now that SAP's SaaS project Business ByDesign has gone on the back burner, I've been wondering how I'm going to pass the time next week at SAPPHIRE Berlin. One thing I'll be asking the enterprise software giant is how it feels about losing out to SaaS startup Workday for a...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Radar, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-14

HP partners with Desktone to advance virtualized desktops as a service

Desktone, the desktop as a service DaaS provider, has lined up a powerful ally in Hewlett-Packard HP, which has signed on as the first member of Desktone's partner program for desktop virtualization technology. Desktone announced HP's involvement at the same time it unveiled its service provider...

Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, Service Provider, Desktone, Virtual-D Platform, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Workday lands big Flextronics deal

Flextronics will install Workday's on-demand human capital management software for 200,000 employees. According to InformationWeek, Workday beat out SAP and Oracle for Flextronics business in what Mary Hayes Weier described as tipping point deal for SaaS. Workday also won a 26,000 employee deal with Chiquita. ...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-14

News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day

Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: Zoho's Googley login raises interesting questions Ed Bott: The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers News.com: Facebook pulls ‘stalker list' tool after Gawker exposes it Mary Jo Foley: Gates emphasizes PC-phone...

Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-14

eMule (49a-Installer1)

eMule is one of the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients around the world. Thanks to it's open source policy many developers are able to contribute to the project, making the network more efficient with each release. eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000...

Tags: eMule, Peer To Peer (P2P), Networking, Internet

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Big Steve to keynote WWDC

Another day, another rumor comes true. Apple today announced that CEO Steve Jobs will give the keynote address to developers at the 2008 love fest known as WWDC and previously known as the Worldwide Developers Conference. The keynote address begins at 10:00 a.m. PT/...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Keynote Address, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Starting from scratch at Tasty Baking's new facility

Brendan O'Malley, CIO at Tasty Baking discusses the pressures with getting design and IT right for the company's move into a new manufacturing facility after 90 years in the same plant. by Administrator

Tags: Manufacturing, Strategy, Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Automating the factory floor

Brendan O'Malley, CIO at Tasty Baking, describes how the company is automating its manufacturing operations by using a new "voice-picking system" in which employees are directed to each location on the factory floor via headset to ensure that the correct quantities of ingredients are being placed on each pallet. by...

Tags: Factory, Manufacturing, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-05-13