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- SIM survey: 52% of CIOs reported diminished IT budgets in 2009, but only 28% for 2010
- As part of the "IT Trend Survey" released at SIMposium 09 in Seattle on Monday, 52% of CIOs reported 2009 budgets that were smaller than 2008. The numbers for 2010 look a little better. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: SIM Card, IT Budget, CIO, Information Technology, Survey, Marketing Research, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debate
- Mega-Corps & the worldThere is life beyond the Mega-Corp droneculture where management punishes theworker ants for a mistake and threatensthem with layoffs and pay cuts.No thanks, small enterprise businessis the groundwork, big mega-corpsare puppet shells with CEO's pullingthe strings.RE: Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debateWell putRE: Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debateUnfortunately...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enteprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server
- What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-10-29
- Enterprise IT's trust level of Google will increase
- TechRepublic's CIO Jury finds that IT leaders trust Microsoft more than Google as a technology partner, but tune in next year. Jason Hiner outlines the latest findings in the TechRepublic CIO Jury. In a nutshell, it looks like this: So...
- Tags: Google Inc., Information Technology, Enterprise, Jason Hiner, E-mail, Strategy, Online Communications, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Verizon preps fourth quarter device barrage; Droid will 'stimulate demand'
- Verizon delivered a solid third quarter courtesy of its wireless business, which added 1.2 million net customers excluding acquisitions. The company also said it is set up for the fourth quarter with the launch of Research in Motion's Storm 2 on Wednesday, two Motorola Android devices and 12 other handsets....
- Tags: Revenue, Verizon Communications Inc., Wireless, Operational Accounting, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- From fear to value; CIO strategies for propelling business through the economic crisis
- Your aspiration: As a Chief Information Officer, drive change, innovation and efficiency to help build a smarter enterprise that will prosper amidst global competition. Your daily challenge: As a Chief Information Officer, deliver business results faster and better-with less. Chief Information Officers are being counted on to...
- Tags: CIO, Chief Information Officer, Economic Crisis, Strategy, Leadership, Management
- White papers 2009-10-26
- Anne Thomas Manes: SOA can be resurrected, here's how
- SOA was/is a failure.No reason to resurrect it.Of course, service oriented architecture is the right thingAnd increasingly CIOs are becoming more strategic in their role and migrating their architectures to service orientation.The problem is that a lot of vendors started selling - overselling - products with the SOA name on...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledges that Google Docs lacks workflow features that Microsoft Office has, but isn't trying to emulate the suite. In an interview with Stephen Shankland at CNet News, Schmidt continued his courting of the enterprise. Schmidt on Wednesday had a good performance at the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- How can today's CIO make the biggest impact on their organization? Learn more here
- We listened to more than 2500 CIOs worldwide, including 158 CIOs from midsize firms. Those discussions showed us the demands on CIOs are changing, and in reaction, how today's CIOs are redefining their role. Learn more about the role of today's midmarket CIO and what they are doing...
- Tags: CIO, Roi/Tco, Leadership, Strategy, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management
- White papers 2009-10-21
- How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?
- Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...
- Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Stinks to be the CIO: The 2010 IT budget may spike to 2006 resource levels
- wowOne would think with our new leader money wouldbe flowing with millions of new jobs all overthe place.Since millions have lost jobs since his automakertake overs and giving banks Billions if not trillionsof dollars that went no where.Now free healthcare for all, that is right free withno cost to anyone....
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, evil, reason business, Microsoft Corp., information technology, IT budget
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Stinks to be the CIO: The 2010 IT budget may spike to 2006 resource levels
- Welcome to 2010 with the same resources you had back in 2006 and 2007 (if you're lucky). Now go out and be useful to the business. That cheery outlook was delivered by Gartner in its 2010 CIO Agenda talk. Some pep talk, guys. Gartner analyst Mark McDonald...
- Tags: IT Budget, CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Future ERP
- Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...
- Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Wither Silicon Valley? IT will be driven by emerging markets
- Gartner is projecting that the "worse year ever" for IT spending---down 6.9 percent in 2009---will be followed up with dead-cat spending bounce in 2010 of a meager 3.3 percent. Does this dead-cat IT spending bounce mean traditional tech power centers---notably Silicon Valley---are no longer in the driver's seat? ...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Emerging Market, IT-spending, Application Roster, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- How CIOs can instigate change [video]
- IT leaders must know how to instigate change. This episode of CIO Sanity Savers discusses five key factors to help your change initiatives succeed. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: CIO, Video, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- The state of US workforce technology adoption
- Did you know that among US information workers that: 35% use laptops and 76% use desktop computers? Only 11% use smartphones? 57% are optimistic about technology, but 43% are pessimistic? We know because we surveyed 2,001 US information workers that use computers...
- Tags: Team, Collaboration, Smart Phone, Information Worker, Tool, Workforce, Gen-Y Employee, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Productivity, E-mail, Knowledge Management, Human Resources, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Ted Schadler
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- How to speak the CIO's language
- Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder shows us what CIOs like to hear... by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: CIO, Geek & Poke, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-10-03
- CIO Jury: Will Snow Leopard boost Macs for business?
- Surprise to no-one hereLittle support for enterprise-level apps and CIOs won't adopt Apple? Color me surprised. This one I found amusing though:"The primary issue for us is always security and after that the need for applications to work reliably on the Mac OS."So volume-licensing of an AV/malware suite is more...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Vertical industries, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Forge consensus on decision-making with these three tricks
- CIOs need to be skilled at bringing a diverse group of opinionated leaders and executives into alignment. Consensus-building is always tough, but the higher you climb up the corporate ladder, the more critical this skill becomes. In this episode of CIO Sanity Savers Jason Hiner riffs on forging consensus. ...
- Tags: CIO, Decision-making, Consensus, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Using green IT to meet corporate sustainability goals. Deloitte offers tips in Webinar.
- Wondering how to get your chief executive to buy more into technology's role in helping reduce energy consumption or in managing environmental initiatives? Deloitte Consulting recently hosted a seminar called "Competing in the Low-Carbon Economy: The Essential Dialogue Between the CIO and the C-Suite. Its goal was...
- Tags: Sustainability, Deloitte LLP, Webinar, Green IT, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
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