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Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:57 PM/EST
Government IT: Can States Get a Handle on Securing the Cloud?By Tony Kontzer With so much data about citizens at issue, not to mention a clear responsibility to be transparent in disclosing any potential risks, state governments have to ensure that they've dotted their I's and crossed their T's before entrusting systems to cloud providers. Monday, May 07, 2012 6:43 PM/EST
Message to CIOs: Keep Your Friends Close and Your CFOs CloserBy Tony Kontzer It's quite possible that the steady rise of the CFO at the expense of the CIO can be traced to the passage of the Sarbanes Oxley Act in 2002. It created a huge burden on IT to develop systems that would ensure comprehensive auditing of accounting procedures in an effort to protect unwitting investors. It also, for better or worse, created much stronger ties between finance and IT -- which has apparently evolved into much stronger oversight of IT by finance. Thursday, April 19, 2012 8:44 PM/EST
CIO Salaries: The Bad News Keeps ComingBy Tony Kontzer Already pegged with a hazy future and little chance of rising to the CEO post, CIOs now can add disturbing compensation trends and an insulting perception of their value to the list of career obstacles they face. Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:45 PM/EST
Stuck in Mike Daisey's Apple Tree of LiesBy Tony Kontzer In claiming to have experienced things he'd only heard or read about, monologist Mike Daisey has shined the spotlight on his half-truths, but here's hoping that attention eventually swings back to where it needs to be -- on exactly how the devices Americans covet are produced. Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:43 PM/EST
Are the Days of the CIO Numbered?By Tony Kontzer A recent survey indicates that nearly 20 percent of CFOs in the U.K. believe the CIO role will cease to exist within five years, and given how many CIOs report to CFOs, it's a number that should get CIOs' collective attention. Thursday, January 19, 2012 5:52 PM/EST
Will Government IT Contracts Follow Vivek Kundra to Salesforce.com?By Tony Kontzer So, in other words, having declared that the federal government must turn to the cloud in order to shed its wasteful IT past and adopt more cost-effective and user-friendly IT platforms--admittedly sound thinking--the nation's first CIO Vivek Kundra, at the ripe old age of 37, has managed to maneuver himself into a position where he'll be one of the notable financial beneficiaries of that strategy. Tuesday, December 27, 2011 5:57 PM/EST
Closing U.S. Data Centers: Show Us the MoneyBy Tony Kontzer Most forward-looking companies have tapped virtualization and cloud computing technologies to reduce their data center footprints, and thus achieve significant savings on hardware and power. But few CIOs can bring about the sort of large-scale improvements that U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel hopes to oversee. Monday, December 19, 2011 3:36 PM/EST
The CIO's Calendar: December's Your Time to Assess the Past and Face the FutureBy Don Desiderato Now is the time for CIOs to be thinking seriously about how to communicate the state of information technology to business executives, rather than simply racing to 2012. Tuesday, November 22, 2011 8:00 AM/EST
Protecting Your Online ReputationThis newfangled Internet contraption apparently has made it impossible for us to retain control of our public image. In a clear indication of how superficial our society has become, it seems we must tame this digital chaos if we're to have any hope of succeeding in the outside world, whether we're seeking a job, a bank loan, new customers, or a love interest. Monday, November 07, 2011 8:00 AM/EST
CIOs Go To MarketYou now have to learn to play well with others at C-level, others with whom you might never had to play with before--for instance, the CMO. The question for the CIO is: Will you and yours be there to help the CMO along--which will ultimately help the business? |
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