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Monday, May 07, 2012 18:05 PM
Message to CIOs: Keep Your Friends Close and Your CFOs Closer
By Tony Kontzer The CFO's steady encroachment of the CIO role continues. The latest compelling evidence of this trend comes courtesy of financial services giant Credit Suisse, which late last month react....
Thursday, April 19, 2012 20:04 PM
CIO Salaries: The Bad News Keeps Coming
By Tony Kontzer While CIOs in general probably weren't doing cartwheels about an average pay hike of less than 2% for 2011, even if it did come after two years of flat salaries, the loudest groans may hav....
Thursday, March 22, 2012 17:03 PM
Are the Days of the CIO Numbered?
By Tony Kontzer At the risk of taking liberty with Mark Twain's words more than a century later, it seems my recent thoughts on the possible imminent death of the CIO may not have been so exaggerated afte....
Thursday, January 19, 2012 17:01 PM
Will Government IT Contracts Follow Vivek Kundra to Salesforce.com?
By Tony Kontzer I have to admit, I didn't see this one coming. When Vivek Kundra, the nation's first CIO, stepped down from his post earlier this year to accept a fellowship at Harvard, I crowed about t....
Monday, December 19, 2011 15:12 PM
The CIO's Calendar: December's Your Time to Assess the Past and Face the Future
By Don Desiderato This is the fourth installment in our new monthly blog series, The CIO's Calendar, in which we'll give you insights on how to plan your time in the month ahead as you look to allocate re....
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 08:11 AM
Protecting Your Online Reputation
By Tony Kontzer If you haven't heard of Reputation.com, you should have, because all of us probably will need its expertise at one time or another. To be truthful, I never would have taken note of the com....
Monday, November 07, 2011 08:11 AM
CIOs Go To Market
By Tim Moran As a savvy and successful CIO, it will come as no surprise to you that your role--and the role of IT as part of the business--has been undergoing tremendous change of late. In the past, techn....
Thursday, November 03, 2011 19:11 PM
Fed CIO Steven VanRoekel Aims to Root Out IT Waste
By Tony Kontzer Two months into his tenure as the nation's CIO, Steve VanRoekel made his first public appearance on October 25--appropriately enough, at a meeting of Silicon Valley's vaunted Churchill Clu....
Wednesday, November 02, 2011 15:11 PM
Imagine There are No CIOs
By Tony Kontzer To paraphrase John Lennon, "Imagine there are no CIOs." This may sound like heresy to the majority of IT executives (and any Lennon fans), but this doomsday scenario for IT leaders deser....
Monday, October 17, 2011 20:10 PM
The CIO's Calendar: November is the Time to Assess Staffing Models
This is the third installment in our new monthly blog series, The CIO's Calendar, in which we'll give you insights on how to plan your time in the month ahead as you look to allocate resources and develop ....
Thursday, October 06, 2011 01:10 AM
Where Were You When You Heard the News About Steve Jobs?
By Tony Kontzer We collectively experience certain sad moments in history that will remain forever embedded in our memories, associated indelibly with whatever activity we were engaged in when we first he....
Thursday, October 06, 2011 00:10 AM
Steve Jobs: The "i" that Shaped the World
By Marc J. Schiller Steve, it was your eye that shaped the world. It was your eye for design and presentation that set the standard for product beauty for all to emulate. It was your eye that set the st....
Thursday, August 25, 2011 18:08 PM
Steve Jobs: Admiring the Man Who Resurrected Apple
By Tony Kontzer UPDATE: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died at age 56 on Oct. 5, 2011. As anyone who's followed my posts here over the past several years surely knows, I haven't exactly been what one would ....
Tuesday, August 09, 2011 20:08 PM
VanRoekel: Tech Veteran is a Rookie in the Federal CIO Role
By Tony Kontzer I have nothing against Steven VanRoekel. At the age of 41, he has logged 15 years with Microsoft and served as managing director of the Federal Communications Commission--an impressive car....
