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June 9, 2011

Thursday, June 09, 2011 3:31 PM/EST

Outliers: A Sustainable Hiring Model?

By John Parkinson Can you build a successful, growing business, operating dynamically and at global scale on the "Outliers" model? Here's a (work in process) guide to the issues that you'd need to solve.

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February 4, 2011

Friday, February 04, 2011 10:18 AM/EST

The Tipping Point: Still Current After All These Years

By Tony Kontzer If I were a CIO, I'd be looking for ways to put The Law of 150 to work in my organization. Malcolm Gladwell presents a valid use case for the Law of 150 that's worth revisiting 10 years after his book The Tipping Point topped bestseller lists.

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January 27, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:04 AM/EST

Google's Larry Page: Why This CEO Needs to Be a Techie

By Tony Kontzer If Google's Larry Page is going to be the second coming of Apple's Steve Jobs--only without the part about having to rescue his company from near ruin--then someone's going to have to help Page exude the qualities implied by the "E" in his new, old title of CEO.

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January 19, 2011

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:20 AM/EST

Apple's Steve Jobs Effect: When a Personality Becomes a Brand

By Tony Kontzer Should the CIO strive to develop a "cult of personality" within the organization?

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September 16, 2010

Thursday, September 16, 2010 3:58 PM/EST

My Name is Susan, and I Am a Workaholic

By Susan Nunziata To put together our feature 10 Clues That You're A Workaholic, we collaborated with a clinical professor of psychiatry. The world stopped spinning for a second when I first looked at this list.

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August 27, 2010

Friday, August 27, 2010 2:28 PM/EST

CIO Exit Strategy: View From the Departure Lounge

By Tony Kontzer Continental Airlines' CIO shares lessons learned as he prepares his exit strategy.

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May 24, 2010

Monday, May 24, 2010 9:29 AM/EST

Marshmallows in a Vacuum

An obit for Martin Gardner: "His was a clarifying intelligence: he said his talent was asking good questions and transmitting the answers clearly and crisply." That's kind of what you're trying to do, isn't it? Gardner was, of course, freer...

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May 12, 2010

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:27 AM/EST

Readers Say: Shrinking IT

Lots of feedback on this feature about big changes ahead for IT, especially the part about an outflow of jobs to other departments within the enterprise. Some readers were so freaked out by the projections that they hit "send" before...

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April 12, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010 1:02 PM/EST

CIOs Without Borders

by Tony Kontzer We in the IT press spend a lot of time writing about how technology helps organizations to achieve business objectives, but what we don't get to write about enough is the potential for technology to solve huge...

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December 16, 2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:59 AM/EST

CIO SOS on Staffing

By Tony Kontzer On the surface, the latest survey results from IT staffing firm Robert Half Technology, indicating that 43% of CIOs describe their departments as "understaffed," aren't exactly a shocker. After months of budget cuts, layoffs, and general belt-tightening,...

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