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Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:32 AM/EST
Cost Cutting Not CIOs' Main FocusHere's another surprise from our new CIO role survey: The economy is slowing down. Gartner is telling CIOs 1) to prepare to make cuts, and 2) that IT enables other functions to reduce their costs. Reducing expenses has to be...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:28 PM/EST
The Secret of Open-Source Project SuccessWhat's the secret of success for open-source software projects? The same as other teams: trust, cooperation and a broad network of external contacts. Those are the main findings contained in an important new working paper by researchers at the University...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:38 AM/EST
Do CIOs Need an MBA?One surprise from the CIO Role survey is how few CIOs have earned business degrees. Just 31 percent of the 281 CIOs we polled have earned an MBA.The percentage drops to only 19 percent among CIOs at firms between $5 and $99 million in revenues. The percentage who have earned a bachelor's degree in business is even smaller--just 16 percent.
Monday, April 07, 2008 3:42 PM/EST
Wanted: The Will to InnovateForrester VP Bobby Cameron recently told CIO Insight online editor Brian Watson that while executives love to talk innovation, they don't do much to make it happen--and cited McKinsey to back him up. Accenture has just come out with a...
Friday, April 04, 2008 11:22 AM/EST
One in Four CIOs Cut IT Spending This YearI've been wondering if the recession, if that's what it is, will cause CIOs to start cutting their budgets. Gartner just released its survey on first-quarter 2008 IT spending and reports that U.S. IT budgets are continuing to grow on...
Monday, March 31, 2008 10:30 AM/EST
Creating a Pipeline of CreativityThe innovative, creative employees that companies want start out as innovative, creative children. A study co-sponsored by the Conference Board suggests schools are not putting enough stress on an important way of developing creativity in the schools. Likewise, employers aren't...
Friday, March 14, 2008 9:45 AM/EST
Is Customer Experience Recession-Proof?A recession -- that's what the Wall Street Journal now calls our economic slowdown -- is no time to slack off on using IT for sales, marketing and e-business: When consumer spending drops, the need to compete for remaining dollars...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:53 AM/EST
Do CIOs Care About Collaboration?One of the major findings in our new survey on collaboration is the importance of executive support and advocacy. Executives rarely use collaboration technologies, and I argue that their usage would be more widespread if they set the example. When...
Monday, March 10, 2008 3:53 PM/EST
Vote of No Information ConfidenceI'd like to suggest a new phrase for buzzword stardom: "information confidence". We need it, because there's not much of it out there. A study on enterprise content management by AIIM, an association for professionals involved in electronic records management,...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:13 PM/EST
Marketing Needs IT in a RecessionMarketing departments are going to need new information to help their companies make it through a recession. In his blog Marketing KnowHow, Harvard B-School marketing professor John Quelch noted eight things marketing must do, and several of them can't be...
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