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January 15, 2008

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:40 AM/EST

Vista Adoption Accelerates

B2B IT product seller CDW has just come out with a study that may get IT executives to re-think their decision to hold off on upgrading from XP. The third and final installment in their year-long "Windows Vista Tracking Poll"...

January 14, 2008

Monday, January 14, 2008 10:51 AM/EST

Gartner Predicts 8.1% Rise in Outsourcing Worldwide

Gartner is predicting that the global outsourcing market will grow 8.1 percent in 2008. But the growth will come with plenty of pain and disappointment for IT managers and outsourcers alike, according to Gartner researchers. Some salient points from researcher...

January 10, 2008

Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:52 PM/EST

Trouble for Credit Unions, Troubled by Telecommuters

Three items this evening: RSA's latest Global Online Fraud Report found 186 financial institutions were the subject of online fraud attacks during December, an increase from last month, but a sizeable decrease from December 2006. One surprise: a big upswing...

January 9, 2008

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:43 PM/EST

Is a 7-Day Disaster Plan Enough?

A new Gartner study of nearly 360 IT risk professionals finds 60 percent plan for a seven-day outage, rather than 30 days or more as "more mature" diaster recovery plans do. Gartner Research Vice President Roberta Witty calls this "a...

January 8, 2008

Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:06 AM/EST

Deloitte: IT Vendors Are 'Treading Water' on Security

Are your IT vendors protecting your customer data? A new survey from Deloitte raises plenty of stomach-churning questions. Almost half--49 percent--of the over 100 companies surveyed in their 2007 Technology, Media & Telecommunications Security Survey say they are "falling behind...

January 7, 2008

Monday, January 07, 2008 10:59 PM/EST

Six Sigma, Sick Workers, Etc.

Renowned researcher Tom Davenport cites five reasons why the Six Sigma quality movement is slip sliding away.... comScore Inc., which tracks Internet sales, says online holiday says rose 19 percent over last year, reaching $29.2 billion.... The role of the...

Monday, January 07, 2008 10:41 AM/EST

CIO = Tough Job, Good Pay

The Wall Street Journal's business technology blog offers CIO salary data from a survey by search firm Egon Zehnder International. The job is getting tougher, but the pay is good at companies with revenues over $1 billion:...

January 4, 2008

Friday, January 04, 2008 2:28 PM/EST

HBR's Strategy Feast

First, Sloan Management Review comes out with some good articles. Now the Harvard Business Review has come out with the TOC of their new issue, and it's a doozy. It's a special issue on Leadership and Strategy....

January 3, 2008

Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:10 AM/EST

MIT: The ROI of Collaboration

Before coming to Ziff Davis, I was editor of the MIT Sloan Management Review. I remain a fan. The winter 2008 issue has come out, and several articles look especially interesting to IT executives:...

Thursday, January 03, 2008 9:50 AM/EST

Compliance: 2008 Predictions

The IT Compliance Institute's research director, Cass Brewer, has begun issuing her predictions for IT and compliance in 2008. Some highlights from her first article:...



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