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  • 5 Smartphone Usage Trends for 2012 and Beyond

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    Chris Curran
    19 Jan 2012 | 9:12 am
    My PwC colleagues studying consumer intelligence recently conducted a survey of 3,283 smartphone users to find out how they plan to use their devices in the next couple of years. In many ways, smartphone users will grow increasingly reliant on their devices, but their concerns over privacy, security and convenience will keep them from ditching their desktops all together. “The Speed of Life” dives deep into the data to surface the next wave of trends in smartphone usage and explains how businesses can gain an edge by giving smartphone users what they want. Following are some of the…

  • Retiring Legacy Applications – Logically

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    Chuck Musciano
    17 Jan 2012 | 2:29 pm
    A recent article on eliminating legacy applications prompted a bit of back-and-forth on Twitter, centered around why we all do such a bad job of retiring old systems.  Such a conversation requires more than a few tweets, however.  Why is it so hard to kill off old systems? We all have no problem listing the theoretical reasons why an application should be retired: It no longer meets the users’ needs It becomes too costly to maintain Better technology is readily available Integration with other, newer applications is getting more difficult Yet we all have applications that no longer…

  • Technology Divas

    NASA CIO Blog
    22 Jan 2012 | 12:50 pm
    Ok, so I’m on a cruise and writing a blog about technology. I’m not weird; I’m a CIO – same thing, right?

  • Twitter's Country-Specific Blocking Brings Hazards and Hope

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    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The company will disclose requests from governments that want tweets removed

  • Goodbye Kodak, Hello FujiFilm

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    Michael Krigsman
    25 Jan 2012 | 7:15 pm
    I originally wrote this as a guest post on Vinnie Mirchandani’s blog, called New Florence. New Renaissance, which discusses innovation and technology. You can also see a gallery of other photos.————–After 131 years great American photographic icon, Eastman Kodak, filed for bankruptcy. Some might say that Kodak never made a successful transition from traditional film to digital cameras, but that’s not exactly correct, because American inventor, Steven Sasson, created the first digital camera for Kodak. I think the Economist put it more accurately,…
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  • 5 Smartphone Usage Trends for 2012 and Beyond

    Chris Curran
    19 Jan 2012 | 9:12 am
    My PwC colleagues studying consumer intelligence recently conducted a survey of 3,283 smartphone users to find out how they plan to use their devices in the next couple of years. In many ways, smartphone users will grow increasingly reliant on their devices, but their concerns over privacy, security and convenience will keep them from ditching their desktops all together. “The Speed of Life” dives deep into the data to surface the next wave of trends in smartphone usage and explains how businesses can gain an edge by giving smartphone users what they want. Following are some of the…

  • The CIO Through the Eyes of the CFO

    Chris Curran
    13 Jan 2012 | 11:48 am
    Guest post by Phil Garland I had the opportunity to have lunch with 8 chief financial officers in Denver last week.  Our conversation started with why the CFO should care about IT and what they need to know about technology. Our discussion quickly got to the topic of the roles of the CIO in this changing world of cloud, mobility and social networking.  These enabling technologies have made technology much more accessible to non-IT users which raises the question on the role of the CIO and the IT organization in the future. Several CFOs initially questioned whether there is even a need to…

  • Outside-In IT: A Preview of PwC’s Digital IQ Results

    Chris Curran
    4 Jan 2012 | 10:06 am
    Only a few years ago corporations issued corporate-sanctioned devices to employees like the army issues uniforms to new recruits. They sourced them, dispensed them and controlled how they were used. They also called the shots in how they communicated with customers. Back in the day, corporations were in charge inside and outside the firewall. That was then and this is now. Innovation Infiltrating the Enterprise We’re in a new era, the consumerization of IT–defined as the widespread use of technologies that can be easily provisioned by non-technologists. Employees are pushing a…

  • Sustainability: A Million-Dollar Opportunity for the CIO

    Chris Curran
    14 Dec 2011 | 9:16 am
    The CIO is in a great position to lead sustainability initiatives at a corporation. Why? Because like information technology, corporations must weave sustainability into the fabric of the enterprise to generate the opportunities that companies like The Dow Chemical Company, SAP and Intel have orchestrated. Their successes are featured in: “Sustainability: Moving from Compliance to Leadership.” To generate revenue, Dow Chemical created a Sustainability Chemistry Index, which increased its sales of sustainable chemistry products between 2009 and 2010, rising from 3.4 percent to 4.3…

  • 8 Intriguing User Interface Designs from the MIT Media Lab

    Chris Curran
    2 Dec 2011 | 12:06 pm
    To see what lies ahead in the coming years for user interfaces, some of my colleagues at PwC recently visited the MIT Media Lab. The researchers behind the “Fluid Interfaces” project are toiling away on dozens of intriguing prototypes that leverage breakthrough technologies such as gestures, haptics, wearable computing, 3D, projection, and data visualization, to name a few. While some of the user interface designs are useful but not necessarily transformative, such as the digital sticky note, others have the potential to change industries as we know them, such as the Augmented…
 
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  • Retiring Legacy Applications – Logically

    Chuck Musciano
    17 Jan 2012 | 2:29 pm
    A recent article on eliminating legacy applications prompted a bit of back-and-forth on Twitter, centered around why we all do such a bad job of retiring old systems.  Such a conversation requires more than a few tweets, however.  Why is it so hard to kill off old systems? We all have no problem listing the theoretical reasons why an application should be retired: It no longer meets the users’ needs It becomes too costly to maintain Better technology is readily available Integration with other, newer applications is getting more difficult Yet we all have applications that no longer…

  • Welcome, I Think

    Chuck Musciano
    25 Mar 2010 | 2:23 pm
    In one of those “timing is everything” moments, this blog has been mentioned in the general media just as I’ve gone on hiatus for a bit.  I can only imagine the reaction of those who visit, expecting something new, only to be told that I won’t be writing anything new, at least for a little while. I appreciate your time and would offer two alternatives: In lieu of blogging, I’ve shifted to a different kind of conversation on Twitter, tweeting more and engaging in dialog more often.  While I’ve been on Twitter for almost two years, I’m experimenting…

  • Shifting Gears

    Chuck Musciano
    3 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am
    Faithful readers may have noticed that their faith has not been rewarded for the past month: there’s been nothing new to read here for quite some time.  That was intentional, but it’s now time to explain myself a bit. I started this blog more than two years ago as a way to understand the technology. After intermittent posts for eight months or so I began writing in earnest, posting articles every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for more than a year.  245 articles and 125,000 words later, it was time to take a breather. When I started writing, I had many things I wanted to talk…

  • Measuring Metrics

    Chuck Musciano
    27 Jan 2010 | 5:00 am
    It’s a good bet that most people saw all or part of the Super Bowl, either at home or at a Super Bowl party. Suppose, as the game begins, the cable feed goes out and the television goes dark.  Amid the howls of protest of those watching, you grab the phone and frantically dial your cable provider.  When you finally reach a real person to complain of the interruption, they provide this explanation: We’re sorry for the interruption, but our records show that this is our first outage in your area in more than two months.  Even though we project that the outage will last for at…

  • Five

    Chuck Musciano
    25 Jan 2010 | 5:00 am
    I had the opportunity to hear Don Yaeger speak about the elements of greatness last week.  It would take weeks of posts to share everything he said.  His talk was eloquent, moving, and inspirational.  If you ever have the opportunity to hear him speak, do not miss it. Don spoke about his relationship with John Wooden, the legendary UCLA basketball coach. At 99, Wooden still mentors Don on a regular basis.  Don was kind enough to share some advice from Wooden, involving the lesson of five. Yaeger noted that if you want to know your child’s GPA, don’t call the school or ask your…
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    NASA CIO Blog

  • Technology Divas

    22 Jan 2012 | 12:50 pm
    Ok, so I’m on a cruise and writing a blog about technology. I’m not weird; I’m a CIO – same thing, right?

  • NASA Launches apps@NASA

    29 Nov 2011 | 1:47 pm
    Managing diversity like this is where CIO’s tread carefully. apps@NASA is a first small step for the mankind that work at NASA into a daunting world where customer expectations are measured in hours or minutes and not in 18-month software develop lifecycles.

  • Week One: NASA on Google Plus

    17 Nov 2011 | 11:40 am
    What's more interesting than the number of followers on the Google+ platform, is how active the community has been. In the first week of use, NASA posted 53 times to Google+.

  • NASA on Google Plus

    14 Nov 2011 | 3:23 pm
    NASA is now on Google+. This is an exciting step for NASA and we have already seen enormous interest from the Google+ community - we had over a thousand new followers in the first hour! We look forward to exploring this new engagement platform and innovating how NASA shares information.

  • Getting High on ACES

    30 Oct 2011 | 1:39 pm
    ACES moves us one step closer to addressing one of OMB’s top 25 issues by positioning NASA to enjoy economy of scale relative to commodity desktop IT. This will also put NASA in a position to securely leverage trends in virtualization and consumer experiences. More than that, it gives the mission a way to get technology when they need it so that they can focus on their specialized challenges.
 
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  • Goodbye Kodak, Hello FujiFilm

    Michael Krigsman
    25 Jan 2012 | 7:15 pm
    I originally wrote this as a guest post on Vinnie Mirchandani’s blog, called New Florence. New Renaissance, which discusses innovation and technology. You can also see a gallery of other photos.————–After 131 years great American photographic icon, Eastman Kodak, filed for bankruptcy. Some might say that Kodak never made a successful transition from traditional film to digital cameras, but that’s not exactly correct, because American inventor, Steven Sasson, created the first digital camera for Kodak. I think the Economist put it more accurately,…

  • CIO view: Three truths that bridge the great divide

    Michael Krigsman
    20 Jan 2012 | 7:26 am
    Photo credit: "Conversations in Silos" by Michael KrigsmanUpdate 1/20/12: Thanks to Carlos Francavilla for translating this post into Spanish!!This post summarizes my remarks to a group of senior government leaders embarking on an innovative and ambitious plan to improve health care delivery in their state. A key issue is fostering communication and collaboration between business stakeholders and IT.Statistics tell us that almost 70 percent of IT projects are late, over-budget, or fail to deliver expected value (the worst fate of all). Numbers like these make clear there is a…

  • A brief gadget detour

    Michael Krigsman
    16 Jan 2012 | 9:37 am
    Although not in Las Vegas, I closely followed the mirrorless camera announcements at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show. Over at ZDNet’s flagship blog, Between the Lines, I wrote up some thoughts you might enjoy reading.Just for fun, here’s a video clip of a news interview I recorded, talking about the latest cool technology and even discussing whether Microsoft is relevant in today’s world:

  • Cotton candy and little enterprise deceptions

    Michael Krigsman
    3 Jan 2012 | 9:19 am
    Cotton candy photo by Michael KrigsmanWhile browsing the instruction manual for a professional cotton candy (PDF download) machine, the following phrase jumped off the page (emphasis added):Many experienced operators prefer to lift the ring out of the pan and, with a flick of the wrist, turn the ring into a figure eight and whip it around the cone. This leaves giant air pockets and makes it appear that you are serving a larger portion.Of course, sales people want to minimize weaknesses in their product or service offerings, so this kind of presentation happens all the time in every sphere of…

  • Predicting 2012: Rapid implementation in focus

    Michael Krigsman
    30 Dec 2011 | 8:05 am
    The world of IT failure is bizarre. Despite outrageous statistics that affect virtually every major enterprise software vendor and customer, from ERP to CRM and beyond, mere mention of the topic terrifies many in the industry. As a result, IT failures have become an accepted, almost expected, part of enterprise life. The time for this unfortunate situation to change is long overdue.IT failures arise from a confluence of factors such as misunderstanding technology, poor judgment, lousy project management, politics, conflicts of interest among the Devil’s Triangle, to name just a few.
 
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    Lundberg Media

  • The Key to Engagement

    abbielundberg
    6 Jan 2012 | 1:55 pm
    “Engagement” has become an overused and misunderstood term. Engagement is not just about marketing, and the secret to real engagement lies deep within yourself. As a communication coach, I often work with people to improve their messages and the way they deliver them (whatever the medium – written, verbal or visual) so they can be [...]

  • Persuasive Communication

    abbielundberg
    17 Sep 2010 | 11:44 am
    This is an excerpt from my Persuasive Communication workshop. The previous post and the next one flesh out some of this content, but I thought you might like to see the slides – they’re pretty nice. The images are from either istockphoto.com or Flickr.com Creative Commons license. Enjoy! Filed under: Communication, Uncategorized Tagged: attention economy, [...]

  • Effective Communication: How to Get to the Point

    abbielundberg
    16 Sep 2010 | 10:17 am
    To be a successful communicator, think of your listener first, and focus on attention. Communication is hard. To successfully convey information requires taking what’s in my head and getting it into yours in some reasonable facsimile of the original thought or idea. If you think this is easy, just remember the last time you tried [...]

  • Four Keys to Successful Change

    abbielundberg
    27 Jul 2010 | 8:33 am
    Ever try to get someone to change the way they do something that they’ve been doing the same way for years? Ever try to break one of your own habits? It’s not easy. Not because people are intentionally contrary or obstinate, but because big parts of our brains operate on autopilot, in deep grooves of [...]

  • How to Survive in a World of Constant Change

    abbielundberg
    23 Jul 2010 | 7:01 pm
    About five years, ago, when I was still editor in chief at CIO, we began a major transformation from a print-centric media company to online. During that time, every day brought new challenges, frustrations, discoveries, joy and despair. I think many of us thought we’d power our way through all that turmoil and, eventually, things [...]
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    An IT View

  • Project Management in IT

    Mark Brewer
    19 Jan 2012 | 7:27 pm
    I think it is critical for IT to have very high quality project management skills, tools and experiences. We recently completed a very complicated M&A project that was date constrained where we had to have things done by a particular date that we didn’t control. We pulled off that project smoothly and successfully because those involved where applying a disciplined project management approach and were tracking every issue to closure.  It worked because we knew how to manage the project, issues were tracked, communications were crisp and great people were involved. I’ve seen…

  • Fragile Security

    Mark Brewer
    7 Jan 2012 | 1:31 pm
    Forbes has a short piece by Hugh Thompson on security in information systems that I’ve read in a long time. In the role of CIO, we need to be talking about the ideas that are summarized in his great article. We’ve got to expect people mistakes and system failures, assume your system is being attacked, create safety nets and just have a general security mindset in all our applications and thinking. This article does a nice job at summarizing these thoughts. The Era of Security Fragility

  • Spoiled on Integration and Design Thinking

    Mark Brewer
    30 Dec 2011 | 1:19 pm
    I’ve become spoiled with the smooth polish and tight integration across the iPhone and the Android applications. One can simply select a phone number in an email and the phone recognizes it and dials the number. The phones find new wi-fi networks for connections and can automatically connect if so desired. Pictures can automatically be tagged with location information. Music syncs to/from the cloud with no user intervention. In short everything just works and it works smoothly most of the time. I recently purchased a new car and it demonstrates the other way of doing things. The car…

  • Interviewed by the Financial Times

    Mark Brewer
    2 Dec 2011 | 5:31 pm
    I was interviewed by the Financial Times a month ago and they posted the material this week. Take a look here.  Fun.

  • A Few Reading Recommendations

    Mark Brewer
    2 Dec 2011 | 5:17 pm
    Finally caught up on some reading material. Here are a few great online posts you might check out. A 10 Step Process for Protecting an Organization’s Data A really cool list of Gifts for User Experience Geeks for 2011 A good list of books to read about complex problems called Five Must-Reads for Tackling Complex Problems which includes some of my favorites. A finally a great post of the dangers of collaboration entitled Eight Dangers of Collaboration. Great thoughts to actively think about as you are trying to improve collaboration in a team or workplace. I’ve been behind on…
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    Life as a Healthcare CIO

  • Cool Technology of the Week

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    As Harvard thinks about how best to enable authentication across multiple schools, organizations, affiliates and populations, it has choices to make - centralize all authentication, allow every group to pursue its own strategy, or coordinated federation that includes the best of centralized and localized approaches.Federated authentication requires a fabric of trust.   Among University collaborators, InCommon.org has been a leader in creating tools, technologies and policies that enables multiple groups within institutions and among institutions to share data based on role-based access.

  • Our Cancer Journey - Week 6

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    We're halfway through the most challenging cycles of chemotherapy, Kathy has lost her hair,  and her fatigue is getting worse but her mood is still very positive.On Friday January 20th, Kathy received Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) 1200 mg, Doxorubicin (Adriamycin)  120 mg and her pre-chemotherapy supportive medications Fosaprepitant 150 mg, Dexamethasone 12 mg and Ondansetron 8 mg.She tolerated it well.Her Complete Blood Count shows that her Granulocyte Count has dropped from 6690 to 3610 since the chemotherapy affects her fast multiplying white cells as a side effect of targeting the…

  • The January HIT Standards Committee Meeting

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    The January HIT Standards Committee focused on the first quarter goals - Quality Measurement, NwHIN Exchange implementation, and Value Sets/Vocabularies. Doug Fridsma presented the HITSC 2012 Workplan and Updates from ONC.  Importantly, he outlined a comprehensive portfolio of building blocks (pictured above) that categorizes the work done to date and illustrates the work done in the future.Jim Walker presented the work of the Clinical Quality Workgroup including the scope of effort needed to support the quality improvement efforts of Meaningful Use.Doug and Betsy Humphreys from NLM…

  • Preparing for a Wall of Shame

    24 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Every day, I receive over 1000 legitimate, business-related emails.   I've written about my email triage techniques  and the notion of handling each email only once.Over the past few months, the number of "business spam" emails has increased significantly.   Whether its the economy, the death of paper-based advertising, or availability of bulk email newsletter creation applications in the cloud, it's getting overwhelming - about 500 unwanted, but vendor related emails per day.Business spam is hard to filter since it represents professional communication from some of the largest…

  • Another Shade of Blue Button

    23 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    The Blue Button idea is simple - a large visible button on payer, provider, lab, or pharmacy websites enables patients to download their records in plain text.The Veterans Administration has used it extensively.   The Office of Personnel Management asked all health insurance carriers in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) to add Blue Button functions to personal health record systems.  OPM administers health benefit programs for the civilian sector of the federal government, including all executive agencies, Members of Congress and their staffs, and the federal…
 
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    DON CIO - All Content

  • Department of the Navy Personally Identifiable Information Sample Compliance Spot Checklist

    19 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    This checklist is an internal Department of the Navy document to be used by command leadership to assess the level of compliance in the handling of personally identifiable information as delineated by law and/or specific DoD/DON policy guidance. As commands adapt this checklist for their own use, their checklists will be posted here as a resource for others.

  • Message from the DON CIO

    16 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Happy New Year! This year, the Department of the Navy will build on the efforts of 2011 as we continue on our difficult but necessary journey to transform the way the department manages its business information technology. Finding ways to become more effective in how we acquire and operate IT will lead to decreased costs and ensure we hit the target of reducing the IT budget by 25 percent by 2017.

  • New DON Mobile Contracts and Tools Drive Savings

    16 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    In today's efforts to identify and leverage all potential efficiency opportunities, one area often overlooked is a device that hundreds of thousands of Department of Defense personnel carry every day — their mobile phone. With voice and data plans sometimes costing more than $100 a month, the DoD spends tens of millions of dollars on cellular bills every month to ensure that personnel away from the office have access to the information they need to do their job. Such a large sum presents an attractive target for cost-cutting.

  • Consolidating Data Centers Key to Cutting IT Spending

    16 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    To continue supporting the operational forces stationed around the world, protecting the nation and providing humanitarian assistance during these fiscally constrained times, the Department of the Navy is seeking opportunities to increase IT efficiencies while cutting business spending. A primary focus of this effort is data center consolidation, which is essential to reducing the IT budget by 25 percent during the next five years.

  • Ensuring Spectrum-Dependent Systems are "Up to Code" Saving Time, Money

    16 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    To achieve the most efficient use of communications-electronics (C-E) resources, the required capabilities of systems and equipment should be met during the procurement phase — rather than investing in equipment that may require redesign or retrofitting after development. Therefore, it is more critical than ever in these budget constrained times that program offices and procuring officials take advantage of processes that ensure systems and equipment provide their intended capabilities with minimal rework.
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  • 10 Ways to Build Lean, Agile Teams

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:21 am
    You know that doing more with less has become par for the course as you rn your IT organization. And with increasing pressure from your C-Suite colleagues to help drive the business forward, you sometimes feel like your hands are tied. The book “Lean but Agile: Rethink Workforce Planning and Gain a True Competitive Edge” (Amacom/available now), can show you how -- with some careful planning and execution -- it is possible to create a lean, agile workforce that can meet your goals. According to authors William J. Rothwell, James Graber and Neil McCormick, maximizing personnel efficiencies…

  • Enterprises Embracing BYOD Trend, Study Finds

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    An Avanade survey finds that IT administrators and business executives are embracing the dual ideas of the consumerization of IT and BYOD. The resistance to these changes is a "myth."The idea that IT professionals and business leaders are resisting the consumerization of IT and the trend of bringing your own device (BYOD) to work is myth. On the contrary, more and more people are embracing these notions and trying to incorporate them into the workday, according to a recent study. Several recent reports have indicated that organizations are still resisting consumerization of IT or…

  • Kaiser Permanente Launches Mobile Android Health Record App

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Health plan Kaiser Permanente has introduced an Android application to allow patients to access their electronic health records.Health plan Kaiser Permanente has launched an Android version of its electronic health record platform to allow patients to access their medical data on the popular Google-powered devices. KP is a health insurer with member facilities in nine states and the District of Columbia, although it is concentrated in the western states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington. The Android application allows patients to view a portion of their health record as…

  • HP's webOS to Go Open Source by September

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    HP's webOS software will be available under an open-source license by September. Will other companies use the platform for their own projects?Hewlett-Packard plans on making the webOS source code available under an open-source license by September, according to the company. As part of that ramp-up, HP is releasing version 2.0 of Enyo, the webOS developer tool. Developers using the tool will have the ability to write webOS applications supported across a broad range of mobile devise and desktop Web browsers, including iOS and Android platforms. HP's webOS roadmap includes a release of Enyo 2.1…

  • Tech Salaries Rising After Two-Year Stagnation: Dice Survey

    26 Jan 2012 | 8:24 am
    Technology professionals have been pulled through the wringer of a struggling economy, but after two consecutive years of stagnant wages, compensation is if ever so slowly on the rise, according to the 2012-2011 Salary Survey from technology career site Dice. "Finally! Compensation has mustered some momentum, as more and more top tech markets are notching increases in pay," Tom Silver, SVP of Dice North America, said in a Jan. 24 statement about the survey. Dice also looked at whether bonuses were being handed out, and with how generous a hand, as well as how the top 20 cities for…
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    DON CIO - News

  • Message from the DON CIO

    16 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Happy New Year! This year, the Department of the Navy will build on the efforts of 2011 as we continue on our difficult but necessary journey to transform the way the department manages its business information technology. Finding ways to become more effective in how we acquire and operate IT will lead to decreased costs and ensure we hit the target of reducing the IT budget by 25 percent by 2017.

  • Ensuring Spectrum-Dependent Systems are "Up to Code" Saving Time, Money

    16 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    To achieve the most efficient use of communications-electronics (C-E) resources, the required capabilities of systems and equipment should be met during the procurement phase — rather than investing in equipment that may require redesign or retrofitting after development. Therefore, it is more critical than ever in these budget constrained times that program offices and procuring officials take advantage of processes that ensure systems and equipment provide their intended capabilities with minimal rework.

  • Consolidating Data Centers Key to Cutting IT Spending

    16 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    To continue supporting the operational forces stationed around the world, protecting the nation and providing humanitarian assistance during these fiscally constrained times, the Department of the Navy is seeking opportunities to increase IT efficiencies while cutting business spending. A primary focus of this effort is data center consolidation, which is essential to reducing the IT budget by 25 percent during the next five years.

  • LT Bealon Recieves DoD CIO Award

    16 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    LT Hannah L. Bealon, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Combined Joint Intelligence (CJ2) Operational Support Element Systems, ISAF Headquarters, Afghanistan, was a recent recipient of the 2011 Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Award. She was awarded first place in the individual category.

  • Negotiating Contracts for Cloud-Based Software

    16 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The federal government's "cloud first" policy, as part of the Federal Chief Information Officer's "25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management," requires federal agencies to consider cloud computing before making new IT investments and to move at least three applications to the cloud by May 2012.
 
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    Steve Francia's Epic Blog

  • Backups, Replication, and Disaster Recovery

    Steve Francia
    11 Jan 2012 | 8:26 am
    One of the most common concerns people have is how to ensure that their application is safe, secure and available in the event of an emergency. Often I have found that people are mistakenly believe that they are protected when in fact they often have ignored potential scenarios. The principles explained apply equally well in RDBMSs, MongoDB and other databases. Potential scenarios to protect against Drive failure Machine failure Switch failure Power circuit failure Data center failure Intrusion Fat fingers Programmer error Raid To prevent drive failure use multiple drives in a single machine…

  • Hybrid MongoDB / SQL Applications

    Steve Francia
    6 Jan 2012 | 3:27 pm
    MongoDB is often used alongside a relational database such as Oracle or MySQL. It is often unclear when one should use one or the other, or if a combination is really ideal. During this online presentation, we will discuss the ideal use cases for each, and how they can be used in conjunction. We’ll make sure to touch on several real world examples. The full recording can be found at 10gen’s site at http://www.10gen.com/events/hybrid-applications Hybrid MongoDB and RDBMS Applications View more presentations from Steve Francia  Other Resources:…

  • Windows Power User Tools

    Steve Francia
    28 Dec 2011 | 2:54 pm
    I’m a huge fan of Windows 7. It’s the first time I’ve ever run a Microsoft OS on my primary (home) machine.  I’ve compiled a set of programs that I have found to be invaluable in using Windows for serious development and computing. All are free and clean of any ads or spyware.  EaseUS® Partition Master 9.1 Home Edition As Partition Magic alternative, EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition is a ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and disk management freeware. It allows you to extend partition (especially for system drive), manage disk space easily, settle low disk space…

  • Building your First app with MongoDB at MongoSV 2011

    Steve Francia
    9 Dec 2011 | 6:18 pm
    10gen had our flagship conference in Silicon Valley. I gave an introductory presentation at the first session on building an application in MongoDB. This talk will introduce the features of MongoDB by walking through how one can building a simple location-based application using MongoDB. It covers the basics of MongoDB’s document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture. Building your first application w/mongoDB MongoSV2011 View more presentations from Steve Francia    

  • E-commerce in LA

    Steve Francia
    8 Dec 2011 | 5:08 pm
    This week I joined a few of my co-workers down in LA. We met with a few companies and ran the MongoDB LA Users Group. Notably I met with Magento about the possibility of Magento 2.0 being built on MongoDB. On my final night in LA I presented on MongoDB, E-commerce and Transactions. I really enjoyed my time in LA and am looking forward to returning. I was impressed by how many companies are using MongoDB in LA and how great the interaction was at the Meetup. MongoDB, E-commerce and Transactions View more presentations from Steve Francia
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    CIO Blogs - Apple Enterprise Now

  • Playing It Safe: Apple, RIM Put Train Operators in Charge

    Tom Kaneshige
    24 Jan 2012 | 1:21 pm
    Mobility’s master magicians have left the building, replaced by assistants working the gears behind the curtain. Former chief operating officers are now leading the top mobile companies: Apple’s Tim Cook, who took over shortly before Steve Jobs passed away last year; and RIM’s Thorsten Heins, who took over last weekend amidst shareholder cries to replace co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis.read more

  • Steve Jobs in A Doll’s House

    Tom Kaneshige
    5 Jan 2012 | 7:08 pm
    Apple lawyers say no to creepy Steve Jobs doll. Check out other Jobs-like products. read more

  • Apple and the CIO: The Great Love-Hate Relationship

    Tom Kaneshige
    3 Jan 2012 | 2:29 pm
    Apple started the consumerization of IT trend, which has led to many sleepless nights for CIOs. But Apple has also made tech cool again –- and worker productivity is up!read more

  • Why Is Gannett Giving iPads and iPhones to Reporters?

    Tom Kaneshige
    22 Dec 2011 | 3:37 pm
    Reporters will like the freedom of mobile gadgets and Gannett likes the price, but laptop alternatives do not lend themselves well to the stuff of journalism.read more

  • At Hospitals, iPad Screen Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness

    Tom Kaneshige
    21 Dec 2011 | 4:16 pm
    iPhones and iPads are everywhere at hospitals, but their screens carry more bacteria than a toilet handle (seriously). Enter Frog Skin, a clear film covering iPhones and iPads so they can be washed.read more
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    CIO Blogs - Career Connection

  • Software to Help You Manage Your Job Search

    Meridith Levinson
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:22 pm
    Here are two web-based software applications that help you keep track of job applications, networking contacts and more. read more

  • Hold Yourself Accountable for Improving Your Productivity

    Meridith Levinson
    19 Jan 2012 | 10:35 am
    By becoming aware of how you spend your time during the day, you can zero in on the activities you need to do more or less of. read more

  • Long-Term Unemployment: The Advice You Really Need

    Meridith Levinson
    17 Jan 2012 | 12:18 pm
    Is the U.S. facing an end of work? For many job seekers who've been unemployed for more than a year, the prospect of finding a new job seems impossible. They need radical career advice that answers difficult social questions about how to live in a world without work. read more

  • Job Search: How Long Does It Take to Find a Job?

    Meridith Levinson
    9 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
    A recent survey of employed and unemployed job seekers conducted by global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas reveals the time it can take to conduct a job search. read more

  • Holiday Gifts from Bad Bosses

    Meridith Levinson
    3 Jan 2012 | 11:54 am
    A holiday gift from a bad boss that aims to motivate staff ends up doing the opposite. read more
 
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    CIO Blogs - Doing Business in Real Time

  • Are Geeks Different?

    Michael Hugos
    16 Jan 2012 | 6:54 pm
    Are IT people different from other people in business? Are we geeks? Is that good or bad? The age old question of whether IT people are different from other people in a company becomes more important now that IT is integral to everything a company does from marketing to HR. read more

  • Feedback in the Real-Time Economy [Why Games Matter]

    Michael Hugos
    2 Jan 2012 | 11:08 pm
    Video games provide effective and field tested operating models for harnessing the power of feedback loops to succeed in our real-time economy. read more

  • Games Could Make Work Flow

    Michael Hugos
    12 Dec 2011 | 6:07 pm
    Using games and game dynamics might be as powerful a model for organizing knowledge work as the assembly line was for organizing industrial work. read more

  • A Novel Encounter with Big Data

    Michael Hugos
    28 Nov 2011 | 10:27 pm
    In this age of analytics and big data we focus on the speed of the computer and the size of the attached storage but we’re overlooking the most critical element – it's still the human mind that turns data into actionable information. read more

  • Games, Gamers and New Business Strategy

    Michael Hugos
    8 Nov 2011 | 7:39 pm
    We’re hearing talk about something called “gamification” as a way of increasing engagement with our company websites and “serious games” as a way to provide training in real business skills. And we hear about massively multiplayer online role-playing games or “MMOs” to promote collaboration. What is all this talk about games at a time like this? Shouldn’t we just be working harder instead?read more
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    CIO Blogs - Eye on Microsoft

  • Nokia Lumia 900: Elite Windows Phone at a Low-End Price?

    Shane ONeill
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:17 pm
    The very high-end Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone will reportedly go for $99.99 on a two-year contract with AT&T. Let the price wars begin.read more

  • Microsoft in 2012: The Comeback Kid?

    Shane ONeill
    12 Jan 2012 | 3:12 pm
    After wowing the public at CES with two killer Windows Phones and impressive Windows 8 demos, is Microsoft primed to prove Steve Jobs wrong and be relevant (or even cool)?read more

  • Windows 8 How To: Quick OS Reinstalls

    Shane ONeill
    5 Jan 2012 | 1:28 pm
    A standout feature in early demos of Windows 8 is the ability to quickly refresh and reset the OS to its original state while keeping your data intact, thus speeding up a process that has long been tedious and unsteady.read more

  • Poll: How Can Microsoft Get Better in 2012?

    Shane ONeill
    23 Dec 2011 | 11:17 am
    Microsoft is in for a challenging year and needs to deliver the goods in many key markets. But what's the most important product in Microsoft's portfolio for 2012? Cast a vote in our poll to share your opinion.read more

  • Cisco to Microsoft: Your Lync Mobile App Is Lame

    Shane ONeill
    21 Dec 2011 | 12:59 pm
    Microsoft opens up Office mobile apps Lync and OneNote to Windows Phone and other platforms, but unified communications rival Cisco calls the effort half-hearted.read more
 
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    CIO Blogs - Movers and Shakers

  • Fortune 500 CIO Activity

    Martha Heller
    10 Jan 2012 | 1:48 pm
    We have some major CIO hiring activity among Fortune 500 companies with new appointments at American Airlines, Xerox and Caterpillar.  In each case, the new CIO will be stepping into the shoes of executives who have been with their companies for many years.  John Heller has been with Caterpillar for 38 years; John McDermott has been at Xerox for 10, and Monte Ford has been with Ameread more

  • CIOs wanted for business intelligence

    Martha Heller
    6 Dec 2011 | 9:18 am
    “Data, data everywhere, and not a drop to manage.”  Please don’t let my botched modification of the wonderful Coleridge quote, scare you away from this latest blog post on CIOs and their careers.read more

  • CIOs and Social Media

    Martha Heller
    1 Nov 2011 | 12:38 pm
    Lately, I have been spending a lot of time talking with CIOs about their mandate to establish a social media strategy for their companies.  It struck me as odd that CIOs, who are not always considered to be the heart and social of the culture of a company, are now responsible for driving a strategy that is foundational to the a company’s culture.  What communications options read more

  • Fall Brings More Hiring

    Martha Heller
    22 Sep 2011 | 2:58 pm
    Now that the dog days of summer are behind us, the IT executive market is picking up steam.  We are seeing CIO changes across a wide range of industries, and newly placed CIOs are bringing in new talent as well.  At Heller Search, we are so busy that I really have no business even writing this blog, so I’m going to keep it short, and get on with the news! read more

  • The Road from CIO to COO

    Martha Heller
    10 Aug 2011 | 12:06 pm
    Many of my CIO friends long to replace the "I" in their title an "O". With its promise of better compensation, higher status and an unquestioned place at the table, the “O” is a letter worth fighting for.read more
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    CIO.com - Blog

  • Cloud Computing Both More Agile and Less Expensive

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Are cloud services attractive because they are less expensive than traditional offerings or are IT professionals drawn by greater agility? Bernard Golden writes that it's not an either-or debate. Much like those famous 'tastes great ... less filling" beer commercials, the beauty of cloud computing lies in the beholder.

  • Cloud Computing Report Card: Grading Our Predictions

    8 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    In the spirit of openness and with a willingness to have his cloud prognostication grades displayed in public, CIO.com's Bernard Golden scores--and comments on--his predictions for 2011.

  • Thriving in a World Where Computers Are Smarter Than We Are

    20 Dec 2011 | 11:00 pm
    From Apple's voice-activated assistant to Microsoft's gesture-based input device to IBM's computer that beat Jeopardy champs, it's clear that the capabilities of technology are moving beyond our human abilities. How can you flourish in a world where machines are smarter than humans?

  • Beware Cloud Computing Advice from IT Research Firms

    8 Dec 2011 | 11:00 pm
    It's nearly 2012, and if IT research firms are telling you to consider moving low-risk applications to the cloud, it means two things: 1) You're hopelessly behind the times. 2) You need advice that's much more cutting-edge.

  • The Great Cloud Computing Pricing Debate

    27 Nov 2011 | 11:00 pm
    Public cloud vs. private cloud: which model is cheaper for enterprises? In an environment where the future pricing of public cloud providers is uncertain and the reliability of internal private cloud deployments is far from guaranteed, CIOs need guidance. CIO.com blogger Bernard Golden offers four tips for determining which deployment is right for your organization.
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    CIO Blogs - Social Media Matters

  • Facebook Timeline Becomes Mandatory

    Kristin Burnham
    24 Jan 2012 | 3:10 pm
    Ready or not, here it comes: Facebook Timeline is becoming mandatory for all users.read more

  • Is Google's Ad Campaign Helpful or Disingenuous?

    Kristin Burnham
    18 Jan 2012 | 3:21 pm
    Amidst mounting privacy and security concerns, Google yesterday launched a multimillion dollar ad campaign focusing on those very issues: privacy, security and how it uses your information "to make theread more

  • Facebook’s 'Listen With Button' Makes Music More Social

    Kristin Burnham
    12 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pm
    Back in September, Facebook announced Ticker, real-time streaming of everything that's happening on Facebook. One of Ticker's features: the capability to see what songs and albums your friends are listening to, also in real time. read more

  • Facebook Business Cards: Will You Use Them? [Poll]

    Kristin Burnham
    10 Jan 2012 | 2:51 pm
    Blurring the line between personal and professional is a heavily debated topic, especially when Facebook is involved. The social network has traditionally been a strictly social network—meant to help you keep in touch with friends and family.read more

  • Facebook Ads Hit News Feeds in 2012

    Kristin Burnham
    22 Dec 2011 | 10:39 am
    Starting in January, your Facebook friends' activity isn't the only thing you'll see in your News Feed—the social network will start integrating a type of ad, called "sponsored stories," into read more
 
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    CIO.com - Careers

  • Resume Makeover: How an Information Security Professional Can Target CSO Jobs

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    In CIO.com's latest resume makeover, executive resume writer Donald Burns helps an information security professional (who is also a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel) position his resume for management-level infosec jobs.

  • Good News: Tech Salaries Are on the Rise Again

    24 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Average pay hits six figures in Silicon Valley, but entry-level salaries continue to decline.

  • Google's a Great Place to Work and Where You Work Sucks

    23 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Google is where every technology professional wants to work. The great benefits come from a business model driven by ad revenue that just keeps coming regardless of how and where the company spends money. However, the bad news is two-fold, writes Rob Enderle: Your employer will never be in this position and Google won't be in it forever.

  • Stupid User Tricks 6: IT Idiocy Loves Company

    22 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    IT fight club, dirty dev data, meatball sandwiches -- nine more tales of brain fail beyond belief

  • Top 10 Things to Look for in an SEO Expert

    22 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Whether your business is small or large--or somewhere in between--if you rely on Web traffic for sales or marketing, you need to either master search engine optimization (SEO) or you need to hire an SEO specialist. SEO experts from SEO Moz, High Rankings and Raven Internet Marketing Tools offer these 10 tips to help you find the right SEO professional.
 
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    CIO.com - Data Center

  • Why Big Data Means a Big Year for Hadoop

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Companies from IBM to Amazon are turning to Hadoop to manage the surge in data that needs storing. Our CEO Michael Friendenberg says the buzz around Hadoop is no joke.

  • Say Goodbye to Fast Ethernet

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The Layer 2-3 Ethernet switch market is forecast to approach $28 billion in 2016, with future growth driven primarily by sales of Ethernet switches optimized for larger data center deployments.

  • Five Tips for Dealing with Your CFO

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    CFOs are increasingly calling the shots, which means CIOs are reporting to them, not the CEO. Do you know how to talk business in a way they'll understand? If you're all about the tech, the answer is no.

  • Tech Titans Talk: The IDG Enterprise Interview Series

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    In the IDG Enterprise Interview Series, you'll hear from technology CIOs and CEOs on today's burgeoning trends, ongoing headaches and upcoming product plans. Check out this informative series from IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant and his team of editors.

  • HDD Crunch May Have Far-reaching Effects

    24 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The global supply of hard disk drives may be slow to rebound, with a ripple effect that's threatening small businesses and PC makers. The shortage may also drive demand for SSDs.
 
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    CIO.com - Virtualization

  • Logica Says Cloud is 'Railway of 21st Century'

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Logica has described cloud computing as "the railway of the 21st century", claiming that the community clouds it is building with Microsoft will help to promote sharing and collaboration among like-minded companies.

  • Cloud Computing Both More Agile and Less Expensive

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Are cloud services attractive because they are less expensive than traditional offerings or are IT professionals drawn by greater agility? Bernard Golden writes that it's not an either-or debate. Much like those famous 'tastes great ... less filling" beer commercials, the beauty of cloud computing lies in the beholder.

  • Prepping the Network for VDI

    22 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    From the cloud to the new wireless edge, conversations in the IT department are revolving around what the network will do next. One technology that has managed to escape much of the spotlight -- while still transforming IT --- is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).

  • Micron to Acquire PCIe Virtualization Vendor Virtensys

    19 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Micron Technology on Friday announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Virtensys Ltd., a U.K.-based provider of PCIe-sharing products. No financial details on the deal were released.

  • NetApp's Tom Georgens: How We Got Big, Stayed Nimble, and View Storage Today

    18 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    In an exclusive interview, NetApp CEO Tom Georgens talks about virtualization, the private cloud, and how his company defines big data
 
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    CIO.com - CIO Role

  • Maple Leaf Foods Digests Rapid, Vanilla ERP Transformation

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The CEO and CIO of a Canadian food conglomerate explain the rationale behind their decision to enforce minimal customization of SAP

  • How IT Helped Shape UL's New Business Strategy

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Underwriters Laboratories' CIO Christian Anschuetz discusses UL's recent transformation from a non-profit to a for-profit organization and how IT shaped and supported that change. He weighs in on the consumerization of IT, offers advice for CIOs, explains why 'big data' without 'big discretion' will lead to 'big failure,' and more.

  • John Deere Plows Into Agile

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Tractor manufacturer adopts agile development process in what one analyst calls a "big bang" approach

  • Pricing Done Right

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Setting prices is a strategic decision that needs C-level attention. Your profits depend on it.

  • Five Tips for Dealing with Your CFO

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    CFOs are increasingly calling the shots, which means CIOs are reporting to them, not the CEO. Do you know how to talk business in a way they'll understand? If you're all about the tech, the answer is no.
 
 
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    The Cutter Blog

  • Big, Lean and BSM: Late Night Thoughts on the January 30 “Big Agile” Webinar

    Israel Gat
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:06 pm
    Since we announced the forthcoming “Big Agile” webinar (click here for details), I have been exposed to numerous questions and comments about “Big” vis-a-vis “Lean” in the Agile context.  The intensity of some of these discourses was so high that I decided to comment on the subject in advance of the webinar. A lively debate during the webinar is, of course, goodness. In contrast, starting the webinar with a potentially gross misunderstanding as to where we are coming from and where we are heading is not too desirable. In general, “big”, to me,…

  • Update on Leadership Exec Ed

    Anne Mullaney
    18 Jan 2012 | 12:51 pm
    Wow, I can’t believe that our Summit 2012: Executive Education+ is less than 3 months away! A while ago, I blogged a little about Prof. Amy Edmondson’s keynote on Teaming, which will be preceded by two teaming exercises run by Prof. Alan MacCormack. At the time, we hadn’t yet firmed up the case study portion of our program. But we have since then. We’ve chosen a case that bridges the topic of leadership (which is the focus of Prof. Richard Nolan’s keynote on Monday morning and the debate that follows it) and teaming. As with Alan’s exercises, we’re keeping the title of the case…

  • Where Is IT Operations Within Devops?

    Bill Keyworth
    17 Jan 2012 | 10:16 am
    It would seem that the devops discussion is mostly driven by development’s incentives, and appropriately so, given developers’ focus on building functionality for the business user. So it’s no surprise that development is the originator of the whole devops lifecycle, but are there any dangers lurking in a one-sided focus on devops issues? A hefty majority of devops articles come from writers of the development persuasion who are motivated by the legitimate frustrations of the application deployment process. The movement to agile development has been a key contributor in the…

  • EA New Year’s Resolutions, Seventh Edition

    Mike Rosen
    6 Jan 2012 | 2:12 pm
    Welcome to the seventh-anniversary edition of my enterprise architect’s New Year’s resolutions. I hope it will give you food for thought and some inspiration for architectural growth in 2012. Understand business analytics. The past few years have seen dramatic increases in the capabilities of business intelligence systems, accompanied by decreases in costs, to the point where most organizations can easily afford to take advantage of business analytics. The problem is that the information that these systems need to analyze is not readily available. While this is not a trivial…

  • Recession on the Horizon; Invest in Agile

    David Spann
    26 Dec 2011 | 11:54 am
    Given the current interest rate situation and demand for US currency, the US will see much more business expansion through 2013. Once the world realizes we are not really any better off than Greece (in terms of debt/GDP), we’ll see inflation, business retraction and possible recession. Companies interested in surviving the 2013 – 2018 recession would be wise to invest in going Agile as soon as possible and holding the cash they save in the process to buy out those companies that weren’t so smart. [Editor's Note: This post is part of the annual "Cutter Predicts ..." series, compiled at…
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    IT Management and Strategy

  • Systems Security - Service, Success, Longevity

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:22 pm
    In discussing security of systems, the emphasis is usually on physical security and an overall guarding of systems (and related content/process) from outside breach, damage and corruption.

  • Sharing your personal information

    24 Jan 2012 | 9:52 am
    Today I learned about a new app for my iPhone that sounded interesting. Smartr Contacts by Xobni.  It seemed to have some features that made sense to me... the ability to sort my con...

  • Perfecting the Project Management Paradigm

    23 Jan 2012 | 7:08 am
    With big-bang type projects we tend to want to solve all the world's problems at one time, often though we are best tackling smaller problems and ring-fencing the worst of problems.

  • Business Computing World : IT Operations gets complicated with mobile devices on the scene

    23 Jan 2012 | 4:52 am
    Demands on IT are growing as today's technology allows greater mobility of employees. Accessibility of mobile devices and lack of clear policies lead to an explosion in the amount of mobile technologies in the workplace. Will IT organisations be up to the challenge?

  • Is the Digital Life making us better or worse?

    19 Jan 2012 | 6:51 pm
    "The only constant is change."   Normally a harmless witicism, this phrase seems to be taking on a lot of new meaning for me these days.  I've been sitting back watching events happen around me.  I'm really taken with the levels of change that we seem to be undergoi...
 
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    Enterprise CIO Forum

  • Factoids about the cloud

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:54 pm
    As with most events these days, yesterday’s talks from the ‘Master The Cloud’ event were retweeted live on Twitter through several people. We thought that it would be helpful to share some of the more interesting and informative Tweets from the event.  The core messages that we found most relevant were examples of practical adoption, and how to inform and leverage the C-suite on cloud strategies and adoption.Below is the key event Tweets:nzweep: Web services and hosting market (aka public cloud) growing 3X faster than traditional computing…

  • Should CIOs tweet?

    jdodge
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:08 pm
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlH4kAKd1Fs Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge makes the argument that CIOs need to be on Twitter.Follow me on Twitter.

  • Consumerization dominating the CIO conversation

    jdodge
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:03 pm
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woaSV-B6wc4 Headline after headline this week was about the consumerization of IT. Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge explains why in the Jan. 24 Week-in-Review. He also explores new privacy laws in Europe.Follow me on Twitter.

  • Do your homework!

    jdobbs
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:01 pm
    “Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity”--Henry Hartman   I have an acquaintance that works in the news business.  He recently bemoaned how lazy most reporters have become in the current age of instant information and in a world where political parties, special interest groups and others send them a generous dose of “talking points” daily.  “Most don’t spend time doing the hard work of investigative reporting anymore,” he said.  “They don’t search for the facts themselves. They have become lazy.” In my last post on Leading When You are…

  • Evaluating a technology? Run it through the `hype cycle'

    jdodge
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:54 pm
    I love this chart which speaks to how nascent technology is perceived over time, the so-called "hype cycle." Expectations shoot through roof, then nosedive like a bad day on Wall Street and eventually level out once the true potential is established and bought into. The cloud has followed this path during the past year and is closing in on "slope of enlightenment" in my opinion. I found the chart at author Seth Godin's blog in which post says technologies labor for years in obscurity before they even reach the "technology trigger" stage. He thinks the hype cycle, might, well, er, be hype!
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    FierceCIO News

  • Gartner: SaaS-based BI gains traction

    Caron Carlson
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:49 pm
    Traditional on-site business intelligence appears to be losing some traction in the face of SaaS-based alternatives, according to a survey by Gartner. A third of the 1,364 IT managers polled reported plans to use a SaaS-based BI offering. The number who have already swapped out their existing on-premise product with SaaS or plan to soon was 17 percent. "That means a lot of potential upside for the aforementioned new-look SaaS providers (although it should be noted that Birst went from a SaaS-only model to offering both SaaS and on-premises options)," writes Barb Darrow in a post at…

  • iPhone 4S takes enterprise by storm

    Caron Carlson
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:45 pm
    Good Technology activated more iPhone 4S devices than any other mobile device during the last quarter of 2011. The 4S outpaced the iPhone 4 and iPad 2, and it put the breaks on Android's rising share in the enterprise space. Good tracks its customers' deployment of iOS and Android devices, and the latest numbers show that the 4S really gave Android a run for its money after hitting the shelves in mid-October. The 4S made up 31 percent of all activations during the quarter, while all Android smartphones put together accounted for just 35 percent. Android had begun edging closer to Apple…

  • How IT and marketing can find common ground

    Caron Carlson
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:40 pm
    There probably will never be too much advice on how IT and marketing can work toward common ground--particularly as marketing comes to rely more heavily on technology for its survival--and to that end comes a post from Michael Scissons at Fast Company. CIOs and CMOs need to collaborate not only to ensure successful project deployments but also to manage data and mitigate risks, Scissons writes. The two disciplines need to share ownership of the goals and results of their initiatives. Marketing's foray into emerging technologies to reach customers comes with new risks. Setting up a…

  • Proposed E.U. data rules include 2 percent fine for lost data

    Caron Carlson
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:35 pm
    Under a proposed update to the European Union's data protection law, companies could be fined as much as 2 percent of their annual sales for losing personal data or processing sensitive information without prior consent from the individual, reports Aoife White at Bloomberg. The proposal also includes tougher breach notification rules, requiring organizations to inform victims and the appropriate regulatory agency within 24 hours of a breach. On the bright side, breached companies would have to notify only the regulator in its home base, which could save as much as 2.3 billion euros annually…

  • ING's 'replicated' approach to global IT

    Caron Carlson
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:30 pm
    ING has expanded around the globe by giving leaders within the company some autonomy in building out their part of the business in the countries where they operate. While that approach has benefited the company in important ways, it also created a global organization with a multiplicity of IT systems, reports Chris Murphy at InformationWeek. Balancing the benefits of scale against local customization needs is a widespread challenge for IT, Murphy notes. The way ING is addressing the challenge is outlined in a paper, "Between Anarchy and Dictatorship," written by two of the company's CIOs…
 
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    Plato's Revenge

  • Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) - mutual benefits requires mutual trust and responsibilities

    Plato's Revenge
    13 Jan 2012 | 5:39 pm
    BYOD is all about the mutual benefits (WIIFM) for the organisation on the one hand and the employee on the other hand.We change from personal computing to personalised computing. Companies have started implementations of a BYOD strategy. There are a variety of reasons why you would want to do this: Young people have grown up with personal computing at school and at home. They expect their new employer to be flexible in that respect and meet their individual demands. A corporate provided device might not be as powerful and up to date as what employees have at home and expect to be available at…

  • Microsoft, ultrabooks, BYOD and the battle for the business-consumer devices market

    Plato's Revenge
    4 Dec 2011 | 3:47 am
    Apple has gained much market share with its iPads. People enjoy the power of a light and easy to carry device and have the power of the web at hand without the size limitations of the smart phones. However a key criticism for many is that though it is good for information consumption and communication, it is not well suited for data entry and information processing. The new ultrabooks with which also Apple set the trend with its MacBook Air, are a good alternative. A laptop that is easy to use and easy to carry around. I expect that the big thing for the future will be a powerful tablet that…

  • Why IT Managers are getting tired of "the Cloud"

    Plato's Revenge
    31 Oct 2011 | 6:41 pm
    I noticed recently that CIO's and IT professionals will roll their eyes when you mention the word "cloud" as if they had enough of the term and the hype around it. Though most of us all acknowledge that these new technologies and services provide great opportunities, in general most feel that the term is overused and that in many cases reality is not as simple as vendors seem to make it be. What the CIO's and IT professionals see is that the world goes around in circles and that they need to explain the hidden complexities of the reality of cloud computing. And this is not easy. How foggy is…

  • How I promoted agile and the cloud a long time ago

    Plato's Revenge
    3 Oct 2011 | 6:22 pm
    The other day I ran into an old article that I wrote in 1997 for the magazine "Informatie" in the Netherlands and for some reason, I also had an English translated version. The contents is still actual today, so I thought I publish this article here. The magazine does not exist anymore, so I hope that the publisher doesn't mind since it is now over 10 years old. The first thing you will notice is that my English has improved over the years (I hope so!).This English version was never published and it seems to be more like a draft, but I left it as I found it even though it is a bit long…

  • Marketing for the management of IT

    Plato's Revenge
    31 Aug 2011 | 5:41 pm
    In this blog post I will outline briefly how the management of IT can benefit from applying concepts used in marketing. Though many concepts are already used in one way or the other, it makes you think differently and address your challenges from a different angle. One of the key challenges of managing IT for an organisation is the alignment with the business and achieving a satisfactory evaluation by the internal customer. In the past we used to say that we needed to do our own internal marketing when we felt undervalued. The big mistake we made then (as many do), is to equate marketing with…
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