CFO Expectations of IT


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Beyond the life of Pi

CIOs must help drive innovation from the classroom to the boardroom

Four IT trends for 2012

Mike Altendorf predicts the hotspots of the CIO's worry wall

Information for sale

If departments can buy their own commodity IT, where does that leave today’s CIO?

Building a legacy

A tendency to add new applications without retiring legacy systems has left us with over-complicated, inefficient technology

The emperor's new clothes and other stories

Big software players' attempts to fight social networking newcomers by adopting similar trappings is doomed to failure

Xfactor and other 2010 Eureka moments

The new decade looks up for CIOs

Why private cloud can help you sleep better at night

A half-way house compromise might settle some cloud anxiety

Social media – the IT equivalent to free love?

Banning Facebook and Twitter isn't the answer

Digital Economy Bill fails to grasp national benefits

The digital divide

iPad legitimises the netbook

Padding out Netbooks

The CIO talent show

Brush up your resumé

The CIO = the man that can?

2012 predictions - it's going to be the year of the CIO

The nature of nurture to build a strong IT team

Pushing your staff to discover hidden talents will create a buzz that prospective employees can't resist

Young, gifted and British

CIOs, the talent you need to transform your IT department is out there. Go and find it.

Build the buzz about your business & IT if you want talented staff

T is for talent...

SCVNGR is the next big thing in social media

Gaming company takes social networking out into the real world

We all need David Cameron’s govt to have one source of truth

Scrapping the UK government central data platform project is a big mistake

BP oil slick demonstrates the dangers of outsourcing and cloud to CIOs

Some business critical services can be more safely outsourced than others

Marriages made in Hell

Factor in IT systems, existing data and company culture when bringing organisations together or let them be put asunder, declares Mike Altendorf

Big companies will fall behind

2010: The year of the...





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