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3 Keys for the Mobile Enterprise

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Print PDF Guest post by Dan Eckert An agile organization is a mobile organization. And, given today’s technologies, there’s no reason why your company shouldn’t be both. Today’s alignment of smart handhelds, information clouds, and social networking innovation can finally take the power of IT to the edge of your enterprise where it belongs. Making the most of this alignment is where success is achieved or lost. So what does technology leadership need to know […]

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The Era of Security Breaches

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Print PDF Guest post by Gary Loveland and Nalneesh Gaur It seems like today’s organized data criminals have re-doubled their efforts to get their hands onto your customer’s data, and into their wallets. A full 85% of all data-related security breaches today are masterminded by organized crime, according to a 2010 Verizon Data Breach research report. These criminals are using anything and everything to spy out opportunity and penetrate defenses: from viruses and malware and […]

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3 CTO Role Models

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Print PDF Given the game-changing possibilities of information technology and the ever-increasing complexity of the corporate IT platform, it is time to consider elevating enterprise leadership roles along-side the CIO. The first place for us to start is with the Chief Technology Officer. While the CIO role and scope of responsibility is more understood, the CTO and her role is much less clear. While I don’t have a formula that will work in every case, […]

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Using Data Analysis to Predict the Future

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Print PDF Guest post by Zach Sachen Your ability to predict the future is relative to the knowledge you have and what you do with it when compared to your competitors. If competitors do not have access to the same knowledge at the same time as you, to them you are essentially predicting the future. For example, if you know before your competitors that a consumer trend is emerging, and you act on it, you […]

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The Agile CIO as a Business – IT Marriage Counselor

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Print PDF Guest post by Tim Mattix and Mike Mariani If the relationship between developers and business users is like a marriage, sometimes the CIO’s job is akin to a marriage counselor. In a marriage, one spouse often wants the other to change. In the market, business executives want change, too; changes in the way systems operate so they can capitalize on new opportunities. And often the complaints in both situations are the same. It’s […]

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10 Ways to be More Agile

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Print PDF Written with contributions from Michael Mariani, Tim Mattix, Ryan Finnamore and many others. You might think the word “agile” is synonymous with “paralysis” to see some organizations react to the idea of introducing agile development principles to their traditional systems development lifecycle (SDLC). Concerns about introducing too much change to the organization can stop agility discussions with the business before they start. But if the organization’s goals include increasing the speed of development, […]

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3 Things CIOs Need to Know About HTML5

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Print PDF Guest post by Henry Hwangbo If you don’t read any further, these are the 3 things you need to know about HTML5: HTML5 simplifies web development, expedites delivery, and improves the customer experience across multiple platforms and channels – there is little to no downside HTML5 is not the future – it’s here right now so don’t wait to build up your organization’s experience and expertise – it’s a natural evolution Like anything […]

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Social Media Monitoring and Analysis

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Print PDF Guest post by Jeff Auker The market for the monitoring and analysis of social media conversations is beginning to hit its stride, so CIOs should expect a growing demand from your marketing colleagues for assistance selecting, installing, and maintaining a social media intelligence tool set. In conversations with CMOs here’s what they say they are looking to learn from social media conversations: The explosion of uncontrolled communication and the proliferation of channels represent […]

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How Does IT Impact Business Productivity?

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Print PDF Guest post by Nalneesh Gaur Nick Carr’s controversial article on "IT doesn’t matter" published in 2003 noted that infrastructure technology is easily copied thus providing no competitive advantage. Yet, savvy businesses continue to pursue technology innovations to gain competitive advantages or improve business productivity in order to provide greater shareholder value, growth, and stability. Businesses that drive consistent productivity improvements have recognized the linkage between the need to drive innovation and discretionary spend […]

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Why We Need Cloud Integration Architecture

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Print PDF A few years ago, a consumer products company I’m familiar with committed to outsourcing its infrastructure and as much of its application portfolio as possible. Its strategic application decisions were heavily influenced by outsourced and SaaS offering, placing its CRM and several customer community sites in the cloud. With a stable set of hosted, cloud and SaaS apps, they were shocked to find that they didn’t talk to one another to provide a […]

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Medical Technology Innovation

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Print PDF Is your company planting seeds in countries that have the most fertile ground for innovation? That’s an important question for CIOs who are thinking strategically about technology’s impact on the business. In a global business ecosystem, a nimble competitor can leapfrog you with an unanticipated technology advance. Or you can tap into these ideas first. But if your innovation portfolio doesn’t extend outside the U.S., you’re probably missing something. I’ve written before about […]

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The Private Cloud: Who Will Stop the Rain?

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Print PDF Guest post by Nick Macey As some companies move towards a virtualized, private cloud infrastructure, they get caught in a downpour of problems. The additional layer of virtualization requires significant expertise to manage and support, can substantially decrease overall stability and makes diagnosing and resolving incidents more complex. Operations teams are faced with an incredible challenge, as they often are not responsible for building the cloud, but are ultimately responsible for maintaining and […]

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