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There's a new set of IT priorities on the block
Leader And at the London Stock Exchange, innovation in business models has turned the IT department from a cost centre to a profit centre, helping chief information officer David Lester win CNET's CIO of the Year Award.
[September 29, 2004, 13:40]
CIOs plan to make the most of tight budgets in 2009
News The Corporate IT Forum asked some of its top CIO members about their priorities for 2009, with managing costs and careful budgeting — as well as cutting back on technology for technology's sake — surfacing as key issues.
[December 8, 2008, 12:30]
BPM vs SOA
Blog Comment The fall from grace of SOA as it plummets down the Gartner list of CIO business and technical priorities for 2009 should come as no surprise. Getting your priorities right It’s not that SOA is a bad idea or offers poor value: the problem is that...
[December 12, 2008, 9:39]
Achieving job success in the first 30 days
News Talk with any CIO about their first month on the job, and it's likely that few tales will match up, as feedback is tempered by unique backgrounds and experiences. It's the CIO's job to tie them all together.
[April 29, 2002, 16:35]
Security 'still IT managers' top priority'
News A recent survey of ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com's CIO Jury agreed - finding security still topping off the IT head's shopping list. While evidence of the CIO-CEO disconnect is manifest, according to the Cisco boss more stringent targets on the...
[May 4, 2005, 16:50]
BPM vs SOA
Blog So it may come as a surprise to some (not me, obviously - see previous blogs) to read Gartner's 2008 CIO Business and Technical Priority lists. Just as all the IT vendors have finished rebranding their existing products as SOA compliant/enabling...
[December 5, 2008, 8:28]
Dell admits Indian mistake
News The call-centre operation for the OptiPlex desktops and Latitude laptops was moved back to the US and, in an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Dell CIO Randy Mott said the Bangalore centre was unable to deal satisfactorily with the volume of...
[April 1, 2004, 13:00]
CNET technology awards celebrate excellence in IT
News David Lester of the London Stock Market won 'CIO of the year', CapGemini won 'integrator/outsourcer of the year', VMware Virtual Centre won 'most promising technology of the year', Brands2Life won 'PR campaign of the year' and Worth won 'marketing...
[September 29, 2004, 14:05]
Transforming IT to Gain a Sustainable Business Advantage
White Papers IBM looks at the changing role of the CIO in the innovation era. Aligning IT with business priorities Today, IT is the vital link between high-level business strategy and day-to-day operations. Creating a self-funding model for IT investments
[December 19, 2006, 13:30]
Why PPM Is a Must-Have for CIOs
White Papers Project and Portfolio Management software helps CIO's gain real insight into their business - so they can make strategic planning decisions that produce better business outcomes. This webcast will show how to make portfolio investment decisions...
[November 15, 2007, 0:01]
The top 3 tricks up a CIO’s sleeve
Blog When your company’s CIO strolls into the board room, does he or she quake at the thought of taunting rebukes from the ‘suits’ who just won’t understand the plight of the IT department? Or will our redoubtable CIO hero (or heroine) have three top...
[April 8, 2008, 15:06]
Survey finds execs rethinking IT budgets
News In an Industry Overview of the CIO Survey Series: Release 3.4, the authors said that 2002 should be a year of gradual and modest improvement, with further improvements in 2003. Top priorities for chief information officers include security software...
[July 11, 2002, 14:57]
Virtualisation is a priority, say CIOs
News Three-quarters of ZDNet UK's sister site silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said virtualisation — the simultaneous running of several operating systems on a single desktop or server — is one of their current investment priorities.
[May 4, 2007, 15:40]
Keep pace with WLAN security developments
News To get a better view of the problems with this technology, the ways to combat those problems, and the new security trends, here is a closer look at wireless security from the CIO perspective. Setting a policy means making security priorities clear...
[March 25, 2003, 8:06]
UK government 'needs more CIOs'
News He described his position as "more analogous to that of a group CIO in a large conglomerate". This is one of four key priorities Watmore identified for his job of helping to deliver electronic public services.
[September 8, 2004, 11:30]
Cut out the risks of Web services
News Those are metrics that every CIO wants to achieve. This planning effort will help IT set priorities so it can get the highest return on Web services and also determine how much work to anticipate over the long-term.
[December 3, 2002, 13:29]
Sun 'Honeycomb' finally on the way?
News There's pressure from the CIO level that says, 'If I have to spend all this money on compliance and protecting myself from legal discovery, and I have to put all this stuff away forever, is there at least some business value I can extract?
[April 25, 2006, 12:10]
CIOs urged: Offer business analytics or lose budget
News The smart CIO will leverage any savings gained from outsourcing to develop business-analysis capabilities," Blosch said. According to Gartner's survey data, the top priorities for CIOs between 2004 and 2007 were the improving of business processes...
[November 21, 2007, 12:17]
HP boosted by strong growth in services
News The two leading priorities for senior IT staff are securing their IT systems and meeting the demands of their users, the survey found. At the same time as it released the figures on the performance of the service division, HP also released partial...
[November 30, 2006, 9:36]
How BSM Has Evolved to Meet the Needs of Today's CIO
White Papers Today, it has become a reality as technologies and processes have helped companies move well beyond aligning IT with the priorities of the business. Off late, BSM was introduced as an approach for managing IT from a business perspective.
[August 30, 2009, 1:22]
