With the CIO role under greater pressure to change than at any time since the bursting of the dot com bubble a decade ago, is the clamour from some quarters for the rise of the Chief Innovation Officer soon to be answered?
Quiz your project manager and your project steering committee about the roots of project steering committee problems and it's likely to rapidly become clear that the two see the project management process through very different eyes
At IDC's 42nd annual Directions conference in San Jose last year, the information technology market research and CIO sister company showcased its predictions for the coming years in a session called "CXO Priorities"
Business has mostly seen the IT organization as just one of many business support functions, not much different in nature to finance, manufacturing, or HR
As Australia's premier commercial airport, Sydney Airport facilitates the travel of 31 million passengers every year. It takes the collective actions and processes of some 500 businesses and organizations to meet the needs of the airport users at this dynamic economic hub
Globalization means watching the barriers that have constrained world trade, communications, employment and social discourse since time immemorial fall like dominos, under the weight of new technologies and a revolution in social and business dynamics
CEO optimism isn't perhaps quite as widespread as it was back in late 2006 and early 2007 when Gartner's report "Creating Enterprise Leverage: The 2007 CIO Agenda" showed two out of three enterprises wanted to grow faster than the market that year. Nonetheless competitiveness remains a key goal for company heads
Australian mining companies may still be enjoying a boom, but just about anybody else who sells anything into a world that is denominated in US dollars is struggling enormously with cost pressures, says Gartner EXP research director Andy Rowsell-Jones
A new report from IBM warns of the growing global impact of rapid changes in several areas beyond government control
It's the stuff of CIO nightmares and the cause of many a sleepless night: The fear that the next business continuity threat, malicious code attack or data breach will bring the organization down
Most organizations face a "relatively high" risk of suffering a data loss that would expose them to extremely embarrassing publicity, according to the latest assessments by the IT Policy Compliance Group
The typical IT executive at a Global 2000 company is responsible for managing IT resources for the entire supporting infrastructure to run a modern enterprise. That can run to many thousands of user accounts, computers, networks, applications and systems
Remember when the services and practices the CIO presided over seemed so arcane that those CIOs might as well have been high priests, officiating over some mystifying ritual intended to raise the dead
And you thought - or at least the government would have you think - that binge drinking is a problem for our times! It seems the critical technology for the early phase of the industrial revolution - a time arguably every bit as turbulent as our own - was gin
A new report from Deloitte says that leading businesses have trained people to expect high-quality, personalized services, and these are standards which citizens are now applying to government