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Industry leadership not only promotes the greater good of all, it helps build great leaders.

Achieving e-government requires leadership, fierce resolve, and creative approaches to securing needed funds.

When your company is in trouble, it takes a special touch to lead well.

It's not a matter of if XML will overtake EDI as the preferred data exchange medium for B2B transactions, but when.

When businesses finally open up their wallets, what technologies will get the flash of cash?

Do you have the right habits to be an effective executive-level CIO?

Well, well, well. A new year and the prognosticators are out in force - even in these pages. Me, I'm a bit more cautious; I like a sure bet. So here's my sole 2002 prediction, and it's a stone-cold winner.

The former CIO of Union Pacific Railroad says first comes business goals, then process and then - and only then - IT.

Anonymous bids his fans adieu, tossing a bouquet to visionary CIOs, lobbing a brick at myopic bean counters.

When technology buyers and sellers connect, an assortment of alphabet-jumbled entities result to compose the high-tech fraternity.

It's a tricky thing, knowing when it's time to leave. You have to be able to read the signs, whether they're written on the boardroom wall or hidden in your heart.

Now more than ever, many of us are rethinking what is important to us and how we want to spend our time.

CIOs are good at taking the blame when things go wrong. That would be OK if they got credit when things went right, but often they don't.

It takes patience, time and humour to convert the chance encounter into a mutually beneficial relationship.

There is no bigger waste of time than listening to a vendor herald the nonexistent virtues of a nonexistent product in an impossibly obtuse language called marketese. Read these tips - courtesy of two whistle-blowing PR reps (we'll call them John and Jane) - so that you don't squander another second of your valuable time.

Here's a nice recipe for making a tasty, high-performance security checkpoint to replace a bland, low-performing single point of failure at the border between your network and the Internet.

With pervasive fears about terrorism, security threats have proven all too real. Our antidote to the doom and gloom? A guide for what not to do when you get hacked.

If you really want customers to keep coming back, then toss out those glossy brochures from vendors looking to sell you the latest in CRM software.

Lew Goldstein is a sound supervisor editor for C5 Inc. in New York City. C5 does postproduction audio for major motion pictures - which means it creates or embellishes every sound you hear in a movie from a dog bark to every spoken word. They put the hurricane in Cape Fear. The woodchipper in Fargo too.

The hardest part of the CIO job is keeping up with the never-ending avalanche of technology developments - that's what our readers tell us anyway.