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The Mother of all Dashboards
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
...So, after running across the CIO Dashboard of Twittering CIOs last week , I had been toying with the idea of doing a post on dashboards in general. I'm of mixed opinions on them, generally; I thi...
E-mail traffic analysis reveals disruptions
in The CIO Weblog, on June 23, 2009
...else, and how often.
While common knowledge among the lower ranks, this seems to be something that CIOs are either unaware of or not interested in. It seems to me that the tool is a valuable one, how...
CIOs who tweet
in The CIO Weblog, on June 21, 2009
...If you are one of those CIOs who likes to know what other CIOs are up to, then you have probably spent some time scouring the blogosphere and tools like Facebook and Twitter for accounts of other CIOs...
Gmail drives Enterprise Apps adoption
in The CIO Weblog, on June 17, 2009
... way that other critical operational support systems have to be ROI justified). If Gmail is causing CIOs to question the conventional wisdom of running in-house mail servers, I can't help but wond...
Budget-Senkung im Bereich CIO
in Das CIO Weblog, on June 9, 2009
...yomanimus
Nicht, dass diese Meldung irgendjemanden wundern würde, doch nun ist es amtlich. Die CIOs müssen weltweit sparen und erhalten im laufenden Jahr ein deutlich niedrigeres Budget. Und für di...
Apps adoption not so terrible
in The CIO Weblog, on June 5, 2009
...00 and $1200 per employee versus internally hosted Exchange mail looks pretty good to cash-strapped CIOs (it remains to be seen if Microsoft's own hosted Exchange SaaS product will compete success...
CIO entdecken Twitter
in Das CIO Weblog, on June 2, 2009
...langlosigkeit in die Welt zu zwitschern. Und glaubt man CIO.de , so finden sich mittlerweile auch CIOs unter den Nutzern des Dienstes. In diesem Fall handelt es sich um Bernd Hilgenberg, den CIO der ...
Sind CIO allesamt Wackelkandidaten?
in Das CIO Weblog, on May 27, 2009
...rsonalverantwortliche nach den Gründen für die Abgänge von IT-Chefs in ihren Unternehmen. CIOs sitzen anscheinend tatsächlich auf etwas wackeligen Sesseln: Zusammen mit Finanzchefs mussten sie am häuf...
Infosys CEO interviewed
in The CIO Weblog, on May 20, 2009
...he mobile market and the CEO summit (human interest questions, I guess) but the bits of interest to CIOs are near the top of the interview and make for a quick read....
CIO - die Lieblingsprodukte
in Das CIO Weblog, on May 20, 2009
...nd dass sie bei der Virtualisierungstechnologie einen Vorsprung hätten. 36 Prozent der CIOs wollen bei Storage-Virtualisierungsprojekten EMC-Produkte verwenden. Dahinter folgen NetApp (23 Prozent), De...
Finally
in The CIO Weblog, on May 19, 2009
...'ll go one step further and say it's worth careful and hard consideration at this point for CIOs as to whether or not it might be prudent to plan to stick with XP indefinitely ... to make no ...
Time to lob a Molotov cocktail
in The CIO Weblog, on May 14, 2009
..., to situational applications, to SOA, to social networking. Many of them are downright hostile to CIOs and existing IT departments, advocating overthrow and ruin (well, I guess that's what a revo...
The Revolution
in The CIO Weblog, on May 12, 2009
...d those of us in it.
This is true whether you take the optimistic tack that I am on, assuming that CIOs and IT departments will find new and innovative ways to stay relevant and active, or whether yo...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
...e are few things more controversial in the world of IT HR than the H1B foreign-worker visa program. CIOs, as a rule, are fans; the ability to hire from an increasingly large pool of eager and well-edu...
IT: Releasewechsel als Kostenverursacher
in PHP-Developer-Blog, on May 9, 2009
...en.
Wäre es nicht Zeit für ein Umdenken? Denn trotz der Finanzkrise wollen die meisten CIOs an der Release-Strategie festhalten. Und das geschieht offensichtlich wider besseren Wissens.
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Microsoft needs LESS focus, not more
in The CIO Weblog, on May 8, 2009
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My apologies for two Microsoft posts in a row; yeah, they are starting to bore me too. But CIOs can't afford to ignore the prospects of the 800 pound gorilla in the industry.
There is this m...
Finanzkrise: Einfluss von CIOs schwindet
in Das CIO Weblog, on May 5, 2009
...n in Worte bzw. in Zahlen fassen. Denn infolge der Finanzkrise schwindet derzeit der Einfluss der CIOs zugunsten der Chief Financial Officers (CFO). Das berichtet CIO.de und bezieht sich dabei auf e...
Squarespace as a Situational App programming model
in The CIO Weblog, on May 4, 2009
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The situational application community is not really on the radar of most CIOs with whom I am acquainted, which is a bit like saying that in 2000, the agile development community was not on their ...
Window 7 coming early, as expected
in The CIO Weblog, on April 30, 2009
...esktops when it turns out that all anyone uses is the browser? It might be worth a gold star on the CIOs progress report to wait around up in the stands a bit before venturing into the arena, just to ...
Pandemic preparation in the IT department
in The CIO Weblog, on April 28, 2009
...fensively so as to avoid any accusations of under-reaction. Still, it's a healthy reminder for CIOs that electronic viruses are not the only sort which can lay operations low... for all the automa...
VMware to announce VSphere today
in The CIO Weblog, on April 21, 2009
...ioning tool, a way to architect services at an extremely high level, it may both surprise and shock CIOs in its ability to help them realize that goal.
This is all premature speculation at the moment...
What is up with Enterprise 2.0, anyway?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 13, 2009
...itle Enterprise 2.0 Reality Check , where I discussed some of the realities facing IT managers and CIOs faced with the ascendancy of these new technologies and philosophies in their shops.
The basic...
Seattle TechExecs CIO Panel Forum
in The CIO Weblog, on April 8, 2009
... out, new technologies are almost always banned at first, but adoption of the useful is inevitable. CIOs are working out how to implement these things now, although many admitted that currently they a...
Seattle Tech Execs CIO Forum
in The CIO Weblog, on April 8, 2009
...I'll be at the TechExecs Seattle CIO Panel Forum today, listening to regional CIOs and technology executives presenting and discussing their takes on a variety of topical subjects, including soc...
Systems and the AIG catastrophe
in The CIO Weblog, on March 18, 2009
...oftware? The answer is: a lot... and unfortunately it apparently appears just as acceptable to many CIOs as it apparently is to Mr. Liddy and other executives at AIG.
Is there anyone in your organiza...
Cloud computing killed your future
in The CIO Weblog, on March 17, 2009
...means of production" as Jonathan Sapir critiques this view in alarmingly Marxist terms), and CIOs and IT staff as the wizards who keep the mysterious gears meshing.
It's true that these so...
Managing IT costs
in The CIO Weblog, on March 11, 2009
...put their businesses in recent years. Why would I assume that other CEOs are any brighter?
But you CIOs out there, Cecere and I expect better from you guys, which is why he thinks you're already ...
The complex reality of end-user application development
in The CIO Weblog, on March 6, 2009
...than's point more salient than it ever might have been in the past.
There is a lesson here for CIOs, which represents another cyclical sort of realization: don't let your users get ahead of y...
Viewing new technologies through old prisms
in The CIO Weblog, on February 19, 2009
...vide a similar capability doesn't automatically mean that they have similar pitfalls. All those CIOs who got burnt by the Excel silo problem may be leery of putting uncontrolled power into the han...
SaaS expected to grow through the downturn
in The CIO Weblog, on February 17, 2009
... adoption, it risks marginalization and failure in the markets. A significant concern noted by many CIOs when considering SaaS solutions has always been the stability of the vendor. This study goes so...
More on the Amazon/IBM deal
in The CIO Weblog, on February 13, 2009
... or IBM in yesterday's post . It's a better move for both than I gave them credit for. For CIOs, though, I'm not sure it means much unless you are already in bed with IBM. The synergies i...
Dashboard Madness
in The CIO Weblog, on February 11, 2009
... toys at the end-user level combined with a failure to envision the potential utility of the tools. CIOs are quite familiar with this user-driven techno-lust, which is just as insidious as the sort wh...
The SOA imbroglio
in The CIO Weblog, on January 23, 2009
...ger part of the field is indeed in the midst of a major transformation, and it's something that CIOs need to seriously consider even if they don't hop on the bandwagon. Gardner is absolutely c...
Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
Implicit in the conflation of agile operations with fragile support is a requirement that your users have access to services which are at once flexible and scalable and which are also efficient for your business to provide. When you put those three words together, the next thing you come to is i...
Opening the kimono of your IT department
in The CIO Weblog, on January 5, 2009
...of efficiency are scoured for lingering bloat or hidden fat. This is a time of particular worry for CIOs, whose purviews are filled with costs that are little-understood and frequently viewed with som...
Feasting on the carcasses of off-shoring firms
in The CIO Weblog, on January 2, 2009
...result in operational difficulties... not the sort of thing you want to inherit as a client.
Those CIOs who are able to control their panicky initial reactions to the deepening recession might exerci...
CIO-Prioritäten für 2009
in Das CIO Weblog, on December 30, 2008
...ßnahmen müssen in den Unternehmen getroffen werden und welche Herausforderungen müssen sich die CIOs in Deutschland stellen? Die Marktforscher der Experton Group haben sich dazu detaillierte Gedanke...
Recession means it's time to ramp up internal security
in The CIO Weblog, on December 24, 2008
... Effect on Work Ethics", desperate employees worried about layoffs are a thing to be feared by CIOs and corporate security officers.
To start with, half of US respondents were afraid for their j...
Business opportunities opening for Apple
in The CIO Weblog, on December 17, 2008
... on Apple's part, but almost entirely out of end-user demand and the independent realization of CIOs and IT managers that solid, secure, simple systems might be put to good use even if they were b...
Core IT skills lacking in talent pool?
in The CIO Weblog, on December 11, 2008
...So say a significant chunk of the 450 respondents comprised of CIOs, CFOs, and HR professionals surveyed by "modernisation solution" provider MicroFocus in a report released earlier this m...
India-Pakistan: Bad for business
in The CIO Weblog, on December 1, 2008
...th the attacks. If a few masked gunmen running around Mumbai for a couple of days is enough to make CIOs nervous about operations disruptions, then the spectre of a full-fledged war with a nuclear-arm...
The devil is in the details
in The CIO Weblog, on December 1, 2008
...nagement and system integrators or "consultants" as they like to call themselves.
I urge CIOs and other IT decision makers to go over and have a listen. Sommer point out the elephant in the...
More woes for India-based outsourcing
in The CIO Weblog, on November 26, 2008
... Bangalore, the tech hub of the country, but from half a world away, I' M not sure that many CIOs will appreciate the separation. Bangalore has not been immune to similar terrorist attacks, and...
CIOs verkaufen sich schlecht
in Das CIO Weblog, on November 21, 2008
...nternehmen als Innovations-Antreiber. Doch was die eigene Außendarstellung angeht, könnten viele CIOs noch deutlich zulegen.
Aus Hauptgrund für das "schlechte Verkaufen" wird fehlendes strat...
Exchange and Sharepoint Online officially released
in The CIO Weblog, on November 17, 2008
...t realm for a few years now using third-party hosted Exchange services, but there are no doubt many CIOs who will feel more comfortable with Microsoft hosting its own product than a smaller third-part...
Time to say hello
in Das CIO Weblog, on November 12, 2008
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So wie es sich gehört sich von seinen Lesern zu verabschieden, wenn man als Autor einen Blog verlässt, so gehört es sich genauso "Hallo" zu sagen, wenn ein neuer Autor an Bord geht:
Hallo werte Leser des CIO-Weblogs!
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CTO of the United States
in The CIO Weblog, on November 7, 2008
...al cabinet appointments. This happens with every president-elect, of course, but this time around, CIOs have some skin in the game: a part of Obama's platform was the promise to appoint a cabinet-...
Google-Yahoo Deal is off
in The CIO Weblog, on November 5, 2008
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I don't think this really has many implications for CIOs to worry about, but since I've been half-heartedly following it in this blog up till now, I thought I should probably put the capst...
Dreamforce
in The CIO Weblog, on November 4, 2008
...oud providers are still flailing to get out of beta and define their strategies will play well with CIOs looking to take advantage of online economies of scale but who have little patience for dealing...
Seven sounds good so far
in The CIO Weblog, on October 29, 2008
...y heart.
The features he describes are less important to me (and to most corporate IT managers and CIOs) than the speed and stability with which they run. Both those qualities are evident in Ed's...
Microsoft unveils Azure cloud
in The CIO Weblog, on October 27, 2008
...hat has been scoffed at repeatedly by many true believers is turning into a very appealing pitch to CIOs who don't want to be told they have to run all their stuff in the cloud and who would like ...
EC2 comes out of beta
in The CIO Weblog, on October 23, 2008
...zon... and although the quality and value of cloud services is debatable, the cost savings are not. CIOs who might never otherwise have considered EC2 as an option may be spurred out of their safe, co...
More reasons I'm ready to be stoked about Windows 7
in The CIO Weblog, on October 22, 2008
...or the Engineering Windows 7 blog is all about organization, however, and it's a great read for CIOs or anyone overseeing software development projects.
Engineering 7 is a very authentic and unva...
Gartner's top 10 technologies to watch
in The CIO Weblog, on October 16, 2008
...however, is, and thoughtfully provides Gartner's list of the top ten strategic technologies for CIOs to watch in the coming years, along with his own take on them, in a post here.
No real surpr...
Run it like a startup
in The CIO Weblog, on October 14, 2008
...a competent business consultant couldn't tell you, it is a good back-to-basics sermon that even CIOs from the mighty and powerful might do well to reflect on.
Only the slide deck is available , ...
Keeping the CIO relevant
in The CIO Weblog, on October 13, 2008
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Just when CIOs didn't need any more threats to their autonomy and importance, tightening budgets as a result of the global financial crisis are piling on and causing a sudden reversal in what ...
Who says IT is at fault in the financial crisis?
in The CIO Weblog, on September 30, 2008
...arly considering the strides that healthcare IT has made, many of them courtesy of forward-thinking CIOs like Halamka. But accusing IT of having a significant hand in this meltdown reflects as poorly ...
Pretending to be relevant for the troops
in The CIO Weblog, on September 27, 2008
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Some CIOs, born geeks, don't have this problem, but others, from less technical backgrounds, from time to time find themselves lacking in "street cred" when they get out and mingle w...
Google's Enterprise ambitions
in The CIO Weblog, on September 25, 2008
...ts.
Perhaps I am. But Google, like Apple, may have found another way into the enterprise, one that CIOs have little control over, and one which may render its adoption more fait accompli than hard-fo...
Amazon EC2 to offer packaged Oracle instances
in The CIO Weblog, on September 23, 2008
...are gaining some expertise and experience in areas where they were separately quite weak; and leery CIOs can have more confidence that moving mainstream operations to the cloud can now not only cut co...
You know you want one
in The CIO Weblog, on September 16, 2008
...counts, though... probably pick it up for $10K or so after rebates, I bet.
Won't all the other CIOs drool when you show off your datacenter? Dude, think of how fast Exchange will run on that pupp...
Climbing the corporate ladder
in The CIO Weblog, on September 6, 2008
... © degreezero2000
CIOs have long had to put up with derogatory views of their position in corporations, typecast as burn-outs or incompetents at the end of their trajectory ("Career Is Over...
Oooh, shiny!
in The CIO Weblog, on September 2, 2008
...ewly released product, of course, especially on in beta) I think the implications are important for CIOs to evaluate in terms of their planning. As Carr points out, this is less about Chrome itself as...
Are managed computer dumb terminals?
in The CIO Weblog, on August 30, 2008
...power and flexibility on the desktop. But the other part of the answer is that many IT managers and CIOs, like Sam, don't stop to consider that when you get to a point where buying software that l...
Google manning up for August outages
in The CIO Weblog, on August 28, 2008
...n't, even care to do so. The culture of secrecy in the company has long counted against it with CIOs responsible for vetting technology business partners; when your job is at stake, you don't ...
CIOs marginally worse off under CFO
in The CIO Weblog, on August 25, 2008
...verall IT service delivery to the company. A recently released report from Forrester entitled "CIOs: Reporting Relationship Defines Your Job Only At The Margin" based on results from the res...
Death throes of the corporate data center
in The CIO Weblog, on August 22, 2008
...s long as there are corporations; and it won't simply be sheer bloody-mindedness on the part of CIOs that keeps them that way. There are good reasons for some businesses to run their own data cent...
Windows Server Version saga continues
in The CIO Weblog, on August 20, 2008
...ndows Server in major version clothes, something that wasn't likely to fly with well-informed CIOs and IT managers. But now it seems as though the minor version they are going to be releasing as a...
Windows 2008 R2 bites the dust
in The CIO Weblog, on August 18, 2008
...ompany ("98! Why that's newer than 95, Ma, we'd better pick us up some of that!") CIOs and IT managers aren't so easily befuddled. If Server 7 really consists of only the same re...
Support requirements driving application selection
in The CIO Weblog, on August 16, 2008
... Few non-IT managers want to see their staff spending time on it support tasks, anymore than CIOs want to see their techs adding up columns of numbers or doing gardening work.
In point of fact...
