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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
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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...
Wind in Virginia Gains Support
in IfEnergy, on June 7, 2009
...e going on in Wise County (Virginia's Kentucky boarder) over the environmental impact of a coal-fired power plant that Dominion Virginia Power is building there. But the group bringing the suit (T...
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 ...
Is sacking people unethical?
in Sox First, on May 28, 2009
With all the layoffs going on, it's worth asking whether managers ever ponder the ethical implications of what they're doing. As the self-styled "ethics guy" Bruce Weinstein says , sacking people is an ethical issue because it impinges on the rights of others. ""No ...
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 ...
Climate scientist sacked for talking
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
In an extraordinary development this week, a pioneering climate change scientist Jim Salinger has been sacked from his post in New Zealand. According to the New Zealand Herald , his great crime was talking to a TV weatherman about flooding rivers. As you do. Salinger was part of the Intergover...
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...
Beatles Rock Band Has Me a Bit Excited
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 17, 2009
...oo giggly about a console game, but darn it if the Beatles Rock Band game doesn't have me a bit fired up. Good news if you find yourself in my shoes, there is an official release date; 09-09-09 is...
Microsoft Stops Mainstream Support For Windows XP
in Wangtam, on April 16, 2009
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Understanding (and Maybe Avoiding) the Peter Principle
in Bizinformer, on April 15, 2009
..., " And then what? " And invariably they'd say, " I don't know... You get fired , I guess. Isn't that what happens to incompetent people..? "
Of course, incompetent...
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...
Giving banks permission to lie
in Sox First, on April 4, 2009
...n that old loan?) and investors won't get wiped out and employees and politicians won't get fired and everything can be hunky dory. Just like in Japan." As my favorite write Mark Twain o...
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 ...
Depression
in WebKinzBlog, on March 10, 2009
...pa in the Webkinz Travel Agency to get them all healthy but it was $56,000! No chance of that! So I fired off an email to Ganz support and am still waiting for a response - of course.
However the goo...
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...
Palm Springs Concours Begins With a Blast
in Classical Drives, on March 6, 2009
...California wines. Suddenly there was a veritable explosion of sound as a show car parked nearby was fired up without warning. What the beautiful people (and one humble journalist) heard, saw, and felt...
Chess With a Six Year Old
in PCGamers Blog, on March 4, 2009
...ome "mommy and me" time and they ended up playing checkers after lunch.
The next day I fired up Chess Titans and started playing in the hope that my son would see me and come over. Sure ...
Coal and the New EPA
in IfEnergy, on February 28, 2009
... Obama Administration's EPA is likely to deal with coal. Following the EPA's stance on coal-fired power plants during the final months of the Bush Administration was enough to make you dizzy: ...
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...
GM Fires Robot, Saves TV Commercial
in Classical Drives, on February 17, 2009
...s. GM was forced to delete scenes in its 2008 Super Bowl commercial where an assembly line robot is fired for messing up the product build and, unable to find happiness in menial jobs outside the fact...
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...
Israel Intensifies Attacks Against Hamas
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 12, 2009
...g about a cease fire in The Gaza Strip Israel has escalated their military actions.
Deadly rockets fired from within The Gaza Strip continue raining down on Israel resulting in further resolve to put...
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...
Northern Israel Hit By Rockets Fired From Lebanon
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 8, 2009
... half years after a bloody confrontation with the Hezbollah in Lebanon several sizable rockets were fired from Lebanon and hit civilian areas in Israel.
The Israeli's were said to be seriously co...
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...
How to Keep Your Job: Personal Branding
in Bizinformer, on December 12, 2008
...Personal branding could keep you from getting fired. At least, that's want Dan Schawbel over at Mashable thinks. His book, Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success , looks at 10...
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...
GM Chairman Leaves Jet in Detroit, Returns to Washington at the Wheel of a Car
in Classical Drives, on December 3, 2008
...d III concept above. It seemed ready to take off the moment its Whirlfire GT-305 gas turbine engine fired up. The skin was made of titanium. It had moveable spoilers to act as air brakes and featured ...
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...
Syracuse University Sends First Emergency "Orange Alert"
in The Universities Weblog, on November 26, 2008
...llisto Jr., SU's director of public safety, issued the alert because he had heard a "shots fired" call on a police scanner while in his car. A 19 year old Syracuse resident had been shot...
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...
Sun in Trouble
in Java Entrepreneur, on November 22, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto
Sun Microsystems has announced plans to cut between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs - that's between 15 and 18 percent of its workforce.
"It blamed the cuts on the global economic downturn, but I think that like many other companies, Sun is using the downturn a...
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
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , eva serrabassa
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!
Mein Name is...
BitTorrent Cuts Staff, Will Close Torrent Information Network
in P2P File Sharing, on November 12, 2008
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BitTorrent last week fired about half of its employees, and replaced its CEO, Doug Walker, with former CTO Eric Klinker .
"A person with knowledge of BitTorrent's plans also said t...
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...
DHL ends its partnership with the American drugstore
in Supplychainer, on October 29, 2008
...ies of the company, especially in the U.S. have led to such decision. Earlier this year the company fired hundreds of its shippers and also the company is no longer allowing shippers to create domesti...
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...
