September 4, 2009 2:43 PM
Posted by: EditorAnne
business continuity planningIt’s barely September, yet warnings about flu season -- swine flu season, that is -- are circulating fast and furious. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had a press conference this week, and swine flu is top of mind for many who do disaster recovery or business continuity for a...
August 27, 2009 9:08 PM
Posted by: Kristen Caretta
Midmarket CIO,
Strategy for CIOsIn a world of information overload, many of us have turned multitasking into a way of life (I have done so with the help of RedBull). But are our efforts actually making us more efficient?
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August 6, 2009 1:50 PM
Posted by: Kristen Caretta
Certified Information Systems Security Professional,
CIO,
CIO Jobs,
Employment,
Job Development,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Certified Professional,
Midmarket CIO,
Project Management ProfessionalIT jobs are down this year. Mix that lack of employment opportunity with an exceptionally tough job market (the average national unemployment rate is up to 9.4% as of July 2009), and you get some pretty frustrated individuals. One such individual is taking her frustrations to the next level and...
July 31, 2009 2:44 PM
Posted by: EditorAnne
Chief information officer,
CIO,
Midmarket CIO,
Project ManagementWhat’s going to get you fired from your CIO job? I was reminded this week of all the ways CIOs risk termination, from failed IT projects to jobs that outgrow them, during a “town meeting” (aka moderated conference call) on IT project...
July 24, 2009 3:30 PM
Posted by: Kristen Caretta
CIO,
Linux,
Microsoft,
Midmarket CIO,
Open sourceWhen Microsoft (historically not a fan of the GPL) announced this week that it would release 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community (meant to enhance the performance of Linux...
July 17, 2009 2:48 PM
Posted by: Kristen Caretta
cloud computing,
Midmarket CIO,
Project Management,
Strategy for CIOsProject and portfolio management (PPM) software is definitely not overlooked in the midmarket. According to a recent SearchCIO-Midmarket.com survey, 17% use some form of PPM software. But how many of those organizations are actually using all of what they paid for?
Time and time again, I hear...
June 26, 2009 1:40 PM
Posted by: Karen Guglielmo
OutsourcingHow important is business knowledge management to the success of your offshore strategy? Pretty important, one CIO who offshores to India told me recently.
Offshore workers are often at a disadvantage when providing...
June 19, 2009 3:37 PM
Posted by: Kristen Caretta
IT project and portfolio management,
IT/business alignmentThe CIO, as the liaison between business and IT, needs to know exactly what’s going on in IT and then translate it into something the business side understands: dollars and cents. To do that, the project and portfolio management (PPM) discipline -- and software -- is becoming increasingly...
