September, 2008

CIO weekly wrap-up

Don't miss the following stories we posted this past week on SearchCIO.com. Feel free to chime in on any of them below!

• Health...

EmTech08 and the Black Swan: A lesson in jargon

I sneaked away from my desk this week to attend a few sessions at the Emerging Technologies conference on the MIT campus. Even in small doses, the event can overwhelm with its rush of ideas, opinions and latest updates from people working on the cutting edge of technology. I want to mention one...

Work email: When it just can’t wait until morning

With the growing popularity of smartphones and business VPNs, it's getting tougher and tougher to let an email just sit in your inbox unread for any period of time - even in what are technically your off-hours. According to a

A CIO by way of Jack Welch

I recently interviewed Carole Cotter, CIO of Lifespan Corp., a health care system affiliated with Brown Medical School in Providence. R.I. Cotter talked about how her IT department balances the need to know with patient privacy mandates. The cornerstone? Clear policies, clearly (and...

CIO weekly wrap-up

It's been a busy week on SearchCIO.com, both on the news side and on the blog. Check out what we've been working on, and please let us know if you have any comments!

Lehman and IT and Bear Stearns, oh my!

When I saw the pictures of Lehman Brothers employees leaving the New York headquarters with cardboard boxes of belongings and dressed down in weekend wear, I wondered if there were IT people among them. Was the guy in the Bermuda shorts a trader or a database administrator? Everybody looks the same...

Palin’s Yahoo! hack raises security concerns

In more Sarah Palin/IT news...maybe there's a good reason for John McCain's professed aversion to e-mail. He's selected a more tech-savvy running mate, but she's quickly become a...

A CIO syllabus for discovering your inner leader

From the folks at the Society for Information Management, here is the book list for the incoming 2009 class of the Regional Leadership Forum (RLF). The Regional Leadership Forum is a...

Sarah Palin as CEO? Fiorina thinks not

What's more difficult: being the CEO of a large IT company, or serving as president of the United States? Appearing on a KTRS Radio show in St. Louis Tuesday, Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO turned John McCain economic advisor,

CIO weekly wrap-up

For those playing catch-up, here's what we produced on SearchCIO.com last week:

• E-waste: A blight on the environment and a...