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 care CIO tackles complex security, privacy mandates — Carole Cotter, CIO of Lifespan, a health system affiliated with Brown Medical School in Providence, R.I., talks to SearchCIO.com’s Linda Tucci about the complexity of delivering IT in a health care environment.

• IT infrastructure tracking software puts CIO in business — IT asset tracking software quickly inventories what’s on your network and promises “actionable” databases that will help cut costs and improve security. 

• The politics of BPM: Sit IT, business at the table — It’s ultimate fighting, with IT vs. business over business process management. But as growing usage shows, there’s victory for all once projects streamline workflows and cut costs.

• CIOs must learn to brand themselves despite stereotypes — The opening keynote at MIT’s EmTech08 conference this week takes on the stereotypes that can derail an IT manager’s career.