CIO

A strong BYOD policy should be SOP

For a few years now, stories, studies and surveys have been heralding the arrival of the next-generation workforce. Lately, though, the commentary is...

Two IT gurus face off on value of enterprise architecture frameworks

Who says enterprise architecture frameworks are worse than useless? Vivek Kundra, that's who. The former CIO of the United States made a blistering case against enterprise architecture in his keynote at the 43rd Society for Information Management (SIM) meeting this week. It came in a talk on his...

Social BPM pushes process out to users, customers

Social business process management, or social BPM, promises to address the age-old problem of having a small group of business analysts or technicians create business processes, only to get pushback from frontline users.

The team has good intentions, but the people actually...

Technology staffing gap causes alarming predictions

There are some worrisome predictions swirling around technology staffing, or a lack thereof. Gartner Inc. predicts that because of technology staffing shortfalls, three out of 10 Global 2000 companies will miss their public business targets for "growth that is driven by information and...

How does the relationship between the CFO and CIO actually work?

I don't know many CIOs for whom the company's CFO does not loom large. People responsible for what is often the business's single largest capital expense don't fly under the radar of the CFO, no matter whom

A cloud computing strategy requires a good offense and defense

A discussion among the CIOs at the recent Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) summit on cloud computing strategies got me thinking about Eleanor...

Customer crowdsourcing a growing trend for product design?

I recently heard an interesting twist on crowdsourcing. It wasn’t about the marketing group combing social media sites for new promotional ideas, or businesses having online contests to gather new product ideas from consumers....

Technology priorities of CEOs not lining up with those of CIOs

The technology priorities of CEOs and those of CIOs differ greatly as those executives move into 2012. That difference is largely due to uncertainties surrounding the economy, a talent deficit, and fluctuating pricing for goods and services. Such was the buzz this week at the Gartner...

Five reasons enterprises are adopting Agile practices

I've been talking to CIOs about Agile practices and why they decided either to do away with traditional project management methods like waterfall, or combine Agile with

The organizational benefits of Agile methodologies

Sometimes considered a Wild West approach to project management, Agile methodologies in actuality can create order, not chaos. The key is being clear on what Agile means at your organization....