BI strategy: What Holy Grail are you seeking?

Gartner’s BI Summit is just around the corner, and I’m eager to see how attendees’ business intelligence strategies and priorities have changed. When I went to the show last year, a big topic of conversation was the disconnect...
CIO weekly wrap-up: iPad release date, Google Fiber, IT in 2010

It's another soggy Monday in the Northeast. Stay inside and catch up on the latest tech chatter and most recent stories from SearchCIO.com!
Apple devotees are anxiously awaiting the
Small IT innovations — even savvy font management! — can cut costs

How's this for IT innovations that make cost-cutting a breeze? Wisconsin Public Radio is reporting that the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has switched the
The importance of communication in IT innovation

I recently was asked to participate in a panel discussion about the importance of communication in IT innovation at the
IT management frameworks: What’s missing?

A while back, I wrote a story about a new IT management framework under development called the IT Capability Maturity Framework. The goal of this framework is to give CIOs a one-stop shop for measuring...
CIO weekly wrap-up: National cybersecurity list, basketball technology

Like many of you, I'm caught up in the passage of health care reform here in the U.S. If you're interested in the health care system dovetails with your interest in technology, be sure to check out...
On the job market? What CEOs want in the CIO role

What are CEOs looking for in a CIO? According to headhunters at the Boston Society for Information Management (SIM) annual meeting last night, CEOs are saying they need someone who can speak the language of business...
Success with cloud applications calls for a strong data-privacy policy

Public agency CIOs and IT executives are joining the move to cloud applications, while making sure their data privacy policy remains strong.
As I've stated previously on this blog,
Up next: Cloud computing management

With the market saturated with cloud computing platforms and services, it was inevitable that another crop of vendors would emerge to help enterprises make sense of it all. I’m talking about the cloud management providers clamoring for market attention. Perhaps these cloud computing...
CIO weekly wrap-up: What is Foursquare’s draw? Also Balanced Scorecard

Happy soggy Monday from the rain-soaked East Coast! We've had a pretty easy winter so far, but these April showers sure are coming early and strong. So, I've seen a lot in the mainstream media this week about FourSquare and...