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CERN’s Search for God (Particles) Drives Massive Storage Needs

Think your storage headaches are big? Try being the guy in charge of storing the 1GB of data per second every day for a month coming off CERN's large hadron collider (LHC).

Balanced Scorecard

Balancing Scorecards With Reality

How to make Balanced Scorecards work for your organization

CRM Growing, Partially Due to Demand for Software as a Service

AMR Research predicts customer data integration and data quality will be the two big initiatives seeing the heaviest investment in the coming years. The study also reports an increase in inquiries about mobile technology and customer relationship man

New CIOs at Ameristar Casinos, Kinetic Concepts and more

CIOs of FedEx, Shell and Harvard Medical Join Boards

Executives Are Still Not Sold on Unified Communications. But I Am!

Washington Round Up

A Pointed Question from a Job Applicant: How Would You Answer This?

RIM Dual-Mode Cellular/Wi-Fi BlackBerry 8820: Why Enterprises Should Take Note

A-GPS Service Enhances Nokia Mobile Phone-Based Navigation

What Managers Can Learn from “Made to Stick”

Managers need to give their messages impact, so that subordinates understand the intention and urgency. Learn from this popular business book how to craft a message that packs a punch and gets your colleagues and staff to act with energy and passion.

CASE STUDY 3: Why You Keep Score

BNSF Railway uses the Balanced Scorecard to prove IT's value and to create synergy with business strategy

IBM Gets It

Former Trump CIO Joins Isle of Capri Casinos as Pres. and COO

Who Do You Trust

Even with a watertight contract, you can't afford to cede project management responsibility

YEAR 2000 CHALLENGE: Countdown to Rollover

Has the world done enough to prevent Y2K?

Bad Decisions

Cloning velociraptors? Staying at that quiet little Bates Motel? Sometimes one wrong decision can ruin your whole implementation.

Official Rules for CIO “Making History” Contest

Where Do Good Ideas Go?

Make History; Win Prizes! What Was the Worst IT Disaster?

Net Neutrality Advocates: Not Just Your Average Hippie

How to Spot a Failing Project

Often, the difference between success and failure is spotting critical early warning signs that a project is in trouble. Here are a few ways to identify the symptoms.

Can This Project Be Saved?

You've identified that your IT project is in trouble. What are the best ways to save the situation?

The Hiring Manager Interviews: Patrick Tisdale Shares His Techniques for Sussing Out Candidates

The CIO of Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe always asks about a candidate's past work environments, community service and work-life balance concerns.

Five Tips for Getting the Vacation You Need

IT departments may be "always on," but IT leaders need to know how to take some time off

New CIOs at Borders and Raytheon IIS

Sit Your Way To Success At Meetings

Cell Phone Users Dial DIR-ECT-IONS for Free, Text Message-Based Driving Instructions

Acts of God (and Others)

Sometimes the blame for information technology catastrophes cannot be laid at the feet of the IT department.

Review: LifeSize Brings High-Definition Enterprise Videoconferencing to a Meeting Room Near You

The LifeSize Room is an affordable, simple-to-set-up videoconferencing system with HD video resolution and super wideband audio. In our test drive, its video and sound quality were outstanding, but minor issues hindered the overall experience.

Click and Save with Our Interactive Global Outsourcing Map

Explore our interactive map to get insights into what's happening in offshore outsourcing markets around the world.

Numbers Mean Nuthin….It’s People That Count

CIO Announcements from the Public Sector and More

When a Pseudonym Doesn’t Work

Multi-Channel CRM: It’s in Your Future

Answer the phone!

Questions to Make You a Better Leader

Take an example from the famed leadership consultant Ram Charan.

Seven Quick Tips for Videoconferencing Beginners

New to videoconferencing? Researching an enterprise deployment? Make sure you addressed these seven issues before you sign a vendor contract or start up a video project.

Review: Viewsonic Monitor with Webcam—Not Ready for Its Close-Up

Viewsonic's affordable VX2255wmb monitor sports built-in webcam, microphone and speakers, suitable for telecommuters and remote workers who are ready to crank up instant messaging with video. Our hands-on conclusion: The monitor looks great. The

SIM-Sponsored Summer Camp Teaches Kids about Technology

Teen Tech Camp is one of a number of programs sponsored by professional technology organizations whose goal is get kids excited about careers in IT.

Guiding Your IT Department on the Road to Change

After two mergers, the CIO of logistics provider YRC Worldwide had to carefully apply change leadership techniques to blend three IT departments into one.

Nine Things CIOs Wished You Knew About Their Jobs

Think the CIO has it easy? Think again. It's all about politics, business needs, budgets and keeping things running while still trying to stay strategic.

Balanced Scorecard Definition and Solutions

Balanced Scorecard topics covering definition, objectives, systems and solutions.

No Talent Shortage, Just Talent Recognition Shortage

There are four guiding principles to ensure that your organization has the ability to recognize talent when it sees it.

Lessons Learned?

Her Magesty’s Flying I.T. Circus

Blowing Mobile

Everyone agrees the future of global business is mobile, but America has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to adopting mobile devices and strategies.

iPhone in the Enterprise?

What CIOs should consider before adoption

Reports on the Death of the Laptop…May Be Greatly Exaggerated