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Putting competitive intelligence to work

In the current cost-focused climate, plenty of organizations are calling on competitive intelligence to help reach educated strategic decisions.

Authenticity and Vulnerability

Boiling the Frog

TJX Elects Safeway CIO to Board of Directors

How To Create A Know-It-All Company

Even in the best of times, it's a battle to convince employees to participate in knowledge management programs. But in tough times, the tendency is for employees to horde what they know. Here's how some companies convinced individuals to

Collecting Its Due

The Big Apple's Department of Finance makes the bit of municipal licensing fees less painful. n

The Supple Supply Chain

Agile companies can adjust their operations to cope with unexpected events, whether it's a surge in new business or a backlog in the warehouse. Four CIO 100 honorees tell how IT makes them and their trading partners flexible.

New Group for Private Equity CIOs To Launch

The mission: Let's make a deal and share war stories.

The Price Is Always Right

Marriott applied its business wisdom to building an IT system that has successfully tackled its greatest challenge — maximizing revenue.

Hurdling Risks

Botched or canceled IT projects cost companies enormous amounts of money. Applying some basic principles of finance to your IT investments will help you better manage these risky ventures

The IT Measurement Inversion

Are your IT investment decisions based on the right information?

An Audit Tale

In a post-implementation audit of its intranet, Mitre Corp. focused on the benefits of knowledge sharing and collaboration.

How One CIO Performed Database Magic in 6 Weeks

Critical Analysis

Try Simulation

Keep on Trackin’

Schneider National took a scientific approach to evaluating and selecting an emerging technology.

All the Right Stories

Underwriting Knowledge

When insurance giant CNA had to consolidate and share what its employees knew, it turned to the Net-and knowledge networks.

The Big Payoff

CIOs play a critical role in reducing a companyu2019s procurement costs.

Define Your Corporate Culture

What you don't do can be as important as what you do do.

Nick Carr KOs Another Straw Man

Promotions at Shaw Group, Kellwood and more

How You Can Fight Cybercrime

Online crime is organized, it's growing and so is your organization's risk of being attacked. Here's how to mitigate that risk.

How Organized Crime Uses Technology to Make Money

Stock scams, identity theft, you name it, this character has seen it. A fictional "CIO to the mob" explains how organized crime profits from IT.

Innovation Lessons from Adult and Gaming Sites

Rarely acknowledged by the mainstream, adult and gaming sites collect a healthy percentage of web traffic and account for a good deal of innovation, too.

An Introduction to Vendor Management

The combination of innovative IT and a cooperative orientation toward vendors leads directly to better vendor performance and firm profitability.

Leaders in Trouble

When a leader, or more especially his or her behavior, becomes larger than the performance of the company, it is time to go.

CIOs Look Beyond Cops for Help Fighting Cybercrime

When cybercriminals strike, law enforcement agencies are often overwhelmed. So CIOs are looking elsewhere for help.

Stop End-Users Before They Click Again on Risky Websites

Educating users wonu2019t prevent them from giving upn info to fraudsters. Take them out of the loop.

Building Effective Corporate Cultures One Decency at a Time

By making decency a habit, leaders can surreptitiously and effectively protect a corporate cultureu2014not just the experience of work, but also the company's moral underpinning.

Review: TeleNav Track Uses GPS to Manage Your Mobile Workforce

TeleNav Track is a cell phone-based GPS tracking service that can help manage your mobile workers. Read on for a list of reasons why you might love itu2014and why you might not.

Tilting at Silos: Fostering Teamwork Between Insulated Groups

When closely knit teams are asked to work together, animosity can flare up quickly, leading to an "us versus them" mentality in both teams. Unfortunately, many of the traditional strategies to address these rifts just don't work. We of

New Report Shows Success in Math Scores

What’s the proper pronunciation of SUSE?

Governance: A Higher Power

If information technology has a God, His name is governance.

The ABCs of Outsourcing

Everything You Need to Know to Avoid the Pitfalls of Outsourcing.

How CIOs Can Anticipate Customers’ Needs

Best Buy's CIO explains why delivering value through IT depends upon anticipating what customers want.

Good News on Testing front

The State of Women Technology Leaders

Monster’s New CIO Gets New Responsibilities Amidst Executive Realignment

Check Out the Ferrari of Videoconferencing: Telepresence

Forget web videoconferencing as you know it. Think HD, large plasma screens, and life-size participants.

Tips for Training Your Tech Vendors

How to Sell Your Staff on Dashboards

Mellon Fights ID Fraud With New Authentication Technology

ODF and Web 2.0

New Reporting Structure for CIO and CTO at Qwest

Harvard Business School CIO Stephen Laster on Web 2.0 Technologies

Laster discusses the benefits and dangers of online communities, blogs, Wikipedia and more.

Energy-Efficient IT Leadership

How CIOs can become champions of environmental sustainability. And the business case for why they should.

Servants to the Public

CIO Announcements from Northwest Air, Achievo and Affinia Group

Six Warning Signs It’s Time to Look for a New Job

Itu2019s easier for a CIO ton make a career move from a position of strength (read:n employed). So use these ideas to assess your situation andn whether itu2019s time to make a move now.