CIOs tell Microsoft: Take the time you need to pick the right CEO
Microsoft can't afford picking the wrong person as its next CEO, they say
CIOs unprepared for the ‘digital dragon’
CIOs overwhelmed by the prospect of building digital leadership while renovating core IT infrastructure and capability for the digital future, reports Gartner.
IBM commits US$1.2B to build global cloud network
“Credit goes to IBM for being first out of the gate in 2014 and moving the yardstick from around 20 to 40 cloud data centre locations. It's now [up] to the usual competitors to respond and we will see their response in the next weeks,” said Holger Mueller, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research.
CIOs and CMOs Must Work Together to Satisfy Customers
The strained, dysfunctional relationship between CIOs and marketers can be overcome, in part by rallying around the customer. After all, we're in an age that requires IT and business people to put aside their differences in order to bring business technologies to bear that will win, serve and retain customers.
Windows XP will get antivirus updates until July 2015
How to Bring Shadow IT Under Control
The answer is a compliance and governance framework, says Matt Gerber, executive vice president of 2nd Watch: If IT can't provision cloud services at the speed the business demands, at least it can provide a list of sanctioned reference architectures that business units can choose from when selecting services. That way, even if you can't provision the services, you can at least ensure a certain level of reliability, availability and security in the cloud services the business units procure.
Articles on the digital enterprise from our archives:
Confessions of a 'recovery professional'
A CIO said I was like the guy who turned up the day after hurricane Katrina - I come in when technology transformations fail, writes Bradley de Souza. Based in Auckland, de Souza is an internationally recognised CIO/CTO who has specialised in change and transformation across industries around the world.
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