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  • How to Be a Better Leader in a Disaster

    Linda Goodspeed, vice president of IT at Nissan North America, was attending a global IT meeting at her company's head office in Japan on March 11 and was caught in the magnitude 9.0 earthquake. The quake was among the top seven most powerful ever recorded and the strongest ever to hit the country. "People were diving under desks. Women were crying. We could see fire outside," she says. "Window blinds were moving three feet to the left and to the right. I thought the building would fall apart."

  • 4 Steps to Help Your IT Team When Disaster Strikes

    IT leaders who have been through disasters have rethought what to include in <a href="%20http://www.cio.com/article/682933/Explaining_IT_Value_to_Skeptics">business-continuity plans</a>. Their plans include alternative uses for technology and practical emergency-preparedness measures designed to keep employees cared-for during a crisis. (For more on leadership during a crisis, see " <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/685307">How to Be a Better Leader in a Disaster</a>.")

  • BI must become part of broad IT strategy

    LOS ANGELES -- Companies that tie <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/topic/9/BI+and+Analytics">business intelligence capabilities</a> to broad IT performance management practices and strategic goals can gain a significant strategic advantage, said analysts and IT managers said at the Gartner BI Summit being held here this week.

  • Yahoo email suffers partial outage

    Yahoo's email service was struggling Thursday with users around the globe complaining that they've had no access for most of the day.

  • Chip makers start to resume work in Japan

    High-tech companies in Japan are slowly starting to get some of their manufacturing plants up and running after a <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214499/Google_NASA_release_satellite_images_of_Japan_disaster">massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami</a> hammered the country nearly two weeks ago.

  • Memory chip prices surge in wake of Japan's quake

    Prices for DRAM and NAND flash memory chips shot up Monday in the wake of Japan's earthquake and tsunami as markets displayed concern over fabrication plant shutdowns, power outages and supply chain shortages.

  • Communication key to post-disaster survival

    Parts of coastal Japan have been so badly hit by earthquakes and tsunamis in recent days that the only communication about other possible dangers such as radioactive fallout from damaged reactors has been one way, coming to residents through portable, battery-operated FM radios.

  • Tsunami warnings now faster, more accurate

    As the deadly tsunami generated by Friday's massive earthquake off the coast of Japan headed toward the United States, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Center for Tsunami Research tracked its progress in real-time.

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