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• CIOs Need to Learn New Ways of Thinking

  In 2013, IT leaders should tap into the latest research about business transformation, collaboration and innovation, say columnists Madeline Weiss and June Drewry.

• How IT can become a driver of business growth

  IT departments don't live up to business-driving potential.

• Get ahead of the BYOD wave

  Why fight employees' constant barrage of bringing in their own devices. We are far past that point, it is time to accept it and find a way to make it BYOD work within the confines of your network.

• 3 Ways CIOs Work With Sales to Create Innovative Solutions

  How IT leaders are recruiting ideas, building trust and embracing lessons learned when building tools sales teams want to use.

• How CIOs Are Making Security an Enterprise Necessity

  Information security is often seen as more trouble and cost than it's worth. Until it fails. How can CIOs truly make it part of enterprise risk management?

• How IT Hiring Managers Can Avoid the Holiday Rush

  Kristen Lamoreaux says it's better to stock your talent pool throughout the year than to make a hasty hire in the frenetic days of December

• Tech job market on the upswing

  To see the state of the job market for tech workers, just look at the headlines over the past few months:

• BYOD: Where the costs are

  Few technology trends have inspired as many misgivings -- and as much misinformation - as BYOD, or "bring your own device." Is the idea of allowing employees to purchase and use their own laptops and mobile devices a security nightmare? A productivity boon? A drain on the service desk? And perhaps the biggest question of all, a cost-savings nirvana?

• CIOs Must Exploit Smartphones, Tablets and Cloud Services

  IT departments were slow to adopt the PC. Adam Hartung says CIOs need to learn from that mistake and be bold about adopting cloud services and mobile computing.

• 'Server huggers' impede cloud migrations

  Chipita America may be as close to a serverless company as one can find today. Its ERP, EDI and BI systems, Office and Exchange applications and file servers are all hosted in the cloud. About six years ago, when many IT managers were <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/90957/Debate_Transcript_Does_IT_Matter_">debating</a> the merits of Nicholas Carr's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Information-Technology-Corrosion-Competitive-Advantage/dp/1591394449/computerworld-20">Does IT Matter?</a> , Chipita CIO Scott Martin was moving the Tulsa, Okla.-based snack food maker's email to service provider CenterBeam's cloud-hosted platform.

• The best of Network World's Gift Guide 2011

  Network World's own Indiana Shaw goes through more than just the temple of doom to find gifts suitable for you or other techies on your list. Just like his more famous archeologist cousin who digs up ancient artifacts and treasures from around the globe, Indiana Shaw scours the globe and the Internet to dig up the greatest technology treasures.

• Killer resumes for techies

  If you have tech skills and experience, odds are you're going to get a call from an IT recruiter in 2012. That's because IT departments are <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/100411-sim-survey-251549.html">ramping up hiring</a> at the same time that more IT professionals are ready to leave behind employers offering flat salaries, limited flexibility and aging technology.

• CA Technologies CEO: Doing what the customer needs

  William McCracken took over as chief executive officer of CA Technologies close to two years ago and in that time has engineered a series of organizational changes and acquisitions aimed at improving the company's perception among buyers and broadening its reach into new areas of technology and new customer segments.

• What to do in the event of a data breach?

  Even though it now appears there was no terrorist attack on a pump at an Illinois water utility, the SCADA infiltration scare was a reminder that data breaches can come from any number of angles.

• Tech arguments: then and now

  While standing around the water cooler in the IT department, perhaps you debate with a coworker about whether LinkedIn is better than Facebook. Or you argue with an end user about whether they can use their own device on the corporate network or can only use what is provided by the company.