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The CIO as Change Agent The CIO as Change Agent
By Roland Etcheverry, Champion Technologies

Chief executives aren’t the only ones who can specialize in turning around beleaguered companies. A CIO can be a powerful agent for change, but this requires a hands-off approach to empower one’s staff, better business understanding, a more stable IT department, and avoiding “techno-lust” and concentrating on standardization and consolidation.
-2007-12-17


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The CIO as Change Agent

Chief executives aren’t the only ones who can specialize in turning around beleaguered companies. A CIO can be a powerful agent for change, but this requires a hands-off approach, business understanding, a stable IT department, and standardization.

2007-12-17

The Search for Continuous Progress

The Journey Toward IT Success Begins with a Single Step

2007-09-04

The Path to Infrastructure Readiness, Part II

To Accommodate New Technologies Smoothly, Have an Infrastructure That's Ready for Anything

2007-07-02

The Gap Between Potential and Reality

This Chief Technology Officer Says Things Are Rarely as Simple as They Look

2007-06-25

Walking the Web 2.0 Tightrope

Trying to Bar the Enterprise to Web 2.0 Applications Is a Futile Effort-and a Mistake

2007-06-20

The Path to Infrastructure Readiness, Part I

To Accommodate New Technologies Smoothly, Have an Infrastructure That's Ready for Anything

2007-06-18

Everything Old Is New Again

Some Aspects of Web 2.0 Hark Back to the Early Days of Technology-But with Some New Twists for IT

2007-06-18

Break Down the Barricade and Welcome Web 2.0

When It Comes to Web 2.0, This CIO Learns from His Students

2007-06-11

Pressures build for continual focus on risk

To enhance organizational risk management, internal audit must embrace ongoing risk monitoring and frequent enterprise-wide risk assessments

2007-05-21

Enterprise Communications 2.0: Creating Competitive Advantage

An IDC survey among 100 large enterprises in the U.S. shows that 62% of these believe that the number of mobile employees in the enterprise will increase. Similarly, 40% believe that the number of virtual teams within the company will increase. In addition, a significant percentage of enterprises believe that the number of global WAN sites, the number of ways to reach a customer, and the number of teleworkers are all on the increase. The concept of Web 2.0 — explained in more depth in following sections of this white paper — is now being brought to bear as the perfect solution for dealing with collaboration and communication inefficiencies that are a result of the above. IDC argues that Enterprise 2.0 — the implementation of Web 2.0 in the enterprise — is not just about RSS, blogs, tags, and wikis, but also about voice over IP, presence, IM, and the integration of these with existing horizontal and vertical business applications. In this sense, Enterprise communications 2.0 is the sum of Web 2.0 and unified communications (UC) and enables new ways of working.

2007-05-01

The Importance of Branding

Concentrate on the Perceptions of IT, and You Just Might Change Reality

2007-04-16

Hosted IT Infrastructure Services for SMBs

Data centers and complementary security infrastructure are essential elements of any business. Whether to interact with customers, collaborate with business partners, or equip workers with access to the latest files and productivity-enhancing business applications, these critical operations require a well designed and run IT infrastructure. Too often, however, businesses conclude that the only means to have the IT infrastructure that can meet -- or at least come close to meeting their business objectives -- is to own and self-operate the entire IT infrastructure. To be blunt, this conclusion is inaccurate. There is a better and more economical alternative, which is known as hosted IT infrastructure, and its benefits to SMBs are overwhelming.

2007-03-12

Business Case: Storage Networking ROI

People often look first for business value on the front lines of IT, but there's a lot of business and IT value to be found in back-end projects, too.

2006-10-16

The CIO as Venture Capitalist

To Truly Master the Market, the Savvy IT Leader Needs to Know the Yield? and Risk? of Each New Project

2006-10-16

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