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Kim S. Nash reveals what smart CIOs are thinking and doing.

Kim S. Nash

What’s the CIO's Biggest Challenge…in One Word?

|   Agility? Value? Exhaustion? The CFO? An informal poll in our CIO Forum on LinkedIn reveals as much about you as it does about CIO problems.

CIOs Can Strengthen Your Board of Directors

|   Boards can gain critical technical and strategy expertise while CIOs get career benefits – and a nice side income

Seeking Innovative Ideas? Read Something Quirky

|   CIOs are under pressure to come up with innovative ideas for the business. Try subscribing to a few obscure publications (print or online) that will trigger ideas outside your usual thinking patterns.

What CEOs Want from CIOs Now

|   Using IT to create new products is no longer enough. Now CIOs must be entrepreneurs who come up with entirely new business models.

Movin’ on Up: From CIO to President of Mansfield Oil

|   CIOs who want to be COO, President or CEO need optimism, P&L experience and the ability to deal with being "evil"

Why is IT Hiring so Hard?

|   CIOs want to hire IT generalists but admit to a large, financially damaging skills gap. Maybe IT leaders don't know how to find the right staff.

How Big Data Can Reduce Big Risk

|   Using predictive analytics to forecast IT failures is itself fraught with difficulty. But combined with artful human intervention, the tools can work.

How To Avoid Price Hike Backlash

|   CIOs should jump into pricing strategy discussions to ground price decisions in data

Only Big-League CIOs Join Corporate Earnings Conferences

|   One way to tell how much a company values IT--or how much the CEO values the CIO--is whether the CIO participates in the company’s earnings calls with Wall Street analysts. Few do.

Privacy: A CIO's Next Competitive Weapon

|   Google says that in-context privacy tools should supplement traditional privacy policies to give users more insight and control

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Cloud computing has emerged as one of the most significant game changers to hit the technology landscape in the past 20 years. With this massive expansion of the cloud, the perception of the IT organization is shifting from a utility player to a change agent. This eBook breaks down five ways progressive organizations are using cloud-based IT Management solutions to help drive innovation and become more strategic, including: adding visibility and analytics, speeding up time-to-value, lowering costs, improving prioritization, and providing a blueprint for future cloud deployments.
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There are 3 ways to modernize legacy applications: rewrite completely, acquire packaged solutions or migrate existing code. This paper explains why it's best to migrate and how IBM® Rational® software can help.
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This whitepaper, authored by The Radicati Group, looks at the key reasons organizations should consider moving to a cloud-based archiving solution. Email archiving solutions enable organizations to store, monitor, and collect electronic data exchanged by their users to comply with internal policies and regulations.
ATERNITY will showcase a 30-minute demo on how Fortune 500 companies are leveraging its award-winning FPI Platform to deliver a user-centric approach to Proactive IT Management.
For businesses to move forward and tap into the ever-expanding universe of Internet users and network-enabled devices, it's critical to learn how to make the transition to IPv6. Learn the critical steps your organization must take to make a seamless transition-and keep your business world connected.
Learn how IT teams can protect against spear phishing tactics. Harry Sverdlove, chief technology officer of Bit9 offers a frank discussion about spear phishing - the most common technique used in today's advanced attacks.
Learn how to build a solid business case for your migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux so you can run leaner, innovate faster, be more flexible and own the New Now.
Social media isn't about you; it's about everything around you. As you consider how your customers want to communicate with you, social media is something that can't be ignored. But what should your strategy be? Is social media "just another channel?" What kind of a plan makes sense for your contact center and for your customers? Join our experts as they share their insight and research results.
Hardware tokens were a popular method of strong authentication in past years but the cumbersome provisioning and distribution tasks, high support requirements and replacement costs have limited their growth. The additional log-in steps that hardware tokens require and the resulting user frustrations have limited adoption and make them impractical for larger scale partner and customer applications.

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