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Do You Care Enough About the Soft Skills of Your IS Staff?

Should You Take Your Best People With You When You Leave?

ERP Training Stinks

Playing for Keeps

Companies better get serious about playing around with computer-based models if they want to remain competitive.

Internet Surfing at the Workplace

Every enterprise CIO should have policies governing Web activity in the office.

ERP Training Stinks

As ERP implementations falter and fail, many people think the answer is more training. They're wrong.

CIO’s Top 10 Clues That You May Be a Bad Boss

And you won't find lack of technology chops here.

Coaching: What Managers Need

With some guidance, new managers will thrive. And so will their coworkers.

Are You a Bad Boss?

Your people are flying out the door left and right. Blame it on recruiters if you like, but you're the problem.

IT Disaster at the Atlanta Olympics

When the 1996 Olympic website flamed out.

How IT Supports the Big Business of Sports

On the road with the IT team that gathers, processes and disseminates the facts and figures for giant events such as the U.S. Open and PGA Championship.

Why IT Recruiting Can Be Your Hardest Job

Three immutable and unpleasant truths about information technology staffing and retention.

Playing Defense in Political Situations

No one is immune to the dangers of an overly political environment. The difference between success and failure is having a solid political defense.

IT in a War Crimes Tribunal

Finding evidence in the rubble, building cases amid chaos, the International Criminal Tribunal for the rormer Yugoslavia is leveraging IT to help hold the butchers of Bosnia and the criminals of Kosovo responsible for their sins.

African Americans, Hispanic IT Executives Also Face Challenges

African Americans aren't the only minorities who struggle for equality in the workplace. The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers reveals the unique challenges Hispanic Americans face.

Countdown to Rollover

Has the World Done Enough to Prevent Y2K?

Five Steps to Capturing and Measuring IT Value

How do you know that your investment in a new business application has returned valueu2014and how much value?

SLAs–Key Steps in the Development Process

A 10-point guide.

SLAs–Agenda for a Meeting

A look at what happens at a typical service level agreement meeting.

SLAs–Keep It Simple

'Divide and conquer' may be the key to service level agreement success.

SLAs: A CIO’s Guide to Success

Today's service level agreements are distinguished by clear, simple language and a tight focus on the business. For IS groups that use them, the benefits can be substantial.

Advanced Data Mining

Marketing secrets from the financial sector show how data mining charts a profitable course to customer management

CIO Hall of Fame: Donald R. Lasher

Throughout this varied and successful career, one thing has always guided Donald Lasher: the necessity of building partnerships between an organization's business side and IT.

CIO Hall of Fame: Bob L. Martin

Martin's drive and exacting style earned him considerable influence, not only within Wal-Mart but also beyond.

CIO Hall of Fame: John Cross

Cross's achievements are nothing short of visionary, and that fact has given him considerable influence among his peers.

CIO Hall of Fame: Patricia M. Wallington

Wallington strives to better understand the business in order to maximize IS's contribution.

CIO Hall of Fame: Katherine M. Hudson

Hudson's was not the first IT outsourcing deal, but it was big and bold enough to gain worldwide attention.

CIO Hall of Fame: Ron J. Ponder

Ron Ponder has consistently tackled large, high-risk projects that would spell doom for many CIOs.

CIO Hall of Fame: Max D. Hopper

Hopper is the pre-eminent modern-era CIO and a founding father of IT-inspired competitive advantage.

CIO Hall of Fame: David V. Evans

That IT is perceived today as an essential business tool can be traced to Evans.

CIO Hall of Fame: Cinda A. Hallman

Cinda Hallman was one of the most important assets DuPont acquired in its 1981 purchase of Conoco, where she began her IS career in 1966.

CIO Hall of Fame: DuWayne J. Peterson

Sometime in the late 1980s, Peterson was reported to be the first CIO in a public company to earn a seven-figure salary.

CIO Hall of Fame: Paul A. Strassmann

More than most CIOs on this list, Paul Strassmann invites controversy.

CIO Hall of Fame

CIO chooses the 12 most influential information technology executives of the past decade and the tools, techniques and systems that helped make them famous.

CIO Hall of Fame: Charles Feld

Feld says successful CIOs need to be "tough-minded optimists."

Dos and don’ts of data mining