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Employment in the 13 most western states, including Alaska and Hawaii and excluding Texas, will rise 1.8 percent in 2013 and 2 percent in 2014, according to IHS Global Insight. That’s fastest among U.S. regions both years. Moody’s Analytics also said the area has the most favorable job oRobert Thomson got a 20 percent raise after starting last month at Richmond American Homes in Salt Lake City, eight months after landing a job at another builder. A year ago, he was unemployed.“I feel much better than I did,” said Thomson, 33. “There’s a lot of construction, just a lot of things going on.”Hiring by homebuilders and software and mobile-application developers is helping the western third of the United States lead the nation in employment growth, according to Moody’s Analytics and IHS Global Insight. That’s a contrast for the region, which has had the highest unemployment rates after the collapse of the U.S. housing bubble in 2006, with prices plunging in Las Vegas, Southern California and Arizona.Nevada’s unemployment fell 2.4 percentage points in the year ended November 2012, the most of any state, to 10.8 percent, though it’s still the highest in the United States, according to the Labor Department. Joblessness in Arizona, California, Hawaii and Idaho are all down by at least 1 percentage point in the same period.
It’s that time of year again for every CIO to reflect and think about what they want for the coming year ahead. No, this doesn't have to involve gadgets or really, really cool technology. Instead, it’s a much broader wishlist that looks at some of the common challenges facing the modern CIO.
Good morning. Get ready for the next wave of consumerization. The WSJ has a story this morning indicating that Apple really, truly is preparing to push deeper into the TV market. (more on that below.) This development should be on the radar for CIOs–but not because employees are likely to start bringing 80-inch, high resolution screens to work with them and demanding that CIOs support them with bowls of popcorn.CloudNewsNet: @CloudNewsNet » GlobeRanger Announces the Release of iMotion Stratus; Cloud Computing for RFID, ... http://t.co/RnnGP7kl #CloudComputingwhoisdarwin: RT @IQPCAsia: Seriously, what is Big Data? http://t.co/RPjgxwmz #video #bigdata @ssonetwork @IQPCshakayumi: cloud unbound Microsoft To Apple: Don't Take Your Normal 30% Cut of Office For iOS http://t.co/ywnECvQ9 #cloudcomputingCloudBuzzNet: RT @simonlporter: How does Smarter Computing grow top line business growth? With #cloud, #bigdata, and #security. Read on: http://t.co/1 ...CIO Journal has the focus of a trade journal with the global resources and expertise of The Wall Street Journal.CIO Journal has the focus of a trade journal with the global resources and expertise of The Wall Street Journal.
Michael Dell talked everything from big data and cloud computing to touchscreen PCs at the Dell World conference yesterday, with the Texan reserving special mention for bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and Windows 8.Talking at the conference, the Dell CEO first dismissed any suggestions of the ‘post-PC’ world, instead insisting that businesses are still using these devices for the bulk of their work.“There are about a quarter billion PCs sold every year and the installed base of PCs is about a billion and a half. Overwhelmingly, PCs are how business gets done in the world today.”"And now with Windows 8, we’re on the cusp of the next revolution of Windows hardware and software, bringing together the laptop and the touch screen." The latter point was arguably not so surprising given Dell’s gung-ho stance on Windows 8 tablets and PCs, but what proved more enlightening was the company’s attitude to Microsoft’s new operating system in regard to the BYOD trend."In the customer conversations that we’ve been having, the interest in Windows 8 is quite high, even with commercial customers, who would normally wait a few releases to adopt the new versions," stated the Dell founder."What we’re seeing here is really an immediate need [for Windows 8], because CIOs are worried about the ramifications of a BYOD world.”
Juniper Networks CIO Bask Iyer said CEOs who don’t allow CIOs join executive meetings to discuss business strategy should be fired. Conversely, CIOs who aren’t mature enough or can communicate effectively about the business should also be shown the door, he said.doug_laney: RT @smart421: @doug_laney Hi Doug, you've been cited and credited in new blog on #BigData today. See http://t.co/X5v38x2OLionKingsShare: RT @BigDataClub: Hi @D1G_DuG, thanks for joining #BigData #Club, please join #BigDataClub #group on #LinkedInCIO Journal has the focus of a trade journal with the global resources and expertise of The Wall Street Journal.CIO Journal has the focus of a trade journal with the global resources and expertise of The Wall Street Journal.
An interesting opinion piece on Computing looks at the corporate challenges of adopting Android from a CIO perspective. It's written by Neil Florio is VP marketing at Fiberlink who outlines the challenges of securely accommodating "550 Android device types, 48 manufacturers, and a multitude of carriers worldwide"...For example, Florio considers user management:
An ambitious plan is emerging in Congress that, if approved, would represent the most sweeping overhaul of the way agencies buy and manage information technology since the 1996 Clinger-Cohen Act, which created chief information officers at all agencies.At its center is a redefinition of what is a federal CIO: The proposal by House Government Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., would reduce the number of CIOs in government — to one per agency — and empower those remaining with more authority to decide how their departments’ IT dollars are spent.“The Clinger[-Cohen] Act … needs an overhaul for one most important reason, and that is: If you authorize CIOs, then by definition, the term should mean something,” Issa said at a Dec. 3 industry event. “When you have hundreds of them for 24 major agencies, you really don’t have chiefs. And that’s the most important thing that this bill is intended to do is to redefine the term ‘chief’ to mean the chief. … There has to be one responsible individual who then holds their staff at all levels, regardless of their titles and their paygrades, responsible. We really don’t have that in the federal government.”The plan is outlined in a draft bill called the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act that Issa circulated to industry groups for feedback. Issa has not said when he will introduce the bill, but industry groups expect it will be next year. Other proposed reforms in the package include:
Randy Spratt runs information technology for the largest company in the largest sector of the largest economy on earth. For most of the last decade, he has served as Chief Information Officer for the $123 billion healthcare behemoth, McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK), and in 2009, he assumed the Chief Technology Officer responsibilities. To the uninitiated, the CIO/CTO dual role may seem less dynamic than some other CIO-plus combinations we have covered and will yet cover in this series. That analysis would be wrong, however, as Spratt tells us, these are distinct responsibilities, and they reflect both sides of the information technology landscape which become more complex the larger the company is.(To read past articles in the CIO-plus series, please click this link. To be apprised of future articles in the series, including interviews with CIO-pluses of P&G, Marsh & McLennan, Owens Corning, Ameristar Casinos, and others, please click the “Follow” button above.)Peter High:Randy, you have been Chief Information Officer of McKesson Corporation for nearly a decade. In 2009, you added the Chief Technology Officer role. How do you distinguish between those roles? Randy Spratt:The CIO role is fairly typical for a large, federated model company. I have overall accountability for the company’s infrastructure and business applications; some of this is discharged directly, such as USA infrastructure and global applications. Some is discharged through governance. Examples include enterprise architecture, business specific applications, and international. Some of this is stewardship with board accountability, like IT risk and IT security. In this role, I set the strategic direction, and am ultimately accountable for the successful operations, of the company’s information assets.
Dan Lyons is Editor-in-Chief of ReadWrite. Previously, Dan was Technology Editor at Newsweek. Before that he spent a decade at Forbes, covering technology. Dan was the creator of "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," a satirical blog written in the persona of Fake Steve Jobs. He has published three novels, written comedy for TV, and published articles for Vanity Fair, Wired, The New York Times Magazine and many others. He has appeared as a guest on CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg TV, Fox Business News and National Public Radio, and is a frequent speaker at corporate and industry events. His personal site is realdanlyons.com.Here’s some stunning, Earth-shattering news: You know all those hundreds of incredibly stupid startups that have been raising seed money in Silicon Valley despite the fact that the people running those startups have no experience doing anything, ever, and have no idea at all how to generate revenue (let alone profit) with their lousy ideas, because, in fact, there is no way to make money with their lousy ideas, because in fact their ideas are lousy?And the dopey angel investors who wrote the checks for those startups are going to lose their money. Because they can't foist their bad investments onto the venture capitalists who occupy the next rung up on the food chain.
The digital transformation of media — evident in the millions of consumers using e-readers, tablets and smartphones — is prompting CIOs and CTOs to take more active roles in marketing their companies’ products online. Rob Hilliard, CTO for Reader’s Digest, North America, says the shift requires a rethink of the company’s culture, organization, process and technology.Claudia_Imhoff: #BBBT this Friday is with @Greenplum & their #BigData story. Tune in at 9 AM MST for the tweet stream from our analysts & consultantsTheCloudNetwork: RT @TheMobileCloud: Apica Named One of the Fastest Growing Technology Companies on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500: ... http://t.co/0dD ...TheCloudNetwork: RT @TheManagedCloud: Aveksa Launches MyAccessLive, a New Cloud-Based Identity and Access Management Solution: Avek... http://t.co/y5WShu ...TheCloudNetwork: Amazon previews Node.js for its cloud: Amazon is looking for developer feedback on its lates... http://t.co/AKslkAud #amazon #cloud #TCNTheCloudNetwork: OpenNebula in Amazon EC2: A Private Cloud Within a Public Cloud: Related; Print; Email; Feed... http://t.co/KbDukRDn #amazon #cloud #TCNCIO Journal has the focus of a trade journal with the global resources and expertise of The Wall Street Journal.CIO Journal has the focus of a trade journal with the global resources and expertise of The Wall Street Journal.
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