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- Healthcare CIO 20: Innovation is tough amid today's regulatory checklists. These leaders are getting it done.
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Featured Reports
Innovation Isn't Working At 4 Out Of 5 Companies
May 16, 2013
Companies are too afraid of risk, among other factors, according to Accenture.
5 Contrarian Tips On Innovation
May 13, 2013
Think small, don't partner with business units and don't treat innovation like an election.
20 Health IT Leaders Who Are Driving Change
May 13, 2013
Innovation is tough amid today's regulatory checklists. These leaders are getting it done.
FedEx Makes Strategic Shift
May 07, 2013
As part of a broader strategy to cut costs and modernize its IT, FedEx offered a voluntary buyout to IT and select other workers as it adjusts its talent mix by giving more work to service providers.
Boston Hospital CIO Reflects After Bombing
April 25, 2013
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka blogs on risk planning and data sharing in wake of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Women In Tech: Career Advice From Elite Execs
April 24, 2013
Work-life balance is a myth, risk-taking is vital and other lessons women (and men) must learn.
Chicago CIO Pursues Predictive Analytics Strategy
April 23, 2013
The city's IT team is using open source to build an analytics platform aimed at predicting and preventing big city problems.
As Innovation Competitions Grow, Prize Money Shrinks
April 18, 2013
Latest crowdsourced contests aim to attract data scientists with $100,000 prizes -- not yesterday's millions.
IT Salary Survey 2013: 11 Career Insights
April 15, 2013
IT salaries begin to thaw, with median pay for staffers at $90,000 and managers at $120,000.
Have You Really Started A Mobile Strategy?
April 15, 2013
An app isn't a strategy.
Salesforce.com Takes Smartphone-First Approach
April 04, 2013
Salesforce.com co-founder Parker Harris sees customers using smartphones more than tablets for CRM apps, and he's betting on a blended HTML5 and native-app strategy
5 Underrated Healthcare Trends From A Top CIO
March 28, 2013
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center CIO Dan Drawbaugh shares his thoughts about what the next health IT opportunities will be.
Accenture's 7 Tech Trends Driving Digital Business
March 20, 2013
From customer relationships to cloud, and why mobile isn't one of them.
7 Tech Trends CIOs Call Overrated
March 15, 2013
IT leaders share their opinions on "the most overrated IT movement." Do some of these buzzwords bug you?
Goodbye IT, Hello Digital Business
March 11, 2013
Delighting customers is job No. 1. Everything else is secondary.
Allscripts' dbMotion Deal Speaks To Larger Trend
March 07, 2013
Healthcare and other companies will have to push more development of the technology they'll need for the challenges ahead.
GM Hiring 1,000 IT Employees In Phoenix Area
March 06, 2013
General Motors puts the last of its four new U.S. tech development centers in Arizona. No Silicon Valley?
HIMSS: Should Healthcare Be More Like Airline Industry?
March 05, 2013
Such a comparison says not only that the healthcare industry must change, but also that those changes will be dramatic and gut wrenching.
Marc Benioff Gets Back On Track
February 27, 2013
Salesforce.com CEO focuses more on the customer and less on social. Here's why that should resonate with CIOs.
P&G CIO: There's A Better Way To Create Software
February 14, 2013
Procter & Gamble CIO Filippo Passerini thinks cooperation among the likes of Disney, FedEx and Goldman Sachs could push software vendors to build more relevant analytics software --and build it faster.
P&G CEO Shares 3 Steps To Analytics-Driven Business
February 07, 2013
CEO Bob McDonald makes the case that analytics needs to move from the periphery of operations to the "center of how business gets done."
Are Big Companies Ready For Cloud ERP?
February 04, 2013
Any ERP change is high risk, but CIOs will look closely at cloud options.
Why Royal Caribbean Treats iPads Like Bed Sheets
January 22, 2013
CIO Bill Martin explains how the cruise line works with Apple, how it's improving on-board Internet access and how it gives new guests a clean iPad.
5 Ways Business Still Fails The IT Organization
January 18, 2013
If IT doesn't deliver everything a business wants, it's not all IT's fault, readers say.
General Motors Hiring 1,000 IT Pros In Atlanta
January 10, 2013
GM will start interviewing as soon as next week, as CIO Randy Mott continues with plans to rely on staffers instead of outsourcers.