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Innovation Isn't Working At 4 Out Of 5 Companies

May 16, 2013 01:37 PM

Companies are too afraid of risk, among other factors, according to Accenture.

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5 Contrarian Tips On Innovation

May 13, 2013 09:06 AM

Think small, don't partner with business units and don't treat innovation like an election.

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20 Health IT Leaders Who Are Driving Change

May 13, 2013 08:00 AM

Innovation is tough amid today's regulatory checklists. These leaders are getting it done.

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FedEx Makes Strategic Shift

May 07, 2013 09:30 AM

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.

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Boston Hospital CIO Reflects After Bombing

April 25, 2013 12:10 PM

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka blogs on risk planning and data sharing in wake of the Boston Marathon bombing.

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Women In Tech: Career Advice From Elite Execs

April 24, 2013 10:50 AM

Work-life balance is a myth, risk-taking is vital and other lessons women (and men) must learn.

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Chicago CIO Pursues Predictive Analytics Strategy

April 23, 2013 02:00 PM

The city's IT team is using open source to build an analytics platform aimed at predicting and preventing big city problems.

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As Innovation Competitions Grow, Prize Money Shrinks

April 18, 2013 09:06 AM

Latest crowdsourced contests aim to attract data scientists with $100,000 prizes -- not yesterday's millions.

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IT Salary Survey 2013: 11 Career Insights

April 15, 2013 08:00 AM

IT salaries begin to thaw, with median pay for staffers at $90,000 and managers at $120,000.

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Have You Really Started A Mobile Strategy?

April 15, 2013 08:00 AM

An app isn't a strategy.

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Salesforce.com Takes Smartphone-First Approach

April 04, 2013 09:59 AM

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

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5 Underrated Healthcare Trends From A Top CIO

March 28, 2013 09:06 AM

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center CIO Dan Drawbaugh shares his thoughts about what the next health IT opportunities will be.

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Accenture's 7 Tech Trends Driving Digital Business

March 20, 2013 02:15 PM

From customer relationships to cloud, and why mobile isn't one of them.

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7 Tech Trends CIOs Call Overrated

March 15, 2013 09:06 AM

IT leaders share their opinions on "the most overrated IT movement." Do some of these buzzwords bug you?

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Goodbye IT, Hello Digital Business

March 11, 2013 08:00 AM

Delighting customers is job No. 1. Everything else is secondary.

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Allscripts' dbMotion Deal Speaks To Larger Trend

March 07, 2013 11:48 AM

Healthcare and other companies will have to push more development of the technology they'll need for the challenges ahead.

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GM Hiring 1,000 IT Employees In Phoenix Area

March 06, 2013 03:43 PM

General Motors puts the last of its four new U.S. tech development centers in Arizona. No Silicon Valley?

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HIMSS: Should Healthcare Be More Like Airline Industry?

March 05, 2013 09:33 AM

Such a comparison says not only that the healthcare industry must change, but also that those changes will be dramatic and gut wrenching.

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Marc Benioff Gets Back On Track

February 27, 2013 02:03 PM

Salesforce.com CEO focuses more on the customer and less on social. Here's why that should resonate with CIOs.

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P&G CIO: There's A Better Way To Create Software

February 14, 2013 09:06 AM

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.

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Bio

Chris Murphy is editor of InformationWeek magazine and Global CIO columnist on IT strategy issues. He has been covering technology leadership and strategy issues for InformationWeek since 1999. Before that, he was editor of the Budapest Business Journal, a business newspaper in Hungary; and a daily newspaper reporter in Michigan, where he covered everything from crime to the car industry. Murphy studied economics and journalism at Michigan State University, has an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia, and has passed the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams.

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Base: 417 respondents at organizations using or planning to deploy data analytics, BI or statistical analysis software
Data: InformationWeek 2013 Analytics, Business Intelligence and Information Management Survey of 541 business technology professionals, October 2012

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Chris Murphy

Articles

Innovation Isn't Working At 4 Out Of 5 Companies

5 Contrarian Tips On Innovation

20 Health IT Leaders Who Are Driving Change

FedEx Makes Strategic Shift

Boston Hospital CIO Reflects After Bombing

Women In Tech: Career Advice From Elite Execs

Chicago CIO Pursues Predictive Analytics Strategy

As Innovation Competitions Grow, Prize Money Shrinks

IT Salary Survey 2013: 11 Career Insights

Have You Really Started A Mobile Strategy?

Salesforce.com Takes Smartphone-First Approach

5 Underrated Healthcare Trends From A Top CIO

Accenture's 7 Tech Trends Driving Digital Business

7 Tech Trends CIOs Call Overrated

Goodbye IT, Hello Digital Business

Allscripts' dbMotion Deal Speaks To Larger Trend

GM Hiring 1,000 IT Employees In Phoenix Area

HIMSS: Should Healthcare Be More Like Airline Industry?

Marc Benioff Gets Back On Track

P&G CIO: There's A Better Way To Create Software

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