global-cio: Outsourcing
Can IT Be Trusted With Personal Devices?
Mobile device management as a path to security is a fundamentally flawed strategy. You must manage the data.
SAP Faces Uphill Battle On Database, Mobile, Cloud
SAPPHIRE conference spotlights a young, three-pronged strategy that remains a work in progress.
10 Ways To Stifle Tech Competition
Competition happens, unless you can avoid it. From Microsoft Windows RT to Google Chrome, here's how today's giants safeguard their turf.
Is Open Source Hardware IT's Next Big Thing?
Open source hardware isn't just for hobbyists. Early corporate adopters can reap business benefits.
Automate Your Way To One-Day Work Week
One man's secret: Learn to program, stretch your ethics, and work for a clueless company.
Ban On USAID Outsourcing Programs Makes Bipartisan Sense
U.S. Congressman Tim Bishop wants to bar the development agency from using public funds to help train offshore workers. Here's why lawmakers from...
3 Lessons From Yahoo's Meltdown, From An Insider
A former Yahoo exec who was laid off offers insights from the company's five-year drive to self-destruction.
The CIO Wears Two Hats: Isn't IT Enough?
Like Rick Roy, a growing number of CIOs now run IT plus another major business function. Here's why CUNA Mutual Group pointed Roy at procurement,...
NASA Blue Marble Project: Visual Data Lessons
What can IT leaders learn from the visualization techniques NASA used to create the Blue Marble earth images? Check out our video interview with...
Why Security Isn't A BYOD Showstopper
IT should view the bring-your-own-device phenomenon as less of a threat and more as an opportunity. Here's why.
10 Lessons From Leading Government CIOs
Under extreme budget pressure, federal IT leaders adopt shared services and build mobile app stores as they shift dollars where most needed.
If Apple Walls Garden, IT Should Demand Keys
Here's how and why IT must influence Apple and its smaller competitors to share a key to the walled garden coming to a desktop near you.
The Fall Of The Messiah Leader
Many CEOs create an illusion of control, but heroic, charismatic leadership in the context of large public companies is mostly a myth.
Dell/Compellent Wins Our Storage Evaluation
IT pros want reliability, performance, and low cost--and they say they’re getting it best from Dell’s recent storage acquisition,...
CIOs: Don't Get Taken For Granted
If your IT organization is seen as executing each new strategic initiative seamlessly, the job can't really be all that difficult, right?
RIM CEO Heins Impresses The BlackBerry Faithful
Research In Motion's new CEO Thorsten Heins connected with BlackBerry World attendees in a way RIM's former CEOs never did. He also acknowledged...
Collaborative Innovation Not Optional In Today's Economy
Given the global economic changes that began in 2008, we've been forced into a new way of working. Is your company burying its head in the sand,...
Barnes & Noble Deal Shows Microsoft's Patent Power
Bookseller could have continued expensive court battle with Microsoft over Android-based Nook, or cut Redmond a sweetheart deal. It chose the latter.
3 Examples: Visual Technologies Change The Rules
Businesses of all shapes and sizes will soon be held to a higher standard of customer experience as they try to sell products, or convey content...
After Flashback, Apple Walled Gardens Won't Help
Apple and other vendors will use the Flashback botnet as reason to move forward with desktop walled garden restrictions. Here's why that approach...
Why Apple Will Never Equal Sony
Is Apple destined to decline, as Forrester's CEO has predicted? If so, it won't be due to the absence of Steve Jobs.
An Open Internet: A Tale Of Two Approaches
The Obama administration takes a hard line, while the Aspen Institute sticks with softer platitudes, as some governments try to restrict Internet...
How Embedded Tech Can Change IT's Role
Consider some 75 examples of companies embedding technologies in products, from shoes to showers, in new ways. Embedded tech is finally allowing...
Google Drive Shows 'Bring Your Own Cloud' Has Arrived
I'm using two consumer cloud services, one enterprise cloud service, and two conventional software packages to get you this column. Am I insane,...
Intel Ivy Bridge: What Enterprise IT Gains
ARM will own the smartphone market, Intel will own the desktop and high-end laptop market, and the space in between the two will likely become...
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Ban On USAID Outsourcing Programs Makes Bipartisan Sense
May 11, 2012U.S. Congressman Tim Bishop wants to bar the development agency from using public funds to help train offshore workers. Here's why lawmakers from...
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IT Growing Pains: An SMB Outsourcing Dilemma
May 11, 2012C&J Energy Services once outsourced all its technology needs, but it's outgrown that approach. Here's how the company now decides what to keep...
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Lawmaker Seeks Ban On USAID-Backed Outsourcing
May 11, 2012Proposal by U.S. Congressman Tim Bishop would bar agency from funding programs that train overseas students in the Philippines and other countries...
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Communications Outsourcing: How To Prep For Success
April 26, 2012When outsourcing management of communications networks, poor prep work can do in the project. Here's advice on SLAs and related keys to success.
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U.S. Suspends Controversial Outsourcing Training Program
April 23, 2012Funding stopped for USAID program that trained students in the Philippines to work in offshore, English language call centers serving U.S. companies.
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Can Software Help Infosys Out Of Financial Rut?
April 23, 2012A digital marketing platform called BrandEdge is the Indian company's newest attempt to sell software, not just IT and BPO services. It's got its...
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Lawmakers Slam USAID Outsourcing Training Program
April 23, 2012Congressmen say U.S.-funded initiative to train call center workers in the Philippines puts American jobs at risk.
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5 Tips For Negotiating Cloud Software SLAs
April 16, 2012Custom cloud service level agreements aren't the norm, but can be done. Prepare to make a business case to the cloud provider with this expert advice.
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Apple Supplier Foxconn Will Reduce Working Hours
March 30, 2012Fair Labor Association association finds significant issues with factories in China operated by Apple supplier Foxconn, which said it would reduce...
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Outsourcing Or Automation: No Difference To Unemployed Workers
March 28, 2012Some 750,000 U.S. tech and business workers are going to get the pink slip between now and 2016. Does it really matter if their jobs go offshore...
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