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- Starbucks' Stephen Gillett: InformationWeek's IT Chief of The Year

Starbucks’ CIO blends technology, marketing, and innovation, a winning formula in our annual recognition of IT leadership. - How Starbucks Blends Marketing And Tech

Its holiday iPhone app shows how innovating for customers is a collaborative effort under the leadership of CIO Stephen Gillett, InformationWeek's IT Chief Of The Year. - Starbucks' Help Desk Secret: Model An Apple Store

Could your IT help desk learn a thing or two from the Apple genius bar concept? Starbucks CIO Stephen Gillett, InformationWeek's IT Chief of the year, sees it as the latest step in the consumerization of business IT. - Slideshow: How Starbucks Taps 7 Tech Trends
Starbucks is a leader in mobile payments, but it's still early in its use of cloud computing and big data customer analytics. Here are 7 ways that Starbucks CIO Stephen Gillett, InformationWeek's 2011 Chief of the Year, is utilizing emerging tech.
Features
- Who Owns The LAN? We Rank Six Switch Vendors

Cisco leads our IT Pro Ranking with an overall score of 77%, but HP, Dell, and others are finding ways to compete. - On Internet Evolution: Capacity Under Control
- On Dr. Dobb's: The Visual Studio 11
- On Dr. Dobb's: Windows 8's New Runtime
Columns
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Global CIO: IT's 2012 Resolution: Stop The Hand-Wringing
by Chris Murphy -
Down To Business: AT&T-T-Mobile Wrangling: What A Waste
by Rob Preston -
RIM BlackBerry Fusion: A Swing And A Miss?
by Art Wittmann
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