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JC Penney CEO And CIO Put IT At Heart Of New StrategyJC Penney CEO And CIO Put IT At Heart Of New Strategy

Retailer JC Penney's CEO and CIO are telling analysts and shareholders at today's annual meeting that IT has moved front and center in the company's strategy. The company is pushing traditional IT infrastructure management to third parties and is focusing its 1,100-member IT team on exciting, delighting, and extracting revenue from customers.

Bob Evans

April 22, 2009

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Retailer JC Penney's CEO and CIO are telling analysts and shareholders at today's annual meeting that IT has moved front and center in the company's strategy. The company is pushing traditional IT infrastructure management to third parties and is focusing its 1,100-member IT team on exciting, delighting, and extracting revenue from customers.Plus, JC Penney is hiring IT pros - lots of them! - with 150 new positions within its "digital center for excellence" at its Dallas headquarters, adding to the current team of 1,100 full-time IT staffers and 600 contractors, according to the

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Bob Evans is senior VP, communications, for Oracle Corp. He is a former InformationWeek editor.

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