CIO Role: Is IT Facing a Leadership Crisis?

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	CIO Role: Is IT Facing a Leadership Crisis? The CIO role is undergoing yet another shift, and the emerging CIO position requires a mix of capabilities that many existing IT leaders lack. CIO.com investigates what abilities are needed to be successful in this new CIO role and where future CIOs will come from. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Business Analytics Summit Business Analytics Summit - November 17, 2011 - Boston Attend and benchmark yourself against respondents to this exclusive Computerworld/IBM Cognos survey that looks at organizations' top objectives and challenges in using business analytics. Plus, learn how the most mature users of business analytics compare with those who are just starting out or are partway along the maturity curve. Register now. In this Issue 'You have to Be Masochist to Be an IT Person': FedEx CIO Gartner: 16 Long-Held IT Business Practices You Need to Kill Forrester: Tech Changes to Expect in Next 3 Years Job Search Conundrum: Why You Can't Get a Job 10 LinkedIn Tips to Boost Your Job Search How to Radically Improve Your IT Security for Free USTA Scores Cost Savings, Agility with Amazon Cloud Service The Challenges of Managing Mountains of Information Inside the iPhone 4S: Is It a Work of Art? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2011 SVP & CTO of Autobytel to Keynote IT Roadmap San Jose John Petrone, CTO from Autobytel will discuss how he guided his department through massive downsizing, and came out the other side delivering more value to the greater organization. Discover how Autobytel transformed its IT group through virtualization, outsourcing and agile development. Visit http://www.itroadmap.net/SJ2011/nlp2 to register today. 'You have to Be Masochist to Be an IT Person': FedEx CIO How Rob Carter reinvented IT at FedEx. Read More Gartner: 16 Long-Held IT Business Practices You Need to Kill With CIO budgets heading for their 11th consecutive year of growing at 3% or less, it's time to offer up some sacred caws for sacrifice. Read More WEBCAST: Microsoft Transforming operations to simplify knowledge access Discover how one of the largest privately-held commercial real estate firms in the United States enhanced collaboration and modernized communication by migrating to a flexible, data-driven system built on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Learn More! Forrester: Tech Changes to Expect in Next 3 Years Business Intelligence tools, mobile apps and cloud application platforms are areas that will evolve and create significantly more business value between today and 2014, according to a new Forrester report on enterprise technology trends. (reg. required) Read More Job Search Conundrum: Why You Can't Get a Job You're following every single job search best practice to a T, yet you still haven't landed a job. What gives? Here are some thoughts on the forces that may be working against you. Read More WHITE PAPER: inContact Ensuring Business Continuity in the Contact Center This white paper examines the challenges of implementing and managing a disaster recovery program in the contact center environment. It reviews the direct and indirect impacts of different disasters as well as short and long term effects. Learn More! 10 LinkedIn Tips to Boost Your Job Search Is your job search lagging? Not seeing the results you'd like? Check out these ten expert tips from CIO.com's Kristin Burnham to enhance your search. Read More How to Radically Improve Your IT Security for Free The weakest link in IT security is usually users. Their biggest weak spot is passwords. Users want passwords that are easy to remember – which means easy to figure out. The solution is something that's easy to remember and hard to crack. And it's free. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Consolidation Without Compromise Pay more to get less consolidation? How dense does F5 think you are? The Iron Age is over. The Cloud Age is here. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 2x consolidation. For less. Don't compromise your consolidation project. Learn how virtualization streamlines your datacenter and consolidates network resources. Download Consolidation Without Compromise now. Read more USTA Scores Cost Savings, Agility with Amazon Cloud Service USTA CIO Larry Bonfante explains why his organization moved its back-office systems to the cloud, why he selected Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the many benefits the USTA has been reaping from the decision. Read More The Challenges of Managing Mountains of Information If you think the storage systems in your data centers are out of control, imagine having 449 billion objects in your database, or having to add 40 terabytes of new data each week. Read More Inside the iPhone 4S: Is It a Work of Art? Apple spared no expense putting together the iPhone, even on the internal design and materials used. But don't drop it. Read More
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