What CIOs Should Know About How They Spend Time

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	Time Is Money: What CIOs Should Know About How they Spend Their Time CIO's publisher emeritus Gary Beach looks at our annual State of the CIO data for clues to how CIOs manage their time and how well that aligns with their goals. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2011 IT Roadmap Washington, DC - 12/7 Washington Convention Cntr IT Roadmap Washington, DC will be returning to the Washington Convention Center on Wednesday, December 7, 2011. IT Roadmap is a regional one-day technology event that features a full-day conference program, and an exposition hall with leading technology providers. Click to continue In this Issue Why Today's CIO Must Foster IT Agility 6 More Mistakes Managers Make When Firing Employees IT Pros Staying Put, Expecting Raises Bloodiest Tech Industry Layoffs of 2011 Can You Trust One Outsourcing Provider to Manage the Rest? Enterprise Social Software: What Businesses Need to Do Next RIM Developer Chief on the Future of BlackBerry, BBX Introducing CIO.com's Newest Blog, Consumerology The Future of Human Computer Interfaces WHITE PAPER: inContact Debunking Security Concerns with Hosted Call Centers This paper discusses the different layers requiring security, how security should be addressed in each layer and how to select a qualified hosted call center provider. Learn More! Why Today's CIO Must Foster IT Agility Dell CIO Robin Johnson explains how a company's lack of agility, the inability of its IT infrastructure to quickly incorporate a new business process that would give it a competitive edge, can be costly. Johnson explains why the price of this lack of agility, what he refers to as the agility tax, is too high to pay. Read More 6 More Mistakes Managers Make When Firing Employees Terminating an employee is one of the hardest things a manager will ever have to do. Because firing someone can be so emotionally charged and logistically complicated, it's an easy process to mess up. Here are six more common mistakes managers make. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Optimization for the Cloud Download this Taneja Group Solution Brief to learn how these combinations require a different approach to optimizing the infrastructure, and how Riverbed Technology is making business use of the hybrid cloud possible Read Now IT Pros Staying Put, Expecting Raises There's cause for contentment among IT pros, many of whom are staying put at their current jobs due to a combination of lingering economic concerns and improving conditions at work. Read More Bloodiest Tech Industry Layoffs of 2011 Job cuts in the U.S. technology industry in 2011 are down significantly from a year ago and turnover levels in IT shops have returned to pre-recessionary levels, but that doesnt make the tens of thousands of people in the United States who have been laid off from electronics, telecommunications and computer industry jobs feel much better. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel IDC: Ways to Improve the Branch Office Well-targeted technology upgrades, coupled with a rigorous program to standardize and improve IT practices at a company's remote locations and headquarters, can deliver substantial business value and could reduce total annual IT costs in the branches by over 30%. Read now Can You Trust One Outsourcing Provider to Manage the Rest? Big IT service providers are offering up their skills as service integrators, promising to help CIOs reign in their multi-sourcing messes. But can this "fox watching the henhouse" model really work? Read More Enterprise Social Software: What Businesses Need to Do Next A Forrester Research report says that while social software is gaining steam in the marketplace, businesses are nowhere near close to seeing a social revolution. Here's a look at the report's key findings, plus five tips for mapping out the next steps. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems How IT is Changing the Way Business is Done The following discussion examines the forces driving the rapid rise of workshifting, the forms it can take, the IT challenges that must be addressed to enable it, the technologies now available to unlock its full value and the resulting benefits for the business. Read now RIM Developer Chief on the Future of BlackBerry, BBX CIO.com's Al Sacco chats with RIM's new VP of Developer Relations, Alec Saunders, about the new BlackBerry platform, BBX, the future of the existing BlackBerry OS, what this software split means to BlackBerry--and Android--developers, and more. Read More Introducing CIO.com's Newest Blog, Consumerology This blog will be covering information technology-related products and services that are moving from the enterprise and the Small and Medium Business (SMB) worlds down to the Small Office Home Office (SOHO) and consumer markets. It's about the trend for high tech products from the enterprise world to migrate towards consumers and for consumer products to migrate into the workplace. This two way migration is both disruptive and transformative to the how, why, and when we do business. Read More The Future of Human Computer Interfaces Researchers at the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group are prototyping new, novel and more natural ways for people to interact with computers and access and store information. Here are 10 innovations that enhance human-computer interactions, enrich our personal and professional lives, and make it easier to create, communicate, collaborate and even cook. Read More
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