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Ten IT Talking Points Your CFO Will Love

Do you know how to talk to your CFO in terms that he or she understands? Here are ten talking points for the year ahead.

17 Dec 2009

IT Leadership IT Strategy

Designed for Growth

Rolls-Royce needed technology to support global expansion. But new business processes had to come first.

17 Dec 2009

IT Strategy

Oracle’s decade of acquisition: Innovative or just well-financed?

CEO Larry Ellison's "about face" on acquisition strategy, beginning with the hostile takeover of PeopleSoft in 2003, kicked off a decade of unprecedented software vendor consolidation, altering the marketplace for customers and vendors

15 Dec 2009 10 mins

ERP Systems IT Strategy Mergers and Acquisitions

Tiger Woods and Accenture: A High (and Now Low) Performance Relationship

Will Accenture's multimillion-dollar one-man marketing machine ("Go on. Be a Tiger.") have disastrous consequences for Accenture's brand and business lines, now that Woods is a pariah?

11 Dec 2009

IT Strategy Outsourcing Risk Management

Forrester: CIOs Should Embrace Consumer Tools

The consumerization of IT, the rise of agile software development and the explosion of cloud computing technologiesare three big trends that today's CIOs must embrace, a group of analysts at Forrester Research Inc. said Tuesday.

10 Dec 2009

CIO Careers IT Strategy

Business Strategy: The “Best Determinant” of Project Success

New project management research indicates that to be successful, projects must tie directly to business strategy, and project managers must understand how the project supports the strategy.

18 Nov 2009

IT Leadership IT Strategy Project Management Tools