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CIO Ones to Watch Honorees

Harvard’s Clayton Christensen: Seeing What’s Next

Leadership Skills: Must Haves for Stepping Up

Technology Leadership: What It Takes

CIO Career Development for Lunch

The Future of Business on the Web

McFarlan Plugs The Tipping Point

How to Identify and Cultivate Your Future IT Leaders

Lessons from Running a Business P&L

The Once and Future CIO

Warren McFarlan Talks Change

ID Theft Could Happen to You

Champion the People and the Projects

Nothing Succeeds Like Succession Planning

New UPS CIO Dave Barnes is the latest product of a culture that values succession planning.

E-mail out-of-office replies

What should you put in your e-mail out of office message? Here are some real-life examples.

Comair’s Christmas Disaster: Bound To Fail

The 2004 crash of a critical legacy system at Comair is a classic risk management mistake that cost the airline $20 million and badly damaged its reputation.

With ERP, Ask First, Implement Later

Northeastern's CIO uses an electronic survey to find out which IT projects his users really want.

10 ERP Tips from College CIOs for All CIOs

Don't go to the school of hard knocks; learn from those who've already been there.

University ERP: Big Mess on Campus

Disastrous ERP implementations have given more than a few universities black eyes. Fortunately, alternatives to these complex integrations now exist.

Timing Is Key in Succession Planning

Succession planning requires coordination and corralled egos.

How to Succeed as a CEO

IT succession planning can be a springboard for CIOs who want to move up.

The Magic of Positive Politics

Being a CIO in the health-care industry can be a trial. For Sutter Health's John Hummel, practicing the art of political theater helps soften the tribulations.

Times’ Friedman Talks a Good Education

The Buzz Surrounding Software Patents

Separating Integration from Applications

Integration Between Desktop Software and ERP

Shared IT Services

Turning Around an Ailing IT Organization

Congressman an Advocate for Technology

Businesspeople Need New Ideas

CIOs and the Innovation Question

Is the U.S. Losing Its Innovation Edge?

Staffing Retention Woes

Still a Long Wait for Longhorn

The Future of U.S. Innovation

Still a Long Wait for Microsoft Longhorn

Toyota Fills a Metrics Gap

A digital dashboard supplies Toyota's business executives with vital statistics about IT.

How Barbra Cooper Came Up with a Plan to Save IS

How IT changed its stripes without layoffs or great angst.

Toyota’s Big Fix: An IS Department Turnaround

How Toyota's CIO radically restructured her entire approach to IT and regained the trust of the business.

Productivity and Plain Vanilla Software

400,000 More IDs Stolen (If Anyone Cares)

Response to Outsourcing Versus Globalization

Executives and Managers Plan to Travel

IBM Allows Free Access to Patents

Oil Prices Sap Consumer Power

Am I Breaking the Law Now?

The Real Difference Between Globalization and Outsourcing

Linking Policies Seem Unusually Restrictive

Businesses Need to Attach Value to Time

Surviving the IT Audit