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241 Management of IT Resources
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The CIO Role Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
cio.com— — “In 1987, I was working at The Pillsbury Company under Vice President of Information Management John Hammitt (the title of CIO was not widely used at that time) when CIO’s founding Editor Marcia Blumenthal came to visit…”
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Future of IT: Why Tech Managers Will Need Sharper Skills
cioinsight.com— — “The IT organization is changing—so much so that, soon enough, it may be unrecognizable.”
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The Role of the CIO in a Network Services World
cio.com— — “Greg Papadopoulous, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Sun Microsystems, is interviewed by CIO publisher Gary Beach on how chief information officers can gain competitive advantage leveraging a network services architecture.”
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Building Business Agility at Southwest Airlines
mitsloan.mit.edu— — “Southwest Airlines has grown from upstart to the largest U.S. airline in terms of number of passengers flown while recording 34 consecutive years of profitability.”
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The Dead End Project Trap
cio.com— — “Ed Yourdon, author of Death March, tells us how to avoid dead-end projects and what to do if you find yourself in one.”
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Are You Ready for the Coming Era of Rational Exuberance?
cio.com— — “Economic indicators, CEO confidence, global competition, aging infrastructures and increases in IT spending levels all point to an era of rational exuberance for IT investment.”
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IT leadership and the Role of the CIO: The Annual Gartner/EDUCAUSE Update
connect.educause.edu— — “As higher education institutions face a growing shortage of IT leaders, some executives question the need for a CIO while others see this role expanding. Will consider the role of the CIO and how it has evolved, along with current and future institutional needs for IT leadership.”
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Relationship Management: Stronger Parternerships to Inform IT Planning
connect.educause.edu— — “Relationship management is a holistic approach to understanding customer IT needs that augments existing relationships between customers and IT service teams. The goals are to position central IT to understand customer priorities and to inform operational and strategic planning.”
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The Last Mile of Change Management
channelinsider.com— — “It’s more expensive to fix an application problem once a product is released than if it had been caught in the development process. Getting a hold on application lifecycle management can deliver big savings to users.”
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Bridging the IT Generation Gap
cioinsight.com— — “Younger workers bring a new set of expectations to the marketplace. The good news: IT may have some built-in advantages for meeting the challenge.”
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The Change-Agent CIO
cioinsight.com— — “Futurist James Canton foresees the CIO motivating the rest of the organization, including the CEO and the board, to change.”
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Avoiding the Alignment Trap in IT
search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca— — companies seeking to deliver higher business performance by harnessing IT have focused on alignment — the degree to which the IT group understands the priorities of the business and expends its resources, pursues projects and provides information consistent with them.
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Seven Myths About Outsourcing
“In recent years, there’s been a seemingly endless boom in offshore outsourcing. But companies that think handing off an operation to an overseas provider is easy can get a rude awakening.”
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Why Bad Things Happen To Good Technology
In most companies, innovation is the responsibility of the technical side of the organization. The research and development staff is supposed to come up with the cool new technologies, and the rest of the company takes them to market.
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LinkedIn VP of Technical Operations: Lloyd Taylor
video.zdnet.com— — “Lloyd Taylor, Vice President of Technical Operations at LinkedIn talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about facilitating online communications between its 17 million business professionals.”
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LinkedIn vs. Facebook, MySpace
video.zdnet.com— — “LinkedIn VP of Technical Operations, Lloyd Taylor discusses the differences between LinkedIn’s professional network and more personalized sites like Facebook and MySpace.”
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Scaling the LinkedIn social graph
video.zdnet.com— — “LinkedIn VP of Technical Operations, Lloyd Taylor talks about scaling challenges such as improving the value of user relationships.”
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Mining the LinkedIn network
video.zdnet.com— — “LinkedIn VP of Technical Operations, Lloyd Taylor discusses new ways business professionals will communicate and consume information in the future.”
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PG&E CIO: Pat Lawicki
video.zdnet.com— — “In a CIO Vision Series interview, Pat Lawicki CIO of PG&E talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about energizing one of the United States’ largest utilities with new technologies, such as tagging utility poles with RFID…”
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Fixing damages immediately with RFID
video.zdnet.com— — “Pat Lawicki, CIO of PG&E describes how PG&E will start tagging transformers and poles with new RFID tags so line workers can more efficiently access and fix damages when accidents occur.”