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Emerging Technologies: Getting From Promise to Payoff
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Bigger budgets go to strategic IT
The strategic value of information isn't going away, even if the job of chief information officer as we know it may vanish. "Ten years from now, you'll see very few CIOs," says Ian Campbell, CEO of IT consultancy Nucleus Research. Yet, the importance of information to all kinds of organizations will grow in the coming years. That could mean information strategy will become a specialized and critical function led by a top visionary reporting to the chief executive officer. And the title of that creative thinker: chief information—not chief IT—officer.
The "New" Chief Information Officer
Controlling costs and aligning IT with business were among the favorite topics of our Web site visitors in September. They also showed interest in the emerging Web 2.0 offerings of corporate social networks and virtual worlds. Here are the top 10 requested articles from last month. 1. 8 Ways to Cut IT Labor Costs: But Should You Do It?
CIOs show a wide-range of interests in what they read online.
Creating Enterprise 2.0 from Web 2.0
The open-source CRM maker has raised $33 million for further expansion into the enterprise market. SugarCRM says it added 2,700 customers last year and is now the third most used CRM solution. An Australian court found Google guilty of breaching trade law by hosting misleading or deceptive advertisements in a ruling that holds search engines responsible for their advertisers' content. IBM rolls out its first update of DB2 software in four years. With DB2 10, working with InfoSphere Warehouse 10, Big Blue aims to help clients "tame the data deluge" and speed up business processes.
Strategic SOA outpacing tactical Web services for ROI
The Just a Bunch of Web Services (JBOWS) approach not only does not amount to a strategic implementation of service-oriented architecture (SOA), it also does not pay off in return on investment (ROI), When you register, you'll begin receiving targeted emails from my team of award-winning writers. Our goal is to keep you informed on recent service-oriented architecture (SOA) and SOA-related topics such as integration, governance, Web services, Cloud and more. according to a new report from Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company. Organizations investing in a "full SOA infrastructure," reported better results in terms of lower application development and maintenance costs and high end user satisfaction, than those doing tactical Web services, according to the Aberdeen survey.CIO — The fundamental problem when businesspeople use trendy phrases like agility, innovation, resilience and adaptability is that their meaning is not clear. Now the BTM Institute, a nonprofit think tank established to study how best to manage business and technology, has come up with a definition: consistent execution, with constant growth that’s tied to financial performance. 1.
Study Says Technology Execution Leads to Business Performance
4 Ways CIOs Can Impact the Bottom Line
In the not-too-distant future, keeping the company e-mail system up and running or overseeing a sweeping transition to a service-oriented architecture—important as those responsibilities may be—might not be enough to keep a Fortune 500 CIO in a job. A report issued this week from Gartner suggests that CIOs, long considered captains of the Good Ship Cost Center, need to start thinking and acting more like venture capitalists, not only to drive revenue and profits but also to better position themselves for future openings within the executive ranks. "Sure, some CIOs are going to say, 'What are you smoking?'" says Dave Aron, an analyst at Gartner and author of the report.
CIO — One essential promise for Enterprise 2.0, or Web 2.0 for the enterprise, is making important information available to the people who need it, in large part by using blogs and wikis to capture and store institutional knowledge, says Dion Hinchcliffe, president and CTO of Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 consultancy Hinchcliffe and Company, during his session at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. This means, for example, that when veteran accountant Sally leaves the company, her knowledge does not leave with her (an increasing problem as baby boomers retire). Enterprise 2.0 tools like blogs, message boards, and wikis also offer savings on training costs. For example, T. Rowe Price, which manages more than $349 billion in assets, hires about 1,500 workers to work in the call center just for tax season.
How CIOs Can Introduce Web 2.0 Technologies into the Enterprise