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Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior Joins CTO Forum Executive Board 07/22/2008 - In addition, Integnology is the founder and organizer for two exceptional communities; the CTO Forum and the CIO Council. See http://integnology.com. MULTIMEDIA GALLERY. http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=5735512. See Also: ... - more

One-on-One with HUMC’s CIO Lex Ferrauiola & CTO Ben Bordonaro 07/21/2008 - Hackensack University Medical Center’s IT chiefs are taking on the ultimate task — a big to big conversion. - more

Getting an IT assessment: pitfalls to watch for 07/21/2008 - One key ongoing goal of mine is that I constantly strive to pay attention. In this case, specifically, through web logging reports, I can see the Google searches that drive people to this blog every day. One of the most common of these, ... - more

CIO-CTO.ORG 07/18/2008 - Auction Type: GoDaddy AutoExtend Auction, Auction End Time: 7/19/2008 9:59:00 AM(MST), Asking Price/Current Bid: $10.00, Number of Bids: 0, Description: - more

AppLabs to host a Webinar on The Art of Testing Trading Platforms 07/17/2008 - The technology not working will never be accepted by the business, thus putting an enormous amount of pressure on the CTO/CIO to deliver first time. In the webinar, host Ravi Gurrapadi, Head of Delivery for the Stock Exchange and Bond ... - more

IT, States of Denial, and more Peterisms 07/15/2008 - Yes, I admit it's an old and hackneyed play on words, but I'll repeat it anyway: in the course of my career, I've worked in IT positions in the fine States of New York, California, and Washington, but I'd have to say that the most ... - more

Serving your IT customers: be careful of being The Wizard of Oz 07/10/2008 - Cultural references are among the most powerful language tools around. The old cliche may be true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but equally, a well-targeted cultural reference, used as an analogy, can stream light onto a ... - more

Developing Open-Source Business Policies That Work 07/09/2008 - We know your company uses open-source applications. We also know many of you already have an open-source policy. Sort of. As CIO.com discovered when researching the adoption of open-source in enterprise IT, a quarter of respondents have ... - more

The BI Arbitration Board 07/08/2008 - The discussion on roles and responsibilities cannot end without mention of the BI arbitration board. On cross-organizational BI projects, technical as well as business disputes will arise that neither the core team nor the extended team ... - more

Welcoming CTO/CIO Perspectives 06/20/2008 - One of the things I truly love about my work as a tech recruiter is meeting technologists and hearing what they have to say about their work. Today, a recent introduction of mine sent me a link to a blog that really rocks: CTO/CIO ... - more

Business Acumen and the CIO/CTO 06/20/2008 - In an earlier article we discussed how technical the CEO needed to be in a technology company. No discussion on this topic would be complete without addressing how business savvy the CIO or CTO needs to be in nearly any company. ... - more

Starve your voice mail, feed your e-mail 06/17/2008 - I've touched on this topic briefly before, but here's a lengthier discussion on why, in general, I find e-mail to be vastly preferable to voice mail for communication in the business world. Here's my stance: voice mail works reasonably ... - more

Start simple: a corporate desktop/laptop refresh model 05/29/2008 - Here's a topic that frankly shouldn't even merit a post -- it's that much of a no-brainer if you think about it.Yet, in the real world, I've found that it's anything but a no-brainer, at both small and ... - more

Executive questions, IT answers, pizza parlors, and speed chess 05/24/2008 - Let's mix some metaphors today, and attempt to relate them all to the world of information technology and project management.I have a good friend and colleague, one of the top IT consultants I know. He's able to execute crisply at the ... - more

Why status reports really do matter 05/13/2008 - Do a poll: many IT folks regard doing status reports as their least favorite task. My point here, though, will be that a lot of people, management and workers alike, don't fully understand the real purpose of status reports, ... - more

“Astounding IT sayings”: the inaugural post 05/06/2008 - I haven't given myself the luxury of telling an IT anecdote or two here recently, so it's about time: here are two, with moral-of-the-story observations for each. Note: these are true stories. I may have changed some of the facts, ... - more

Climbing the ladder to CIO/CTO: a biographical sketch from eWeek 04/30/2008 - Another heads-up to readers: I was recently interviewed by eWeek for my thoughts on the difference between mid-market CIOs and enterprise CIOs. As these things sometimes go, the interview turned into more of a discussion of career path ... - more

Nuts: the biggest trap of all for IT stakeholders 04/28/2008 - As I promised last time, there's one more key way, the biggest way of all, not to get what you want from your IT organization. This is, in fact, the trap I have seen virtually every entity I’ve ever worked for fall into to some degree, ... - more

How not to get what you want from IT 04/21/2008 - As much as any part of your company that supports the key prongs of the corporate mission (deliver product, sell the product, support the product), IT is constantly on the hook to deliver more and more. As I've written before, ... - more

Using feedback loops to improve IT department service 04/15/2008 - As I've written here before, I strongly advocate thinking of IT in general as a service organization to the rest of the business. Any service organization needs one or more forms of "feedback loop" to be able to gauge whether it is ... - more

Financial metrics for IT: the holy grail of ROI and how it misses ... 04/10/2008 - As I promised in my previous post on this, and along the lines of the “intensely practical” goal of this blog, we’ll now take a look at the financial cost analysis for a specific project. This is only an example, with details changed or ... - more

CIO pet peeves: small drains on personal productivity 03/26/2008 - I promised a while back to write more about some of the pet peeves I’ve developed in the CIO/CTO role. So here are a few more. We all have pet peeves. Working as an executive in IT seems to present a lot of opportunities to develop a ... - more

Financial metrics for IT: the holy grail of ROI, and how it misses ... 03/19/2008 - Let's talk some more about one of my favorite topics, project portfolio management (PPM). A lot of literature on PPM tends to focus on evaluating risks and returns. An excellent article on IT governance last week in The Wall Street ... - more

The flip side of common myths: how some are perpetuated by IT 03/04/2008 - As promised, I'm going to follow up on my last post ("Optimism, resilience, stamina: the make-up of the CTO/CIO"), covering the myths IT deals with on a regular basis, by talking about its flip side: the ways that IT itself can ... - more

Our mention in CIO Magazine 02/29/2008 - Just a heads-up for readers: CTO/CIO Perspectives was mentioned this week in an interesting article in CIO Magazine, titled "20 Things You Can Do In 20 Minutes to Be More Successful at Work". Not all the tips are spot-on, ... - more