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The Cloud: Tailor-made for Unstructured Data?
Arthur Cole
writes "...structured data from databases and other applications is growing as well, but it is the relentless growth of emails, tweets, texts and the like that keeps CIOs up at night. According to IDC, more than 80 percent of enterprise data is unstructured, and it's increasing at a rate of about 60 percent a year. And to make matters worse, less than 5 percent is accessed on a regular basis. The cloud, then, is the proverbial knight in shining armor as it..."
Smart Managers are Prepared for Cross-Cultural Collaboration
HBR
writes "[by Amy Gallo]...In today's globalized world, it is essential to know how to collaborate with people from different cultures. While this used to be the case primarily for country managers and those taking on overseas assignments, it now applies to all managers. But exactly how does one learn to become a better global collaborator? What the Experts Say..."
Business Continuity Management Moves to the Cloud
Business Finance
writes "[by Eric Krell]...This cloud-storage offering has made my working life so much more secure – in a highly convenient way –that this cloud tool has become a daily business process tool for me – rather than a monthly risk-management measure...when I see cloud positioned as a business continuity management (BCM) and disaster recovery tool, I have two responses: A) “Well, of course;” and B) “Can companies that use a cloud approach in a BCM program apply the approach to improving other business processes..."
CIO at H&R Block Shifts from PCs to Virtualized Thin Clients
CIO
writes "[by Kim S Nash]...“Typical of any mature company, the competitive landscape is tough. You’re continually looking at ways to optimize,” says Rich Agar, CIO at H&R Block. By cutting costs, the company can lower its prices and compete more effectively, he says. The company has spent $15 million to $20 million a year on PCs with a lifecycle of three to four years...Two years into the project, which is expected to last four to five years, Agar says he wishes he could move faster. He has deployed 10,000..."
Successful Project Management Strategies
CIO
writes "[by Rick Swanborg]...Behind every winning CIO 100 project, there’s a successful management strategy. This year’s winners offer a few techniques that should be in every IT executive’s bag of tricks. Here are five worth noting..."
Ready for Growth, Firms Think Hard About Filling Capability Gaps
Rita McGrath
writes "...After years of taking a back seat to survival skills, growth is back on the agenda in a big way. All the responding companies reported that growth is either explicitly or implicitly part of their strategies, a big shift from large organizations' attitudes in the downturn. Most reported that growth is even more important for them now than it was before the downturn, and that their companies are willing to take some risks to make it happen. So, they're looking to get..."
Why IT Outsourcing Deals Aren't What They Used To Be
CIO
writes "[by Stephanie Overby]...IT outsourcing deals are getting smaller, particularly in the U.S., as companies are loath to invest the big bucks required for large contracts, according to research by outsourcing consultancy TPI. But that's not the only reason..."
Five Most Common Jobs for Which Employers are Hiring
Multi-Housing News
writes "[JPringle]...what the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has recently determined are the five most common jobs for which employers are doing the most hiring: accountants, groundskeepers, janitors, office clerks and security guards. In the apartment sector, “afford” is defined as the ability to pay monthly rent...The jobs that are becoming available simply do not provide salaries that are sufficient for workers to house themselves in an average-price apartment or..."
Procter and Gamble Minimizes Management Meddling
HBR
writes "[by Michael Schrage]...the view from the top is that while technology may generate a demand for more leadership throughout the company, it doesn't require more executives. But the insight that technology should drive downsizing at the top deserves special emphasis... P&G is so concerned about micomanagerial meddling that it's delayering from top to bottom. It sees micromanagement as..."
The Insider Threat - What Can Organizations Do?
Security_Bloggers_Network
writes "[by Rob Rachwald]...They use their access privileges to rightfully create copies of the information as they process it for their daily tasks. Upon leaving the organization, many individuals do not care to remove copies of sensitive information, and in some cases even develop a sense of personal ownership towards it. What should organizations do to prevent this data getting out of control? [1] Enforce strict access controls over critical data. This access control should be..."
Lawyers in the Cloud Look at Reasonable Care of Data
Michael Overly
writes "...The question, of course, is “what constitutes reasonable care?” For example, if a cloud provider has a good record of security and has a great SAS 70 Type II audit report, but specifically disclaims any liability for security breaches and offers only minimal confidentiality protection, is this good enough to satisfy the “reasonable care” requirement? No one knows. What is clear is that..."
CIOs Encourage Business to Prioritize the IT Organization's Work
Michael Krigsman
writes "...IT continues to struggle for relationship and relevance among senior business leaders, which undermines CIOs’ ability to create successful IT programs and initiatives...This study demonstrates that IT does understand fundamental drivers of project success and failure; however..."
Life Science Computing Experiences Pain of Storage Growth
John Halamka
writes "...Jacob Farmer, the CTO of Cambridge Computer and an industry recognized expert on storage, recently shared with me his draft whitepaper which highlights the life sciences as experiencing the pain of storage growth more than any other industry. Here's his very thoughtful observation..."
Cloud Infrastructure Addresses Critical Green IT Elements
GreenBiz
writes "[by Christopher Mines]...Cloud computing has arrived, big time. Forrester estimates that worldwide spending on public cloud computing services will grow from $25.5 billion in 2011 to $160 billion in 2020, a 22 percent annual growth rate. Businesses are increasingly substituting cloud-based for internal resources to capture benefits like..."
Eight Steps for Addressing the IT Management Crisis
Dan Woods
writes "...How can CIOs handle that explosion of new capabilities in almost every dimension of the computing environment? Even though we are just at the beginning of a new business-focused, user-controlled era of IT, there are some principles that will characterize what IT is going to become...I propose the following eight steps for creating the awareness and flexibility that will help over come the crisis in IT Management..."
Enterprises Need a Governance Strategy on Social Media Created Content
Business Finance
writes "[by Alan Radding...According to leading research Gartner: by the end of 2013, half of all companies will have been asked to produce material from social media websites for e-discovery.” That means enterprises need an information risk management governance strategy that specifically includes content created on social media. The Symantec poll revealed that social media is pervasive within..."
Read and Recommended: Brook's Newest Book
HBR
writes "[by Tony Schwartz]...I've read Brooks' op-ed columns...for years, but it was only with this book that I understood what sets him apart from his journalistic colleagues. It's his unwavering willingness to grapple with issues rather than simply pontificate about them; to embrace nuance, ambiguity and paradox rather than choosing up sides; and to be forever open to learning and to being changed by what he learns.What Brooks lays...is a path to a more meaningful life — one that balances action with introspection, confidence with restraint..."
How to Set Green Goals by Learning from Industry Leaders
GreenBiz
writes "[by Leslie Guevarra]...What's the difference between a good green goal and a great one? Are more goals better than a few -- or are they simply more? And how do your company's goals stack up against others in your industry?...In addition to presenting findings in short narratives and charts, the reports list the environmental sustainability goals for each company studied. "You can read at a glance the maturity of a company based on the types of goals..."
CIOs Balance Change and Control over the Computing Environment
Dan Woods
writes "...In every dimension, CIOs are facing an increased pace of change at the same time they are losing control over the computing environment...The first way that IT is spinning out of control falls under the umbrella of the consumerization of IT. End-users and departments are choosing their own devices, selecting and using Software as a Service applications and other cloud resources, and generally doing end-arounds to bypass the IT function whenever they feel like it. The IT monopoly has ended but..."
CIOs are Up Against Convergent Data as well as 'Big Data'
Center for CIO Leadership
writes "[by Olga Botero]...There has been a lot of talk and discussions lately about big data, huge amounts of data coming out of social media and we all have been asked if we have figured it out as CIOs. But what about convergent data? Data that comes in the form of text, voice, video and photos? Until now, most of us have seen different types of data, independently...How can we do the analytics to systematically analyze convergent data as inter-related sources..."
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