The current economic crisis promises to make things interesting for CIOs and other IT executives. How can business technology leaders ready themselves for the tough times ahead? Bob Rouse, who directs the Society for Information Management's Regional Leadership Forum, thinks there are five books every IT managers should read now.
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Alignment once again tops the list of key issues for IT managers, according to a just-completed survey from the Society for Information Management. But what are the other key challenges facing CIOs and other tech execs? Here's the list.
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The promise of IT portfolio management is the quantification of IT efforts, enabling measurement and objective evaluation of IT investments and alignment with business strategy. Here’s how IT portfolio management can drive IT process improvement and governance alike.
This guide also includes:
Advice on overcoming portfolio management challenges
A list of top portfolio management software and service vendors
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Todd Thibodeaux was just named president and CEO of the Computing Technology Industry Association, the leading IT industry association. He shares with the CIOZone his views on IT certification, the need to allow more foreign tech workers into the country, and the educational needs of the CIO.
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Based on interviews with several CIOs at midsize businesses, CIOZone has put together these tips for the would-be IT leader at the medium-size enterprise with sales ranging from $50 million up to $750 million.
Here are the best ways to make budget cuts without minimizing IT's business value, according to two executives from the Hackett Group, the global strategic advisory firm
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