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The CIO's Role in Healthcare Economic Reform First, I want to recommend a book--Nudge-- for everyone in health care, especially CIOs. There are several elegant themes in the book, but one of the most pertinent is: If you simply expose people to data about their behavior and within ... more   

Cool Technology of the Week Tonight, the Boston Pops will host another dazzling display of fireworks on the Esplanade in Boston. As cymbals crash, fireworks will explode on cue. Ever wonder what technology is behind the pyromusical synchronization? ... more   

IDC on Business Intelligence Tools Excerpts from Business Intelligence Tools , Looks like there is enough work to be done:. IDC's report, "Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2007 Vendor Shares," concludes that the total BI market grew 12.1 percent last year to reach ... more   

India Not attractive as an offshore location Steve Hamm has a post up based on his interview with Peter Vaihansky, vice-president of marketing and business development of Luxsoft. Attrition rates and salary inflation made India and China unattractive. "There were things special to ... more   

Narinder Singh The SaaS blogshere has been abuzz these last couple ... When a CIO asked Hasso Plattner at the Churchill Club’s SaaS debate when he should move to SAP’s SaaS solutions, he was told to check back in “5 years, at least.â€� Is that what it means to have an “enterprise readyâ€� culture? ... more   

A slimmer, faster Tarzan For those are are interested in, or have been using our Tarzan API for interacting with Amazon’s web services stack, I’ve spent the past two solid days writing and debugging new code that finally unshackles Tarzan from the PEAR classes ... more   

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A good CIO needs to know the Scotty Principle I had a good chuckle over this article in CIO about why IT might think their CIO is clueless. This point clicked with me, because I think it makes a pretty interesting point: to be a good CIO you have to grok geek culture: ... more   

Trumka: Don’t Let Opponents Divide Us by Race in 2008 Election Barack Obama is the only candidate in the presidential race who is on the side of working people, and we must defeat attempts to divide workers by race and put him in the White House, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka says. ... more   

TCS receives Innovation Award from Ferrari Around Jan 2006 TCS become Ferrari’s new technology partner, at that time thirty of TCS’s best professionals have been engaged for Ferrari. And their job didn't end with providing the software solution. The team was to participate in ... more   

‘McCain U.’ Teaches Lessons in How Not to Run the Country Tax cuts for corporations, coupled with tax hikes and higher health care costs for working families? That’s no way to turn around the economy and the country. Yet, it’s the likely result of John McCain’s economic agenda, according to ... more   

CIO cluetrain Cluelessness abatement for your information technology executive. more   

9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless "My CIO is clueless." These are words you don't want to hear if you want to earn the respect of your application development professionals. So how do you avoid being a clueless CIO? Steer clear of these behaviors. more   

AFL-CIO Won’t Back Stevens Alaska AFL-CIO President Vince Beltrami said the union endorsed Stevens in all of his re-election campaigns in recent memory, though Stevens had either a minimal or token challenger in many of those campaigns. ... more   

IT--CIO--BCP--COOP The person ultimately responsible is the Chief Information Officer (CIO). With the potential for significant impacts to business processes there is an ever increasing need for Business Continuity Planning (BCP) or in government it is ... more   

Inside a CIO's closet John Halamka, the bloggin' CIO, gives us a tour of his clothes closet (what, you were expecting a look at his wiring closet?):. Over the years, I've tried to refine what I own and approach all my clothing from an engineering perspective ... more   

Weekly Wrap-up Gathered up all our CIO Decisions 2008 coverage, videos, blogs and slides and wrapped it all up with a big digital bow. Checked out Boston’s struggling, but still kicking Wi-Fi program. Finally got some answers on those pesky SaaS ... more   

Mozilla Firefox 3 hits. My grandma uses it. I am so posting this in Mozilla Firefox 3 right now. And I’m pretty happy about that. Sure, Opera rolled along a few years ago and made the point that a decent product could put a slight dent in Microsoft Internet Explorer’s market ... more   

My Closet Many people ask me about my black wardrobe, which I've written about as simply practical for the 24x7x365 CIO and not a Gentleman's Quarterly fashion statement. I was recently asked to share a glimpse of my closet. ... more   

9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless July 01, 2008 — CIO — As CIO you hold one of the most important executive positions in your company. And, to lead successfully, you must earn the respect of both the business and your information technology organization. ... more