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05/09/2008
May Day revival on three fronts: labor, immigrant, and antiwar - Labor bureaucrats affiliated with the AFL-CIO and Change to Win have declined to support May Day actions because of their collaboration with corporate management in brokering labor contracts. Despite this, individual union locals have ... - more

05/09/2008
Cisco CIO, Rebecca Jacoby to Share Vision of Next-Generation ... - Additional CONNECTIONSâ„¢ sessions on this topic include: â€¢ Metcalfeâ€™s Law or Murphyâ€™s Law? Customer Support for the Digital Home â€¢ Customer Experience Management Success Stories for Digital Lifestyle End User Support, hosted by Peak8. - more

05/09/2008
APLN Seattle Summit Update: More Speakers Confirmed - ... participate in our CIO Panel Session, and Alan Shalloway of Net Objectives will join our Think Tank / Open Space sessions as a facilitator. Alan will either assist Mike Griffiths on Agile Program Management or Corey Ladas on Kanban. ... - more

05/09/2008
Cisco CIO, Rebecca Jacoby to Share Vision of Next-Generation ... - ... Clara Convention Center, brings together nearly 1000 executives to examine all issues critical to the converging digital living industries, including the technologies and businesses specific to customer service management and solutions. - more

05/09/2008
Reducing calls and costs to a Help Desk, Service Desk, or Customer ... - A relatively small saving in operational costs â€” for example, consolidating multiple data lines to improve management and reduce monthly subscription costs â€” can ultimately have a larger budgetary impact than a one-time saving from ... - more

05/09/2008
The Emperorâ€™s new code - Earlier this week Silicon.comâ€™s Naked CIO posted an article in which the anonymous chief information officer asked the question â€œIs open source dead?â€ and argued that â€œopen source has found its niche and will continue to be of practical ... - more

05/09/2008
IP Telephony Best Practices - ... converged network; cost savings through reduced equipment and infrastructure cost; increased employee productivity; simplified network management; and significant annual savings in competitor-leased equipment and PBX maintenance costs. - more

05/08/2008
APLN Leadership Summit, Seattle July 17-18 - a CIO panel - featuring leaders from firms around Seattle, participants to be confirmed Think Tank / Open Space Sessions led by recognized leaders in the agile field, including... Luke Hohmann, Collaboration Games ... - more

05/08/2008
CIO Summit Day 2 - There's so much that can be done with Server and Desktop Management and we need to get better at both. And we will! They did a panel discussion with some of their own IT Manager's and it struck me how they have so many of the same ... - more

05/08/2008
CIO Summit: Career Path - Merv Tarde of Interstate Batteries develops a theme discussed yesterday: CIO taking responsibility for other areas, including facilities management. It helps open conversations with people who may be uncommunicative with IT. ... - more

05/08/2008
Ron Dimon's Review of The IT Value Stack - They put CIO representation at board level within the Fortune 500 companies at circa 5%. So my view is there is work to be done. I can understand Ron's perspective, his working sphere and the blog itself is likely to attract the ... - more

05/08/2008
CIO Summit: Building a Better IT employee - Boehme: You need some, but management more important. Harris: Character matters more. You can teach tech. Dohm: I didn't have tech skills when I built early BBS. Does knowledge of tech give you insight to do something on behalf of ... - more

05/08/2008
Weekly Labor Report - The AFL-CIO announced April 17 that it formally allied with Enlace, a coalition that represents 300, 000 low wage workers in Mexico. The AFL-CIO has no formal relationship with Mexicoâ€™s official union federation, which is essentially ... - more

05/08/2008
CIO Summit: Global business - Greenberg: Moved from single source to multisource, added to cascading governing process, daily updates and regular management meetings, vendor management contracts with SLAs, contracts have to be flexible to reflect environments that ... - more

05/07/2008
New Opportunities to Manage Overhead Costs - As I read CIO Magazine, E-Week, and some of Gartnerâ€™s recent publications a common theme for 2008 is cost management. I support McKinseyâ€™s focus on longer term programs, outsourcing as a vehicle, and targeting overhead functions because ... - more

05/07/2008
CIO Summit: "Do We Matter" panel - Too much technology in CIO job, needs to be focus on information. Question (from me): Carr's new book is about the cloud, what's the role of a CIO in that world? Hoque: We'll be left with management. Deciding if new tech has impact, ... - more

05/07/2008
CIOs Joining Front Lines of Corporate Greenhouse Gas Management - Corporations have recently enlisted new participants to support their greenhouse gas management programs: Chief Information Officers (CIO). That point was reinforced in a recently-published article in CIO Magazine. ... - more

05/07/2008
Executive Masterâ€™s in Technology Management at Columbia - The centerpiece class of the program, in my opinion, is Alan Morleyâ€™s class, â€œBehavioral Challenges in Technology Managementâ€, or Becoming a CIO, as I like to call it. The class covers the financial and strategic tools necessary to ... - more

04/30/2008
CIO - [MacArthur Associates, Arlington - VA] - A startup biomedical company located in the DC-metro area is seeking a CIO. The CIO will oversee twenty employees worldwide and manage the department's 2.5 million dollar budget. The CIO will also develop the infrastructure of the ... - more

04/29/2008
Tips to an Effective IT Risk Management Plan for Financial Services - An effective IT risk management program should provide the board of directors, senior management, regulators and other stakeholders with the confidence that IT can deliver business value efficiently and securely while providing ... - more

04/24/2008
Toyota Canada CIO on Genchi Genbutsu and Kaizen - The Toyota Canada CIO talks about the tremendous business benefits from this seamless freeflow of information. â€œWhen a defect is detected at the dealership, the next day it would up to our engineering department. ... - more

04/22/2008
DHS Employee Survey Shows Dissatisfaction with Management - Federal employees at the Department of Homeland Security like their jobs and believe what they do is important, but they are not happy with how they are treated by management. - more

04/16/2008
The Keys to Vendor Management - Whether you're new to vendor management or a seasoned negotiator, these expert tips can help you learn more about the process, add value to your deal with any vendor and put you in the driver's seat. - more

04/16/2008
Management Lessons Learned As a Parent - Formal authority rarely works - As a CIO, I would never stand in front of group of stakeholders and say "you must do this, because I'm the CIO." Standing in front of a teenager and saying "you must do this, because I'm your father" is ... - more

03/14/2008
Gartner Reveals CIO Thinking for 2008 - With IT budgets expected to increase 3.3% in 2008, organizations look like they want to make the investment in making a difference. We think SaaS delivery of talent management should be at the top of the list. Read how Jim Holincheck of ... - more

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