| Hold That Golden Spike - What does business/IT ''alignment'' look like? |
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| The CIO's Widening World - The CIO's realm of responsibility and influence is expanding well beyond traditional IT boundaries. |
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| IT, Business Units Look for Ways To Better Align Their Operations - IT execs cite poor communication as a barrier, survey results show. |
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| Recipe for Alignment - Companies that have neatly aligned IT projects with business goals are likely to have a CIO and a project management office, says a recent survey. |
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| The CIO's Bird's-Eye View - The CIO can bring a lot of skills, viewpoints and insights to the executive leadership team, according to a recent Gartner report. |
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| CIOs Emerge as Chief Process Officers - Studying and streamlining each and every move a company makes en route to the bottom line is becoming a bigger part of the CIO's job description. |
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| IT Directions 2.0 - Our annual survey of senior finance executives finds them bullish on the value of IT and prepared to raise budgets accordingly. |
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| Spending Matters - It's not how much you spend on IT, but where you spend it |
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| Toward the Elastic Enterprise: Enabling True IT-Business Alignment |
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| CIO at the Head of the Class - Scan the daily calendar of Temple University IT chief Tim O'Rourke, and you're just as likely to find him meeting with a classroom renovation crew as with an IT project team. |
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| A Mighty Wind - The hot air that has helped propel technology may have subsided, but IT is heading toward some new and as yet hazily perceived incarnation. |
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| Show of Hands - Raise your hand if you're tired of the perpetual debate about how important the CIO role is to the business. |
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| Grinding Away on ROI - Recipes for IT success from three companies that go well beyond mere numbers-crunching. |
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| The Total Value of Opportunity Approach - Justifying IT investments is moving from art to science. |
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| IT Spending a Dud, Says Study - New book shows no correlation between tech spending and corporate performance. |
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| Survey: The Truth About Tech - We asked CFOs how they view IT. Their answer: Very carefully. |
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| Life After Outsourcing - at Nextel and in IT departments all over America. |
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| McDonald's signs $219M outsourcing deal with ACS - Under the seven-year contract, ACS will run McDonald's IT infrastructure services |
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| Sears Taps CSC for $2B Outsourcing Deal |
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| Best Buy considers IT outsourcing options - It may hand over IT, call center operations as it follows the path of other major retailers. |
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| Pick Your Perspective on IT Outsourcing |
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| Outsourcing Sparks Concerns About IT Controls |
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| Outsourcing Gotchas - Hidden traps lurk in every outsourcing contract. Here are 12 big ones -- and how you can avoid them. |
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| Outsourcing - More work is being sent packing, often far away. To make it pay off, management must adapt. |
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| A More Perfect Union? - IT ''governance'' may enable companies to drive technology strategy, not just steer it. |
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| Outsourcing sparks concerns over IT controls to meet Sarbanes-Oxley - IT auditors worry that outsourcers may not provide the documentation needed to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley. |
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| Under Pressure - Sarbox is just one of many new regulatory requirements companies face. Can IT help? |
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| Stuck in the SAS 70s - As Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 meets up with an obscure auditing standard, many companies are thinking hard about offshoring their business processes. |
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| Playing by the Rules - Sarbanes-Oxley financial disclosure act - examines the federal legislation and regulation that is having a profound effect |
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| Managing HIPAA's Pain - Halfway between the deadlines for HIPAA's privacy and security rules, health-care CISOs share compliance lessons for the rest of us. |
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