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Innovation: Is it how you manage, or what you manage?

Lisa Sass — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:39:00 GMT

Rolling over to a new year brings changes to benefit plans affecting millions of healthcare consumers. Managing how those changes go into effect is the year-round challenge for my friend, a senior IT executive for a large benefits provider. Over a recent dinner, he brought up how his company is investing many millions in projects designed to improve patient safety and system security, along with...

Application Portfolio Management: The first step in transforming the business of IT

Robert Stroud — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:26:00 GMT

Every CIO I speak to faces similar pressures - business demand is increasing, especially with the millennials and the consumerization of IT, and at the same time budget increases cannot keep up with inflation. Being a glass half-full person I see this as a wonderful opportunity for the IT organization to focus on its primary charter: driving business value by transforming the business. Last...

R.I.P. IT?

Robert Stroud — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:16:00 GMT

After being a technology geek for the last 30 years, the one thing I know for certain is that the only constant is change! I love getting a new piece of technology and learning how it can make my life better. I am not alone in this; we are breeding a generation where "geek is chic." It's a generation that doesn't think twice about adopting technology whether it's at...

Out with the old and in with the new - at home and in IT

Mary Cauwels — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:36:00 GMT

As we prepare to close the first month of the new year, I am looking back on how I spent a lot of the weekends using the "out with the old, in with the new" mantra. And that got me thinking (scary, I know) about the relationship between innovating new products or services and transforming application portfolios or moving services to the cloud. In order to make room for the new ideas,...

Improve Products with Passion from the People

Crystal Miceli — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:13:00 GMT

Last week a number of websites, including the very popular Wikipedia, shut down in protest over proposed US piracy legislation. The bills are the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), both of which are primarily focused on preventing the illegal downloading or viewing of TV shows and movies online. A very interesting effect of the website...