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The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium – Award for Innovation Leadership – CALL FOR ENTRIES!

Applications for the 4th annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Award for Innovation Leadership are now being accepted. This award honors Chief Information Officers (CIOs) who lead their organizations to pursue innovative use of Information Technology (IT) and business processes to deliver business value. If you or a CIO you know regularly innovates through IT investments […]

A century of achievements that have changed the world

The film features one hundred people, who each present the IBM achievement recorded in the year they were born. The film chronology flows from the oldest person to the youngest, offering a whirlwind history of the company and culminating with its prospects for the future. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jtNUGgmd4

Worldwide CIO Survey suggests CIOs Plan to Adopt Cloud Services Faster than Expected:Marked as Top Priority in 2011

By SecurityWeek News on Jan 21, 2011 http://www.securityweek.com/cios-plan-adopt-cloud-services-faster-expected-cloud-marked-top-priority-2011 A worldwide CIO survey of 2,014 CIOs representing over $160 billion in corporate and public-sector IT spending across 50 countries and 38 industries, conducted by Gartner, revealed that CIOs’ IT budget projections for 2011 are globally flat, with a weighted average budget increase of 1 percent. While […]

The Role of the CIO Revisited: Is Retooling in the Works?

CENTER FOR CIO LEADERSHIP HOPES TO RETOOL THE ROLE OF THE CIO http://go.techtarget.com/r/13176109/3035765 Ed Scannell, Executive Editor Several years ago, a research study jointly conducted by IBM, the Harvard Business School and MIT showed that the role of the CIO was steadily devolving from one of shaping strategic business and technology strategies to one that […]

2011 MIT Sloan CIO Innovation Showcase – Call for Applications

Highlighting Early-Stage Companies at the Forefront of Technology On May 18th, the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium will unveil to the global CIO community its 2nd annual Innovation Showcase. The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is pleased to contribute to the MIT community’s long standing tradition of entrepreneurship by featuring the Innovation Showcase. The Innovation Showcase connects […]