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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 […]

Cloud Computing: Tale of Two Federal Departments

DoD, NIST take different routes towards the cloud “While NIST is taking cloud computing by the horns, the same can’t necessarily be said for DoD.” The following post is from Fed Cloud blog http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=249&sid=2228246 The Defense Department and the National Institute of Standards and Technology seem to be at opposite ends of the cloud computing […]

Infographics: How The World Has Changed: 2000 vs. 2010

How The World Has Changed: 2000 vs. 2010 By Scott Beale on January 2, 2011

For 2012, US Gov OMB To Require Agencies To Adopt a “Cloud-first” Policy

OMB announces ‘cloud first’ policy for agencies November 23, 2010 – 6:21pm Jeff Zients, chief performance officer and deputy director for management, OMB Click to hear Zients’ speech: http://goo.gl/U6bVw The following post can be found at the Fed Cloud Blog: author of the post was not expliciity shown. “Big news this week on the cloud […]

Building The Next Big Thing: 25 Years of MIT’s Media Lab

This year is the 25th anniversary of MIT’s Media Lab. The Media Lab was founded based on the belief that the emergence of digital technology were blurring the boundaries between traditional media, like art and architecture, and the means of creating them. Its director, Prof Frank Moss, spoke at the 2010 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.  You […]