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The Four Technology Trends that are Changing Business. Andrew McAfee, with Martha Mangelsdorf, Editorial Director of MIT Sloan Management Review

Andrew McAfee, this year’s moderator of the CIO Symposium’s Fireside Chat, recently sat down with Martha Mangelsdorf, Editorial Director of MIT Sloan Management Review, to discuss the four technology trends that are changing business. In the video webcast, McAfee helps viewers understand what the phenomena of cloud computing, big data, smart computers and social business […]

These are the Top 25 Most Social CIOs in the Fortune 250

By: Mark Fidelman (Fobes) “One thing a person cannot do no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him.”Thomas Shelling, Nobel Prize winner. Imagine a CIO who had never configured a router.  Imagine a CIO who had never led an IT project.  Imagine […]

News Analysis-The Age of Big Data

Welcome to the Age of Big Data. The new megarich of Silicon Valley, first at Google and now Facebook, are masters at harnessing the data of the Web — online searches, posts and messages — with Internet advertising. What is Big Data? A meme and a marketing term, for sure, but also shorthand for advancing trends in technology that open the door to a new approach to understanding the world and making decisions.

Save The Date: May 22, 2012 – The 2012 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium – Piloting the Untethered Enterprise

Save The Date: May 22, 2012 – The 2012 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium  Piloting the Untethered Enterprise The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is where top CIOs, technology leaders and IT professionals from around the world meet. For one day IT leaders network and explore how innovative technologies and leading-edge academic research can help address the practical […]

The New IT Organization and the Changing Role of the CIO: Results of the 2011 Beyond The Crossroads Study

A Collaborative Study Between The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium and SearchCio.com How will the CIO role evolve in the digital business world? New business realities and the need for proven, quantifiable business value are changing nearly everything for IT organizations and their leaders. But this is not just evolutionary change, it’s revolutionary. IT is in […]