Tips to an Effective IT Risk Management Plan for Financial Services  May 15, 2008
An effective IT risk management program should provide the confidence that IT can deliver business value efficiently and securely while providing high-quality assurance around data integrity, availability and confidentiality.

Medical Data Breaches Put Patients at Risk  May 01, 2008
Despite HIPAA, hospitals leave patient data unprotected; one CIO offers tips for getting IT security funding

'Bear Raid' Stock Manipulation: How and When It Works, and Who Benefits  April 24, 2008
When Bear Stearns collapsed in March, some insiders argued it was wrong to blame the firm's risky bets on mortgaged-backed securities. They had another culprit: malevolent traders working together in the upside-down world of short sales -- making money by knocking down Bear's stock.

Business Intelligence: A Technology Category in Tumult  March 27, 2008
No one can deny that the market for business intelligence applications is hot. An Aberdeen Group survey found that the number-one technology spending item for companies was "reporting and analytics" in 2007.

How a European Bank Got Oracle to Surrender Key Software Licensing Points  March 20, 2008
Vendor contract negotiations can be complex, arduous and costly. And sometimes there appear to be competing "must haves" on each side that can end up breaking a potential deal.

Lessons from Societe Generale's Financial Fiasco  February 28, 2008
CIOs and business managers should use the French bank's experience, where it failed to stop a rogue trader from losing billions, to beef up their risk management and IT controls.

Vendor Management: Price Doesn't Matter  February 21, 2008
Considering the bottom-line focus of corporate America, "Price doesn't matter" isn't something you'll hear from most purchasing organizations.

Does Your Work in Information Technology Matter to Wall Street?  February 14, 2008
Before one stock traded on Wall Street on Jan. 22, the world had telegraphed its view of the slumping U.S. economy

Outsourcing 2008  January 04, 2008
It's been a mixed year for the outsourcing sector. The volatility in the currency values (weakening dollar value) has been quite demonstrable in the passing year.

Five Steps to Take If Your Outsourcing Service Provider Is Sold  December 20, 2007
Merger activity is on the uptick among IT service providers and experts say the industry is ripe for more consolidation. Here's how to protect your company if your outsourcing provider is sold.

Twelve Steps to Develop Green Outsourcing  December 13, 2007
Corporations are shifting their responsibility for environmental concerns to the supply chain, said the Brown-Wilson Group in its report, "Black Book of Outsourcing: 2007 Green Outsourcer Report".

Intelligent Outsourcing Can Resolve IT Woes  December 06, 2007
CXO Today -- IT is a double-edged sword. Though no one questions its relevance in an enterprise's business model, the fact remains that if not implemented wisely, it could lead to wastage of resources and become a liability to the organization.

10 Mistakes to Avoid When Writing an RFP for Master Data Management  November 29, 2007
There's a right way (taking care of all departmental data needs) and a wrong way (ignoring data governance) to write an MDM RFP. MDM vendor Siperian has identified 10 common mistakes that CIOs make and advises how to avoid them.

IT Consulting: Small is Beautiful Again  September 27, 2007
There is a tendency in the modern IT consulting landscape to think in terms of large scale when it comes to projects. The bigger the consulting name, the more there is a tendency to dismiss projects that fall beneath a certain price.

Outsourcing: Not an All or Nothing Proposition  July 26, 2007
When it comes to IT services and the issue of outsourcing, most of the arguments have been either for or against, with middle ground almost nonexistent.

F&A Outsourcing Moves to the Mid-Market, But Problems Lurk for Those Who Fail to Understand the Terrain   July 12, 2007
For Indian BPO/FAO firms Genpact, KARVY and Intelenet and software vendors SAP, Oracle, Sage Software, Microsoft Dynamics and Intuit QuickBooks--the mid-market is the future.

IT Convergence - the Next Wave  May 24, 2007
Discussions on IT alignment have been prevalent in the IT Industry for more than 20 years, although the last five years have seen the largest focus.