Premier 100 IT Leaders: Earning the rewards of risk-taking

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	Premier 100 IT Leaders: Earning the rewards of risk-taking Many of this year's Premier 100 IT Leaders are making their mark by successfully executing on bold, high-risk decisions that are yielding big business benefits, thanks to their rigorous attention to detail, expert management and unparalleled leadership skills. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective IT + Marketing = Socially Awkward? With the rise of social media and new marketing technologies, the timing seems ideal for IT and marketing to join forces, yet the two seem to be growing farther apart. Hear suggestions for how IT and marketing organizations can create a better relationship and improve their joint innovation efforts at CIO Perspectives NY! Click to continue In this Issue Wireless voting is still a long way off FBI seeks tool to keep tabs on social media Chief mobility officer: The next big IT job? U.S. Air Force's huge Oracle project is still struggling Look before you leap into Hadoop Microsoft, Apple set to rejoin OS battle Paul Glen: In the tech world, management is not a promotion Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Bhupesh Arora Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Puneet Bhasin Premier 100 IT Leader profile: William Chapman Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Michael Del Priore Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Carol J. Dow Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Maryann Goebel Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Danny Harris Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Joshua Jewett Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Daphne E. Jones Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Mario Leone Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Ralph Loura Premier 100 IT Leader profile: James McCoy Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Sanjay Mirchandani Premier 100 IT Leader profile: James Robertson Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Kristin D. Russell Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Christopher L. Smith Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Dennis L. Strong Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Dan Traynor Premier 100 IT Leader Profile: Jimmy Z. Wang Premier 100 IT Leader profile: David Webb How the 2012 Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders were chosen Scot Finnie: Premier 100 are calculated risk-takers WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid Drastically Reduce Disk Requirements Despite the disadvantages of tape, tape's cost advantage has allowed it to maintain its presence in the data center, often with straight disk (for faster nightly backups) fronting a tape library. With the advent of data deduplication, however, tape's cost advantage has been largely eroded. Read more Wireless voting is still a long way off With the widespread adoption of smartphones and the use of mobile strategies in U.S. presidential campaigns, could there come a day when Americans vote wirelessly? Read More FBI seeks tool to keep tabs on social media In a move that's alarmed some privacy advocates, the FBI has begun scouting for a tool to allow it to gather and mine data from social networks including Facebook and Twitter, as well as from blogs. Read More Chief mobility officer: The next big IT job? The idea of employing a chief mobility officer isn't new. But as enterprises scramble to establish mobile strategies, having a CMO could be a key to success, according to Forrester Research. Read More U.S. Air Force's huge Oracle project is still struggling A massive Oracle ERP project being conducted by the U.S. Air Force is still experiencing difficulties, with the Air Force deciding to toss out some completed work as part of a restructuring plan that will be announced soon. Read More Look before you leap into Hadoop Analysts and early users warn that companies should move slowly if they want to take advantage of the open-source Hadoop technology, noting that it requires extensive training along with analytics expertise not seen in many IT shops. Read More Microsoft, Apple set to rejoin OS battle This year is shaping up to be a repeat of 2009, when Microsoft and Apple last faced off with rival operating system upgrades. Read More Paul Glen: In the tech world, management is not a promotion To move from a technical role to management is to abandon one career for another. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Bhupesh Arora This IT leader focuses a lot of energy on managing the risks inherent in new technologies as well as the changes people and processes must undergo to make the most of those new systems. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Puneet Bhasin This IT leader made a bold proposition to install ruggedized tablet computers on every truck in Waste Management's fleet to capture real-time data that could improve operational efficiency and customer service. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: William Chapman This IT leader created a business innovation and patent brainstorming session, which trains IT and business leaders to identify and implement new ideas for Arrow Electronics. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Michael Del Priore This IT leader delivered a global ERP system and data warehouse project by synchronizing and coordinating project plans and getting team members to work jointly when the systems went live. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Carol J. Dow This IT leader is helping Vanguard expand its international strategy and identify unique ways to implement existing technologies to improve client services. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Maryann Goebel This IT leader is leading a multiyear initiative to consolidate her company's data centers, while transforming the IT organization into a highly leveraged, functionally designed group. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Danny Harris This IT leader employed an independent consultant to assess the state of the Department of Education's IT security and is now implementing auto-monitoring tools to watch for breaches. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Enterprise Virtual Machine Infrastructure on the IBM Cloud Everyone needs a cost-effective, agile IT infrastructure, but reinventing your business approach can feel risky. Read this data sheet to learn how you can reduce the lead time and economic risk associated with launching new business applications. Read Now Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Joshua Jewett This IT leader reorganized IT around multidisciplinary customer-service teams and collaborated with the CEO and the executive team to throw traditional budgeting out the window. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Daphne E. Jones This IT leader was thrust into developing an infrastructure that will support employees using their own mobile devices. She's collaborating with vendors, academics and fellow CIOs to find ways to solve the problem. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Mario Leone This IT leader made a strategic decision to undertake several important projects at the same time. The initiatives ranged from application and infrastructure transformation to networking upgrades, all on a global scale. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Ralph Loura This IT leader put his political capital on the line when he backed funding for an IT integration project over two initiatives that were more business-oriented. He says it's important for IT leaders to fight for fundamental technology projects, because they're just as important to a company's long-term growth as initiatives that might deliver more obvious short-term business benefits. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: James McCoy This IT leader put the brakes on an ERP migration to call for more testing, but he addressed the business side's concerns by effectively explaining his decision. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Sanjay Mirchandani This EMC IT leader decided to have his team use his company's technologies while they were still in development, making it possible to provide customers with early-use cases. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: James Robertson This IT leader recognized the bring-your-own-device trend early and started incorporating personal devices into the IT infrastructure back in 2008. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Kristin D. Russell This IT leader left a successful career in the private sector to follow an opportunity to do meaningful work in the Colorado governor's office as state CIO and secretary of technology. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Christopher L. Smith This IT leader has moved the USDA from older systems to private and public clouds. Among other things, he shifted 120,000 employees and contractors to Microsoft's email and Office cloud platform. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Dennis L. Strong This IT leader and his team developed a real-time online product catalog that gives customers up-to-date views of product availability at any given store. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Dan Traynor This IT leader won over IT staffers, business personnel and executives with an aggressive IT transformation plan that fixed problems and added new functionality. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader Profile: Jimmy Z. Wang To mitigate risk, this IT leader gets feedback from his team on project challenges and works with the business to come up with a technology and deliver a solution. Read More Premier 100 IT Leader profile: David Webb This IT leader decided that rather than investing $7.5 million in additional hardware to tackle a massive big data project, he'd bet on Equifax's engineers to build a new indexing technology. Read More How the 2012 Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders were chosen A look at the methodology used in the selection of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2012, and a list of the judges who helped evaluate the nominees. Read More Scot Finnie: Premier 100 are calculated risk-takers Scot Finnie says the members of this year's class of Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders understand their companies' business needs and are willing to take risks to put their companies ahead. Read More
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