Outsourcing
Computerworld, 4/1/03: Outsourcing growth predicted, but impact on workers may be uneven
By PATRICK THIBODEAU
BOSTON -- Companies increasingly will turn to offshore outsourcing to cut costs and will utilize their in-house technology talent for strategic development and competitive advantage. The IT professionals most threatened by the move are those with so-called commodity skills, particularly programmers.
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IT Leadership
CIO Magazine, 4/1/03: To be an effective CIO, you need to do six things:
You must be on the executive team.
You have to engage senior business managers in IT projects.
You must also include users in the same projects.
You need a high-level group to make IT decisions.
You must communicate regularly with end users.
You have to assign IT staff as liaisons to business units.
That's the conclusion of leading CIOs who participated in our "State of the CIO 2003" survey. From among the more than 500 respondents, CIO editors culled a subgroup that we judged to exemplify best practices for IT executives based on their responses to particular questions. Those best practices CIOs then ranked the actions they deemed most critical to successfully leading IT in their organizations. According to the top-flight CIOs, there are six—and only six—essential practices that CIOs must undertake to be effective in their jobs and ensure that IT is adding maximum value to their organizations.
But it's one thing to know what you need to do to be successful; it's another to do it. In interviews, more than a dozen of the best practices CIOs share the techniques that make them successful.
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Security
TechWeb, 4/1/03: IM Remains An Enigma For IT
A survey indicates that almost 90% of companies have instant messaging traversing their networks but only a third have standardized on specific IM apps.
By Tony Kontzer
IT departments continue to struggle with how to get a handle on instant messaging.
Most IT departments acknowledge the use of IM by employees, and more than one-fourth are attempting to block it in lieu of turning to third-party management tools, according to a survey from messaging watchdog Osterman Research.
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What Larry Ellison Thinks
The Wall Street Journal, 4/2/03: Ellison Sees Big Shakeout Coming in Silicon Valley
By PETER LOFTUS
NEW YORK -- Just call Larry Ellison the dark oracle of Silicon Valley.
Mr. Ellison, the founder and chief executive of software giant Oracle Corp., says the high-technology industry is set for a sweeping consolidation that will spell the end for many of his rivals.
"We think there's at least 1,000 Silicon Valley companies that need to go bankrupt," Mr. Ellison said during a meeting Tuesday with reporters and editors from The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires.
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