CIO April 2011 Issue
Cover Story
The Fourth Annual CIO Ones to Watch Award
With each phase of the IT evolution, CIOs must re-invent themselves to survive and prosper. We identify three skills—and the people that represent them—that future CIOs must have.
Ones to Watch : Customer Impact
These rising stars of IT will tell you that the customers are always right and that customer insight is a source for continuous innovation in IT.
Ones to Watch : Change Leadership
These future IT leaders know that an organization’s fluid ability to adapt is key to its success. And have raised change management into an art form.
Ones to Watch: Cultivators of Talent
These CIOs-to-be are devising smart ways of training staffers to ready their organizations for tomorrow’s growth.
Ones to Watch 2011: the Winners (1-10)
Our 30 Ones to Watch winners come from a wide range of backgrounds, but all share a passion and a talent for leadership.
Ones to Watch 2011: the Winners (11-20)
Our 30 Ones to Watch winners come from a wide range of backgrounds, but all share a passion and a talent for leadership.
Ones to Watch 2011: the Winners (21-30)
Our 30 Ones to Watch winners come from a wide range of backgrounds, but all share a passion and a talent for leadership.
View from the Top
Speed Dial for Growth
V.S.S. Mani, Founder & CEO, JustDial, on IT's pivotal role in battling one of the local search giant's largest challenges.
Case Files
Fullerton Shrinks Loan Approval Time, Saves 10 Crores on Opex
Fullerton shrank the time it took to approve a loan from 18 days to six days and simultaneously saved Rs 10 crore. This is how.
Fleetwood Enterprises Realises the Value of Its IT Team During An Acquisition
Not until filing bankruptcy papers and trying to sell off parts of the company did Fleetwood Enterprises realize the value of its IT group. Here’s how its CIO ensured that it did.
Godrej Agrovet Redefines Cash Crops
The IT project that simultaneously increased the profits for both small farmers and Godrej Agrovet—and will probably reduce India’s dependence on imported palm oil.
Trendlines
Mobile Boom In India Over-Stated, TRAI Figures Suggest
India’s mobile boom may be exaggerated if one takes into account the large number of mobile connections that are currently inactive. According to TRAI, about 30 percent of mobile connections are inactive in the country.
With Hacking, Music Can Take Control of Your Car
By adding extra code to a digital music file, hackers can turn a song burned to CD into a Trojan horse. When played on the car's stereo, this song could alter the firmware of the car's stereo system, giving attackers an entry point to change other components on the car.
Unmasking Anonymous E-mailers
A new technique developed by researchers at Concordia University could be used to unmask would-be anonymous e-mailers by sniffing out patterns in their writing style from use of all lowercase letters to common typos.
Tablets on the Battlefront
Devices Shooting turtles or attacking enemy warplanes with game apps on an iPad is child's play compared to the apps two military contractors are planning for use with low-cost, consumer-grade tablets and smartphones.
Savior App: Out of Troubled Waters and Earthquakes
Smartphones have smart apps that can give you lifesaving capabilities during an emergency.
From the Editor-in-Chief
From the editor-in-chief: Tech Conundrum
Most organizations have some brush with tech failures, yet little happens by way of introspection.
Mentor
Let’s Talk Business
The difference between a business CIO and every another CIO is the latter’s limited ‘IT-only’ mindset.
Alternate Views
Should Enterprises Get Tablet-Ready?
Feature
Big Data’s Big Promise
Hadoop and other tools can unlock critical insights from unfathomable volumes of corporate and external data—changing the way organization’s look at business intelligence.
Column
Transforming IT's Role: From Performance to Innovation
Some CIOs complain that IT department performance and project status dominate discussions with the CEO. If you want to change the conversation to IT's role in innovation and strategy, consider these five issues.
Taking Your Team Forward
Juggling the needs of top performers and less-seasoned team members can be difficult, but it’s critical to everyone’s growth.
Alert
9 Tips to Protect Mobile Staff
Here are nine tips to keep employees—and corporate data—safe outside the office
What Security Auditors Really Think
What do auditors involved in making sure companies meet compliance requirements really think? For starters, they think that companies don’t care much about privacy and security, and that encryption gets applied at a minimum to meet rules, according to a study of 505 security auditors by Ponemon Institute.
Essential Technology
The Real Illusion
It is somewhat of an inconvenient truth that the recession has been a boon to the video conferencing industry, as organizations tried to cut travel costs. 60% of organizations plan to spend more on telepresence to expand it's coverage.
Collaboration SharePoint Style
Global hotel chain Hilton is upgrading to SharePoint 2010 for its employees and business partners at 3,600 hotels across the globe.
