CIO January 2011 Issue
Mentor
The Tech Buck Stops Here
We've been focusing so much on creating business-oriented CIOs that we risk abdicating our primary responsibility.
From the editor-in-chief
From the Editor-in-Chief: Choose Wisely
From a business buy-in perspective, domain expertise will win hands down over the most skilled of technologists.
Trendlines
Hot Workplace Trends in 2011
With a new decade coming in , the traditional workplace and work culture is going to change tremendously.A recent report by Elance, an online job marketplace for freelance and freelance agencies finds out the biggest trends.
2011 and Beyond: IT Under Scrutiny
IT faces increased levels of scrutiny from stakeholders both internal and external next year, according to Gartner, which announced its top predictions for IT organizations and users for 2011 and beyond.
iPhone Tackles Color Blindness
The augmented reality trend in iOS apps often teeters between an awkward gimmick and an awesome way to fight the Empire. But what if you could turn that trend towards helping people? What if, for example, you could use the iPhone to help people with color blindness?
Cloud Haven for Cyber Criminals
The thick cloud of suspicions around safety on the Cloud does not seem to lift away.
Alert
When IT is asked to Spy
IT managers are being put in the awkward position of monitoring fellow employees.
WikiLeaks Teaches Enterprises 5 Hard Truths
The recent news of government secrets posted to WikiLeaks is startling because of its size and scale. It is also symptomatic of a problem that practically every enterprise is also facing.
Columns
Column: Boiling IT Down
Applying the everything-I-need-to-know-I-learnt-in-kindergarten approach, one IT leader turns to a fable to bring clarity to IT’s role.
Column: In Lock-step With Business
One CIO says alignment isn't rocket science, and that he's created a framework to ensure that IT staffers focus on strategic business priorities. Here's his secret sauce.
Column: The CIO Everyone Hates
CIOs come in multiple personality types, but those who don't collaborate are doomed. The real-life story of one such IT leader.
Cover Story
11 Predictions for 2011
If there is one thing we hate, it’s second-hand information. And nowhere does that apply to more than predictions. Which is why, instead of gathering every analyst, research agency and number cruncher we could find to figure out what Indian CIOs will spend time and money on in 2011, we called on some of the biggest names in Indian enterprse IT. We asked them for their technology and non-technology priorities in 2011. Then we asked them to debate and tell you where India Inc and IT is heading this year. Here’s their verdict.
Case Files
The 48 hour Fund Value release assurance backed by IT
Operating in one of the world's most competitive sectors, Bharti AXA Life Insurance turns to IT to introduce an industry first.
ERP-BI Helped Blue Star Seal Off Revenue Leakages
Moving ERPs can be one of a CIO’s most intractable problems. How Blue Star’s IT leader handled it.
Perfetti Savors the Success of VDI
It's expensive, it's bandwidth intensive, and it meets user resistance. That's what you, like most of your peer, probably think of VDI. But the IT head of Perfetti Van Melle doesn't agree.
View from the Top
IT's a Propeller Towards Fast Growth
Satya Prabhakar, President and CEO, Sulekha.com, is re-inventing some parts of the business on the back of new technologies.
Features
The Scary Side of Virtualization
The migration onto virtual servers has saved businesses huge sums of money as a result of consolidation and improved efficiency, but as virtualization gobbles up more and more production servers, some IT executives are getting indigestion.
Book Club
Beyond Theory
An MBA-grad's journey, which reveals that a common-sense approach to strategy more often leads to success.
