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Cover Story

What Does Business Want You to Improve?

Sharper ROI focus, more proactiveness, better delivery, less inflexibility. But here’s the important question: Who is responsible for fixing business-
IT alignment?

It’s Time CIOs Got in the Driver’s Seat

Anyone who has ever led a team knows how lonely and frustrating it is to be forced to drive people and be the only one who cares enough to come up with new ideas. That’s how CXOs feel about IT.

From the editor-in-chief

From the Editor-in-Chief: Up Or Out?

CIOs who don’t become part of strategic decision making, might find themselves out of a role soon.

Mentor

Shift Happens!

CIO Debate

Who Should Enable Change?

Case Files

Feature

VDI: Sweating Out The Hard Truth

Not everything that’s put out there about desktop virtualization is true. Here’s what to consider if you’re thinking of adopting the technology.

Column

Outsourcing Security is Dumb

The number crunchers don’t see security management the same way that CSOs do. That’s why they’re willing to turn it over to strangers.

Innovation is Everyone’s Job

Trendlines

By The Numbers: Customer Service Stinks

Poor customer service is chasing away business, both directly and indirectly. Is IT listening?

Who’s IT’s Boss? The CEO

In today's digital economy, any board of directors that hires a CEO—who doesn’t have the CIO on the executive team—should be fired by the shareholders.

QUICK TAKE: Getting New Recruits on Board

The month of June is a time to welcome new recruits. But the process of allowing new members into a team and training them is filled with benefits and challenges. CIOs have to handle both while ensuring that recruits start contributing as soon as possible. Debarati Roy spoke to Jyoti Bandopadhyay, VP-IT, Torrent Power, to find out how he fulfills that responsibility.

Singing to Your Tune

Popular Science The creative lighting, strange sounds, and odd look of the project attracted large crowds at the Computer Human Interaction conference held in Vancouver in May.

Voices: Dealing with a New Boss

The last few months have witnessed a series of high-profile restructurings at Indian companies. Whether this trend is driven by a predecessor’s less-than-stelllar performance, or a company’s desire to reinvent itself, organizational restructurings don’t stop at the top. They create shifts in the pecking order, change priorities, and force CXOs—including CIOs—to prove themselves all over again. Varsha Chidambaram asked your peers what they watch out for when the boss changes.

Mobility: How Slim is Your Smartphone?

Consumer Products Researchers from Queens University recently presented a flexible, e-ink display that they believe could one day replace smartphones. Called the Paper Phone, the device isn't much thicker than a few sheets of paper and uses the same type of display found on the Amazon Kindle and other popular e-readers.

Innovation: Real Feel Touchscreen

A prototype touchscreen that was on show at the Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference in Vancouver can change from slippery to sticky depending on what's happening on the screen.

Devices: Taking a Shine to ChromeBook?

In the words of a well-known author Alvin Toffler, “the great growling engine of change is technology”. There’s no doubt Google’s ChromeBook is heralding change, but the question is: Will it growl, or meow quietly into the sunset?

Security: Now, a Cyber Security Barometer

Security Are attacks up, spending on network defenses down, or national hacking on the rise? The Index of Cybersecurity could help indicate the general trend in the risks to corporate networks and information in the future.

Fortune 1000 Firms Shun Public Cloud Storage

9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000

Servers  That’s the amount of data—9.57 zetabytes—that the world's 27 million business servers processed a year—three years ago.

Alerts

Anonymous Backs Baba Ramdev

Hacker group Anonymous has come out in support of a civil movement against corruption in India by hacking one of the websites of a government IT organization.

New Privacy Rules: 5 Pointers

The changes in the rules around Sensitive Personal Information by the Indian government, through an amendment, aims at creating a comprehensive set of data protection rules to safeguard the privacy of individuals. Here's a quick look at the rules' impact on the CIO’s office.

ET

Vulnerability Management - Security Check

Vulnerability management tools do more than scan networks. Here's how to use them to detect and mitigate risk across the enterprise infrastructure.

Compliance: Your GRC Playbook

IT governance, risk and compliance tools help bring order to enterprises' crazy quilt of overlapping regulations, redundant audit programs and manual processes.

Book Review

The Seven Arts Of Change : Leading Business Transformation That Lasts by David Shaner

A practical approach to why and how organizations and their leaders need to change the way they engender change.