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Creative Hundred: The Role of Innovation in Technology

This year’s CIO 100 winners use IT creatively to fashion new offerings, open new markets, increase customer satisfaction, and iron out the kinks in the business— ultimately adding lasting value to the enterprise.

Business’ Hard Edge : How CIOs Can Employ IT Creatively

This year’s CIO 100 award winners demonstrate how to employ IT creatively and produce new products and services out of nowhere.

Customer Satisfaction: Beat All Expectations

In a world where price and quality are table stakes, more companies and their CIOs are finding that it is customer service that wins the day. This year’s CIO 100 winners show you how to excel at customer service.

CIOs Drive Growth Through Innovation

Whether they are finding new ways to support expanding businesses or creating new channels for growth or expanding within existing markets, this year’s CIO 100 winners are fattening their company’s bottom lines.

Iron Out the Kinks: CIOs Reveal Their Business Optimization Strategies

This year’s CIO 100 winners, show you how to optimize business and grow the bottomline.

From the editor-in-chief

From the Editor-in-Chief: The Business of Change

True leaders are those who have the guts and the discipline to take on big decisions and see them through.

Mentor

Life Beyond ERP

Maruti Suzuki India's CIO, Rajesh Uppal believes that it is the leaders' responsibility to show their partners the true power that comes from leveraging IT.

Alternative Views

Is Jugaad a Good Thing?

Feature

What CFOs Need to Hear about Cloud Computing and Consumer IT

The way you spend on IT is changing. So is your relationship with the CFO.

Ten Tech Trends Reshaping Your World

3D printers that can print human organs, sensor networks, virtual humans and other technologies under development now will drastically change our world in the decade to come.

Column

Forcing Business IT Out of Its Comfort Zone

The problem with IT innovation today is that businesses say they want it, but they really don’t. It might change too much.

How to Corral Your Security Consultants : Anonymous

Security consultants aren’t a shrewd breed but if you give them too much freedom—without laying down clear ground rules—your organization will suffer.

Cloud Computing: Not An Employment Risk to CIOs

Neither CIOs or lower-level IT personnel are immune from the employment risks that cloud computing poses.

Trendlines

By The Numbers: Unrestrained Sto-rage!

Over the next decade, enterprises will have to tackle data 50 times its size today—with a staff that will grow only 1.5 times.

Hackers Master Car Theft by Text Message

 A recent report by the Associated Press paints a frightening picture: Hackers have learned to unlock a car's doors and start its engine simply by sending text messages to a vehicle's security system.

QUICK TAKE: IT’s Creativity Quotient

Innovation Creativity and technology are almost synonymous. And there is no doubt that one influences the other. As CIO honored the 100 most creative geniuses in the Indian IT industry, Anup Varier spoke to Sebastian Joseph, president-technology and FM, Mudra Communications, about the influence technology and creativity have on each other, and what this could mean to enterprises.

Voices : Why Would CIOs Vacate the C-suite?

Career Recently, two of the biggest names in the world of IT Steve Jobs and Narayana Murthy stepped out of their roles to pursue other interests. Surprisingly, a majority of CIOs are open to the idea of giving up the cushioned comforts of a cabin to pursue other interests. Debarati Roy finds out why many CIOs are willing to vacate the C-suite.

An iPad Can Now Wirelessly Connects to an Aircraft’s Avionics

 Aspen Avionics has announced a new product called Connected Panel, which wirelessly connects an iPad to an aircraft’s avionics—the electronic systems that includes flight navigation, communications, monitoring, management, and more.

Exchange Money Through Smartphones

Mobile PayPal recently announced a new mobile phone widget that will let smartphone users tap their phones together to exchange money. The Android widget works on NFC technology installed on the phones to facilitate the transfer of funds.

Can Google+ Dethrone Facebook from Reigning the Social Network?

Social Media With Google+, Google looks poised to challenge Facebook head-on. How do the companies stack up head to head? Here's a snapshot.

Japan's Cars Can Now Power Houses

In a twist on conventional charging for electric cars, Nissan has developed a system that allows a vehicle to supply electricity to power a house.

Vatican Priest Sides Hacker's Ethics

Internet hackers have acquired a dubious reputation, but an authoritative Vatican publication appears to rehabilitate them and traces parallels between hacker philosophy and the teachings of Christianity.

Cyber Crime’s Frequent Flyers

Cybercrime Unsatisfied with stealing bank account information from their victims, cyber criminals steal frequent flyer miles, too. The miles are used as currency among some of the miscreants, according to a report released by the malware fighters at the Kaspersky Lab.

4 Résumé Mistakes You Make

CareeR Howard Seidel, a career coach and partner with placement consulting firm Essex Partners, shares the four most common mistakes CIOs make in their résumés.

Essential Technology

How Enterprises Manage Big Data’s Treasure Trove

Mining and analyzing big data can help enterprises unearth their customers hobbies and activities and help them create targeted marketing campaigns.

The Social Web of Big Data

An attractive application of Hadoop and other big data technologies is to analyze users' social media activities and behavior—sometimes without their express knowledge.

Alert

Defcon Hacking Teams Could Save Lives

Meet the Firefly. Israeli defense contractor Rafael Armament Development Authority calls it a “revolutionary concept in tactical intelligence,” but really it’s a wireless camera that’s shot 500 feet in the air by a grenade launcher. And if a couple of hackers at the Defcon hacking convention get their way, soon anyone will be able to buy this type of military grade technology for only US$500 (Rs 22,500)

How To Cautiously Hire Your IT Staff

Preventing external attacks to IT systems is a huge and critical task for most companies, but what are businesses doing to stop similar attacks from within? That’s a question that more companies should be asking themselves as internal IT sabotage cases regularly hit businesses hard.

Book Club

Jumping The S-Curve : How Great Companies Get On Top And Stay There by Paul Nunes & Tim Breene

There are a host of management tomes dedicated to pursuing either business excellence or quickly rising to dominant positions. Jumping the S-Curve, however is about the hows and whys of organizations that make a succession of right moves.