There's the loss of control, of course. But more alarming is the exponential growth in the number of rapidly emerging consumer technologies, cloud services and roll-your-own apps
There's little doubt about it: the IT skunk works is making a comeback -- not so much as a place to allow experimental projects to flourish, but as an indispensable tool to breed innovatio
IT shops in all industries are approaching 2011 in the same way: They plan to vigilantly manage flat budgets and further slash already significantly reduced costs. Learn from these examples
Next year's technology budgets are mostly flat, and cutting costs remains a top priority, but it's not all gloom and doom for IT.Consider these firms and their CIO's plans
Companies like Johnson & Johnson, State Street, W.W. Grainger, General Mills and Xerox are looking to hire smart, tech-savvy, collaborative business professionals for 20- or 30-year multifaceted careers, not for IT jobs