Thomas Wailgum

Stephen Rood, CIO of Strategic Technology, gives business managers a financial stake in determining which enhancements to ongoing projects they really need.

CIOs like NPR's Bob Holstein say that managing the application blacklog is the number-one barrier to their job effectiveness. Here's how to set priorities.

A recent medical study suggests that surgeons can improve their hand-eye coordination by playing video games. So why not exercise your financial acumen muscles by playing one of the many business simulation games that can hone your skills?

In May, news came from Australia that caught the world's Wi-Fi users completely off guard: A trio of PhD students at the Queensland University of Technology had discovered an indefensible denial-of-service flaw in the 802.11b network protocol. The group, led by associate professor Mark Looi, had accidentally uncovered the vulnerability back in November 2003 while investigating a previously known wireless flaw.

Organization structure is one tool that CIOs wield in their perennial effort to build a better IT group. Now a new structure, the Office of the CIO, or OCIO, has gained favour in government and academic circles, and is spreading to large companies in the private sector.

It doesn't matter whether it's in a hospital, at a tire dealership, in a department store or on a factory floor: If you have IT systems (whether in a legacy environment or a leading-edge shop), then you need to make sure that the people using those systems are happy.