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April 2008
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Web Updates
Women and IT
IT pays homage to mothers
Network managers say that without applying key lessons learned from their mothers, they couldn't have succeeded in IT.
Denise Dubie
Updated: May 09, 2008 11:18 AM
Corporate Issues
IBM study: CEOs accept change as a permanent state
Study revealed widespread concern by CEOs about their organization's ability to absorb and manage change as well as a widening gap between winners and losers in the global economy.
Sandra Rossi
Updated: May 09, 2008 11:15 AM
Innovation
China innovation: The next big surprise
Innovation will be the next ‘big surprise’ out of China, said Jack Perkowski, the chairman and chief executive officer of an important manufacturer in China’s automotive components industry.
Ross O. Storey
Updated: May 07, 2008 12:05 PM
Leadership
How to develop the next generation of IT leaders
Many CIOs don't know who would lead IT if they left tomorrow.
Michael Fitzgerald
Updated: May 06, 2008 11:44 AM
Security
IT security lessons from Chrysler's data loss
The case draws parallels to a major Canadian data loss incident last year, where CIBC's mutual fund subsidiary Talvest Mutual Funds lost a backup drive containing personal and financial data of 470,000 individuals while it was in transit between Montréal and Toronto.
Rafael Ruffolo
Updated: May 05, 2008 12:10 PM
Career
Four secrets to becoming a rising IT star
Some IT staff manage to get noticed-and in all the right ways. What are the secrets of their success?
Diann Daniel
Updated: May 02, 2008 10:59 AM
Telecom
Do we really need mobile phones on airlines?
Apparently some people just can't deal with being out of touch.
Larry Borsato
Updated: Apr 30, 2008 11:10 AM
IT Management
Can Google's new CIO fill Douglas Merrill's shoes?
Fried has some big shoes to fill in his new role. His predecessor was as famous for his rock star looks and persona as he was for his Googley mind.
Meridith Levinson
Updated: Apr 29, 2008 10:32 AM
IT Strategy
Hackett Group: IT leaders can slash nearly 40 per cent of spending
According to The Hackett Group's research, a typical Global 1000 company can remove between 15 per cent and 41 per cent of its total G&A costs by focusing on certain processes.
Meridith Levinson
Updated: Apr 28, 2008 03:32 PM
IT Management
Tips for assessing and communicating the value of IT
These tips will make your IT projects more successful as well as eliminate the burden of defending IT initiatives.
Kamala Puram
Updated: Apr 28, 2008 03:26 PM
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From The Editor
Editorial
CIOs stands for Compensation is ongoing
 Much of this issue is dedicated to profiling the winners of our prestigious CIO 100 Awards – the ‘fabulous five’ enterprises and their senior IT executives who our independent judges have determined to have implemented Asia’s best projects for 2008. 
Ross O. Storey
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Cover Story
The Fabulous Five (The ERP Avenger)
Flexible and scalable ERP
Integrating processes across business units throughout the planet, on land and sea, is a huge challenge, which demands a flexible and scalable ERP system. Meeting this challenge has won Hong Kong-based
shipping group Wallem a prestigious CIO Asia award for 2008.
Jared Heng
The Fabulous Five (Smarttrader)
Milking a paperless system
When IT executives sit down with their management colleagues to resolve business issues at Fonterra, the results can be spectacular. And rewarding too, especially when one particular IT project won a CIO Award for 2008.
Jack Loo
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Features | In Print
Olympic IT
Networking the games
 More than 1,000 network devices will be used to help connect the vast IT systems at the Beijing Olympic Games, now some four months away.
Jack Loo
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Highlights
Olympic IT
Making sure everything works
 For the IT management running the Beijing Olympics, failure is not an option. That is why they are running tests after tests to thoroughly prepare the IT systems.
Jack Loo
Internet
ISPs, Web sites must tackle piracy, says CBS, Viacom chief
 Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone called on ISPs; site operators and device manufacturers to help fight piracy.
Martyn Williams
Corporate Issues
Three companies Microsoft could buy instead of Yahoo
Keeping in mind Microsoft's relative weaknesses, we've come up with a short list of potential targets that would provide at least some of the same bang as buying Yahoo would have given.
Eric Lai
Personnel
How to be a successful mentor
CIOs fortunate enough to have good mentoring experiences early in their careers often go on to mentor younger colleagues.
Kim S. Nash
Wireless Networking
A look at the world's largest corporate Wi-Fi network
To all employees the Wi-Fi network in Redmond looks and acts no differently than the Wi-Fi network set up in any other Microsoft office.
Thomas Wailgum
Software
Six more free BlackBerry apps you don't want to miss
More often than not, you get what you pay for when it comes to mobile apps--though there are exceptions.
Al Sacco
IT Strategy
What's driving Microsoft's strategy
Microsoft's COO Kevin Turner noted that there were four key enterprise trends shaping Microsoft's strategic direction and future product offerings.
Thomas Wailgum
Web Services
Tips to find great web design, development services
Consumer confusion is the result of many individual problems when it comes to website design and development services, but in a nutshell, it boils down to the rapid growth of the Web and the lack of competitive measure available. Here are ten tips to lay that confusion to rest.
Molly E. Holzschlag
Environment
Green technology: hype or must-have?
It's enough to make some IT managers dismiss green technology altogether, but even those who are concerned about the environment and their own energy costs have a tough time separating product hype from reality.
Jon Brodkin
IT Management
What brain drain?
The inescapable conclusion seems to be that many businesses are perfectly content to see their boomers walk out the door.
Mary Brandel
Consumer Electronics
BlackBerry how-to: free up device memory
One fact remains the same whether you use a BlackBerry 6230 or Curve 8320: The more services you employ and apps you run, the more memory you need.
Al Sacco
Software
Hustling IT along
By using IT to tweak internal processes, Domino's took its focus on speed out of the street and into their stores. They made time -- in addition to their pizzas -- a differentiator that their competition can't beat.
Kanika Goswami
Economic Outlook
Asia optimistic about economy, but not about hiring
Expectations about hiring staff have fallen in Asia.
Zafar Anjum
SOA
SOA positives and pitfalls
 Deploying service-oriented architecture (SOA) requires a business process management (BPM) perspective, along with organisation-wide collaboration in service development. But it can be hard to define.
Jared Heng
Internet
'Groundswell' co-author on CIOs and social software
Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, two Forrester Research analysts, have a message for CIOs in their new book, "Groundswell," about social technologies: you can't control users looking to utilize Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis and social networks.
C.G. Lynch
Telecom
10 reasons why Motorola failed
Motorola Chairman Ed Zander dropped by the other day and the best thing I can say was he was still a bit shellshocked. Here is the company that invented the cell phone -- in the fastest growing market in all of technology -- getting clobbered.
Howard Anderson
Podcasting
Why podcasting is failing
Compared to radio programming, most podcasts sound amateurish and slow-paced, and the ability to find interesting programs is severely limited. No wonder relatively few people have tried downloading podcasts.
Ian Lamont
CIO Pay
CIO compensation includes lots of perks
Millionaire CIOs enjoy club memberships, car allowances and the company plane, among other fringe benefits.
Kim S. Nash
Telecom
Blackberry how-to: Transfer files between devices
Did you know you can transfer files like photos, voice notes and songs from your BlackBerry to other compatible mobile devices using Bluetooth?
Al Sacco
Internet
A new kind of Web -- don't miss these 11 sites
Call them Web 2.0 sites or mashups -- or come up with your own trendy term. Whatever you call them, there are sites popping up all over the Web that process information in new ways rather than just present it.
Jack Widman
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Columns
At the Coalface
Gunfight at the BI corral
 It has certainly been an action packed year in the Business Intelligence (BI) marketplace. Gartner, in a mastery of understatement, has described it as a ‘flux’ phase for BI, but it seems more like a showdown.
Peter Hind
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