CIO Leadership

The top 10 cities for tech workers. The silliest BlackBerry accessories. IT urban legends. Geek chic from the '90s. Top 10 tech-induced apologies. Get it all right here and much, much more.

Employees behaving badly can cost you time, money -- and talented workers. Leadership columnist John Baldoni shares three tips for keeping a minor problem from becoming a major headache.

Three books illustrate -- in fiction and nonfiction -- lessons that business executives and IT managers should learn. Find out why Mesh Collaboration, Business Focused IT and Service Excellence, and the original In Search of Excellence should be in your "To Be Read" pile.

Insights into Wall Street and tips for IT and business managers looking to understand the financial sector and how to solve budget problems posed by a stock market dip.

Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and AIG trouble stoke recession fears.

Lehman Brothers spent $309M on technology and communications in the past quarter.

What were they thinking? These 12 folks lost jobs, reputations, or their freedom after dumb photos they put up on the Web came to light.

There's more to best practices than architecture. Perhaps the best practice in SOA is for the CIO to get involved and be a leader in making the business case for adoption of SOA?

CIOs share ideas to encourage innovation with senior management, including leveraging vendor knowledge and alignment with business strategy.

The home improvement retailer announced that it found a replacement for its retiring CIO, Bob DeRodes. Home Depot's new CIO most recently worked for eBay and previously for Wal-Mart.

To listen to the techies, any IT manager ought to have deep technical knowledge about everything in the knowledge domain, whether it's network performance or code optimization. Or so the prevailing wisdom goes. When push comes to shove, though, your techies would far prefer that you fine-tune your management skills than compete with them on technical know-how.

Implementing SOA can have a major impact on people at various levels within an organization. Before a company gets too far into designing solutions, they should access the existing skill sets of their people and the impacts of SOA on their culture and delivery capabilities.

Reshape IT culture to partner strategically with the business

San Francisco's network-abuse claims raise more questions than answers.

Want to make better leadership decisions? Start by asking yourself three simple questions: What have we missed? What if we do the opposite? What if we're wrong?

A key to getting ahead in your career is to generate buzz. Getting out of the office and into the social arena, blogging and participating in Web 2.0 venues are just a few ways you can make sure your praises get sung.

There are some things your your boss definitely doesn't want to hear.

From being a control freak to being a vendor puppet, here are nine behaviors management needs to steer clear of or risk being labeled "clueless."