Chevron's CIO Talks Transformation and Why IT Leaders Should Smile

	Should the CIO know how to code? | What tech managers can do to hold on to their best talent
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	Chevron's CIO Talks Transformation and Why IT Leaders Should Smile In the latest installment of the CIO Interview Series, Louie Ehrlich, CIO and president of Chevron Information Technology Company, talks about the most important things he's learned leading a giant, global IT team through massive change. His answers may sound simple, but they're hard-won lessons for Ehrlich, the top tech executive for the nearly $250 billion energy company, whose transformation effort has yielded the better part of a billion dollars in payback for Chevron. Insider (registration required) Read More WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how In this Issue INSIDER Should the CIO know how to code? What tech managers can do to hold on to their best talent Rachel Russell: Motivate workers with salary, skills and strategy IT reorgs: Be sure of your reasons Dirty IT jobs: Grime and punishment Detroit makes pitch for ousted Yahoo employees INSIDER The Grill: Melissa P. Dodd WHITE PAPER: Sybase Prescription for Empowerment As healthcare payers continue to deal with the growth of big data, recent IDG research shows that they embrace and empower ad hoc analytic environments. Compliance continues to surface as a critical business driver for investments in data analytics, along with improved efficiency, reduced risk, reduced cost and improved security. Read now. INSIDER Should the CIO know how to code? With IT integral to the business, an increasing number of companies are hiring CIOs who didn't rise through the ranks. Is that a good thing? Insider (registration required) Read More What tech managers can do to hold on to their best talent 6 tips for holding on to your workplace stars. (Insider; registration required) Read More Rachel Russell: Motivate workers with salary, skills and strategy TEKsystems research shows that IT professionals rank career development -- not compensation -- as their top priority. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed Optimizing your web page loading time is essential for retaining your website visitors. Download Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed to learn how front-end optimization can improve Time to Action for your web and mobile content, and how it can be done in front of your existing CDN with minimal integration required. Learn More! IT reorgs: Be sure of your reasons An IT reorganization predicated on the questions 'Who?' and 'Where?' is doomed. Instead, ask 'Why?' and 'How?' Read More Dirty IT jobs: Grime and punishment Flame wars, leakage, nasty Polish texting -- six more tales of dirty duty in IT Read More Detroit makes pitch for ousted Yahoo employees Quicken Loans and two affiliated Detroit venture capital firms have issued a call for the roughly 2,000 Yahoo employees who received pink slips last week to move to the Motor City to bolster the blighted city's efforts at revitalization. Read More INSIDER The Grill: Melissa P. Dodd Melissa P. Dodd, CIO of the Boston Public Schools, shares her ideas on running a large school system's IT department. Insider (registration required) Read More
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