IT reorganization: 4 CIOs share expert advice

	Once your car's connected to the Internet, who guards your privacy? | ATK CIO says metrics-driven IT paves the way for innovation
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	INSIDER IT reorganization: 4 CIOs share expert advice No one embarks on an IT reorganization for the fun of it, unless you're a sadist.Because they represent change, both for an IT department's staffers and the business units with whom they work, reorganizations are never easy. But they're often unavoidable, triggered by new technologies like the cloud or mobility, a change in management, a disruption in the industry or simply the need to serve the business better.And they can be frequent: A 2013 Forrester Research study of IT executives found that approximately half of respondents indicated that there was at least a 50% chance of a reorganization within the next 18 months.Tom Murphy knows a thing or two about frequent reorgs. As CIO of Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines he set out to wrangle a dysfunctional IT organization into submission, only to have his progress interrupted by the shockwave of 9/11. He followed that with a stint as CIO at pharmaceutical company AmerisourceBergen that involved a huge SAP installation and an associated reorganization.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Integrating Mobility with Unified Access Meeting mobility demands of 4500 students, faculty and staff at a university is no small task. Join this Webcast to hear the Director of Enterprise Infrastructure explain the steps Abilene Christian University took to deliver a new level of student-faculty interaction. Learn More In this Issue Once your car's connected to the Internet, who guards your privacy? INSIDER ATK CIO says metrics-driven IT paves the way for innovation Beyond FLOPS: The co-evolving world of computer benchmarking Career advice: 'Retired' just looks wrong on a résumé In iOS 8, Medical ID could be a life-saver How haptics will transform your gadgets Half-baked mergers 9 Apple stories you need to know Net-neutrality bogosity continues in Senate (as FCC flails) 12 iOS 8 features you'll want to use WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology How WAN Optimization Helps Enterprises Reduce Costs If you wanted to break down innovation into a tidy equation, it might go something like this: Technology + Connectivity = Productivity. Productivity comes in two forms: user experience and infrastructure efficiency. Read Now Once your car's connected to the Internet, who guards your privacy? As more mobile devices connect to in-car infotainment and diagnostic systems -- and cars wirelessly connect to other vehicles, automated homes and roadways -- where you are and what you're doing in your car could suddenly become very public. Read More INSIDER ATK CIO says metrics-driven IT paves the way for innovation As CIO for ATK, Jeff Kubacki has instituted a rigorous benchmarking approach aimed at delivering world-class IT at continually improving cost. Kubacki has built a strong rapport with his CEO and other business leaders because he runs IT operations like a business and speaks the results-centered language of his peers at ATK. In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CIO Interview Series, Kubacki talked with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about the realities of moving to a metrics-driven IT operation and how it has paved the way to more trust and visibility for IT. Furthermore, this discipline has freed IT to focus more on the innovations that are fueling the $5 billion diversified company's growth.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More Beyond FLOPS: The co-evolving world of computer benchmarking It used to be simple: Multiply the microprocessor's clock rate by four, and you could measure a computer's computational power in megaFLOPS (millions of floating point operations per second) or gigaFLOPS (billions of FLOPS.) No more. Today they're talking about teraFLOPS (trillions) and petaFLOPS (quadrillions) -- which brings up an important question: How do you benchmark these much-more-powerful systems? "The majority of modern processors are systems on a chip and that has completely muddied the water," says Gabe Gravning, director of product marketing at AMD. An x86 microprocessor may actually include multiple processor cores, multiple graphics co-processors, a video encoder and decoder, an audio co-processor and an ARM-based security co-processor, he explains.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Career advice: 'Retired' just looks wrong on a résumé Premier 100 IT Leader Michael Macrie also answers questions on the merits of getting a bachelor's degree later in life and the pros and cons of working for the government. Read More In iOS 8, Medical ID could be a life-saver Of all the new features in iOS 8, one hasn't gotten a lot of attention -- and it's the one feature that all iOS 8 users should at least consider.I'm talking about the Medical ID record in the new Health app. Even if you aren't tracking fitness, diet or sleep -- and fortunate enough not to be managing or monitoring a chronic condition like diabetes, COPD or heart disease -- this is one aspect of the health app worth understanding. Although all other HealthKit-related functions are on hold for now, Medical ID is fully baked and ready to use.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Integrating Mobility with Unified Access Meeting mobility demands of 4500 students, faculty and staff at a university is no small task. Join this Webcast to hear the Director of Enterprise Infrastructure explain the steps Abilene Christian University took to deliver a new level of student-faculty interaction. Learn More How haptics will transform your gadgets The era of ubiquitous haptic user interfaces has been predicted for two decades. Now it's finally here. Can you feel it? Read More Half-baked mergers It can take years after a merger has been declared “complete” for the IT processes and systems to be truly merged. Over the years, we’ve all seen stories in the business press about this sort of thing, and yet it keeps happening, despite what can be dire consequences.I’m sure you aren’t reading it here first, but it’s worth repeating: The merging of IT processes and systems should be planned as soon as negotiations are finalized, and the integration of IT staff and systems should begin as soon as the legal documents are signed. There are many reasons why this is important. Here are some of them:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More 9 Apple stories you need to know With so much attention on iOS 8 a slew of important Apple news items slipped under the radar this week. You don't want to miss these: Read More Net-neutrality bogosity continues in Senate (as FCC flails) The FCC is trying to make a sound decision about this net-neutrality thing. That's not helped by a succession of industry-funded lobbyists and lawmakers, trying to shout louder than We, The People.In IT Blogwatch, bloggers fret and worry for the net's future. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Grant Gross loves a parade (the tramping of feet): To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More 12 iOS 8 features you'll want to use Apple's iOS 8 is upon us, so here is a short collection of some of the new features you'll certainly want to try. Read More
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