| Wednesday, November 7, 2012 | |  | | Jacob Morgan | | | 6 Ways To Build Management Support For Collaboration One of the most common questions I get asked at conferences or events is how to get the attention and support of senior managers for collaboration. I should point out that I believe if an executive doesn't support collaboration, then that person shouldn't be an executive. But, back to the topic at the hand. There are certainly situations where no matter how hard midlevel management or employees push collaboration, upper management remains oblivious. All the successful collaboration initiatives that I have either worked on or heard about have had support from senior level management. However, sometimes management needs a wakeup call. This happens more often than it should. In fact, last month I spent a few days at a client's site and this was one of the topics of discussion. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND POST YOUR THOUGHTS | | | |  | | DOWNLOAD NETWORK COMPUTING'S LATEST DIGITAL ISSUE From SDN to network overlays, emerging technologies promise to reshape the data center for the age of virtualization. Also in the new, all-digital issue of Network Computing: Open Compute rethinks server design. DOWNLOAD NOW FREE (Registration Required) | |
 COMMENTARY Data Governance: No Single Solution By Rajan Chandras The conversation about data governance has moved on from the why to the how stage. Bold suggestions on budgeting data governance activities are as routine as those for marketing campaigns and technology purchases. Gartner goes so far as to predict that by 2016, 20 percent of CIOs in regulated industries will lose their jobs for failing to implement information governance successfully--and for that to happen, spending on that governance needs to increase five-fold.
I keynoted last month at the MDM & Data Governance Summit in New York, and if attendee questions and interest are any indication, data governance is further along than it was earlier this year, when I presented in San Francisco. Unfortunately, what's also clear is that this zest for data governance isn't yet matched by clarity of vision, or consensus on how exactly to go about doing it. LinkedIn: How To Take Advantage of Recent Changes By Eric Lundquist I'm one of those people who always felt a bit strange posting work-related activities on Facebook. Mixing in links to posts on social media analytics with updates on family, friends, and important information about what wine paired well with dinner frankly just feels contrived. The shifting and confusing privacy settings at Facebook haven't done much to encourage me to see the admittedly huge social network as the place where business networks can thrive.
LinkedIn is a business network by original design, lately accelerated through a raft of new features that are quickly propelling it as the place where business and, in particular, business-to-business interactions, take place. Are We Giving CIOs An Inferiority Complex? By Rob Preston Are people losing respect for the CIO profession, or have they just lost their perspective? While other C-level executives command authority and are lauded for IT savvy if they know how to buy a cloud service, CIOs are nitpicked for spending too much time on their core technology competency and not enough time parked in other parts of the business. |  JOIN THE CONVERSATION Posted By melgross: "I'm not particularly impressed with the concept of the CIO as a "C" class officer. As with problems with CFOs making business decisions, CIOs are no more qualified. We had the rise of the CIO a number of years ago, with them being put on the board. That was a bad decision. I see no evidence that they know enough about the business to be qualified to take part in those decisions. They are usually more of a stumbling block than an asset.
"I understand that these business-oriented computer publications are really here to push more authority for the IT department, as though that will help solve business problems. But really, doing that is what has caused business problems." In reply to: Are We Giving CIOs An Inferiority Complex? View Entire Response | Post Your Own Reply | | NEWS & ANALYSIS REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS FEATURED REPORTS Research: 2012 Big Data And Analytics Staffing Survey Demand for big data and analytics experts is on the rise, but it will take years for the supply to catch up. Our InformationWeek 2012 State of IT Staffing Survey finds that 40 percent of respondents who cited big data and analytics as a top area of staffing growth expect personnel increases of 11 percent or more in the next two years. One study estimates a shortfall of at least 140,000 positions by 2018. So how are employers coping? Through a mix of hiring, contracting, and retraining existing staff.
In this report, we look at how companies in industries as diverse as insurance, chemicals, and technology are filling those positions, as well as what universities are doing to train the next generation of business technology pros in these sought-after skills. Download Now (Registration Required)
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