Stories by Stephanie Overby

Within corporate IT, the pace of technology change has increased so much that leaders who don’t embrace emerging trends at some level risk ending up behind the competition.

Anxious about your staffing responsibilities? Questions answered here.

A few years back, when Leslie Fiering began talking to IT executives about the potential benefits of employee-owned notebooks in the enterprise, the idea caused "fear, loathing and extreme distress in the hearts of CIOs," she recalls.

As HP inches closer to sealing its deal to acquire EDS, rumor has it that executives at EDS may be putting the finishing touches on severance packages for a significant number of its staff.

Bill Piatt, CIO of the International Finance Corporation (IFC),sits in his Washington, DC, office just three floors above the company's primary data centre. But for all he cares, that server room could be halfway around the globe. After all, many of the people who manage that infrastructure are

According to an internal company memo, Ron Rittenmeyer says he will remain chairman, CEO, and president of EDS even after it is subsumed as a business group by Hewlett-Packard.

More CIOs are being asked to take on responsibilities outside of IT. And it's not just the business that benefits. Expanding your job description can be good for your career, too — provided you master the politics and rethink how you run IT

CIOs eager to challenge themselves or prove their worth may be quick to take on additional responsibilities outside of IT. But it may not be best for you or your company if it means IT has to take a backseat. Here are some questions to ask your boss-and yourself-before signing on for double duty in a CIO-plus role.

Want to find out what new employees think of your IT department? Just ask them, says Canada-based Kumud Kalia, CIO of Direct Energy.

There are things you can do in just 20 minutes that can have a meaningful and even a long term positive effect on your IT organization, your career, your technology knowledge, your management skills and your relationship with the business. We've gathered 20 of the best ideas we could find

Author Jim Collins explains why he sees CIOs as quiet leaders, and what challenges they face in their drive to be the best

Want to prevent your next plan from landing in the trash? Avoid these most common pitfalls

CIO of Direct Energy shares insights on how to get feedback from new staffers. . . directly

Oh, it must be nice to be the CIO of a FedEx or a GE or a Credit Suisse. Places where IT and the business are so tightly aligned you can barely tell the two apart. Where corporate leaders understand that IT is a strategic asset and support it as such

I had a candid conversation with a IT/BPO services company CEO yesterday. That I was on the phone with an executive at an IT vendor is not itself unusual. I talk to them quite often for one of two reasons: either I'm working on a story they can provide some insight about, or I'm taking what's called an editorial briefing to satisfy my publisher. This call was actually the latter. These calls fall into two camps. Either the CEO sounds like he's reading from a press release and has a ready (and boring) answer to every question or he lets down his guard and we have an actual human conversation that's enlightening or funny or just plain old enjoyable. This call was actually the latter.