Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Killer Insights

Chris Murphy of InformationWeek posted some very good points from CIOs at the IW 500 conference.


So as a CIO, are you immersed in a six-month bakeoff to decide on the right content management or email system? Lane's implication: You're doing the wrong job -- Ray Lane, Hewlett-Packard chairman


Great IT teams today are asking the question: What does the end customer need from us? -- Chris Murphy

"Many of us have been educated out of our creative confidence." -- Sir Ken Robinson

Creativity is: "unique ideas that have value."
-- Sir Ken Robinson

"Your best friend is the CMO. That's where the action is really happening." -- Robert Urwiler, Vail Resorts CIO

“The only thing we were going to be wed to is being open minded” -- Paul DePodesta, New York Mets VP of player development and scouting


"Social media points us in the direction of where we need to do more research." -- Jared Anderson, Best Buy senior manager of customer experience research

"...hackers searched for and exploited one of just two ColdFusion-based websites the lab still had. Companies often don't keep up the attention and technical skills needed to keep those small systems secure" -- Jerry Johnson, CIO, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory