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Road warrior

Elogex CTO offers major companies the key to more efficient transportation management

Talking turkey

Tips on getting staffers to open up at meetings and insights on why good facilitation skills enhance leadership

The IT age factor

Powerful chemicals

For rival chief technologists in the chemical industry, wariness about economic slow down and concern about security issues spurs them to collaboration and innovative competition

Crossing the chasm

J.D. Edwards’ ease of use attracts customers

CEO Bob Dutkowsky discusses his company's approach to collaborative apps for the enterprise

Interview: Veritas defines path for storage innovation

CTO Paul Borrill outlines his vision for the future of enterprise storage

IBM aims at corporate datacenters

Director of eServer blade strategy Tim Dougherty explains the importance of blade servers for the enterprise

Is this unethical? What should I do?

Personal response to ethical failures can vary

On the road

Wireless wanderings, telco troubles, and other assorted thoughts from a CTO as ambassador-at-large

Darwinian logic

Help evolve your communication skills by using clear, simple arguments, as opposed to simplistic pandering

For the public good

CTOs with stellar private industry experience join nonprofit organizations to create high-profile vendor partnerships and to deploy emerging technologies, and in the process find more meaning in their work

Leading with ideas

CTO keeps AT&T Labs' spirit of innovation alive, looking for ideas that make good business sense

Nonprofit lessons for the for-profit CTO

VMware helps IT control system costs

CEO Diane Greene explains the role of virtual machines in an Intel-based IT environment

Ballmer in charge

Microsoft CEO weighs in on .Net, changes to product licensing, and other issues on the minds of customers and partners

Scaling with blades requires extra thought

Pushing the envelope

Media CTOs call for IT leadership to drive corporate change

An informed choice needs information

There are many ways, besides lying, to misinform

OpenNetwork pushes security model

CEO Kurt Long talks about the most effective way to manage end-user authorization and access

Clarifying the mission

A CTO must make sure IT staffers understand they work in partnership with the business as a whole

Healthy challenges

CTOs work closely with physicians to overcome hospitals' top tech concerns: data management, real-time order entry, and privacy

Vertical expertise

Settlement supplier

Xign CTO's company helps smooth out financial interactions between buyers and suppliers

The IT rust belt

For a prognosis on the future of programming, take a look at what happened in manufacturing

Riding wireless down the last mile

Fiorano takes component approach to EAI

CEO and CTO Atul Saini explains how Tifosi cuts the cost of integration and building collaborative apps

As I was saying, it’s the system

Corporate scandals involve more than just personal misbehavior

PeopleSoft focuses on business process integration

CTO Rick Bergquist discusses the impact of Web services in moving information in real time

IT battle plans

Should IT leaders focus on logistics, or strategy and tactices as they try to organize business change?

Big iron vs. Linux

Looking at the choices your vendors make offers a glimpse of their future, and your future costs

Out of the park

San Francisco Giants CTO John Winborn oversees technology that enhances the fans' experience

Banking on outsourcing

Financial services chief technologists are spending millions to outsource their companies' noncore functions in an effort to gain a competitive edge and focus on what they do best

Next-gen enterprise apps

Collaborative applications bring existing apps together to enable more intelligent, complex, and efficient interaction

ISVs take a crack at the collaborative apps puzzle

Everypath brings order to mobile computing

CEO Mark Tapling, CTO Prakash Iyer explain the benefits of an XML-based gateway to enterprise apps

Interview: Lexmark attempts e-business reinvention

CEO Paul Curlander talks about leveraging the Internet to speed business processes

Radiance optimizes corporate networks

CEO Ash Munshi explains the importance of having a system for managing data caches

Annoying versus unethical

Pop-up ads drive us crazy, but are they wrong?

Toshiba focuses on mobile computing

VP Oscar Koenders details how ubiquitous wireless computing is going to transform Toshiba

Comfort or merit?

Taking stock of your hiring practices when it comes to race and cultural affinity means asking hard questions

The education of CTOs

Selling the pipes

CTOs need to reinvest in their companies'infrastructure, even though that can be a hard sell

Getting top billing

CheckFree CTO keeps his eye on the technologies that are making electronic billing a pervasive option

A contract’s cautionary tale

Selectica’s selling system eases e-commerce

CEO Raj Jaswa explains the value of providing a unified, single point of interaction

Interview: Hewlett-Packard poised to build on its strengths

Senior VP Mary McDowell talks about the transition to Intel and challenges facing HP

A question of intent

Is what you mean more important than what you do?

Macromedia focuses on the enterprise

Rob Burgess and Kevin Lynch explain how MX is making Macromedia more attractive to app developers

Keep security in-house

Homegrown security options will give you the flexibility you need to perform a variety of functions