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Kamal Bherwani SPECIAL REPORT: IT Innovation Through Superior Leadership
Special Report by Larry Lange
An elite group of IT leaders is aligning technology with the business by keeping pace with global competitiveness, outrunning the threat of commoditization, and helping to grow the business. And they're doing it with a game-changing combination of IT innovation, market expansion and superior leadership.
Case Study How Kings County Hospital's CIO Revitalized IT with Management Tools
Case Study by John W. Verity
When CIO Albert Porco arrived at Kings County Hospital in 2003, the Brooklyn, N.Y., medical center's IT department needed to be refreshed. Five years later, Porco and his team have improved the IT infrastructure and prepared physicians, nurses and other staff for 21st century wireless connectivity, automated equipment requests, even RFID-tagged medical devices.
PLUS: Security Woes? Try Single Sign-On
Best Practices Globalization: CIOs Navigate the Challenges - and Opportunities - of Business Without Borders
Best Practices by Alan Joch
Globalization presents CIOs with opportunities to reach millions of new customers, enable faster times to market and tap into the global labor pool. To thrive in this complex new environment, CIOs are adopting a new range of emerging best practices.
PLUS: Benchmarking the Supply Chain
CIOs Speak Out What's Your Strategy for IT and Globalization?
CIOs Speak Out compiled by Karen J. Bannan
Leading IT executives from North America, Europe and India outline their most important strategies for globalization – and describe how their plans will help boost their organizations' bottom lines.
MARKET TRENDS Globalization and IT: Exclusive CIO Survey
Market Trends by Bob Violino
It's official: Today's CIOs are global. Explore the details of Smart Enterprise's international survey of IT leaders.
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IT Innovation Through Superior Leadership
Peter Krass, editor of Smart Enterprise Magazine Editor in Chief
Peter Krass
Are you ready to change your game? Many IT leaders in a wide range of disciplines are leveraging technology to not only compete harder, but also to rewrite the rules of their game. Find out how they did it in this issue. More >>
Columns
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
CIOs are uniquely positioned to help improve business predictability and curb business excesses, writes Jacob Lamm, Executive VP, Governance, at CA.

PERSPECTIVES
A decade ago James Champy was a champion of business reengineering. Now he's back to show CIOs how to outsmart the competition with IT.

IN THE KNOW
CIOs can communicate the business value of IT to others in their organizations. New ways of communicating—including the publishing of an annual IT report — can help, writes Stephen Savage, Corporate Senior VP and CIO of CA.

CAREER SMARTS
Hiring IT staff in today's global economy is a lot more complicated than it was in the past. International consultant Peter Hinssen and others offer bold new steps for attracting, developing and retaining today's global IT workers.
Departments
NEWSWORTHY
The culture of connectivity…Better infrastructure, better finances…It's cool to be hot.

TECH CHATTER
How Application Performance Management (APM) Can Ensure Happy Customers
An Application Performance Management solution can help CIOs resolve many systems issues before customers even notice them.

ENTERPRISE IT MANAGEMENT
Infrastructure: CIOs Take IT to the Next Level
An optimized IT infrastructure can create a strong competitive advantage. CIOs can respond to changes quickly, in turn, quickening the organization''s time to market for both products and services.

GOVERNANCE
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Programs Help CIOs Manage Regulations Globally
CIOs need to help their organizations comply with a vast maze of government regulations, as well as those of industry groups. To prevail, global minded CIOs have adopted a variety of approaches, including the adoption of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions.

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
Cloud Computing Forecast: Transform IT Financials, CIO Roles
Cloud computing offers IT departments a new way to cut costs and increase capacity planning and flexibility. But the role of today''s CIOs could also dramatically change as this technology gains acceptance.

SMART BUSINESS
Succession Planning: Is Your Next CIO Ready?
No one, most likely, and that could be a problem. Succession planning is the solution. Here''s how to make it work for you, your potential successors and your organization.

KNOWLEDGE BASE
Immersive Business Simulations Bring 'Experiential Learning' to IT Training
For young IT workers raised on video games and online avatars, live classroom training is oh-so-yesterday. Online simulations offer a new way to engage the thumb-twitch generation and pass along valuable technology skills.

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