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For the NFL, Big Is Better -- Except in IT

The NFL has big stadiums, big players and big games, but when it comes to computer systems, the league's vice president of IT doesn't use the word big.
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Outsourcing Allows Utility to Refocus IT

Consumers Energy has hired an outsourcer to take over some of its IT operations. The utility hopes the move will allow its own data center workers to focus on projects that directly impact the bottom line.

Facebook raises stock offering, shoots for $18.5B with IPO

Facebook is working to increase the size of its IPO by 85 million shares -- a move could lift the value the company's upcoming stock offering to about $18.5 billion.

Levinsohn takes on CEO role at struggling Yahoo

Just one day into the job, Yahoo's interim CEO Ross Levinsohn is in charge of a company struggling with administrative chaos, industry position and growing competitors.

With another CEO out, Yahoo's turnaround stalled

For the second time in eight months, Yahoo is without a permanent CEO. The latest development brings more trouble to a company struggling to regain its stature in the industry.

Major Yahoo investor calls for firing Thompson, naming interim CEO

A major Yahoo investor fired another shot at the company's CEO, saying Scott Thompson's apology wasn't enough and that he should be replaced immediately.

Embattled Yahoo director stepping down

The Yahoo director who led the search committee that hired embattled CEO Scott Thompson said Tuesday she will will step down from the board.

Update: Yahoo forms committee to investigate its CEO

Yahoo's board of directors said Tuesday it has formed a special committee to investigate CEO Scott Thompson's academic credentials, as well as documents and circumstances surrounding his hiring earlier this year.

QuickPoll: Do questions about Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's resume hurt the company?

Yahoo has acknowledged that its new CEO, Scott Thompson, does not hold a degree in "accounting and computer science" as his resume and the company's financial filings claimed, and instead majored only in accounting. Do questions about Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's resume hurt the company?

Yahoo CEO apologizes for tumult

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson says he's sorry, but is not admitting any wrongdoing.

How to Align Your IT Services Strategy with the Business

Today, as companies seek to both consolidate their vendor relationships and multisource, they tend to engage with a small number (typically two to nine) of preferred, very large IT services vendors that can be centrally governed. The strategic objectives of consolidation are important: Services clients can prequalify a few preferred suppliers that all users of IT services can easily and safely engage with. However, given the rapid pace of technology change, the need for agility, the new business stakeholders, and the rise of cloud services, a company's IT and innovation requirements are often best met by multiple best-of-breed suppliers.

True tech confessions II: Sinners and winners

Recursive deletes, deep-sixing servers, bugs that become rewarding features -- let he who is without IT sin cast the first bits

IT Needs to Aspire and Really Make a Difference

IT leaders deploying today's transformational technologies can do so resignedly or aspirationally. Only one approach can really make a difference for the business.

Turning Long Demands Into a Short List

IT is under pressure to get more agile in its delivery methods and pursue flexible prioritization strategies to work with, not against, the burgeoning needs of the business.

Dispatch from the technology culture wars

There's room for common ground in the tech culture war between the 'geeks' -- technical people who like to tinker with tech -- and 'noobs' -- nontechnical people who want gadgets to just work, writes columnist Mike Elgan.

Holistic Virtualization

To take full advantage of virtualization's high-level benefits, companies must view the technology's capabilities across the entire IT organization. Here's some expert advice on creating a virtualization strategy that looks at the big picture. Insider (registration required)

The Upside of Shadow IT

As employees bypass IT and regularly subscribe to collaboration, analytic and other cloud services with the press of a button, some of the savviest CIOs are embracing and even encouraging shadow IT. Here's why.

The Grill: SuperValu's Wayne Shurts on 'intensely business-focused IT'

Wayne Shurts, executive vice president and CIO at SuperValu, talks about how he's working to help the IT department at the grocery retailer better support the company's overall business. Insider (registration required)

Should the CIO know how to code?

With IT integral to the business, an increasing number of companies are hiring CIOs who didn't rise through the ranks. Is that a good thing? Insider (registration required)

Chevron's CIO Talks Transformation and Why IT Leaders Should Smile

In the latest installment of the CIO Interview Series, Louie Ehrlich, CIO and president of Chevron Information Technology Company, talks about the most important things he's learned leading a giant, global IT team through massive change. His answers may sound simple, but they're hard-won lessons for Ehrlich, the top tech executive for the nearly $250 billion energy company, whose transformation effort has yielded the better part of a billion dollars in payback for Chevron. Insider (registration required)