Volume 3, Number 3
Features
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Intuit's Lean Expansion
Cover Story by Larry Lange
Intuit — a leader in the market for small business accounting, tax
preparation and personal finance software — is expanding to offer its
software in online versions. To help the company achieve this goal,
CIO Ginny Lee (shown above) applies Lean IT practices.
PLUS: How outsourcing provider TechTeam Global uses Lean IT as part of its three-year push to drive higher value to customers. |
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The Long and Short of GRC
Smart Business by Leon Erlanger
Corporate governance, risk management and compliance is the latest IT practice to benefit from Lean approaches. |
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Government Transparency
Special Report by John Zipperer
President Obama, among many world leaders, is calling for greater transparency from governing agencies. IT to the rescue! |
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Security Operations Get Efficient
Smart Practices by George V. Hulmen
CIOs who integrate security throughout their IT operations can cut both risk and costs. As an added bonus, they also ease the challenge of regulatory compliance.
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High Finance, Lean IT
Smart Industry by Bob Violino
Finance CIOs borrow Lean approaches from their manufacturing colleagues
to boost efficiency and effectiveness. |
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Orange You Glad?
Case Study by Mary E. Morrison
How Vincent Kelly, CIO of Orange Business Services, delivers value to IT users with continuous improvement. |
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Leaning Toward Lean
CIO Roundtable by Jennifer Zaino
IT leaders from Manpower, Time Warner and Nationwide Children's Hospital explain how they use Lean IT approaches to help their organizations stay competitive.
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Columns
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EDITOR'S PESPECTIVE
Lean IT is an idea whose time has come. With benefits that include lower costs, reduced risk and happier customers, it's also practically irresistible.
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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
To demonstrate IT's value, CIOs should use metrics that business managers can understand, writes Michael Christenson, President and COO of CA. |
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Departments
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TECH CHATTER
Managing Virtualization
New tools can help CIOs achieve the greatest possible benefits from their virtualized servers, applications and other resources..
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SMART SOLUTIONS
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MARKET STATS
What Recession?
Smart CIOs aren't sitting back and waiting, our survey finds, but are instead
innovating to compete — now and in the future.
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DOWNLOAD THIS
A roundup of the best new books, blogs, resources and audiocasts for CIOs.
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Resources
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