CEO Guide to Technology

January 31, 2011

The CEO Guide to Mobile Payments

Learn how companies including Wells Fargo, Google, Starbucks, McDonald's, AT&T; and Verizon Wireless are using near-field communications to help consumers make purchases with a mobile phone

January 3, 2011

The CEO Guide to Cloud Computing

Learn how companies including Flextronics, Siemens and Accenture are using cloud computing to cut costs and tackle tasks including human resources and sales management; Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com, Workday and SuccessFactors are competing for a slice of a $148.8 billion market

December 6, 2010

The CEO Guide to Mobile Business Apps

Learn how companies are creating and using mobile apps for employees who want to use the Apple iPhone, Research In Motion BlackBerry and phones that run Google's Android software to get work done when they're on the go

November 1, 2010

The CEO Guide to High-Performance Computing

Learn how General Motors is using high-performance computers made by IBM to make cars safer and market new automobiles. Other companies harnessing high-power computers include Boeing, DreamWorks, Eli Lilly, and Speedo

October 4, 2010

The CEO Guide to Collective Intelligence

Learn how companies including Pitney Bowes, AT&T;, Cisco Systems and Electronic Arts are using software to tap workers' collective knowledge and ideas to solve problems at a low cost

September 7, 2010

The CEO Guide to Aging IT Workforce

IBM and CA are hard-pressed to replace the aging corps of Baby Boomers who support their still-indispensable mainframe business

August 2, 2010

The CEO Guide to Apple's iPad

Learn how large companies including Wells Fargo and SAP as well as smaller businesses such as restaurants and nail salons are using Apple's iPad to make employees more productive and keep them better connected to the office

July 6, 2010

The CEO Guide to Robots in the Workplace

Safety advances and a keener sense of their surroundings are putting robots to work in such new settings as hospitals, warehouses, and offices

June 1, 2010

The CEO Guide to Wellness Technology

Companies are turning to individualized plans for employees to improve their fitness, assisted by wearable technology and Web sites, in an effort to contain health care costs

May 3, 2010

The CEO Guide to Cyberwar

The U.S. government is stepping up recruitment of engineers who can help wage cyberwar

April 5, 2010

The CEO Guide to Counterfeit Tech

Fake chips, routers, and computers cost the electronics industry as much as $100 billion a year; distributors and law enforcers are fighting back

February 3, 2010

The CEO Guide to 'Patent Trolls'

Microsoft, McAfee, and Symantec are countering costly infringement litigation by joining a year-old group that buys and licenses its own patents

January 5, 2010

The CEO Guide To PC Alternatives

IT departments attempt to cut costs by experimenting with thin clients, netbooks, virtual desktops, and other substitutes for traditional computing

January 4, 2010

The CEO Guide to Context-Aware Technology

Context-aware computing draws on vast amounts of data to help consumers buy from vendors that know more about them, too

December 7, 2009

The CEO Guide to Augmented Reality

The technology for meshing digital data with actual images, or augmented reality, makes a jump to smartphones, and the market is taking off

November 2, 2009

The CEO Guide to Smart Grid Technology

Smart-grid technology will bring huge savings to companies as varied as Cisco, PG&E;, and Cargill, and to consumers, too. But who will foot the bill?

October 5, 2009

The CEO Guide to the Tech-Job Outlook

Hiring at small, venture-funded tech firms is on the rise, raising hopes for an industrywide turnaround by 2010

August 31, 2009

The CEO Guide to Broadband Stimulus

Companies seeking some of the $7.2 billion in federal money to bring broadband to underserved areas are rushing to meet an Aug. 14 deadline

August 3, 2009

The CEO Guide to Cyberthreats

How a top payments processor responded to the largest-ever criminal pilfering of credit-card data, and what other companies can learn from it

July 6, 2009

The CEO Guide to Carbon Accounting

Coca-Cola, Cisco, Intuit, and others use ever more sophisticated tools to measure their environmental impact and meet emissions goals

June 1, 2009

The CEO Guide to Apple's iPhone

Despite such worries as data security, IT staffs are beginning to support Apple's device—especially if the CEO starts carrying one

May 4, 2009

Electronic Health Records

Electronic medical recordkeeping may not cut the overall cost of care, but by eliminating redundant procedures and reducing errors, quality may be improved

February 1, 2011

Business Intelligence

The recession is fostering interest in BI software, which helps companies analyze the data they collect for new cost-cutting or sales opportunities

February 2, 2009

Outsourcing in a Recession

Discretionary IT projects are getting the ax as companies review costs, hurting sales and growth for outsourcing providers

January 4, 2009

The Desktop of the Future

Companies as varied as Nortel, Nationwide, and Bechtel are experimenting with virtual desktops that are likely to improve security—but will they reduce costs?

November 30, 2008

Open-Source Software

As the recession puts pressure on tech spending, many companies are turning to open-source software to handle more IT tasks

November 3, 2008

Refurbished Tech

With credit tight in a rough economy, businesses are offloading equipment while bargain hunters are picking up retooled hardware on the cheap

October 5, 2008

3D Computing

Diverse fields such as medicine, fashion, combat and architecture are adopting 3D computing applications

September 6, 2008

Microblogging

Microblogging lets an airline, for instance, monitor customers' gripes—and tweet back. Is this a creepy trend?

September 5, 2008

Cloud Computing

A major shift in the way companies obtain software and computing capacity is under way as more companies tap into Web-based applications

August 4, 2008

Disaster Readiness

Many companies are realizing that they can play a crucial role in helping communities recover from natural catastrophes

June 2, 2008

Innovation Prizes

Competitions from the likes of Microsoft and Virgin are sparking innovation and drawing thousands of contestants from around the world

May 5, 2008

Virtual Worlds

Moving beyond Second Life marketing, many companies are infiltrating virtual worlds for employee meetings, mixers, and recruiting

April 7, 2008

Emerging Outsourcing Hubs

Efforts to send IT work anywhere but Bangalore are taking on added urgency as costs of doing work in India rise and the dollar sinks

March 3, 2008

Widgets

The customizable bits of software on Facebook and other social networking sites are the latest trend in viral marketing. But are widgets here to stay?

July 16, 2007

Consumer Tech at Work

Companies large and small are seeing their proprietary information compromised by employees' personal devices, and they're taking action

May 14, 2007

Green Computing

As a threat to operations and the bottom line, corporate computing's fast-growing power consumption is forcing companies to adopt green energy

November 5, 2007

The Web of the Future

A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data

March 12, 2007

Wikis

The online tools for building collective info banks are making deeper inroads in corporations and rewriting the rules of collaboration

February 12, 2007

The Virtual Workplace

The benefits include lower costs and greater productivity, but figuring out how to communicate with off-site employees is crucial

January 16, 2007

Viral Video

A growing number of companies turn to online video, and the word of mouth that accompanies it, for everything from advertising to recruiting

December 11, 2006

Outsourcing

Companies are increasingly sending IT work to hubs outside India. They're saving money but facing a whole new raft of challenges

November 5, 2007

Mashups

Corporations from IBM to Google to E*Trade are jumping onboard the trend of mixing and matching software from different sources

November 5, 2007

Location-Aware Technologies

Radio frequency identification, or RFID, has been slow to reshape retailing, but it's finding unexpected uses in health care and beyond

November 5, 2007

Social Networking

Networking technology gives companies a new set of tools for recruiting and customer service—but privacy questions remain

November 5, 2007

Prediction Markets

More corporations are setting up their own markets for economic forecasts, hoping to tap into the wisdom of employees

November 5, 2007

VoIP

Companies are upgrading old phone networks to reduce bills and add features. But cost savings can take time, and IP systems aren't risk-free

November 5, 2007

Web 2.0

What every CEO needs to know about the array of new tools that foster online collaboration—and could revolutionize business