FedEx’s Rob Carter: What It Takes To Be A Board-Level CIO


There are few chief information officers with as stellar a reputation as Rob Carter’s. He has played an integral role in FedEx’s sophisticated logistics and analytics systems, which have been sources...

Target exec’s departure puts spotlight on CIOs


NEW YORK (AP) — The departure of Target's chief information officer in the wake of the company's massive pre-Christmas data breach highlights the increased pressure facing executives who are charged...

Huge Department Store Chain John Lewis is Developing IT from Within


John Lewis Partnership, the owner of the U.K.’s largest department store chain, has turned traditional IT development on its head in an test project directly aimed at drawing on staff expertise. The...

Managing Your New Data Center: The Entire Internet


The expansion of Software-as-a-Service offerings, mobile devices, and all variants of managed and cloud computing mean that the definition of the data center as an expensively provisioned room, with...