Patrick E. Spencer

Both public health and public utilities around the world take a starring role in the table of contents of the January 2012 CIO Digest , Symantec’s quarterly magazine for IT decision makers. Looking first at healthcare, this issue includes articles about IT leaders at New Jersey’s Barnabas Heath

The October 2009 issue of  CIO Digest is now available now, featuring a interviews with IT leaders from organizations such as Her Majesty’s Government, Red Robin International, Midland Realty, the Renault F1 Team, among others, as well as an Executive Q&A with Adrian Chamberlain. It al

The Amazon Kindle is one of the hottest consumer devices on the market today. Indeed, the Amazon Kindle 1 sold out for the Christmas holiday season several months beforehand, and the Amazon Kindle 2--available since late February--is generating similar results. The CIO Digest editorial tea

New Zealand is a popular destination for the filming of recent Hollywood productions that include The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Chronicles of Narnia series, and The Last Samurai . The pioneering spirit behind each of these is embodied by IS department at healthAlliance NZ, Ltd., wh

  “The principals of good IT governance, risk management, and compliance are the principals of good management” according to Scott Crawford, research director at Enterprise Management Associates. Research by the IT Policy Group serves as corroboration: organizations with good IT GRC have 17 pe

This past weekend was relatively uneventful; no calls from the data center and no projects requiring work over the weekend. As my NY Giants lost to the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Divisional Game, I had marginal interest in the Super Bowl. Since the Giants are from the NFC, I was halfheartedly

The January issue of CIO Digest kicks off an exciting editorial calendar for 2009. In the cover story, " Getting to One Click: An IT Transformation the Size of the Australian Outbook ," Telstra Sr. Vice President of Transformation Tom Lamming discusses the five-year journey the

Businesses are catching onto the benefits of online services, with revenue growing at twice the rate of the overall enterprise software market. Benefits include faster time to value, a quicker ability to scale, less risk and up-front investment, and lower annual operating costs in equipment and su

The drop heard around the world is prompting a shift in IT priorities. The economic crisis is agnostic of geographies and industries; no sector is insulated.   Despite the crisis, however, for those who understand how to negotiate their challenges, there are some key opportunities. In a st

Financial services firms operate in a highly regulated environment and their customers are protective of their personal information and prone to change providers if they don’t have a level of trust and confidence. This higher level of expectation means there is a greater level of risk; the Ponemon