Stories by Judy Artunian

Break this rule

Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide has a tradition of jumping on technologies early. The New York-based advertising agency was in the vanguard of virtual private network use, and by 2003, Web services were active on the company's network. Some might say that Ogilvy's IT group violates an unwritten IT management rule that cautions against investing in nascent technologies too soon.

Toughest tasks faced by IT chiefs

Systems fail. Employees burn out. Vendors disappoint. But it's those tough times that teach you how to lead. Five Fortune 500 IT executives tell what they learned from the most challenging experiences of their careers.

10 Steps to Bringing a Software Development Project in On Time

Slipping schedules and budget-busting costs were the primary warning signs that prompted Pete Gibson to halt a project that was under way in 1998 when the US Navy was updating its Tomahawk missile program.

The seven deadly sins of outsourcing

These are the transgressions that can doom you to outsourcing hell. Here's how to avoid them.

The sweet smell of success

If necessity is the mother of invention, then a skunk works is her creative big sister. And if you follow the logic of that family tree, necessity is also the mother of skunk works.