CIO role

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• Panel: Future CIOs will have careers blending non-tech roles with traditional IT duties

  Next-generation CIOs will have to consider how technology affects other corporate departments as well as handle traditional IT management functions, especially those accompanying mobile device management and greater data analysis, according to panelists who spoke at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• Outsourcing Allows Utility to Refocus IT

  Consumers Energy has hired an outsourcer to take over some of its day-to-day IT operations, and it hopes the move will allow its own data center workers to focus on projects that directly impact its bottom line.

• For the NFL, Big Is Better -- Except in IT

  The National Football League may have big stadiums, big players and big games, but when it comes to computer systems, the league's vice president of IT, Nancy Galietti, doesn't use the word big.

• Facebook raises stock offering, shoots for $18.5B with IPO

  Facebook's initial public offering may be getting even bigger.

• Levinsohn takes on CEO role at struggling Yahoo

  Just one day into the job, Yahoo's interim CEO Ross Levinsohn is in charge of a company struggling with administrative chaos, industry position and growing competitors.

• With another CEO out, Yahoo's turnaround stalled

  For the second time in eight months, Yahoo is without a permanent CEO. The latest development is bringing more trouble for a company struggling to regain its stature in the industry.

• Major Yahoo investor calls for firing Thompson, naming interim CEO

  A major Yahoo investor fired another shot at the company's CEO, saying Scott Thompson's apology wasn't enough and that he should be replaced immediately.

• Embattled Yahoo director stepping down

  The Yahoo director who led the search committee that hired embattled CEO Scott Thompson said Tuesday she will will step down from the board.

• Yahoo CEO apologizes for tumult

  Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson says he's sorry, but is not admitting any wrongdoing.

• Yahoo investors up pressure to oust CEO

  The row over Yahoo's leadership intensified over weekend as another major investor called for CEO Scott Thompson to be fired.

• Turning Long Demands Into a Short List

  As the top IT executive at Aspen Skiing for the past 16 years, Paul Major has become skilled at keeping multiple balls in the air.

• IT Needs to Aspire and Really Make a Difference

  Victor Hugo, the great writer of 19th-century France, said, "You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come." The same can be said of technologies.

• IBM on oath to cut internal apps by 85 per cent

  IBM has reduced the number of applications it uses internally by 70%, but that's not enough for CIO Jeanette Horan.

• Dispatch from the technology culture wars

  It's an election year, so you're going to hear a lot about the "culture wars." You know: The endless battle between conservative and progressive values.

• Will Yahoo CEO's misstep kill company momentum?

  All the momentum and vision that Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has been building for the struggling company may have been thrown off course.