Following a great session in Napa, the CIO Global Forum is proud to announce the preliminary list of topics for October 2012 in New York City: Advertising, Media and Content in the Age of Instant Gratification Follow the Money: The Next Generation of Financial Transactions The C-Suite Shuffle: How Technology is Shifting Executive Influence It’s [...]
The marketplace is flooded with small, nimble and innovative companies that are creating the potential for significant disruption to existing ecosystems – through services, technologies and alternate business models. This CIO Global Forum panel discussion will include three exciting startups that will discuss their approach to moving the needle on innovation and their thoughts on [...]
Telwares Inc. has just released a perspectives document on BYOD and mobility, authored by Michael Voellinger of the CIO Global Forum. Go here to download now.
The CIO Global Forum’s Michael Voellinger on FCC Lightsquared ruling. FCC veto of LightSquared’s plans for massive wireless network may have also put the brakes on widespread 4G deployment. The issue of America’s crumbling infrastructure isn’t just about bridges, highways, and railroads. It’s also about the overburdened cellular networks that power our wireless broadband and [...]
From Data Center Knowledge How do you expand the power and cooling capacity for an 80-year-old building with historic landmark status and limited roof space, located in the middle of a noise-sensitive neighborhood in the middle of New York City? All those challenges come together at one of the most familiar addresses in the telecom [...]
RIM has announced that Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazairidis have resigned their position as co-CEO and co-Chairman, and that RIM’s board of directors unanimously named former chief operating officer Thorsten Heins as president and CEO. Barbara Stymiest, CEO of the Toronto Stock Exchange will become independent board chair. Heins already faces a number of significant challenges. Rim [...]
From Business Insider: “Yahoo is the biggest turnaround challenge in the Valley. Investors want them to sell. Talent is leaving out the back door to hot start ups. Innovation appears to be lacking. Valley opinion of Yahoo has never been more negative. Right now, Yahoo badly needs two key things: positive leadership for a team [...]
On Friday, HP announced it will make its webOS mobile operating system available to software developers and device-makers as an open source platform. The move comes on the heels of heavy ongoing speculation about the sale of the operating unit, and HP’s long term intentions in the mobile marketplace. Open source could prove to be a [...]
After compiling many great suggestions from our October session in Washington DC, the CIO Global Forum is pleased to announce the following topics for inclusion in our next session, April 25-26 in Napa: Big Thinking on a Visionary Future There is little doubt Moore’s Law is in full effect and influencing today’s business landscape. Revenues [...]
“Those who knew Mr. Jobs say that one reason why he was able to keep innovating was because he didn’t dwell on past accomplishments or legacy but kept looking ahead and demanded that employees do the same. Hitoshi Hokamura, a former Apple employee, recalls how an old Apple I that was displayed by the company [...]
