Anna Maria Virzi

Senior managers are pressing technology leaders to offer new services and grow revenue. What should CIOs do? Here are 10 cases where IT raised organizational effectiveness. How can chief information officers best serve business these days? Many will need to switch priorities, trading an emphasis on cost cutting to focusing instead on making their business […]

Do women have a decent opportunity of getting promoted to chief information officer? Though statistics on the number of women CIOs are hard to come by, one thing is certain: There are not all that many. “Its still a pretty small number, but it seems to be growing,” says David Leighton, president of Women in […]

NAPA, Calif. — Stuart Varney, an economist and contributor to Fox News, is bullish on the U.S. economy. He warns, however, that government will have trouble supporting long-term pension and health-care commitments to retirees in coming years. Varney, speaking here at the Ziff Davis CIO Summit on Monday, said there is also a potential political […]

/zimages/2/17485.gif United Parcel Service expects a 2″x3″ label to save $600 million a year. How can such a small label reap such a big benefit? UPS is investing $600 million in software and hardware to analyze historical shipping trends, input actual shipping information, and use mapping software to automatically create daily delivery routes. All this […]

Sixteen years ago, Rob Cochran joined the then-fledgling retailer hawking jewelry, apparel, electronics and other merchandise on television. The company, recently acquired by Liberty Media Corp. from Comcast Corp., reeled in $4.4 billion in net sales, handled about 150 million phone calls and shipped more than 107 million items to nine million customers in 2002. […]