Kim S. Nash

CIOs expect to add to their staffs in the next quarter. Seventeen percent of 1,400 chief information officers across the United States polled for Robert Half Technology expect to hire I.T. staff in the third quarter. Thats the largest percentage to be so positive about hiring in the last six years, the recruiting firm says. […]

After the third time in a year he thought he was scheduled for surgery to replace his failing kidneys, only to see the date pass by, Bernard Burks had enough. On that day in February 2006, he jumped into a car with friends, he says, and drove 90 miles from his home in Sacramento to […]

Laureen OBrien, CIO of Providence Health & Services Oregon region, was in her office, just back from the 2006 New Years holiday. A phone call that Tuesday, Jan. 3, brought news that every CIO dreads. Someone had stolen a computer bag out of a systems analysts car four nights before. Gone were 10 computer disks […]

In the cool air of a law firm conference room one day last summer in New York, conversation flares hot. Hostile lawyers handling a sex discrimination case against investment bank WestLB shoot questions at Ken Bigelow, chief information officer at the New York branch of the German investment bank, which has $314 billion in assets. […]

Theres no sure formula for measuring the worth of a CIO. But we can gawk at what some superstars get paid. Baselines 2006 CIO compensation ranking shows that most of the 46 technology executives on the list got fatter wallets last year. Twenty-seven of them saw their total compensation increase in 2005 compared with 2004. […]

Todays dollar store is a five-and-dime shop, adjusted for inflation. Its what Sam Walton envisioned when he created Wal-Mart in 1962: a neighborhood store selling affordable necessities to people who cant pay top prices for soap and toilet tissue. Now that Wal-Mart pushes wide-screen TVs and vacation packages along with its low-priced detergent, theres room […]

The small club of information- technology executives who are among the five highest-paid officers at their companies has gotten smaller. The shift may indicate that technologists are being regarded more as plumbers than strategists, say the experts. Just 47 chief information officers made the latest cut, compared to 65 last year, according to Baselines third […]

Amway, A multilevel marketer of cleansers and vitamins, hasnt done business in the U.S. since 1999. Thats when Amway founders invented Quixtar. Its business model: A network of so-called independent business owners, or IBOs, sells products, recruits other sellers, and takes a cut on sales the newcomers book. The difference: Its all done at quixtar.com. […]

As hackers continue to take shots at Microsoft business software, youd think companies would analyze what it would cost to move other operating systems, such as Unix, Solaris or Linux. But calculating the expense of such a move costs money as well. Cendant Hotel Group, which runs about 1,850 Windows servers, understands this. The hospitality-industry […]

As hackers continue to take shots at Microsoft business software, youd think companies would analyze what it would cost to move other operating systems, such as Unix, Solaris or Linux. But calculating the expense of such a move costs money as well. Cendant Hotel Group, which runs about 1,850 Windows servers, understands this. The hospitality-industry […]