Larry Barrett

/zimages/7/17485.gif Darwin John had established himself as a bit of a miracle worker before being asked to lead an information- systems renaissance at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But John, former director of information and communications systems for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, needed divine intervention to help him navigate the politics, […]

Innovation may be the life-blood of technology, but once the electrons stop flowing even the best information system goes limp. About 50 million electricity customers throughout the Northeast and Canada learned that lesson the hard way—an Aug. 14 blackout exposed how vulnerable the nations electric system is to accidental or intentional interruption. Investigators will mine […]

Financial advisers at the Merrill Lynch office in San Jose, Calif., cringe just before 1 p.m. local time, and it has nothing to do with trying to snag profits before the stock market closes. At 1 p.m., Merrill Lynchs daily video feed starts. And brokers know theres a good chance the network they rely on […]

The most important shareholders meeting in McDonalds history was about to start. It was early May 2003 and several hundred stockholders and analysts were wedged into the Hyatt Lodge ballroom on the sprawling McDonalds Oak Brook, Ill., campus. Chief Executive Officer Jim Cantalupo looked on as Ronald McDonald bounded around the room in full makeup […]

Chuck Moore is too busy ironing out the installation of an upgrade to his companys human resources software to worry about network security. Thats what makes the discovery of a security flaw in PeopleSoft software alarming. Moore is vice president of human resources information and administration at WellPoint Health Networks, which is in the process […]

Up until about two years ago, employees working the assembly lines at HON Industries showed up for work each morning wondering whether theyd be building office furniture and fireplaces, or wasting their shifts on make-work projects such as pushing a broom around the shop floor. The latter had become a common occurrence thanks to an […]