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Allan Alter

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Executive EditorAllan Alter has been a specialist on information technology management, strategy and leadership for many years. Most recently, he was editor-in-chief and the director of new content development for the MIT Sloan Management Review. He has been a columnist and department editor at Computerworld, where he won three awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors. Previously he was a special projects editor, senior editor and senior writer for CIO magazine. Earlier, Alter was an associate editor for Mass High Tech. He has edited two books: The Squandered Computer: Evaluating the Business Alignment of Business Technologies and Redesigning the Firm.

Monkey Wrenches Jam Up Outsourcing

Partially outsourcing the Web-based application development project was supposed to make development of the order entry system faster and easier. Instead, it slowed development to a crawl. The project divided the IT staff at Chase-Pitkin Home & Garden. Tensions rose. In-house staff provided partial answers or none at all to the outsourcers developers, making it […]

Monkey Wrenches Jam Up Outsourcing
IT Management

Survey: IT Tightens Budget Belt

Editors note: This is the first in a monthly series in which eWEEK excerpts original IT research from its sister Ziff Davis Media publication, CIO Insight. From a distance, it appears that IT spending is on track for growth. But behind the numbers, CIOs are troubled about the bottom line. According to the findings of […]

Survey: IT Tightens Budget Belt
IT Management

Security Relaxes as IT Threats Increase

The news on the IT security front is alarming. Recent months have seen one report after another of companies exposing, selling or simply losing customer data to criminals. The reason: The security threat has changed, according to Bruce Schneier, CTO of Counterpane Internet Security Inc., of Mountain View, Calif. In the past three years, he […]

Security Relaxes as IT Threats Increase
Cybersecurity

Research: Is Your Security Comfort Level Too High? – 2

The results of this months research are available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. (To download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in, click here.) Is Your Security Comfort Level Too High? 90.2% of CIOs say their domestic security measures are adequate82.2 % of IT executives say their companies have an information security policy28.4% of companies do […]

Research: Is Your Security Comfort Level Too High? – 2
Cybersecurity
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