Articles on Small Business CIO

Over on the Enterprisers Project, David A. Bray, the CIO of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), was recently interviewed about his use of

Reinventing a Small Business with Simple Technology

The infrastructure for a full-time mobile business is in place today. The backbone is reliable enough for employees to work from anywhere.

I just finished reading a report from SMB Group titled “Vendor Strategies to Bring Game-Changing Technology Trends to SMBs”. The report is a

Last week, I read with interest the announcement that IBM was opening up their Watson computing platform to outside organizations and developers to use to

Managed Services Providers (MSP's) have been around the IT space for years. Most small and medium organizations have experience have experience working

Many Small and Mid-sized Businesses (SMB's) have moved to the cloud for a portion or in some instances, all, of their IT application needs. Most

How well does small business and IT work? Can you run a small business today without an IT staff? Yes...you can.

Big Data.  Two small words with huge meaning. Do a search for "big data" on Google and you'll find over 23 million results. Do a book search on amazon for

Are you ready for more touch screens in the enterprise? Windows 8 is an operating system built for touch.

Do small businesses have the tools and skills to take advantage of big data, or will it drive innovation for large companies and leave them behind?

The events in Japan over the last week are heartbreaking....but there's lessons to learn from these events. Elliot Ross has a great post titled Disaster

Rackspace has just announced their open source cloud platform, OpenStack in collaboration with NASA. While the open source world has been a viable area

I've been thinking about approaches to small business technology initiatives and whether it makes sense for small business to outsource a good portion of

A simple question that can do so much. Whether hiring or choosing vendors, take a few seconds to ask: I can, but should I?

Image by Aprile C via Flickr I'm in Atlanta this week on business. I decided to stay at a nice little boutique hotel in midtown called the Artmore Hotel.

In my post earlier this week, I spoke, or more accurately typed, about the importance of story. I wonder if there are any CIO's and IT leaders out there

Can all of the information technology assets within a small business be outsourced?  Could we see the IT desks within small businesses be as empty as

Hey CIO - if you want to survive, you need to figure out a way to fascinate your organization. I'm currently reading "Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to

Over the last few weeks I've been conducting a very unscientific survey of small business CIO's, VP's and Directors of IT. Using LinkedIn, I gathered a

I received quite a few positive responses to my Small Business CIO post last week so I thought I'd continue the topic this week. Over the last few days

I've been trying to catch up on my reading list. Most articles, books and blogs that I've been reading have been focused around CIO's and IT organizations