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For Bob Travatello, the benefit of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley is calculated in prison time: “The ROI is keeping my CEO and CFO out of jail.” Travatello is chief information officer for Blue Rhino, a Winston-Salem, N.C., provider of propane gas cylinders for backyard grills. Like counterparts at every public and
When I came to BellSouth, the company was just beginning its transformation from a local phone company to an information-services company. It wasn’t just a technology transformation, but a business one. The company needed to design what its business was going to be and shift the technology to meet those
There are two kinds of executives: The business-savvy manager who uses technology and the technologist. Before long, the latter will become extinct. “The day of the technology bureaucrat is over,” says Ken Bohlen, executive vice president and chief innovation officer at Textron, a conglomerate that includes Bell Helicopter and Cessna
When new sales and support hires arrive at Carreker, the $149 million supplier of financial software encourages them to work at one of two places: at home or at a customer site. Now approximately 40% of the company’s 580 employees work out of their homes. This doesn’t just let workers
Manager’s Profile: Jim Albin came to Toledo-based Mercy Health, a division of Catholic Healthcare Partners that operates hospitals in northwestern Ohio, three years ago. As chief information officer, he shepherded 4,800 projects in his Pacific Edge system last year. What he faced: The technology department at Mercy Health was fused
24/7 SERVICES QVC’s Return PolicyBottom Line Per…QVC CIO Rob Cochran (Topline Online Exclusive) Rob Cochran, chief information officer at retailing giant QVC, talks about internal rate of return and other metrics he uses to measure a project. Read the full story. A Healthy OutlookVoice of Experience: Mercy Health Partners CIO
To give companies a jump-start on computer security education, the Information Technology Association of America and survey firm Brainbench created in June a certification program that works much like the driver’s license renewal process. Workers are given a 55-page study guide before taking the test. “Companies can save a lot
BROOMFIELD, Colo.—Innovation matters, Scott McNealy says.The founder and still chief executive of Sun Microsystems says that he will remain committed to a “controversial strategy” in the computing industry that says, good research and development can embody in hardware what other companies deliver with armadas of high-priced consultants; and, will provide
BROOMFIELD, Colo.—Scott McNealy, the chairman, president, chief executive officer and most prominent founder still at Sun Microsystems, likened freely distributed open source code to “unwrapped software.” In an interview with Baseline magazine at the Sun Microsystems John Elway Celebrity Classic golf tournament in a technology-edged suburb of Denver, McNealy said
ANAHEIM, Calif.— Chief executive officer Craig Conway put on the dog today as he welcomed customers to PeopleSoft Connect, the enterprise software company’s annual users’ conference. Actually, he walked out on the stage with his dog — a black lab retriever named Abbey. They both wore bullet-proof vests, in a