Computerworld Honors 2013: Critical health data sent to rural Ghana via mobile
The statistics are staggering: Worldwide in 2011, 6.9 million children died before their fifth birthday and nearly 300,000 women died during pregnancy or childbirth.
Stories by Mary K. Pratt
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Computerworld Honors 2013: Mobile app helps get fresh food to people in need
Community Plates' job is straightforward: move surplus food from supermarkets, grocers and restaurants to agencies that help feed the hungry.
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Computerworld Honors 2013: Life-changing lessons via mobile device
This may be the Information Age, but there are 750 million illiterate adults worldwide who can't take advantage of today's wealth of data to better their lives. In fact, illiteracy, poverty and a lack of electricity impede millions from learning and benefitting from the technology advances that have marked our era.
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Computerworld Honors 2013: Mobile tech expands banking in Kenya
The Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) wanted to reach millions of potential customers in Kenya, but most of those potential customers didn't have access to traditional brick-and-mortar banking facilities.
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The Grill: Paul Lucidi on the importance of employee appraisals
Paul Lucidi, CIO at Insulet, focuses on assessing and developing his employees, and giving them the tools to be successful.
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Free (with strings attached): Keeping track of open-source code
Just about anyone in the office can introduce open-source code into the company's IT infrastructure. Yet CIOs face real dangers if they're not properly managing their open-source assets.
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The Grill: Maridan Harris, VP of IT at Philips North America
Maridan Harris, vice president of IT at Philips North America, shares her ideas on how to build teams that enjoy work as much as she does.
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The Grill: State Street CIO Christopher Perretta
State Street's executive vice president and CIO, Christopher Perretta, says he aspires to be a change agent while leading a team of more than 5,000 employees and contractors who support operations in 27 countries.
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Cancer Treatment Centers examines clinical data with BI
Cancer Treatment Centers of America upgraded its BI program in March, replacing old software used to produce reports with QlikView to generate information that helps drive better business decisions.
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Best of BI: Celestica uses BI to open a lucrative revenue source
When CIO Mary Gendron joined Celestica in October 2008, she says the Toronto-based electronics manufacturing services provider had nothing in the way of analytics. But its CEO saw information as transformative and wanted to build up its BI capabilities.
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Best of BI: Booz Allen's $50 million BI investments pays rich dividends
Several years ago, each division at Booz Allen Hamilton had its own reporting processes and systems. But executives knew the McLean, Va.-based consulting firm couldn't grow effectively if it had disparate groups doing their own reporting. They also knew they'd have to provide better information to Wall Street traders when Booz Allen went public, which it did in 2010.
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Best of BI: City of Richardson, Texas, finds BI value across agencies
The City of Richardson's mission, like that of any government, is to serve its citizens effectively and efficiently.
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IT careers: Do you need an executive coach?
As companies demand soft skills from their tech team, some IT pros are turning to executive coaches for guidance.
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The Grill: Juan Montes keeps MoMA plugged in
The Museum of Modern Art's CTO, Juan Montes, talks about art, IT and making the world-class museum more participatory.
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Could cloud computing change how we communicate?
At least one CIO has already done away with email and Office. Insider (registration required)
