Face it: government CIOs have to do a LOT more in these days of sequestration and ever tightening budgets. This group is credited with everything from moving to Google apps (away from you know who) to putting major apps on open-source platforms.

Federal CIOs dominated the list as only two state and two city CIOs (Texas, NY, Boston and Chicago) made it. I mean which federal agency CIO (including one from the IRS!) did not get on this list?  It seems to me the 'deciders' could have gone deeper and wider and included more municipal and state CIOs.

So it was with considerable skepticism that I would find much value in the 80 live tweets I zipped out from the MIT CIO Symposium two weeks ago. However, I was pleasantly surprised: they are rich and crisply-captured thoughts, most of which stand on their own. I'm not giving myself a pat on the back for great Tweets (yes, I am.).  I confess to fixing 2-3 typos in my Tweets.

Return on Investment. That's what the term ROI has signified all along. But based on my recent posts, this term has taken on other dimensions, because enterprises look for returns from various dimensions of investment, whether it’s information, infrastructure, innovation, or individuals. The fact that all these terms start with the letter “I” is merely coincidental.