The benefits of smart phones need to be measured carefully. After all, mobile is about revenue generation, argues Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge.Follow John Dodge on Twitter.

CIO Andrew Henderson of ING in Australia says CIOs should be fearless. I found his choice of the word "fearless" to be interesting if not a bit bold. The idea is that fearless CIOs get the funding.Click here to watch the video of Henderson making his remarks (separate from commentary above). His fearless remarks start around 13 minutes and 50 seconds into the video. 

A work-at-home policy for IT must take into consideration the wide variations in the quality and contributions of employees, advises Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge.

Many industries in the past few years have been roiled by change, changing business models and savage competition. CIOs can help weather this change, says Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge.   Follow John Dodge on Twitter.

Yesterday's headlines dwelled on the present. Today's focus is on the future. Enterprise CIO Forum community manager Dodge focuses on what that means. Follow John on Twitter.

All the talk about transformation and alignment of IT and the business means little if there aren’t proper metrics to measure the efficacy of these efforts. At Williams, virtually all new IT endeavors are pegged to measureable metrics, both traditional IT measurements as well as business metrics. Williams in an energy infrastructure company. Enterprise CIO Forum content director Bill Laberis interviews Williams CIO Dru Rai.  

IDD is something that afflicts all of us. It's when we have the best of intentions, but fail to act. As a CIO, do you have IDD? asks Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge.Follow John Dodge on Twitter.

One of the biggest opportunities for enterprise companies to improve security is by integrating security more closely with the greater organization. For instance, knowing that a computer that's actively connecting to application resources is owned by someone on vacation may signal a potential security breach. Instead of pretending that security is impenetrable, organizations need to accept that a breach is possible and create an environment designed to result in the longest response time reasonable.

Plant managers, engineers and factory floor personnel don't like CIOs and IT messing around on their turf. But that is changing as older manufacturing personnel retires and a new generation takes over. Are they more sympathetic to IT? Enterprise CIO Forum Community Manager John Dodge thinks so.Follow John Dodge on Twitter.

The notion of simplicity in this complex world is gathering momentum. What does it mean? Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge explains.Follow John Dodge in Twitter.

Constant communication and engagement with business partners is key to driving IT-business transformation. Working within the Japan IT ecosystem,  Houston Ross, CIO of ING Japan, has enabled business-IT transformation. The result: an agile enterprise that responds to emerging marketplace opportunities to deliver new insurance products in a diversified portfolio.

ING Japan CIO Houston Ross notes in this video that when it comes to governance, balance is critical. While strong governance is critical to the success of IT transformation, bureaucracy is to be avoided. Effective IT governance, enabled by efficient communications and clarity of roles within an organization, will cut waste while enabling delivery of projects that are on-time, on-budget and on-scope.  

Selling security to the executive team is always a tough sell, but maybe less so when you follow some common sense rules, says Enterprise CIO Forum content director Bill Laberis.

PCs are going to be with us for many years to come. But the 20-year old PC era or PC paradigm is all but dead today, explains Enterprise CIO Forum content director Bill Laberis.

IT transformation is grounded in business transformation, according to Louie Ehrlich, CIO of Chevron and winner of the Enterprise CIO Forum’s Transformational CIO Award. In this video interview with Enterprise CIO Forum senior managing editor Stan Gibson, Ehrlich says for IT to grow from being a service provider to become a business partner, it is critical to gain credibility for IT by demonstrating savings. Then IT can fulfill the higher role of delivering new business value. 

The amount data being amassed every day is moving outside the decimal system's ability to count or make sense of it. The growth in the amount of data is staggering and the CIO will have to figure out how to manage and leverage it.Follow me on Twitter. Here's the transcript:I was in a conference call today and someone mentioned the brontobyte. I had no idea how much data that it represented, but it’s a 1,000 yottabytes. That’s a yottabytes, I thought.

Nucleus Research is going out on a limb and saying BYOD will go away as an important issue in 2013...when everyone else is saying the opposite. What is the Nucleus rationale and does it hold water, asks Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge. 

Analytics are playing a very significant role in delivering measurable business value and competitive advantage across a broad swath of organizational types, according to Harvard Business School visiting professor Tom Davenport. He reveals some of the secrets why some companies are better with analytics than others. Humana is cited as an example CIO publisher emeritus Gary Beach conducts the interview.

Many boards are clueless about IT, but the cloud presents an opportunity for CIOs to educate them, says Enterprise CIO Forum editorial director Bill Laberis.

If you think growth in mobility and consumerization has been rapid, you haven't seen anything yet, says Enterprise CIO Forum editorial director Bill Laberis.

Transformation has to be "mission-focused" no matter how innovative information technology is, according to CTOvision.com editor and former Defense Intelligence Agency CTO Bob Gourley (r.), who is located in the Washington D.C. area. Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge in Boston conducts interview, which was done over Skype.Follow me on Twitter.

BYOD and Shadow IT can work, but what should the CIO do when he or she finds out about a rogue app, cloud or device? CTOvision.com editor and former Defense Intelligence Agency CTO Bob Gourley (r.) tells Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge that the CIO can "kill it" or discuss BYOD with stakeholders. Bottom line: people will use any tool to do their job, regardless of who oversees it. This interview was done on Skype with Gourley  in Washington D.C. area and Dodge in Boston.Follow Dodge on Twitter.

Can Windows 8 and a raft of new tablets from Microsoft and PC makers excite CIOs? I doubt right away, but the new platforms are all worth a serious look.Transcript begin here.It used to be when a major new version of Microsoft Windows debuted, CIOs stood up and took notice. But that was eons ago. New platform releases must be vetted for years -- often in the consumer market -- before all but a handful of enterprises will invest in them.