Java has been described as a simple, object-oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, secure, architectural neutral, portable, high-performance, multithreaded and dynamic language, prompting some to describe it as the rst buzzword-compliant programming language. We submit that to deserve full certi cation|and in the process establish itself as the natural choice for developing large-scale dis...

A common and critical dilemma confronting enterprises today is how to ensure that they realize more value from their large-scale investments in IT and IT-enabled change. This article describes the choices made by the Dutch airline KLM to more fully engage its business managers in the governance of IT and the change-agent role played by a new CIO Office. The article identifies the benefits achie...

“The Enterprise Capability Organization: Future of IT” by Mark McDonald rightly emphasizes the need for managing enterprise capabilities for organizational maturity and agility. The proposed organization structure does bring together necessary resources to plan, implement, and maintain desired enterprise capabilities. The paper articulates that it requires senior management sponsorship, support...

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has become increasingly important for companies. However, one can perceive that this professional realizes that his/her competencies are not always enough to tackle a daily professional routine centered around the constant transformations the business arena has witnessed. Thus, by using the Social Representation Theory operationalized via the words evocation ...

The UNICORE Grid system has been developed since the late 1990s to support distributed computing applications and emerging Grid infrastructures. Over the years, UNICORE has evolved to a full-grown and well-tested Grid middleware system, which today is used in daily production at many supercomputing centers worldwide. Also, the UNICORE technology serves as a solid basis in many European and Inte...

Although recently several studies have addressed the required skills of effective CIOs, little is known of the actual behavior successful CIOs. In this study, we explore the behavior of highly effective CIOs by video-recording CIOs at work. The two CIOs videotaped were nominated as CIO of the year. We analyze the data in an innovative and systematic way by developing and using a behavioral lead...

The wide use of technology and the high technology innovation have arisen strategic opportunities from ICT investments. To support the strategic role of technology different ICT governance practices and frameworks have been designed. This paper makes a comparison between two case studies. The principal source of evidence has been the interview. It has been structured to evaluate the ICT governa...

Although studies targeting CIO’s leadership characteristics are numerous, studies examining CIOs’ leadership styles are scarce. Today’s CIOs are often members of the firm’s C-level executive team with a wide range of leadership capabilities and characteristics that are not much different from those of the CEOs. What, then, are the characteristics and leadership styles for those CIOs? This liter...