Paul Major
Paul Major, Aspen Skiing Co.'s CIO, talks about mapping business processes to renew the spirit, making pizza in a pinch and schussing for the company.

Stunt IT
Flashy, well-hyped IT projects -- stunts -- can have practical results, Frank Hayes observes.

Viva Las Vegas!
MGM Mirage's $8 billion CityCenter -- the country's biggest private project ever -- rolled the dice on a little-known online project management system. So far, it looks like a winner.

All About Money
Frankly Speaking: Frank Hayes explains Wal-Mart's RFID fiasco and how you can avoid a similar fate with your suppliers.

Facts and Meaning
Paul Glen says if you want to motivate your IT folks, don't talk about the facts of their work, talk about its meaning.

Coast-to-Coast Collaboration
With Virtual Studio, actors like Jerry Seinfeld can work virtually with DreamWorks animators.

Enough of Being the Bad Guy
Projects have gotten security reviews at the last minute once too often. Time for a new process.

Q&A: Book author Don Tapscott says corporate inertia prevents mass collaboration
In an interview, Don Tapscott, co-author of the book Wikinomics, said companies need to replace the current "culture of control" with one that encourages input from beyond their physical walls.

ITIL v3: Five ways to make it work for you
No one disputes that ITIL is the "go-to" resource for IT service delivery best practices. But which is best for your company: Version 2 or Version 3?

Q&A: Dave Roberson on HP's 3-year IT consolidation
HP is nearing the completion of a three-year data center consolidation and technology refresh project that has reduced its number of data centers from 85 to six and its data warehouse count from 600 to only a few. HP believes it will save more than $1 billion a year in expenses upon completion of the project.

A role on an IT help desk is what you make of it, tech pros say — just don't get too comfy. Web-based e-mail may be exposing you to privacy and security dangers you didn't sign up for. Ever been tempted to replace the mechanical hard drive in your laptop with a shiny new solid-state disk? Our expert did so, and here's what he found. PARC showed erasable paper and other technologies that adds intelligence to documents with raw text.

Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.

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