David Carey

Articles by David Carey

University of Calgary CIO gets out of a paper jam

Burning through paper at the rate of 72 million sheets a year, equivalent to a stack almost six miles high, the University of Calgary decided that it was time for a radical rethinking of its print operations. The result was Project IMAGinE, an IT-led initiative that ushered in a new way of handling print while laying the groundwork for a strategic approach to information management

Inside the new Big Blue: A Q&A with IBM’s CIO

Mark Hennessy speaks candidly on transforming the IT orgaization at Big Blue, fostering a culture of innovation, managing IT during the financial crisis, maximizing the value of social networking tools, and taking advantage of an imminent technological game-changer

How IT rocked the vote

After witnessing what happened during the recent U.S. presidential election, it's certain that no future political campaigns will ever be able to take technology for granted again

IBM Canada’s former CIO stakes out startup turf

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Staples Business Depot puts together Active RFID

The company is reducing shrink, boosting sales and eliminating the need to do inventory counts on high-ticket items. And, oh yes, the system has so far not made a single reading mistake. A look at trial without error

Coping with the financial meltdown

Apart from the personal pain inflicted by the financial crisis, few of us will escape some sort of impact on our working lives

Straddling the great divide

Recent research findings around social network privacy point out the need for organizations to rethink their policy in this area, says CIO Canada editor David Carey.

Purolator Courier’s CIO: Why we shuffled execs

When it came to a major overhaul of its business operations, the company allowed leadership of the initiative to migrate from one executive to another as the project moved to different phases. In the midst of it all, Jim McDade found himself in the role of prime contractor

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