Mary K. Pratt

Being an introvert, shy or both can be a disadvantage in the business world where career successes are often based on building solid relationships. Here are seven low-key ways to build relationships and boost your IT career

Road maps for successful transitions shouldn't be exclusive to the C-suite. Here's how a program manager developed an action plan inspired by the 100-day plans of U.S. presidents

Chief Technology Officer Arvind Thapar wants to bring new green technology to his company, but his proposed initiative -- installing wind turbines to generate power -- is decidedly outside the usual realm of IT

Discerning what your prospective boss wants from you is an essential CIO survival skill. It

IT professionals tell us about career gambles they've taken, the payoffs -- and that risk-taking can become a habit

CIOs are making headlines these days, but not always for the right reasons. Security breaches, crashed Web sites and other public technical snafus create the kinds of crises that put IT leaders front and centre. How you follow up in the immediate aftermath of a crisis can affect not only how the event is perceived, but also how successfully you'll avoid trouble in the future.

Measuring the return a company gets from an IT investment is not usually an easy task. Building better business cases for projects can lead to a firmer grasp of what your spending actually achieves.

Beth Everett's brushes with history have left her with better insights into worst-case scenarios. Now, as a consultant at Network Inference Inc. in Carlsbad, Calif., she wonders how a potential hazardous materials situation -- a chemical spill or attack -- might affect IT. Worries like these would have been unimaginable even five years ago. But world events have changed the way many CIOs think about their disaster recovery plans.