Mike Hugos

For years now, we CIOs have been hard at work consolidating data centers, systems and software licenses. We've saved our companies millions. But as the saying goes, "You can't save your way to greatness." Greatness in business requires making money.

The CIO of a national distributor says the lessons he gleaned from a 2,500-year-old Taoist philosopher helped him come up with a low-cost inventory system that worked.