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–David Rosenbaum, Editor
Stephanie is a veteran reporter who knows how to find and connect with the right sources and deliver thorough, engaging stories. Whether it’s her investigative cover stories or bright news pieces, Stephanie delivers. She is flawless on deadlines. Her sly sense of humor and graceful style are also reflected in her prose.”
–Laurianne McLaughlin, Editor-in-Chief
Striking a New Chord with Customers
EMI Music updates its marketing tactics with social CRM.
Airlines have the data they need to reduce delays from equipment problems–and even to stop problems before they occur–saving billions and making customers happier to boot. Here’s how to do it.
Kaggle Visualization Contest Yields Insights on Influence at Harvard Business Review
The Harvard Business Review handed Kaggle the metadata and abstracts for the 12,000 HBR articles published since its 1922 launch with the open-ended challenge to “find the story behind the data”.
App Helps Forest Service Distribute Maps for Firefighters
The U.S. Forest Service deploys a mobile map application for firefighters and emergency responders to use in the field and for tactical planning
When Reykjavik-based deCODE genetics was launched in 1996, its claim to fame was its unique access to a powerful combination of genetic, genealogical and clinical data about Iceland’s largely homogenous population of 300,000 citizens. What it didn’t have were viable commercial tools to analyze that goldmine of data riches.
Partnering with no-name vendors can lead to a big payoff or a total bust.
IT chiefs find that domestic outsourcing delivers advantages.
KPIs of the Planet: Integrating Sustainability into Corporate Decision Making
Doing well by doing good is an admirable goal. But business decisions are built on the bottom line.
Treasurers Want Cloud, But Do Banks? (Whitepaper PDF)
A joint SAP/CFO Research survey finds that corporate finance executives are ready for cloud services from their banks. So why aren’t banks providing those services?
FlightRadar24’s Real-Time Visualization of Air Traffic Uses Global Sensors Network
Earlier this summer, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was forced to admit that he had used federal funds for a four-day trip to Milan, Italy, with his wife. The revelation came after a member of the Malaysian parliament presented evidence from air traffic website FlightRadar24 that the official plane thought to be bringing the prime minister back from Washington, D.C. made stops in Milan and Dubai (for refueling) before landing in Kuala Lumpur.
Inside Wharton’s Research Center for Customer Analytics
Where CMOs and Ph.Ds meet.
Is HP Committed to IT Outsourcing?
HP’s record loss was big news, but its IT outsourcing customers should be more concerned about the company’s ability to deliver. Here are six questions to ask before retaining HP as a delivery partner.
India’s Massive Blackout Tests Outsourcing Providers
IT service providers in north and west India were largely unaffected by blackouts that hit 600 million people. But the threat of global power shortages means you should take steps to ensure you’re protected — regardless of where your outsourcing provider is located.
IBM Beats Indiana in Outsourcing Case No One ‘Deserves to Win’
A rare and costly judgment in favor of the IT service provider yields lessons about the folly of public sector mega outsourcing deals, the importance of a detailed contract, and why IT can’t outsource responsibility.
Texas state CIO wrangles outsourcers into unusual deal.
10 Signs Your Outsourcing Provider Wants to Dump You
IT service providers and their customers have gotten better at building arrangements likely to work for both parties over the long haul, but sometimes relationships fall apart. Here are 10 ways to know your outsourcing provider wants to break up with you.
Boeing Adopts Sci-Fi Data Manipulation Model
Boeing’s defense business wanted to interact with battle simulations using the same gestural input Tom Cruise used in the movie “Minority Report.”
Second Thoughts on Offshoring (PDF)
CIOs are reexamining their outsourcing mix and bringing some—but not all—IT back in-house.
Wellpoint leverages the famous IBM supercomputer to improve cancer treatment plans.
IT in the Aftermath: At the Center of a New World (PDF)
CIO Magazine
On Facebook: My mother, my ‘friend’
The Christian Science Monitor
Iceland’s Dillemma: Privacy Vs. Progress
CIO Magazine
New Deals on Used Wheels (PDF)
Good Housekeeping
Endgame (Content for film’s website)
PBS Masterpiece
Why the Recession Isn’t Driving Down Outsourcing Prices
The New York Times
Life Insurance: Never Trust a Salesman
SmartMoney
Wireless Winelist (PDF)
CIO magazine
Saving Chrysler (PDF)
CIO magazine
Grill-Beer Pairings
Thrillist Boston
Bound to Fail (PDF)
CIO magazine
What CEOs Want from Their CMOs
CMO.com
Backsourcing Pain (PDF)
CIO magazine
A Call to TIe Pay to Risk (PDF)
CIO magazine
Your World… Hacked (PDF)
CIO magazine
Stephanie Overby is an award-winning reporter, writer, and editor with nearly twenty years of professional journalism experience. For the last decade, her work has focused on the intersection of business and technology, but she has written about everything from wedding planning to Wall Street during her career.
Stephanie’s articles been featured in a variety of publications, including Good Housekeeping, BusinessWeek.com, WGBH Interactive, CIO magazine, Christian Science Monitor, CMO.com, Thrillist, SmartMoney, Inc.com, NYTimes.com, Rinkside, TheKnot.com, The Industry Standard, AOL, Cars.com, Agenda, Silicon Alley Daily, Harcourt Online, Internet Shopper, PCWorld.com, and HOTELS.
Stephanie’s work has been recognized by the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE); American Business Media’s Jesse H. Neal Awards; the Trade, Association, and Business Publications International’s TABBIE awards, and the National Magazine Awards.