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The Coming Battle of the Titans	October 2004
Why IT Will Continue to Matter	September 2004
Depend on Microsoft?	August 2004
CIOs Must Manage What's Left	July 2004
Pentagon Devises Innovative IT Strategy	June 2004
The Cost of Short-Term CIOs	May 2004
Pick Your Perspective on IT Outsourcing	April 2004
Measuring Information Work Productivity	March 2004
Most Outsourcing Is Still for Losers	February 2004
Outsourcing the IT Infrastructure	January 2004

New Weapons of Information Warfare	December 2003
CIOs Share the Blame	November 2003
IT Spending: The CFOs Strike Back	October 2003
The Curse of IT Infrastructure	September 2003
The Search for Synergy Through Consolidation	August 2003
Era of Expansion Ends: Time for Restructuring	July 2003
Road to IT Renaissance	June 2003
Enterprise Software's End	May 2003

Misleading Metric	July 2002
Playing 'Survivor'	June 2002
'Tail' Over 'Teeth'?	April 2002
Out of Alignment	March 2002
Still a Loser's Game	February 2002
The 'Right' Spending	January 2002

Fighting McKinsey	December 2001
Transforming IT	November 2001
Secure the Internet	October 2001
Diet? What Diet?	September 2001
Uncertain Sentries	August 2001
GE's B2B Retreat	July 2001
Bubble Trouble	June 2001
A Deal Gone Bad?	May 2001
A Growing Bubble	April 2001
Debunking Dogma	March 2001
Signs on Wall St	February 2001
Fuzzy Math in D.C.	January 2001

Fishing for Data	December 2000
The Xerox Tragedy	November 2000
The Impact of B2B	October 2000
Behind the Hype	September 2000
Seeds of Arrogance?	August 2000
Behind The Claims	July 2000
GM's Info Gamble: The Numbers Behind a Story	June 2000
Finding Net Profits	May 2000
Practice Ethical IT	April 2000
Fighting the Jobs Gap	March 2000
The Microsoft Shift	February 2000
The Y2K 'Ransom'	January 2000
No Reason for Euphoria	January 2000

GAAP Helps Whom?	December 1999
Innovation Paradox	November 1999
The Knowledge Fuss	October 1999
Paradox Revisited	September 1999
The Search for Productivity	August 1999
IT's Upcoming Shift	August 1999
End Build-and-Junk	July 1999
Credit Greenspan, not Computers	June 1999
IT Paradox Number	May 1999
How Are Your Y2K Contingency Plans?	March 1999
Deflating Microsoft	March 1999
Women Take Over	February 1999
The Battle of the Millennium: CIOs vs. Lawyers	January 1999

Microsoft: A U.S. Security Threat	November 1998
For IT Assurance, Get Some Insurance	November 1998
The Road To Failure Is Paved With Glib Buzzwords	October 1998
Year 2000 Opens Door to More Federal Rules for IT	August 1998
Year 2000 Costs: Making Sense of a Senseless Debate	August 1998
Quack Software Warranties Have Got To Go	July 1998
Quality Is the Answer to the Labor 'Crisis'	June 1998
Hard Data (At Last) On Year 2000 Costs	May 1998
Boulders On The Road Ahead	May 1998
Taking the Measure of Knowledge Assets	April 1998
Year 2000 A 'Bug'? Swat That Word From Your Dictionary	March 1998
Bogus Payback: Easy Answers Create Long-Term Problem	February 1998
Head Count is No Way to Measure How Good You Are	January 1998

Microsoft At Your Service? Could Be	October 1997
Computers Have Yet To Make Companies More Productive	September 1997
Beyond the Internet: The Next Computer Cycle	August 1997
To Lower Ownership Costs, Improve Management	July 1997
The Real Costs of the Year 2000 Disaster	June 1997
Warning: 1998 Budget Cuts Ahead	May 1997
Next Blow To IS' Image: The Cost Of Owning PCs	March 1997
What's the Best IS Defense? Being Prepared	February 1997
The Real Costs of Personal Computers	January 1997

Software: So Bad, It Can Only Get Better	December 1996
Workload Without Payoff	November 1996
Best Practices? Or Placebos?	October 1996
Information: America's Favorite Investment	August 1996
CIO Job-Holding Expectancy	June 1996
Spending Without Results?	April 1996
Computers Don't Make Money, People Do	February 1996

The Myth of Best Practices	December 1995
Keep Improving (Premier 100 Issue)	October 1995
Productivity, not Bigness, is Beautiful	September 1995
Outsourcing: A Game for Losers	August 1995
Managing Capital Investment in Computers	June 1995
Virtual Outsourcing	May 1995
Trumped-up Profits Do A Disservice	April 1995
Governance: The New IS Agenda	February 1995
E-mail is Only One Path to Success	January 1995

Ensuring Privacy Protection for All	November 1994
How We Evaluated Productivity (Premier 100 Issue)	September 1994
Corporate Architecture Must Play Politics	August 1994
CIOs: The Chosen Elite?	July 1994
Centralization's payback	June 1994