Niel Nickolaisen is CIO at Western Governors University in Salt Lake City. He is a frequent speaker, presenter and writer on IT's dual role enabling strategy and delivering operational excellence. Write to him at nnick@wgu.edu.
Contributions from Niel Nickolaisen
- IT in 2009: The good, the bad and the ugly
- How to drive a Web 2.0 technology implementation
- CIO: Don't attempt BPM without mapping process flows
- Application consolidation: Letting go of legacy systems
- Virtualization's next phase: DR, BC and cloud computing
- How a gap analysis can help improve business continuity
- A CIO's PPM lessons learned
- How to make a data center outsourcing decision
- The Real Niel: Using standards to align with business
- How to build a remote-site disaster recovery plan
- Virtualization project success factors from CIOs
- Cloud computing can drive IT innovation
- Why social networks are the CIO's business
- Tactics for dealing with your data network provider
- The Real Niel: The lost art of conversation
- Disaster recovery and business continuity planning: Kno
- The Real Niel: Build a model, not a number
- The Real Niel: Taking ownership of the data
- The Real Niel: SOA has promise
- The Real Niel: Rules of outsourcing