Fiorina Reflects On CIO Napier's Contributions: "Before he died of cancer, the IT veteran helped pull off one of the biggest integration projects ever.

"Business-technology executives looking to learn something from Hewlett-Packard CIO Robert Napier, who died Oct. 13 after a fight with cancer, should remember this quote: 'Every business decision triggers an IT event.'

"That, HP CEO Carly Fiorina says, sums up Napier's view of the close relationship between business and technology. 'Bob was all about how to make the technology enable and accelerate and inform that business decision,' Fiorina said in an interview with InformationWeek."