Innovation

How to create an environment that encourages growth, openess to new ideas and innovation for greater corporate succes.

Feature

NFL CIO Uses Analytics to Improve Player Safety

Michelle McKenna-Doyle, CIO for the National Football League, is driving innovation with analytics, using sensors to track players on the field and monitoring player health and safety with lab analysis of helmets. Full Story »
News

SAP CEO 'Not Concerned' with Rise of Third Party Maintenance and Support Players

Jim Hagemann Snabe said that almost all customers are opting for more expensive support from SAP.

Q&A

eBay's CIO Succeeds by Innovating and 'Connecting the Dots'

eBay CIO Scott Seese says he and his team are using technology and innovation to drive the company's mission of connected commerce. He explains how the ecommerce giant taps into the power of social and mobile to help customers find and purchase exactly what they seek from among millions of sellers. Seese also discusses his strategy for success and why it's important to connect the dots.

Advice & Opinion

Transforming the Network with Network Functions Virtualization: 10 Recommendations for Service Providers

In order to be successful in the fast paced Internet world, leading carriers must quickly introduce new services and reduce costs. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a new technology enabling communications service providers (CSPs) to transform their networks. The goal of NFV is to help providers realize the innovation and cost curves enjoyed by the IT community.

Advice & Opinion

A Call for Mobile Innovation

A lot more innovation is desperately needed for mobile hardware design and platforms. Are Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft up to the task?

Grow

CIOs Must Manage the Risk of the Status Quo

One of a CIO’s greatest risks is not moving fast enough, says columnist Adam Hartung. To avoid out-of-date thinking, ask futuristic questions like "What if in five years smartphones and tablets totally replace laptops?“

Connect

How IT Innovation Helps International Speedway Engage Racing Fans

The chief marketing officer at International Speedway offers insights into how innovative technology can improve the guest experience.

Early Adopters

Enterprise Mobility Demands an Innovative Approach to IT Organization

Perhaps nowhere else in IT is the opportunity to innovate as rich as it is with enterprise mobility. Smartphones and tablets offer the chance to improve everything from employee productivity to how you interact with customers and achieve competitive advantage. But most enterprises are trying to implement modern mobility strategies using existing IT organizational structures.

Early Adopters

Why Openness Drives Innovation

Figuring out the next big thing in technology is something a lot of us are tasked to do, and it becomes even more challenging when predicting what will succeed long term. But one attribute that stands out as giving a new technology a leg-up is using open technologies for a creative freedom to spur innovation.

News

Electrical Engineers See Sharp Uptick in Q1 Jobless Rate

The unemployment rate for people at the heart of many tech innovations -- electrical engineers -- rose sharply in the first quarter of this year for reasons that aren't clear.

News

Open Source is Taking Over the Software World

Innovation, quality, and growth are named as key motivators for using open source software.

News

Unemployment Rate for Electrical Engineers Soars

The unemployment rate for people at the heart of many tech innovations, electrical engineers, rose sharply in the first quarter of this year. The reasons for the spike aren't clear, but the IEEE-USA says the increase is alarming.

News

Nanowires Could Boost Energy in Solar Cells by 15x

Building solar voltaic cells from nanowires instead of standard metal conductors can increase the amount of energy the cells can capture by a factor of 15, according to a new study by scientists from the Nano-Science Center in Denmark.

News

Japan Lab Claims its Software Can Read Dreams

A Japanese research institute says it can tell what people are dreaming about by analyzing their brain waves.

How To

How Entrepreneurial IT Leaders Can Impact Revenue

Entrpreneurial IT leaders can offer unique insight, capability, experience and corporate leadership to the business. They are innovation-oriented and in an economy with uncertainty, they can find new methods for starting and sustaining revenue growth.