Martha Heller brings you career advice, job changes and best practices from CIOs in the trenches.
Mike Wright, Global CIO, is turning knowledge into value at the global management consulting firm.
Rita Fisher, CIO and SVP of Supply Chain, discusses her approach to digitizing plant operations at the global consumer products company.
How one executive recruiter assesses the talent market.
Is your CEO ready for the future? IT executives share their advice for leading in the age of digital.
With an innovative group mentoring program and local and global networking events, the financial service company's IT Womenu2019s Council helps women grow into leadership positions.
Michael W. Smith, CIO of The Estu00e9e Lauder Companies, has initiated an impressive array of programs to attract and retain IT talent at the nearly $15 billion global prestige beauty company.
Digital evolution is challenging for a company as large as Qurate Retail Group. But CIO Karen Etzkorn is helping it succeed by creating a customer-centric culture and elevating digital experiences.
By applying three levers of digital transformation, Waste Management is infusing technology into the business model to drive growth.
Terrance Williams, President of Emerging Businesses and CMO, and Jim Fowler, Executive Vice President and CIO, on driving cultural change at Nationwide, one of the largest insurance and financial services organizations in the US.
With technology revolutionizing the construction industry, Structure Tone needed to get company leaders up to speed and on board with digital innovation plans. So, the CIO created a six-step strategy.
Atilla Tinic, the new CIO at DISH Network, shares his strategy for pursuing and getting the position, plus how he approached his first 90 days on the job.
With its five-platform digital strategy, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts improves the experiences of all its customers: guests, franchises, and internal team members. CIO Scott Strickland explains how.
Kaiser Permanente uses technology to improve personal health, community health, and medical excellence. EVP and CIO Dick Daniels explains how they do it.
National Gridu2019s digital strategy is all about developing frictionless processes to bring energy to customers safely, faster, and easier, explains Adriana Karaboutis, chief information and digital officer.
More executive committees say they understand how digital impacts their business strategy.
Under Armour combines its physical and digital products to help its customers achieve their fitness goals.
At Campbell Soup Company, business relevance is the foundation of all digital transformation initiatives. It's about leveraging IT to achieve business goals, says CIO Francisco Fraga.
Digital technologies change everything. The key is understanding and creating a new value chain, not adding technology just because it is new, says pharmaceuticals CIO Guy Hadari.
Your digital strategy is only as strong as your least digital employee. That is why Avery Dennison built digital literacy into its multi-pronged digital transformation strategy.
By shifting more IT activity into the business units, Ryder System CIO Rajeev Ravindran ensures a collaborative approach to technology innovation at the $8.4B transportation and supply chain management company.
For Oshkosh Corporation CIO Anupam Khare, the goal is for IT to enable the business strategy and add significant business value — all the while ensuring customers' needs inside and out of the company are met.
On her journey to becoming CIO, Daphne Jones discovered it takes purpose, priority, preparation, performance, and perseverance for business, as well as personal, transformation to occur.
Debra McCormack, managing director for the Center for Board Effectiveness at Deloitte, explains what it takes for CIOs to become corporate board directors.
Digital transformation requires vision, leadership, process change, and technology. Equally important, though, is to change the companyu2019s culture, says Arthur Hu, CIO of Lenovo.
Michael Gabriel, former CIO of HBO, offers lessons learned from his entrepreneurial adventure.
For Caesars Entertainment's CIO, Les Ottolenghi, the keys to the transformation at the global gaming giant were vision, communication, and a common cloud platform.
As the battle to hire top IT talent heats up, these criteria u2013 location, compensation, role, and recruiting process u2013 will help you assess your ability to attract technology leaders.
Professor and CIO Will Conaway shares his five steps for IT leaders to succeed at their jobs.
Gary Scholten, CIO and CDO of $14 billion financial services firm Principal Financial Group, offers sage advice to ensure a strategic approach to digital technologies.
By understanding their customersu2019 behavior, Ingram Micro can use digital technologies to create a seamless experience, explains Tom Peck, CIO and CDO.
Sheri Rhodes, CIO and CTO of Western Union, discusses how innovation and talent development help the global money-transfer company provide outstanding customer experience.
With dollars tight and the stakes high, Eric Yablonka, CIO of Stanford Health Care, says healthcare CIOs have to make the right bets in technology.
As CIO, if you think your job is systems, think again. Transformational IT leaders must change their mindset and do four essential things.
Prakash Kota, CIO of Autodesk, discusses his approach to using digital technology to improve employee productivity.
Dan Galdenzi, chief growth officer at NASCO, discusses how he went from CIO at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont to a sales and product leadership position.
CIO Jonathan Shoemaker explains how Allina Health is turning patients into customers using technology and tools regularly used by retailers.
Mike Koehler, CIO and CDO at Exelon, discusses how heu2019s creating a culture of innovation at the energy provider, improving customer, employee and supplier experiences.
Digital 1.0 vs. Digital 2.0 -- Vijay Sankaran, CIO of TD Ameritrade, explains the differences and offers advice to CIOs looking to move their companies to an u201canywhere, anytime, any platformu201d mindset.
Expert CIO Bruce Lee discusses three traps that can trip up CIOs as they drive digital transformation initiatives.
CIO Mike Zahigian explains how Amgen's Technology Talent Forum helped grow leaders from inside the company rather than acquiring them from the outside.
Sanjay Shringarpure, CIO of E & J Gallo Winery, discusses why a structured approach to meetings between IT and its business partners drives IT value.
Digital transformation is creating many opportunities for CIOs. Learn what they are and how to advance your career as a digital CIO.
How Northwestern Mutual transformed its classic IT model of plan, build, run into an agile model focused on digital innovation.
Mindy Simon, CIO of Conagra Brands, focuses on being digital with her business partners, not doing digital to them.
Jennifer Hartsock, CIO of Baker Hughes, a GE company, explains how she uses a product management model to drive productivity.
IBM CIO Fletcher Previn explains how agile development, Net Promoter Score, and organizational structure are key to delivering easy-to-use solutions that drive innovation and employee efficiency.
Andy Newsom, CIO of CSL Behring, discusses how he makes talent management a part of the IT department's culture and turns high-potential employees into enterprise leaders.
Justin Mennen, CIO and CDO of CompuCom -- provider of managed digital workplace services, is elevating the digital experiences of his customers and his P&L leadership role.
To help Lexmark's IT department better understand the business, CIO Brad Clay added non-IT people to the team. To ensure their success, he created a formal training program.
How the CIO of Brightstar embedded IT into the customer experience, integrated service lines, and made IT central to the business rather than just an order taker.