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CDO resumes: 5 tips for landing a chief data officer role
Chief data officers are on the rise as businesses embrace data-driven strategies. But you’ll want to follow these five tips to write the perfect CDO resume to get the job.
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8 reasons why digital transformations fail
Lack of vision, leadership support, and long-term commitment are just a few of the ways that digital transformation journeys take wrong turns or fizzle out.
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UK movers and shakers: New CIO and IT executive appointments
Keep up to date with the latest UK CIO and senior IT executive appointments with our revamped and relaunched UK Movers and Shakers noticeboard.
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14 ways to advance your IT career
Technology careers may have no set paths, but there are a few time-honored truisms that can help you get an edge. Here, seasoned IT pros lend their hard-earned advice on advancing.
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The business value of NLP: 5 success stories
These five organizations are using natural language processing to better serve their customers, automate repetitive tasks, and streamline operations.
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Digital twins: 5 success stories
These five companies are using digital twins to monitor operations, plan predictive maintenance, improve customer service, and optimize their supply chains.
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10 red flags to watch for when hiring
In the battle for top tech talent, the wrong hire can be devastating. So do your IT team the favor of watching out for these warning signs before offering the job.
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7 ways CIOs can curb costs before recession hits
With CEOs anticipating recession, IT leaders need to take proactive steps by reassessing contracts, tech portfolios, projects lists, and job postings before CFOs come for their budgets.
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How a new tech-based Swedish payments authority will fight grant fraud
Every year, around $1.8 billion (SEK18 billion) is incorrectly paid out of welfare systems in Sweden. But with the use of automation and data analytics, payments will be centralized and monitored at a new IT-based authority.
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Dubai-based GMG invests in next-gen tech to improve customer needs
To cope with the surge in e-commerce during the pandemic, Sunil Nair, Group CIO at global well-being company GMG explains how he and his team deployed an expanded omnichannel ecosystem to enhance customer accessibility to leading sports brands through digital and mobile platforms.
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Fix the basics first: Boots Ireland CIO Michelle Kearns on implementing IT change
The first-ever CIO at Boots Ireland has taken a people-first approach to improving tech services, working with employees and learning to better serve customers
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Progress report: A CIO’s cloud migration journey to S/4HANA
German retail cooperative ANWR Group has rebuilt its ERP system in the SAP cloud. But over nearly two years, CIO Sven Kulikowsky has had to navigate a series of challenges with the core system.
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Türkiye’s Halkbank finds the right solution stack to perform and scale in tandem
One of the largest banks in Türkiye, Halkbank has implemented Riverbed’s Network Performance Management suite, reducing the mean to respond to almost zero.
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How innovation is bridging the digital divide across Africa’s healthcare systems
Digital technology is a key remedy for medical deficiencies and better health management in Africa, but several obstacles remain.
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Carolyn Levy on how Canadian IT leaders can build and embrace diversity and inclusion
Carolyn Levy, chief diversity officer of Randstad Canada, talks about establishing or retrofitting a working environment fit for the long term.
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Comment les dirigeants canadiens des TI peuvent favoriser la diversité et l’inclusion
Carolyn Levy, directrice de la diversité chez Randstad Canada, explique comment créer ou moderniser un environnement de travail tourné vers l’avenir.
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Why CIOs are increasingly vital to African supply chains
Ahead of the recent 2nd India – Africa Entrepreneurship Investment Summit in Nairobi, chief strategy and sustainable development executive at Rogers Group, and MD for Velogic Africa operations, Mehul Bhatt, spoke about global supply chain complexities and how CIOs bring resilience to organisations.
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6 ways UK CIOs can help to begin closing the IT skills gap
A shortage of qualified IT workers at a time of high demand has put many leaders in a nasty pinch – how can skilled professionals be replaced?
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Digital transformation never stops at IBM’s semiconductor plant in Québec
Exploiting extreme automation, secure operations, and a local talent pool, the computer giant’s largest semiconductor plant’s IT management evolves continuously as it develops new tech.
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À l’usine de semi-conducteurs d’IBM au Québec, la transformation numérique est permanente
Grâce à une automatisation extrême, des opérations sécurisées et une pépinière de talents locaux, la gestion des TI évolue continuellement – à mesure que le géant de l'informatique développe de nouvelles technologies à sa plus grande usine de semi-conducteurs au monde
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The CIO’s evolving role to address tighter EU sustainability regulations
With stricter EU rules on sustainability reporting comes the need to expand the CIO’s purview to include monitoring indirect harmful emissions.
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Why NZ CIOs are giving ex-prisoners a second chance
A programme by Take2 is giving prisoners a chance to become web developers by offering both training and work placement with partner organisations.
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4 exciting Dutch healthcare technology companies to watch
These Dutch tech companies are using virtual reality, AI, high-tech sensors, and cloud solutions to rethink healthcare in the Netherlands.
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Australian CIOs need recipe for digital transformation success
For Australian CIOs, digital transformation is firmly embedded into their organisation’s formula for success, and the focus in their role is shifting to reflect this change.
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How investment and savings platform PiggyVest is changing Nigeria’s youth culture
While many banks across sub-Saharan Africa have expanded their offerings and customer base, a huge portion of the population remains underserved. But savvy entrepreneurs like Odun Eweniyi, COO and co-founder of PiggyVest, are trying to address this issue by taking advantage of the complacency of big banks, and availability of advanced digital technologies and mobile solutions.
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DCMS digital strategy bids to boost UK tech economy, close skills gap
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has released the long-awaited digital strategy, designed to attract foreign investors, close the skills gap, advance technological progress in AI and quantum computing, and give a shot in the arm to the UK economy.
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How Québec became a world-class AI powerhouse
What CIOs can learn about integrating AI into business processes from the winning strategy of Québec’s leaders in the field.
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How the UAE is finding an ally in AI
As IT departments steadily promote to the C-suite and Industry 4.0 gathers pace, AI in all its applications is becoming a central priority. At the recent World AI Show in Dubai, industry leaders pored over IT growth, collaboration and the ethics of how machine learning is always a work in progress, especially in efforts to eliminate bias.
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7 ways to support employee mental well-being post-COVID
After a tumultuous few years, many employees are suffering in ways that IT leaders have never encountered. Here’s what industry veterans and specialists say about helping teams deal with ongoing mental health concerns and how to provide extra support when it’s needed.
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How Canteen debunked IT myths in the not-for-profit sector
Limited budgets and legacy systems are a common issue in many industries and that is also true for not-for-profit (NFP) organisations. When Raul Caceres joined Canteen, an Australian support organisation for young people living with cancer, in 2019, Caceres found a failed CRM implementation, issues with the organisations websites and projects blowing out the budgets.
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The extent multinationals are monopolising the talent pool in Kenya
While Microsoft’s Africa Development Center and Google’s Product Development Centre have enabled great career opportunities in Kenya, their dominant presence and influence have also ignited a debate on how to build a broader scope of options for tech talent.
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What Africa stands to gain with the BT and MTN partnership
Across all regions, Africa is progressing steadily in the digital age, but the timing of a strategic alliance between two telecoms giants comes at a critical time to address a greater standard of security.
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How continental challengers are seizing opportunities as South African VC investment loses ground
Once a leader in start-up generation, South Africa is mired in political and legislative red tape while other continental giants are becoming better geared for growth. Are we witnessing a shift or is market maturity and local entrepreneurial grit enough to get back on the front foot?
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Examining Africa’s imperative to strengthen cyber defences
With threats increasing, speakers at ITWebu2019s 17th Security Summit in Cape Town stressed community cohesion to better combat bad actors.
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University Hospitals Leicester CIO deploys DaaS to improve patient experience
UHLu2019s CIO Andy Carruthers has deployed DaaS to improve colleague and patient experiences, and in turn reduce waiting times, as he discusses digital transformation and new demands on IT teams.
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CIO exit interview: Michael Ciavarella, swimming against the tide
Former Swimming Australia general manager for technology Michael Ciavarella shares how he and his team brough the organisation into the digital age and into the most successful Olympic results for the country to date.
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Drones, AI, cloud key to transformation at South Africa’s Stefanutti Stocks
How GM of Group IT Services Kevin Wilson uses emerging technologies to transform the entire construction life cycle.
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Click, ship, done: How a 150-year-old logistics company is delighting its customers
Global logistics firm DB Schenker’s CIO for the Indian subcontinent explains how the company is adopting new technologies.
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How business intelligence transformed care and efficiency at a Dutch special-needs nonprofit
With a need to streamline financial stability, employee decision-making, and overall quality of service, Philadelphia Healthcare, the care management company for disabled adults reshaped its culture to focus more on data analytics.
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Canada’s CIO Catherine Luelo: managing the IT needs of a nation
The federal government’s IT leader talks about the risks and rewards of digital transformation, tech-related staffing challenges, and the push to establish single digital identities for Canadians
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Catherine Luelo – DSI du Canada : gérer les besoins informatiques d’une nation
La responsable des TI au gouvernement fédéral parle des risques et bénéfices de la transformation numérique, des problèmes de recrutement en technologie, et du projet d’identités numériques uniques pour tous les Canadiens
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Times Higher Education CTO Freddie Quek on minority recognition and building diverse, effective teams
Times Higher Education CTO Freddie Quek mulls career progression as an Asian technology leader, the power of storytelling in the boardroom, and how the IT industry can address digital poverty.
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Jetlines : cap sur les nuages
Pour le nouveau transporteur de loisirs canadien, rendre tous ses systèmes infonuagiques lui donne des avantages par rapport aux compagnies aériennes établies – de la réduction des coûts, à l’agilité des TI et à l’expérience client
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4 female tech founders in the Netherlands share their tips for success
From integrating emerging technologies such as AI and blockchain to staying laser-focused on the user, these female entrepreneurs offer valuable advice for staying ahead of the curve.
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What Kiwi enterprises need to change to attract Māori and Pasifika IT talent
Despite making up more than a quarter of NZ’s population, Mu0101ori and Pasifika peoples make up just 6.8% of New Zealand's IT workforce, but some organisations still struggle to find Mu0101ori and Pasifika talent.
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Q&A: Mastercall Healthcare CIO Jonathan Ritchie on saving lives through digital innovation
Director of IT at the out-of-hospital provider of urgent primary care services, Ritchie spoke with CIO.com on the route he took to become an IT leader and how digital technology is being employed to empower patients to manage their own health care symptoms
How-To
Comment se constituer un réseau : 17 conseils pour les timides
Gêné ? Pour vous, le réseautage ressemble probablement à une épreuve du feu. Ces 17 stratégies vous aideront à vous bâtir un réseau – tout en épargnant votre santé mentale.
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Pets at Home’s CIO unleashes IT on customer experience
A boom in pet ownership and a growing multi-disciplinary business is pushing Pets at Home CIO William Hewish to co-create IT solutions with store colleagues, blur the boundaries between physical and digital for better customer experience, and invest in technology like never before.
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Canadian leisure carrier Jetlines flies straight into the cloud
Launching every last one of its IT systems purely in the cloud gives the startup a few advantages over legacy airlines says CIO Robert Pope, from cost-cutting to IT agility to customer experience
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Digital Transformation lessons for CIOs from legacy companies
How top CIOs in traditional companies overcame major business and technology challenges-
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