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Top 11 agile tools for project management
Keep your projects humming with these tools geared for teams committed to agile practices and workflows.
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7 tasks every IT leader should delegate
CIOs have busy lives. So, one of the biggest talents every IT leader must acquire is the ability to know when to let go.
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How to assemble a highly effective analytics team
Data-driven success hinges on strong, diverse, cross-functional data teams. IT leaders offer tips on creating and maintaining teams tuned for delivering keen data insights.
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How COVID-19 accelerated Phoon Huat’s move to e-commerce
The Singapore-based food supplier moved into online sales as the pandemic gathered steam—then had to rework its platform to scale and improve customer experience.
CDO at the Center
How the right automation strategy can unlock data silos
Struggling to make sense of all the data your company creates? The right automation strategy may be your best bet to unlock silos and make data more useful.
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How to cultivate IT talent remotely
Identifying and growing IT talent in remote and hybrid workplaces is a big change for IT leaders, who must rely more on metrics, emotional intelligence, and new remote skills to elevate the best from their teams.
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10 key skills for a successful cloud strategy
Success in the cloud also means tweaking your skills mix. From architecture expertise to vender relationship management, here’s what your organization needs to make the most of the cloud.
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10 Power BI mistakes to avoid
Power BI is increasingly bringing the power of data to business users, but you may need more guardrails to get the most value from it. These are the most common things organizations get wrong.
The CIO Whisperers
5 questions with CIO-turned-CEO Ted Colbert
The Boeing Global Services president and CEO shares the leadership wisdom he lives by and why it’s not IT’s job to give the business what it wants.Managing Innovation & Disruptive Technology
3 tips for combatting not-invented-here syndrome
Company culture and internal politics can block ideas at any time as they make their perilous journey from concept to value. These techniques will help you knock down those barriers to innovation.
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How to win over your board of directors
A 15-minute board presentation can make or break a promising career. Leaders offer CIOs advice meeting board needs and expectations and winning their lasting support and respect.
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10 impediments to IT innovation
From inefficient IT operations to an inability to upskill at pace, innovation is often undercut by ingrained organizational issues that IT leaders must change.
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How container carrier ONE made its CRM shift a smooth one
The Singapore-based shipping company’s IT transformation relies on a Google-centric shift to the cloud.
Developing IT Leaders
7 techniques to enhance your power to persuade
In the workplace, influence is the ability to move someone’s thinking, actions, or decisions in a way that advances your business objectives. These seven concepts and techniques will give your influence skills a boost.
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7 signs your IT training sucks
A skilled IT staff can mark the difference between proficient operations and failure. Beware the warning signs of training programs that won’t create the IT expertise needed for long-term success.
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CIO transformation: From order-taker to changemaker
Looking to take a step up in your CIO career? IT leaders and executive advisors outline key strategies for earning a more prominent, impactful role.
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How Malaysia’s social security fund modernised itself
Malaysia’s Social Security Organisation chief strategy and transformation officer Edmund Cheong chose open source systems to modernise its IT infrastructure.
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Top 21 RPA tools today
Robotic process automation can streamline business workflows by eliminating tedious manual tasks without requiring you to completely re-engineer legacy systems.
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7 IT metrics that matter most
As the number of IT metrics multiply, it’s important to zero in on the key indicators that offer at-a-glance insights on essential enterprise functions.
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Public cloud: 4 success stories
The public cloud has been a booster shot for digital transformation during the pandemic. IT leaders offer advice on driving efficiency and agility in the cloud.
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7 hot digital transformation trends — and 3 going cold
The pandemic has seen organizations doubling down on true transformation. Here’s how digital initiatives are reshaping technology strategies and revolutionizing how work gets done.
Opinion
The 3 IT processes CIOs need most
Building effective IT 101: Processes matter, but some matter more than others. Here’s where to put your skin in the game as an IT leader.
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8 tips for improving customer experience
CX is the new IT imperative. Here’s how IT leaders can staff up, get agile, and spearhead tech initiatives that deliver experiences that win over customers.
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IT navigates the ‘Great Resignation’
With the pandemic causing many to reevaluate lives and career, IT organizations must embrace creative work models and source from new venues to stem an escalating talent crunch.
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7 ways to rebuild a failed IT organization
Your CIO predecessor had some unique ideas about IT leadership — most of them terrible. Now it’s your job to clean up the mess. Here’s what how to get IT back on track.
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Customer experience: The new IT imperative
CX has become a key factor for company success, and CIOs are rethinking operations and organizational culture to ensure customers remain squarely in focus with everything IT does.
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5 essential traits of elite business analysts
Learning to tell stories about data to colleagues across the organization is a must for this fast-growing career.
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Top 18 enterprise architecture tools for 2021
These popular and emerging EA tools offer businesses everything they need to support enterprise architecture and digital transformation.
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How Southeast Asian retail CIOs can balance customer data and privacy
As e-commerce grows across the region, effective use of data is critical to business success—but customers must see their privacy respected to provide that data.
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Top 7 business intelligence trends for 2021
BI has undergone significant transformation in recent years, retrenching its importance in the enterprise, thanks to the added benefits of AI, machine learning, NLP, and the cloud.
Developing IT Leaders
IT technical fellowship: A new path to the top
IT pros at the top of their careers as individual contributors are often faced with few career choices: Go into management or stay where they are. Establishing an IT Technical Fellow career track can change that, providing a new way to recognize and retain top talent.
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4 digital customer experience success stories
Walmart, Ally Financial, and Raytheon are among the wide range of companies that have moved rapidly to build out new digital services to accommodate customer preferences.
The Business of Data
6 ways to harness the value of open data
A treasure trove of free information assets is dispersed across public and private institutions. Here's how can you use that data to drive business success.
Interview
How ADB is future-proofing itself with digital innovation sandboxes
CIO Shirin Hamid and sandbox programme director Ozzeir Khan describe the bank’s approach to digital innovation—and the lessons learned along the way.
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Leveling up your IT talent strategy
The promise of technology advancements and digital transformation has helped CEOs finally recognize what the best CIOs have known all along: IT is the business. Is your talent strategy keeping pace?
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6 tips for ensuring IT manager success
Are your department managers reaching their full potential? Here’s how to gain relevant insights into their performance — and to ensure necessary adjustments are made.
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CIOs embrace business-led IT amid tech democratization
Shadow IT no more: CIOs are increasingly welcoming technologies built or bought by business lines, while providing governance and vendor management support.
CIO Executive Council POV
4 reasons to prioritize developers' infrastructure needs
In the rush to deliver new digital solutions, companies often ignore the needs and requirements of development infrastructures and cut corners in devops processes, resulting in missed problems and costly fixes down the road.
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12 hot Southeast Asian fintechs for the CIO watchlist
For payments processing, cross-border trade enablement, insurance platforms, and digital banking, Southeast Asia has plenty of innovative providers your company may want to partner with.
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4 ways to diversify your IT hiring pipeline
Diverse teams deliver better results. Here’s how companies are reevaluating their hiring strategies to ensure they’re reaching qualified candidates outside traditional hiring avenues.
Developing IT Leaders
Looking to advance your IT career? Join the club
Active participation in IT industry associations is key to accelerating leadership growth. Here's how to reap the benefits now and throughout your career.
Opinion
11 dark secrets of application modernization
Dragging legacy apps into the modern era is a key pillar of digital strategies today. It’s also harder, more costly, and less rewarding than you might think.
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7 secrets of IT talent magnets
From offering meaningful work to embracing hybrid environments, CIOs whose organizations have established virtuous IT recruiting cycles share tips on how to consistently attract IT talent.
Building IT Relationships
Getting to no: 3 things your cloud vendor won't give you (and what to ask for instead)
Knowing what vendors will say "no" to can be a powerful tool in your negotiation arsenal.
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Top 10 AIOps platforms
Infrastructure monitoring tools injected with artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms can anticipate and analyze events and alerts, keeping your enterprise stack humming.
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7 toxic team behaviors IT leaders must root out
When an IT team member begins behaving poorly, performance and productivity will likely suffer. Here’s how to detect and eradicate destructive attitudes before they take root.
CDO at the Center
Building an internal dataops team: 7 considerations for success
Advanced data analytics is transforming the way companies make decisions and respond to market changes. Here's what that means for CIOs looking to build internal dataops teams.
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How to make the most of an executive coach
Coaching can yield far-reaching benefits for your IT leadership career. IT execs share tips on how to make the most of an experience that will reshape how you work and lead.
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7 new rules of project management
COVID-19 has greatly affected the future of work and how teams collaborate to get projects done, resulting in significant changes in the skills and strategies necessary to succeed as a project manager.
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Rethinking IT governance for agility and innovation
To meet today’s need for constant innovation, IT leaders must take a different approach to IT governance centered around flexibility and agility — without sacrificing stability and security.
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