5 tips for building your innovation ecosystem
If it’s innovation you’re after, look beyond the brand names. Chances are, they’re not as innovative as you may think.
6 business risks of shortchanging AI ethics and governance
Factors inherent to artificial intelligence and its implementation can have dire ramifications for your company if ethics and governance aren’t baked into your AI strategy.
The rise of servant leadership
The Great Resignation has ushered out command-and-control style leadership in favor of empathy and empowerment. These tech leaders put those principles into practice.
What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library
ITIL is a framework of best practices for delivering IT services. ITIL’s systematic approach to ITSM can help businesses manage risk, strengthen customer relations, and build an IT environment geared for growth, scale, and change.
The technologist’s classic blunder
Steve Jobs fell for it, so did Steve Sewell, founder of Builder.io, among countless others. But avoiding it takes just a simple mindset shift.FROM OUR ADVERTISERS
Oracle integrates CDP data in Fusion Cloud for better customer service
As enterprises step up efforts to enhance customer experience, Oracle is integrating data from its Unity Customer Data Platform (CDP) into its Oracle Service application, as part of the company’s Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX) offering.
D-Wave puts a third quantum computer in the cloud
The company is making its third D-Wave Advantage system available via Amazon Braket and has updated its tools to enable enterprises to apply quantum annealing to new optimization problems.
Top 8 predictive analytics tools compared
Predictive analytics tools comb through your data to divine visions of your business future. Here’s an overview of the wide array of options available today.
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CIOs look to foster innovative IT cultures, post-COVID
Coming out of the pandemic, CIOs are placing a greater emphasis on innovation by re-engineering IT cultures for sustained creativity and expanding on breakthrough pandemic solutions.
Redefining the CIO role post-pandemic
A tumultuous two years have shifted expectations of what IT could and should deliver. Today, CIOs are taking stock and redrawing the boundaries around their role and responsibilities.
IBM adopts ‘Rise with SAP’ for internal ERP cloud move
IBM will also offer to host clients’ S/4HANA systems on Power servers under the Rise umbrella.
Why feelings matter in the quest for Aussie tech talent
In the final quarter of 2021, research by industry analyst fiorm Gartner suggested close to a third of IT workers in Australia were actively seeking new jobs. IT professionals are looking for flexibility but also financial compensations and local CIOs are liestening.
What is a customer data platform? A unified customer database
CDPs are prepackaged, unified customer databases that pull data from multiple sources to create customer profiles.
8 business concepts IT leaders should master
CIOs must master critical business concepts to fulfill their new mandate of being business partners with their leadership peers. Here are the latest business terms and notions impacting IT.
Reskilling IT for digital success in a tight talent market
IT leaders are upskilling IT staff in sought-after skills to support organizational transformations — and to improve employee retention. Here, CIOs share training strategies and lessons learned.
Google Cloud data engineering, analytics systems target manufacturers
The solutions aim to unify and analyze data from manufacturing assets and will compete with similar industry offerings from the stables of AWS, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM.
SAP trials meeting-free Fridays
CIO Florian Roth’s team was one of the first to adopt the Friday focus on deep work.
What is root cause analysis? A proactive approach to change management
Root cause analysis (RCA) focuses on fostering a proactive approach to solving problems before they happen and eliminating the potential for flaws to reoccur in the future.
vFunction tool assesses technical debt for app modernization
vFunction Assessment Hub is aimed at IT decision makers, providing a technical debt score highlighting the complexity of the legacy application code and risk factors associated with it.
Essential data science tools for elevating your analytics operations
With organizations increasingly turning to data science to derive business value, the tools that support the work are proliferating. Here are the key tools successful data scientists rely on.
3 consultant mistakes CIOs can’t help making
When it comes time to tap outside expertise, IT leaders too often fail to know what to ask for, who to select, or what to do with the advice they pay for.
Marsh McLennan’s CIO Paul Beswick on fostering IT velocity
Paul Beswick, CIO at Marsh McLennan, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss fostering IT velocity, business process focus, the entry-level recruiting surge, development COE, delivering the future with IT and more. This episode is sponsored by the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority. Learn more at FairfaxCountyEDA.Org.
Top 10 business needs driving IT spending today
Security and efficiency directives are fueling a shift in IT spending toward foundational business requirements to position organizations for uncertain future.
Sandbox AQ CEO: Enterprises must prep for quantum threats
The Google spin-off’s CEO Jack Hidary talked with CIO.com about Sandbox AQ’s plans for developing enterprise software based on AI and quantum tech and what CIOs should expect from a post-RSA future.
Constructing a smarter building industry in Australia
Laing O’Rourke and Lendlease IT chiefs share their experiences and suggest how the construction industry can achieve a high level of digital maturity.
6 key challenges of complex cloud environments — and how to manage them
Organizational reliance on the cloud is on the rise, so too are the difficulties of managing increasingly complex cloud strategies.
IT spending growth slows, as remote work proliferates
A new survey describes an IT spending landscape shaped by remote work and its consequences, as spending growth slows slightly, with security and networking as priorities.
10 ways to recession-proof your IT career
With inflation and other global factors increasing the risk of recession, savvy IT pros are reconsidering their approaches to work to ensure career prospects in uncertain economic times.
What’s next for digital transformation?
Thirty-plus years is a long time to be stuck on something. Is it time we move on?
Cloud infrastructure sales rise as companies seek digital resiliency
Businesses are spending more on cloud infrastructure in order to ramp up digital transformation efforts and stay flexible in the face of supply- chain issues, says research firm Canalys.
ServiceNow grows 27% despite significant global challenges
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott said that global challenges like the war in Ukraine “have underscored the urgency of investment in digital business.”
Empathy: A CIO’s force multiplier
The traits that define transformational leadership are evolving to include soft skills centered on connection and relationships, resulting in improved cultures, talent retention, and business outcomes.
Salesforce extends Flow automations across Mulesoft, Slack and Tableau
The CRM giant is looking to help customers automate workflows and trigger actions across its growing range of applications using Flow.
Qualtrics seeks to broaden picture of employee engagement
With new tools for correlating employee engagement at with other data, the software vendor hopes to make it easier for managers to retain workers.
7 leadership traits major enterprises look for in a CIO
Are you ready to make the move to a big company? Better stretch yourself now to ensure you have what top-tier enterprises seek in a top-post IT leader.
Open Group goes modular with 10th edition of TOGAF standard
The 10th edition of the popular enterprise architecture framework focuses on improving usability for a wider range of enterprises.
7 hot IT outsourcing trends — and 7 going cold
The days of low-cost commodity outsourcing are over. Today’s IT organizations seek stronger strategic partnerships based on value-generating strategies, structures, and incentives.
Databricks' new data lakehouse aims at media, entertainment sector
Data lakehouses combine the storage and analytics features of data warehouses and data lakes, with vendors like Databricks offering solutions for specific industries.
Cloud momentum sees SAP start the year strong
The German software company started the financial year with strong cloud revenue, but it recognized that exiting the Russian market will impact its bottom line.
6 smart practices for better business-IT alignment
From ride-alongs to reverse-embedded IT, CIOs are establishing new approaches to bridging the business-IT divide — and devising inventive strategies with business alignment top of mind.
15 best data science bootcamps for boosting your career
Whether you’re a recent grad, seasoned IT pro or someone looking to make a career change, these bootcamps will set you on the right path for a career in data science.
Supply chain digitization faces 3 big hurdles, PwC survey shows
A PwC survey covering operations and technology leaders as well as other C-suite executives globally has identified three main roadblocks stopping them from achieving digital transformation in their supply chain operations.
Top 15 project management certifications
No matter what your IT role, a project management certification can add value to your career. Here are the top project management certifications, their requirements, and cost.
European cloud project Gaia-X is stuck in the concept stage
The European cloud project Gaia-X launched in 2019 with great fanfare. However, for Volker Pfirsching, partner at Arthur D. Little, the project is so far more an idea than a concrete plan.
What is data science? Transforming data into value
Data science is a method for transforming business data into assets that help organizations improve revenue, reduce costs, seize business opportunities, improve customer experience, and more.
Did SAP spy on its employees, German union asks
The service sector union Ver.di has made public an internal data leak at SAP. Sensitive information from the workforce is said to have been widely accessible.
Top 8 customer data platforms
Tying together customer data from various sources, customer data platforms (CDPs) provide detailed profiles of customers and the means for delivering customized marketing to them.
The hard truth of IT metrics
Want to survive as CIO? You’ll need metrics. But not just any metrics. Here’s a quick guide.
Hybrid work: 2 Australian CIOs share lessons learned
Angela Coble and John Sutherland share what they learned about hybrid work in healthcare and how to ensure staff were comfortable with the COVID-19-imposed reality and how they moved forward once restrictions lifted.