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Bringing the Outside In
Innovation makes the unlikeliest of bedfellows5 lessons monkeys can teach us about innovation
Corporate innovation programs need to be living, breathing, socially connected entities. They need to constantly adapt to their environment, evolve as the target business outcomes of innovation evolve, follow natural rhythms in terms of event-based and ongoing ideation, and be highly attuned to your corporate culture and its appetite in terms of ability assimilate change.Rebuilding Trust in IT
Jay Ferro, CIO of American Cancer Society, on his four tenets of IT leadershipWhich industries best safeguard your personal information? Security perceptions vs. reality
When it comes to your personal information, which industries do you trust most, or least, with your data? How do some of the recent, highly publicized breaches affect your opinion in terms of which industries are most vulnerable, and how does this compare to reality?New CIOs Close Out Second Quarter
Volume of new CIO appointments continues to trend upwardHow to Develop your IT High-Potentials
Intel’s Kim Stevenson on the Five Attributes of IT LeadershipIs it Worth the Risk?
Stephen Gold discusses IT’s approach to “risk management” at CVS Health8 classic (digital) business strategy moves from Apple Pay
Apple’s recent announcement at its Worldwide Developers Conference of giving shoppers even more ways to pay via its Apple Pay service is an interesting example of a set of eight classic (digital) business strategy moves the company has executed over the course of launching its service.CIO TV is Ready for Prime Time
Andrew Wilson, CIO of Accenture, discusses what it means to be a digital CIOCIO-CDO Dual Role Reinforces the Digital Commitment
Dave Truzinski discusses the addition of Chief Digital Officer to his CIO responsibilities at NII HoldingsSecond Quarter CIOs
Halfway through the 2nd quarter of 2015, new CIO appointments are not slowing downBeyond SMAC: The new platform for digital business
From being a former disruption to enterprise IT, SMAC technologies are now becoming the essential building blocks of a new platform for digital business initiatives.Building a Culture of Urgency in IT
To Steve Zerby, CIO of Owens Corning, urgency is more than an emotionSolving the ‘Big Application’ Problem, Amazon Style
To John Burke, CIO of Ambit Energy, Automated Continuous Delivery Can Work in Any IndustryPreparing for the digital disruption that’s coming to your industry
The business strategies and options regarding how and where to play in the future value chain are the same strategic decisions that organizations have needed to make for decades. What’s new and different is the magnitude of potential business disruption and transformation that's achievable via today’s fresh new wave of disruptive technologies.New CIOs for the Spring
The first quarter has seen a number of new appointmentsMulti-modal ideation: 5 best practices for setting the rhythm of innovation
By implementing a multi-modal ideation approach, with both event-based and ongoing ideation vehicles, your organization will be well-poised to maximize the innovation potential across your diverse ecosystem of employees, customers, suppliers and partners in a systematic manner and equally able to mobilize ideation sessions as, where and when opportunities arise.IoT and Mobility Make APIs a Hot CIO Topic
Brian Lillie, CIO of Equinix, thinks CIOs should start to careSix Easy Steps to Product Innovation
To Dan Olley, CTO of Elsevier, articulating the problem is the keyAnatomy of a Successful SAP Implementation
Bob Dougherty, CIO of Airgas, on how to do SAP rightDigital services mastery: A key competency for digital business
Mastery of digital services is going to become a key competency for organizations to grow their business and build sustainable competitive advantage in the years ahead. It’s no longer sufficient to have an innovative set of products or services, you have to be a master of how you design, develop, deploy, manage and continually evolve your digital services as well.Massive IT Transformation at AstraZeneca
Dave Smoley, CIO of AstraZeneca, uses a five pillar approachFrom the Dark Depths of Winter Spring Major new CIO Appointments
The White House, GM, Target and Time Warner name new CIOsTurning Data into Food
How Monsanto is using predictive analytics and the Internet of Things to unlock digital yieldTaking an Investment Management Approach to IT
How Joe Spagnoletti, CIO of Campbell Soup Company, has tightened the connection between IT dollars and business outcomes5 considerations for adapting innovation programs for digital transformation
In one form or another, most organizations have had a corporate innovation program for many years now. Today’s innovation objectives, however, are all gravitating towards digital transformation. So how should an existing corporate innovation program change or be fine-tuned to most effectively support digital transformation both now and in the years to come?The Business Didn’t Ask for It
How the IT team at Dr. Pepper Snapple Group got buy-in for a game-changing mobile appChanging the Culture of IT
Herman De Prins, CIO of UCB, on his “Future of IT” ProgramNew Year, New CIOs!
2015 Rings in with New CIOs at Caterpillar, Hallmark and moreThe Power of Metaphor
Malini Balakrishnan, CIO of Building Materials Holdings Corporation, shares two metaphors that help her to explain ITBe careful what you transform: The unintended consequences of digital innovation
While shortcuts are often the goal in re-thinking and re-designing business processes to create process efficiencies, cost savings, and an innovative and highly convenient new digital customer experience, every business model and process innovation must still carefully navigate the waters surrounding legality, privacy, security and safety.New CIO announcements to round out 2014
Dell and Reynolds American and Yahoo! announce new IT executive appointmentsA brief history of hybrid IT: How today’s digital business gets done
Hybrid IT is perhaps the mirror image of digital business. As digital business continues its march towards digitizing physical business models, processes, products and services, then hybrid IT responds by providing a palette of technology options for optimizing how this work is achieved.Driving IT Innovation at Textron
Diane Schwarz, CIO, takes a multi-level approachCIO Succession is a Double-Edge Sword
Two long-tenured CIOs announce their retirementsThe Art of Storytelling
Eash Sundaram, CIO of JetBlue, on transaction-free air travelThe hidden disruption of digital business models
Many of new SMAC-enabled digital business models have the intrinsic potential to be more transformative than they would at first appear to CEOs as they re-think and re-design their traditional, existing business models and processes in the context of today’s disruptive technologies, the consumerization of IT, ubiquitous low-cost computing, and our globally connected society.You’ve Outsourced the Context and Kept the Core. Now What?
Kathy Kountze-Tatum, CIO of Northeast Utilities, on building a consultative IT organizationFrom CIO to CEO
Geoff Scott, CEO of the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group, discusses his career transitionCIO Appointments to Kick Off the Fourth Quarter of 2014
United Airlines, AT&T and AIG Announce New IT LeadershipFlywheels, Crowdsourcing, and a New Office of the CTO
John Marcante, CIO and Managing Director of Vanguard, on communicating IT strategy and driving innovation
5 cybersecurity tips for consumers: Lessons learned in the enterprise
So many of our everyday consumer business processes — finance, healthcare, etc. — are now online. They’ve become de-facto mission critical computing processes. We need them constantly accessible, available and secure.Developing Blended Executives
John Marcante, CIO and Managing Director of Vanguard, takes a multi-faceted approach to leadership developmentThe CIO as VC
Clark Golestani, CIO of Merck, on an entrepreneurial approach to IT leadershipDigital transformation needs an industrialized software-defined data center
In today’s fast-paced environment, where digital transformation creates opportunities to literally re-wire how business gets done, the concept of a totally software-defined data center is vital to enable the speed of change required for organizations to stay competitive and react to ever-changing customer needs.Big Companies, Big CIOs
From IBM to HP to Deutsche Bank to AON, large companies are hiring new CIOsStep Into the Digital Leadership Void
Bask Iyer, CIO of Juniper Networks, says IT leaders need to break out of their support roles and drive digital change.
