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5 questions with Cardinal Health SVP & CIO Michelle Greene
No stranger to pressure and disruption, the healthcare CIO discusses the skills and habits that enable great leaders to shine in challenging times.
Looking back to look ahead: Anticipating the cybersecurity landscape in 2022
Reviewing the challenges that CISOs had to address in 2021 can help us better plan for what lies ahead.
4 trends disrupting managed infrastructure services
As providers adapt their go-to-market strategies, customers must plan ahead.
How to select the right IoT device or sensors for your business
To increase efficiency and achieve objectives, consider five important factors to ensure you apply the right devices to the right application.
No, you cannot get rid of your IT department
But you can and should tweak the IT organization to meet modern requirements for agility, innovation, and digital-first operations. Here’s how.
The Hanover CIO Will Lee: Our architecture must have optionality built in
The P&C insurance market is changing so quickly that Will Lee, CIO, is asking his team to focus both on near-term and long-term transformation. Critically important to the second horizon, says Lee, is an architecture that can allow the business to pivot.
To make industrial data actionable, evolve your data historian with an AIoT strategy
The ability to mobilize and integrate volumes of complex industrial data across the enterprise is business critical. That’s why industrial leaders need to invest in cloud-ready, purpose-built AI infrastructure and applications.
3 steps for creating a data-to-value ecosystem
The key to managing a mountain of data and disruptive technologies may lie in establishing a center of competency.
10 strategic tech trends for the infrastructure industry in 2022
The time has come for digital transformation in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Here are 10 technology trends that will shape the future of infrastructure.
Three concepts to embrace for effective digitally driven innovation
As digital transformation moves from buzzword to business priority, understanding three critical concepts – and the subtle differences among them – will help you make the right adjustments to strategies and mindsets.
5 questions with Qualcomm CIO Mary Gendron
A transformational leader explains why IT needs to lead with a business-first mindset.
Air Products CIO overhauls IT to support business transformation
To enable the $9 billion industrial gas provider to deliver new “mega projects,” CIO Brian Galovich has put self-service at the center of the target architecture, moved infrastructure to the cloud, digitized key business processes, and updated the IT operating model.
How AI can help oil and gas producers reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and improve their business
Reducing emissions is an important part of better operational performance that includes higher efficiencies and lower costs. Artificial intelligence and automation can help.
The next big thing in network security?
SASE has emerged as an effective way to address the shifting enterprise network perimeter by merging network and security services in one.
Big three: Develop a strategy for 5G
Networking leaders need to consider three key points for best practices and first steps with 5G.
4 critical success factors for selecting an SAP system implementation provider
In the SAP SI selection process, the traditional approach facilitated by procurement is flawed and fails to account for the complexities of an enterprise SAP SI selection. Here’s how to get it right.
5 questions with CarMax CITO Shamim Mohammad
Lessons learned from a career defined by disruption
Immersive tech reaches critical momentum
Companies that recognize the signal of business change and invest in immersive technologies will capture an expanding market.5 questions with Whirlpool’s Danielle Brown
This trailblazing CIO shares the three keys to her success and why great leaders aren’t afraid to let go of control.
Can’t find the IT skills you need? Take a closer look at your team
Your IT employees likely possess skills and knowledge that are unused in their current roles and may make it easier for them to learn new skills. Together, these hidden and transferable skills provide a treasure trove of untapped IT talent.
How foresight enhances strategic planning in times of uncertainty
The future cannot be predicted, but strategic foresight enables leaders to embrace uncertainty by better understanding, anticipating, and preparing for change.
6 risks to avoid in your AWS, GCP, and Azure negotiations
Choosing a hyperscaler includes a series of seemingly unrelated decisions that must be assessed and made with a target end-state in mind. You will likely only get to make this decision once, so you’d better get it right.
The pivotal role of cybersecurity startups, and why the government and CISOs should care
The US has taken significant steps to better defend against nation-state attackers. But they’re not giving enough attention to a critical piece of the cybersecurity ecosystem.
Solving the IT capacity conundrum: 4 steps to data-driven expectation management
The secret to IT capacity management is not mathematical rigor but emotional discipline. It’s about keeping your eye on the ball and accepting that broad strokes are enough to get you there. A lightweight model will usually do the trick and has several advantages.
At Ingram Micro, digital change starts with the customer journey
The technology distributor’s entire digital transformation is “geared toward creating a single pane of glass for the lifecycle of customer engagement,” says CDO Sanjib Sahoo. His recipe for success includes establishing the right mindset, creating a balanced execution plan, and architecting technology to anticipate pivots.
Joining a startup board? 4 key questions CIOs should ask
The frenetic world of tech startups seems like appealing target for CIOs looking to gain board experience. But choose carefully, say CIOs who have taken the leap.
Why gamification is a great tool for employee engagement
The rewards a gamer gets for completing levels or collecting points can be replicated in a workplace environment to improve engagement, motivate personal growth, and encourage continuous improvement.
5 questions with Johnson & Johnson’s Jim Swanson
Learn how this top CIO is leveraging a platform operating model and focusing on building a diverse, tech-centric culture to accelerate the digital health ecosystem.
5 questions with Dow’s Melanie Kalmar
Learn how this top CIO drives real business value through IT and how she fosters innovation at the 125-year-old company.
Toward a new hybrid cloud – the one CIOs always wanted
Cloud providers built their hybrid offerings at least in part to hold customers intent on repatriating data and workloads. But those same services may not be as well suited for the next wave of hybrid.
Developing a digital culture at U. S. Steel
At one of the world’s largest steel companies, digital success springs from solid business cases, a culture of innovation, and diligent change management, says CIO Steve Bugajski.
Enterprise mobility: Overcoming data access and system integration roadblocks
Always-on remote access is a mini digital transformation project in itself. Here’s how to work toward a seamless experience for all employees.
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.
3 steps toward a more innovative business culture
Capturing a culture of innovation in a post-pandemic landscape is perhaps one of the greatest challenges facing organizations. Change cannot happen passively.
How Johnson Controls is going ‘digital to the core’
As the multinational conglomerate transforms to bring cutting-edge digital products and services to customers, CIO Diane Schwarz ensures that it is digital on the inside as well.
Why Big Tech can't crack healthcare
Technologists cannot disrupt healthcare without a complete understanding of the operating model. Co-creation is the best path forward.
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.
How Carrier IT built a new culture (during a spinoff and a pandemic)
CIO Joe Schulz and the digital team seized the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create a metrics-based, customer-focused culture for IT.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.
Traditional ETL processes are blocking digital expansion – it’s time for an alternative
ETL has lost the race to big data. The solution is as simple as reordering the phases of traditional process integration to adopt "ELT".
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.
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.
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.
5 ways the CDO can strengthen analytics strategies
Get more value out of your data by avoiding common pitfalls.
CVS Health puts customers at the center in product management shift
CIO Roshan Navagamuwa explains how a software engineering culture and four-layer architecture are helping $268B CVS Health become the world’s leading health solutions company.
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.
The year of ransomware: Don’t be the next victim
Reducing your susceptibility to an attack will make you a less attractive target to financially motivated cyber-criminals.How (and why) to create an emerging technology heat map
Use this rapid assessment tool to uncover the emerging technologies and trends that are of strategic importance to the business.
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.