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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.
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.
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.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.
Keysight Technologies CIO: Tech companies need to modernize IT too
The architecture is composable and processes are agile at the electronics manufacturer, but for Dan Krantz and team, a ‘growth mindset’ is just as important.
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.
The new age of business ‘creators’
How citizen developers will help IT leaders usher in a new era of innovation, speed, and collaboration in application development
3 common reasons for migrating to SAP S/4HANA – and why only one of them is right
S/4HANA is not just a technical upgrade; it’s a business transformation. Let that guide your approach.
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.
How automation helps to reduce time to market for IoT projects
An automation mindset can keep projects on track with a secure, seamless, and scalable model
Are SMBs invited to the digital transformation party?
There’s value for smaller businesses in stepping up digital transformation investments. Doing so is critical to survival.
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.
Unilever CIO: Digital literacy is the most important new capability to develop
Unilever North America CIO Alessandro Ventura has created a digital literacy curriculum to drive tech innovation.
5 tips for creating an IT culture where women thrive
Advice for women in tech from women in tech.
Change by design: The new role of digital and software in organizational transformation
It’s time to reimagine the role of digital transformation in the future of work, create new value for digital-first customers, reskill employees for the new world, and explore innovative technologies to build tomorrow’s business, today.
Leading a hybrid IT workforce: 10 steps to ease the transition
Today’s hybrid workplace is being driven entirely by management decision—and everyone has an opinion on how it should be done. Here are 10 steps to prepare for leading in this new and evolving reality.
4 tactics for getting SIs to bid on your project
Systems integrators will be in high demand this year as digital transformation projects heat up. Here's how to make your project stand out in a seller's market.
Best practices to embrace an ‘MLOps’ mindset
Most AI projects do not make it to production due to a communications gap. MLOps can help close the gap.
Casey's General Stores IT delivers business outcomes in product management shift
CIO Adrian Butler has adopted a product management model to enhance the guest and team member experience at Casey’s 2,300 stores.
How CareSource ditched its data silos
Taking a 'data fabric' approach in its shift from data silos to real-time access, the non-profit managed healthcare plan provider futureproofed its data platform, providing increased agility, interoperability, and accessibility for its members, network of doctors, and healthcare providers.
Digital acceleration at Stanley Black & Decker places data at the center
CIO Rhonda Gass explains how a cloud data platform, technology business management framework, and agile architecture are keys to the $14B global company’s digital transformation.
Big Tech could be the answer to broadband affordability
The struggle of disconnected Americans during the pandemic underscored the need, once and for all, to close the digital divide. Tech companies should help fund the solution.
What the traditional financial services industry can learn from neobanks and fintechs
Slower-moving incumbents need to rethink the way they do business in a digitally driven world that puts customer experience first.
Two things that will never work here
When looking to create a more agile business, we can take inspiration from many sources. But ultimately, the problems we need to solve are our own.
CIOs take on the talent imperative
Following a year of intense stress and long hours, IT pros are on the move and in search of professional fulfillment, flexibility, and work-life balance. Here, four CIOs share their advice for creating an IT culture tech workers can't quit.
Consequential innovation: 4 tips for unlocking hidden growth opportunities
For innovation to be consequential, you must strike the right balance between incremental innovation and disruptive innovation. Here's how to get started.
How Inspire Brands IT serves up innovation at scale
CIO Raghu Sagi and his team are creating a multitenant architecture to improve customer experiences and worker productivity across seven restaurant brands.
The rise of the cloud data platform
As impressive as the enterprise’s progress toward a data-driven economy was last year, the big bang we’ve been expecting from big data is still ahead.
Return to the office: Organizational resiliency and the new normal
The WFH pivot was remarkable, but workplace re-entry creates a new set of challenges for business leaders.
AI in healthcare: The tech is here, the users are not
The biggest challenges for AI-enabled care are delivering real-time insights into the clinical workflow and gaining acceptance from caregivers as well as patients. Innovative solutions continue to emerge.
How data historians have evolved to make industrial data actionable
Democratizing data can level the playing field and empower your workforce to make better, data-driven decisions.
4 strategies for retaining IT talent
Author and career development expert Bev Kaye shares her best advice for inspiring, motivating, and keeping top performers.
How Stryker IT shifted to a global operating model
CIO Alan Douville and his team have made major changes that enable IT to support the $14 billion medical device company’s operations in over 100 countries.
4 tips to kickstart your agile practice
As we go from crisis to recovery in year two of COVID, it's time to reset your team's agile velocity. Here's how.
Ready for the hybrid workforce
Industry experts discuss how a hybrid workforce offers potential benefits for both workers and enterprises, but also comes with new security risks.rn
CNO Financial CIO: For real change, let your team define your IT culture
Mike Mead, CIO of CNO Financial, realized that before his organization could step up to deliver everything its changing business needed, he and his team would have to reinvent the culture.
Are CIOs sleeping on ‘low code’?
Growing trends suggest CIOs must adopt a new philosophy for executing a low-code culture in IT – and across the business.
Leading future-ready organizations
Agile development is key to effective transformation. Here's how to break through the barriers and achieve your Agile aspirations.