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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.
4 tips for launching a successful data strategy
Becoming a data-driven company isn't as simple as amassing loads of data. If it were, more companies would already be reaping the rewards. Here, four CIOs offer their experience and advice on getting started turning data into business value.
Customer loyalty is up for grabs; retention is now mission-critical
By focusing on the customer POV, CIOs can make digital transformation more visible and measurable within a business context.
How COVID contingency best practices can help save the planet
The shift to a hybrid workforce has had a positive impact not just on productivity and work/life balance, but on the environment and global climate change. Let's keep it that way.
Why steering committees fail to engage (and 5 ways to hold them accountable)
There are some common reasons why a transformation steering committee may fail to engage—from a lack of motivation to a bias toward inaction, Here's how transformation leaders can overcome those blockers.
How Nextdoor’s engineering team jumped into action to help small businesses during COVID-19
How Nextdoor and engineering head Mai Ling developed new services in record time by shifting project roadmaps, brainstorming new ideas, and making tough decisions about what to stop doing.
How Brunswick IT enables digital business
CIO Mike Adams shares how the company has designed its digital and data platforms to put the customer at the center of its products, services, and digital ecosystem, underpinned by enterprise architecture.
Rethinking data management for faster time to value
Enterprises should abandon traditional ETL approaches and strategies and adopt future state architectures that distribute the data transformation burden.16 traits of a world class chief innovation officer
Your innovation program, and the role of the CINO, is too important to leave to chance. Make sure whoever holds the top innovation job has these essential qualities.
IT execs join forces, pledging to promote diversity in technology
CIOs committed to creating more career opportunities in IT for underrepresented communities are asking 5,000 of their peers to join an organized effort to drive meaningful change.
The ‘why’ of digital transformation is the key to unlocking value
Too many leadership teams focus on the ‘how’ or ‘what’ of their digitalization projects – which makes the destination less clear and can lead to negative ROI.
Knowing where the line is in IT risk management
Not all risk is a raging fire. Technology projects should be weighed against your organization’s broader risk appetite.
Get good at delivering software
Survival in the digital age requires an emphasis on execution and speed, enabled by a DevOps approach across the business
10 steps to avoid digital transformation failure
Executive sponsors play a key role in the success (or failure) of digital transformations. Taking these essential actions will tip the scales in your favor.
For new board members, onboarding is a crash course in company culture
The process of orienting new corporate directors can involve everything from hours of executive meetings and tours of company facilities to special tutoring sessions on corporate governance. The pandemic altered the pace of onboarding with some surprising results.
Money for nothing: Making sense of data collaborations in healthcare
The monetization of healthcare data has been a long-pursued goal for tech firms and healthcare enterprises. Newly formed data collaboratives are taking a fresh approach.
How Skyworks embraced self-service IT
CIO Satya Jayadev and his team are democratizing technology and creating a self-service model to empower business users.
When emotions run high: Protecting your network infrastructure from reputational attacks
In today’s environment, where one angry tweet can go viral, CISOs play a critical role in protecting the brand.