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Big data challenges impacting data-driven business goals
IT leaders need to understand the opportunities big data presents so they can overcome the various challenges and remain competitive in the growing data-centric economy.
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CIO Leadership Live with guest William Mayo, CIO at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Maryfran Johnson and her guest William Mayo, CIO at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, for a discussion about IT strategy and much more, on CIO Leadership Live.
Does anyone have a talent win? Anyone?!
By regularly asking for talent wins -- employee achievements, team accomplishments, etc. -- you’ll create an environment where successes become a dominant part of the culture.
IT Resume Makeover: Streamlining your executive resume
It’s every executive’s challenge: Condensing decades of experience and expertise onto a single resume page. Here’s how our resume expert helped streamline a CIO’s storied 25-year career.
How product development drives competitive advantage in the digital age
Great technology doesn’t always win. Good thinkers fail to execute. Whether software is your product, or you need to enrich and amplify products and services digitally in order to compete at speed and scale, a strong product...
In-house engineering culture drives digital transformation at Emirates NBD
Miguel Rio Tinto, group CIO of Emirates NBD, takes a two-pronged approach to digital transformation, focusing on evolving IT and driving innovation into everything they do.
Why Bezos is right and Buffett is wrong about business disruption
Recent statements by two industry titans, Warren Buffet and Jeff Bezos, offer opposing viewpoints on one of the most important topics in business today: how companies and industries get disrupted. Only one of them can be right. I’m...
What is an enterprise wide agile transformation and why CIOs should lead it
More CEOs are considering enterprise wide agile transformations, enabling a significant opportunity for CIOs to lead their organization’s process, culture and mindset changes.
Everything is improv!
Creativity, innovation and disruption rule business today. So, the idea of incorporating improvisation – or improv as it’s popularly known – as a potential engine for creativity into tech organizations makes sense.
12 reasons why digital transformations fail
Lack of CEO sponsorship, talent deficiency, resistance to change — if you’ve encountered any of the following issues, you may want to rethink your digital transformation before it grinds to a halt.
Measuring the value of the business analyst role
Once we see a business analyst in action, we can see the value. But how do you quantify soft skills of an enabler that helps others be more successful and deliver greater value? Let’s consider some metrics and ways to approach...
Do you know what your cloud use really costs?
As cloud services grow, there are more expenditures to track than ever. But understanding why you’re spending is as important as knowing what you’re spending in the cloud.
Process innovation
Where should CIOs be driving innovation? And how should they deliver on the promise of innovation?
Asurion reskills around cloud and DevOps for digital push
Asurion’s move to the cloud and DevOps consumption and development models necessitated a major reskilling effort by CIO Daniel Curling. Here’s how he did it.
Cross-functional teams: A new strategy for business success
With business-IT collaboration key to digital transformation, forward-thinking IT leaders are breaking down silos to develop blended startup-like teams focused on key business initiatives.
Running with data: Under Armour creates immersive, digital customer experience
Under Armour combines its physical and digital products to help its customers achieve their fitness goals.
Fear of premature escalation (FPE): Diagnose and treat this silent ERP program killer
Recognizing the early warning signs and taking appropriate action can reduce the overall impact of this affliction, which can be deadly for an ERP project.
Data governance is key to a data-driven business
Data governance isn't complicated, but its implementation requires expert advice, as well as local knowledge of the company and its peculiarities to develop a solution that brings real benefits.
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