Innovation
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Rethinking IT governance for agility and innovation
To meet today’s need for constant innovation, IT leaders must take a different approach to IT governance centered around flexibility and agility — without sacrificing stability and security.
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Mastercard pushes payments to the edge
The financial services company has overhauled its global payments atop public cloud and edge computing systems in pursuit of revenue growth in an API-driven, platform-fueled world.
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IT leaders commit to diversity to gain competitive edge
Aware that diverse organizations drive better business outcomes, CIOs are reshaping IT cultures by seeking out and elevating more diversity in their IT teams.
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Discover transforms data pipeline for AI success
Seeking to streamline the processes required to fully leverage machine learning and real-time data insights, Discover Financial Services has created a cloud-native data fabric that automates much of the work.
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L’Oréal supercharges ecommerce with digital tech
L’Oréal’s online sales soared during the pandemic, thanks to the promotional power of augmented reality technology, live-streaming services, and cloud software.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
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.
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Analytics and AI helps Experian help its customers
The consumer credit reporting company is leveraging its data and data scientists to create new services for its customers.
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Estée Lauder proves the business value of augmented reality
The beauty company is well positioned for retail post-COVID thanks to an AR platform that lets consumers virtually ‘try on’ makeup and other products.
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What a successful AI team really looks like
Forget the tech giants’ rosters of data science PhDs. As AI moves into the enterprise, blended teams with business skills become more important for driving business value.
Managing Innovation & Disruptive Technology
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.
Movers and Shakers
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.
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8 secrets of successful AI projects
Artificial intelligence holds great business promise, but it takes more than a working model to create scalable, transformative change
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6 ways IT leaders are jumpstarting innovation post-COVID
CIOs are pushing for new approaches to innovation to meet the opportunities and challenges of a business landscape forever changed by the past year’s pandemic.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
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.
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6 'crackpot' technologies that might transform IT
Next-horizon technologies have piqued some IT leaders’ interest in terms of the business value they may ultimately drive. Others remain skeptical of the high-risk payoff.
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Innovation vs. operations: A critical balancing act IT must master
The sweet spot between business innovation and operational excellence is elusive, but IT’s pandemic response has provided new skills and strategies for solving an age-old IT conundrum.
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The quest for end-to-end intelligent automation
AI-powered process automation remains piecemeal, but new innovations are arising to fill the gaps, bringing the promise of fully intelligent automation that much closer.
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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained
Natural language processing is a branch of AI that enables computers to understand, process, and generate language just as people do — and its use in business is rapidly growing.
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IT confronts climate change
Data analytics and AI are taking center stage in efforts to combat the fallout of climate change and environmental disasters across the globe.
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Northwestern Mutual CIO takes incremental approach to IT innovation
The insurance and investment company is building an analytics platform and other solutions on an innovation continuum where learning from failure is a means to a better end.
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Spring 2021: State of the CIO
The 2021 State of the CIO research confirmed CIOs’ pivotal role this past year, but can they live up to the high bar they’ve established for themselves?
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How AI is revolutionizing training
Pressed by the need to fill skills gaps, organizations are turning to artificial intelligence to transform stagnant training approaches into continually evolving upskilling strategies.Managing Innovation & Disruptive Technology
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.
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AI makes edge and IoT smarter
Implementing artificial intelligence at the edge can not only reduce latency and networking costs but also improve security and unlock the power of distributed intelligence.
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10 tips for fostering a culture of continuous learning
To create and maintain an adaptable, dynamic organization that thrives in ever-changing conditions, IT leaders must encourage staff to continually acquire new skills and embrace new mindsets.
Opinion
6 AI myths holding your business back
For organizations looking to turn their AI investments into business value, understanding the technology's capabilities and limitations is key.
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Skills and traits of elite IT automation teams
From RPA to AI, automation has become a key IT priority. Here’s what to look for in building a versatile team suited to automating processes across your enterprise.
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AI governance: Reducing risk while reaping rewards
With AI moving from pilots to production, enterprises must establish cross-departmental oversight strategies focused on data quality, compliance, ethics, and more.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
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
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10 technologies that will disrupt business in 2021
From AI to serverless computing, these 10 disruptive technologies and trends are transforming the business landscape in the wake of the pandemic and beyond.
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Decision intelligence: The new BI
Business intelligence systems and strategies are being augmented with AI and machine learning to provide decision-making context and recommendations across the enterprise.
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7 ways COVID-19 has changed IT forever
Things will never be the same. Here’s a look at what IT will look like as the COVID-19 threat recedes.
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Organizational learning: Your key to AI success
Instituting formal processes to embrace the learnings of small-scale AI efforts and promulgate them throughout the enterprise is essential to business transformation.
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The future of work: Coming sooner than you think
What will your worklife be like years from now? Today's work-from-home world has given us a glimpse of the future, as these five articles from CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World illustrate.
Movers and Shakers
How technology creates an ecosystem of learning at Walden University
Walden CIO Karthik Venkatesh discusses how the university is leveraging SaaS, RPA, AI, and more to maximize student success.
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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2021
Facilitating the future of work and securing a hybrid working environment top the list of tough, pandemic-inflected issues IT leaders must navigate this year.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
AI and automation are linchpins for post-pandemic business success
In both the short term and the long term, and across back- and front-office applications, AI has the potential to add value to business workflows, augment employee capabilities, and harness the power of man and machine to improve customer experience.
Movers and Shakers
How Cargill IT is helping to solve the world's food problems
CIO Justin Kershaw describes what he looks for in his senior leaders and how the $114 billion agriculture company uses data from low-Earth orbit satellites and distributed ledger technology to bring transparency to the food supply chain.
Opinion
12 dark secrets of AI
With the drumbeat for AI across all industries only getting louder, IT leaders must come to grips with the dark secrets of working with artificial intelligence to glean business insights.
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7 reasons your AI strategy isn't working
Where did it all go wrong? Instead of achieving success, many new AI adopters are tripping into common pitfalls that derail the technology's benefits. Here's how to get back on track.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Balancing innovation and optimization
How online trading platform Robinhood dealt with hyper-growth, Kubernetes, and getting the goals right
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Top 5 strategic priorities for IT leaders in 2021
IT leaders from tech, insurance, and finance sectors share their strategic priorities for 2021. Self-service solutions, edge computing, analytics, and low-code development top CIOs’ roadmaps.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Is AI really the answer?
When considering where AI can make an immediate impact on IT operations, one application stands head and shoulders above others: hyperscale automation with intelligence.
Analysis
10 future trends and how CIOs can keep ahead in 2021
After a year disrupted by a global pandemic, the next normal is starting to take shape. Here's a look at what's ahead for IT organizations.
CDO at the Center
5 ways to take control of data in 2021
COVID-19 is transforming the way the economy works, guaranteeing that our data needs will also change and grow. Here's what that means for CIOs in the year ahead.
Movers and Shakers
How Comcast IT moved from order-taker to innovator
Rick Rioboli, EVP & CIO of Comcast, discusses the importance of moving toward a target architecture, his strategy for clean data, and how he assesses candidates for his IT leadership team.
The Business of Data
Tapping into dark data for efficiency, innovation, and income
Looking in the recesses of your data silos can pay dividends for CIOs seeking to improve business processes and drive innovation.
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CIOs take the lead in pursuit of operational efficiencies
Operational efficiency has taken on greater urgency since the pandemic began. CIOs are leaning into automation, digital tech, and the cloud to remove friction and create value.
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4 promising AR/VR pilots in business
Augmented reality and virtual reality implementations are emerging across several sectors, thanks to their value in providing remote training and hands-free access to information.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Savvy enterprises can mimic success of cognitive AI in healthcare
Cognitive technologies are being deployed to solve the world’s biggest challenges. AI-based bots are working side-by-side with humans to increase quality and efficiency. Here’s how enterprises can put cognitive AI to work in their organizations.
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