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Design thinking: The secret to digital success
Design thinking has become a key practice for enterprises crafting digital products with the end user in mind. CIO.com spoke to design thinking practitioners to understand why and how organizations are leveraging it.
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Pros and cons of low-code platforms
The sales pitch is enticing: Apps with a few clicks. But what are you really setting your organization up for when you buy into low-code development?
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A 10-point plan for addressing WFH cybersecurity challenges
Back in early Spring, ensuring users could access the necessary applications securely from home was priority No. 1. Now, 3-4 months later, work from home looks like it's here to stay … for a while, at least. Here's your to-do list for the next 6 months and beyond.
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8 tips for avoiding IT staff burnout during a pandemic
IT leaders get creative managing remote tech teams working from the confines of home offices. Here’s how they alleviate burnout that threatens to crater WFH life.
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PG&E reduces wildfire risk with AI
The California utility is using high-resolution aerial photography and computer vision to identify high fire threat areas.
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Emerging tech soothes pandemic-disrupted supply chains
Jaguar Land Rover and Colgate-Palmolive are among the many enterprises turning to machine learning software and other data-crunching tools to ensure supply can meet demand.
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The CIO’s cost-optimization playbook: 7 tips for tight times
IT leaders lend advice on optimizing IT for value when budgets get lean — without impairing growth projects.
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Lexmark proves the power of CIO-CTO collaboration
The efficacy of Lexmark’s digital strategy depends on collaboration between the company’s CIO and CTO. The secret to success? Communication, accountability, competence and empathy, says CIO Brad Clay.
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7 steps to prepare IT for a second-wave COVID-19 outbreak
Lessons learned to date promise to help IT weather a second round of COVID-19 lockdowns this winter. Following a few basic suggestions could spell the difference between a trouble-free transition to remote teams and a viral meltdown.
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The 7 most popular IT pilot projects today
The coronavirus pandemic has IT leaders shaking up IT priorities, with innovation pilots shifting to areas and technologies best suited to set up their organizations for near-term success.
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IHS Markit makes bold bet on public cloud during the pandemic
Despite uncertainty brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, IHS Markit stuck with its strategy to move compute resources to AWS. IHS CIO Chad Moss offers tips for IT leaders making similar migrations.
Boardroom Bound
Finding the ideal board readiness program (and why you need one)
When it comes to landing a board role, who you know matters just as much as what you know. Board readiness programs should help you with both.
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5 machine learning success stories: An inside look
IT leaders share how they are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to generate business insights.
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Inside Vodafone’s massive S/4HANA migration
One of the largest monolithic SAP installations in the world is now on S/4HANA, thanks to successful data prep and reskilling efforts.
The CIO Whisperers
How (and why) great CIOs lead through teaching
Accidental learning delivers accidental results. Here's how six CIOs avoid that trap by leading through teaching.
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Best bang for your IT budget
With budgets uncertain and project priorities pivoting in the wake of the pandemic, IT leaders are finding several key areas worth investing in.Opinion
It’s time for CIOs to get smart
Being smart isn't about what you know, but about how you process and apply new information. Welcome to the context-aware era.
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GSK takes targeted approach to data-driven transformation
The pharmaceutical titan has developed a data strategy to mine value from its existing data with a series of analytics initiatives carefully targeted at specific business priorities.
Building IT Relationships
6 steps to successful SaaS renewal negotiations
It's no secret that preparation is key to successful contract negotiations, but SaaS renewals come with their own set of challenges. What are you doing to prepare for negotiation success?
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IT leaders juggle staffing strategies, post-COVID
As project priorities (and IT budgets) shift, CIOs are rethinking how to acquire much needed skills in uncertain times.
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What stays and what goes: CIOs shuffle IT project priorities
Responding to rapidly shifting business needs, CIOs are reprioritizing IT projects to position their organizations for future growth.
News
Wipro to run its business on SAP in Google’s cloud
The Indian IT services giant is accelerating its move to S/4HANA as it prepares to migrate workloads to the cloud
The Digital CIO
3 factors for implementing contact tracing in the workplace
As businesses plan to return to the office, CIOs need to develop a contact tracing strategy for a safe working environment.
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6 common project management mistakes — and how to avoid them
Projects seldom go as planned, leaving project managers with any number of small fires to put out. Here are the most common issues projects encounter and how to get things back on track.
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4 tips for quick automation wins
COVID-19 has enterprises eyeing automation to streamline operations and solve business issues spurred by the pandemic. IT leaders share tips for achieving quick, sustainable success.
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National Response Portal enables hospital data sharing to combat coronavirus
Several large U.S. healthcare systems have teamed with Google and SADA to establish an open data platform to provide hospitals and government officials granular views of ICU and ventilator utilization at the local level.
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NLP poised to revolutionize the enterprise
From powering customer-facing chatbots, to keeping track of contractual commitments, to making the most of meetings, natural language processing holds great potential to transform your business.
Building IT Relationships
10 ways to get value from your system integrator's quality review
Though the SI's proposals focus on the benefits the client is intended to receive from these quality reviews, the SIs are actually realizing a large portion of the benefits. Here’s how to ensure you benefit as well.
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Lennox enlists BI to anticipate COVID-19 supply chain disruptions
With the pandemic significantly upending global supply chains, the HVAC manufacturer quickly rolled out a BI dashboard to predict, respond to and get ahead of potential problems.
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5 tips for remote IT onboarding
If you’re hiring during the pandemic, onboarding can be tricky. IT leaders share advice for developing a secure, seamless onboarding process for new IT hires at a distance.
Opinion
4 steps to a more resilient, multi-generational IT workforce
Intergenerational differences among tech workers can create collaboration challenges and a culture of blame when things go wrong — particularly in the heightened anxiety of today’s business environment. The CIO is in a unique position to change that.
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From CIO to CEO: 10 tips for taking your career to the top
CIOs turned presidents and CEOs discuss their rise to the top and offer insights for IT leaders considering similar leaps.Feature
7 attributes to look for in a deputy IT leader
The CIO has become pivotal — and demanding. But having a trusted No. 2 can help ease the pain. Here's how to find the best second-in-command.
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HSBC banks on startup for AI guardrails during coronavirus crisis
The bank is using software from startup CognitiveScale to monitor its AI algorithms for bias, data drift, and other business risks, says Gavin Munroe, HSBC's global CIO of retail and wealth banking.
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Preparing your organization for post-traumatic growth
Research shows that the vast majority of those who experience stress will also experience growth. Here's how to create space for both pain and gain in your organization.
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9 emerging job roles for the future of AI
Artificial intelligence is fast proving a business differentiator. Here are the key roles and skills you may soon need to fill for your AI A-team.
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Ellie Mae turns to AI for autonomous threat hunting
The mortgage processor is using threat intelligence, predictive analytics, and AI to proactively hunt advanced persistent threats like ransomware.
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20 reasons why software projects fail
From outsized expectations to fundamental feature changes, software development projects get derailed — or declared failures — thanks to a variety of project management and technical factors.
CDO at the Center
4 ways to run a leaner dev team
Covid-19 has brought many challenges for today's IT leaders, including continuing to drive new value without adding talent or increasing budget. Here's a new look at running lean.
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8 key IT lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis
IT’s heroic response to the pandemic has highlighted the technologies, strategies and culture necessary to drive success going forward.
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CIOs seek digital momentum coming out of crisis mode
CIOs who scrambled to support remote workforces during the COVID-19 pandemic are padding their digital operating models with practices and tools geared for digital transformation.
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MWAA brings facial recognition to the airline boarding process
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority is enabling paperless boarding via a biometric identity management system that uses facial recognition technology — no boarding pass or passport required.
Opinion
Agile IT procurement in a post-COVID world
During the pandemic, organizations adopted transformational sourcing and procurement practices to drive savings, speed, and agility. They may never go back.
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IT heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 was a challenge for all IT pros — but some have gone the extra mile. Here are just a few who have stepped up, volunteered their tech chops, and repurposed their platforms for those in need.
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June/July 2020: Building a better experience
IT leaders share their best advice for creating a frictionless customer experience.
Managing Innovation & Disruptive Technology
3 steps to developing a risk response advisory system
Much like DEFCON is used in the U.S. Armed Forces to react to changing threat levels, your enterprise needs its own PANDCON to deal with changing pandemic conditions. Here's how to get started.
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7 low-cost, high-impact IT initiatives you can launch today
Launching an impactful project doesn't have to break your budget. Here are seven performance-boosting initiatives to push your organization forward — even in lean times.
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Taking the helm in a pandemic: Incoming Intermountain CIO prioritizes partnerships
Ryan Smith is set to join Intermountain Healthcare as CIO during a coronavirus crisis that has accelerated virtual care initiatives. Here’s how he landed — and is approaching — the role remotely.
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Remote hiring wins have CIOs rethinking recruitment, post-pandemic
IT leaders at NetApp, CommScope and DocuSign have taken to recruiting talent virtually, which may become permanent practice even after concerns about the coronavirus pandemic subside.
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11 ways to accelerate your software project
Strategic decisions can help accelerate software projects to capitalize on business opportunities — but IT leaders must be mindful of the traps and tradeoffs.-
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