IT Leadership
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HP CISO seeks to transform cybersecurity
HP CISO Joanna Burkey sees a pivot to business partnership as vital for cybersecurity’s success. Inspiring women to join the sector is essential to this shift.
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Leading future-ready organizations
Agile development is key to effective transformation. Here's how to break through the barriers and achieve your Agile aspirations.
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IT leaders re-evaluate skillsets for the long haul
CIOs are meeting talent shortages and transforming tech agendas head on by assessing staff skills and developing roadmaps for obtaining the know-how necessary for long-term success.
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Slack on Slack: A product-based approach to automating operations
Slack’s business technology team is automating tasks for sales, marketing, and other teams as part of a cultural shift to product operations.
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7 IT hiring trends for 2021
COVID-19 sparked immediate change in the technology industry — and businesses have overhauled how they recruit, hire, and retain IT talent as a result.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
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.
CIO Executive Council POV
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.
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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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What is a PEST analysis? Preparing your business for external impacts
Conducting a PEST analysis can help your business determine the critical and most influential political, economic, social, and technological factors that will impact your business.
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CIO change agents: The art of the IT turnaround
CIOs from ecommerce, insurance, and automotive sectors discuss how they changed their IT cultures to pave the way for digital transformations.
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CEO directives: Top 10 initiatives for IT leaders
The CEO charter for CIOs this year: Lead digital transformation, capitalize on data analytics, and collaborate more with the business.
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DC Water hunts lost water with analytics
Predictive analytics and AI are helping the District of Columbia’s water authority discover water main and sewer pipe breaks proactively.
Building IT Relationships
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.
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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?
IDG TECHtalk Voices
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.Feature
7 business skills every IT leader needs to succeed
Today’s CIO needs more than technology mastery. Long-term career success also demands a commitment to developing a set of core business skills.
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Johnson Controls and Microsoft birth ‘digital twin’ for building management
Johnson Controls built its digital twin platform in Microsoft Azure to simulate building management operations.
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NJ Transit leverages data for bus and rail transformation
NJ Transit CTO Faisal Jameel has launched a data-driven overhaul to transform how the third-largest public transit agency in the US serves its passengers.
Opinion
6 reasons to invest in enterprise architecture tools
EA software can bring order to the innerworkings of your enterprise’s sprawling technical operations. Here is the upside of mapping and cataloging — and some cautions about where the real magic resides.
Movers and Shakers
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.
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CIOs battle product management pitfalls
Product management is increasingly the preferred method of delivering digital capabilities. Yet the transition from a project-based mindset is rife with challenges, say IT leaders and experts.Feature
CIOs cash in on COVID heroics
IT leaders’ pandemic response has increased their visibility and importance, making them more marketable in landing new gigs, promotions, and greater stakes.
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Top 20 project management methodologies
Choosing the right project management methodology is essential. Here are the 20 most popular project management methodologies (PMMs) in practice today.Feature
7 management books every CIO must read
Keeping pace with evolving management concepts and practices is as important as monitoring the latest IT trends. These seven books will ensure that your business management skills keep pace with your IT knowledge.
Movers and Shakers
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.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
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.
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7 IT leadership lessons learned from COVID-19
IT leaders from HP, McAfee, Johnson Controls, and other enterprises reflect on what they learned after leading teams through a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
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.
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How to build (and sustain) high-performing IT teams
With shorter chains of command and by ‘not shooting for perfection,’ CIOs are emerging from the chaos of 2020 with higher-performing technology teams.
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M&T Bank branches out to bridge skills gap
With apprenticeships, boot camps, college courses, and internships, CIO Mike Wisler is ramping up in-house developer staffing as part of a strategy for which diversity is key.
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Women IT leaders reset the CIO-CISO relationship
AvidXchange CIO Angelic Gibson and CISO Christina Quaine are bridging the gap between IT and security by drawing on their experiences as women rising the ranks in IT.
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Top IT spending priorities for 2021
IT budget priorities reflect the pandemic’s ongoing effects, with IT leaders earmarking more for improving remote work, expanding digital initiatives, and enhancing customer experience.
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CBRE’s digital strategy aims to ease return-to-office challenges
The commercial real estate firm sits at the nexus of the global return-to-the-office movement. Here’s how CBRE’s tech chief is leveraging tech to ease the transition for clients and employees.
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CIOs double down on D&I to build stronger businesses
IT leaders are facilitating multi-pronged efforts to hire employees from underrepresented groups, though cultivating belonging remains a difficult — and often unfulfilled — task.
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Data governance: A best practices framework for managing data assets
Data governance defines roles, responsibilities, and processes for ensuring accountability for and ownership of data assets across the 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.
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10 common ERP mistakes to avoid
From underbudgeting to not letting the business drive the project, IT leaders must beware the following pitfalls when implementing or updating an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system — or migrating one to the cloud.
Opinion
4 ways to turn COVID quick fixes into permanent business value
Organizational changes undertaken to survive the pandemic hold promise for ensuring businesses thrive in the years to come — if those shifts are made permanent fixtures of CIO strategies.
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How Intel IT helped create $1.6B in business value during the pandemic
Intel boosted business value while preserving chip foundry operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s how CIO Archie Deskus executed her transformation.
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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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CIO resumes: 9 best practices and 8 strong examples
If you’re stuck on how to write your resume for a CIO position, here are nine best practices from industry professionals — and real-world examples of winning CIO resumes.
Building IT Relationships
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.
News Analysis
What CIOs can expect from IBM’s managed infrastructure spinoff
Later this year, IBM will spin out its managed infrastructure services operations, pitching for new business in fields such as cloud reversibility and data management.
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7 challenges women face in getting ahead in IT
Climbing the career ladder in IT is no easy feat. But for women technologists, the path to the top is that much more difficult, thanks to bias, different standards, and workplace cultures that marginalize them.
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Mitigating the hidden risks of digital transformation
New, cross-discipline risk management techniques are necessary to securely reap the benefits of transformative technologies.
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Women in tech statistics: The hard truths of an uphill battle
Despite national conversations about gender diversity in tech, women are still underrepresented, underpaid and often discriminated against in the tech industry, numbers show.
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Why IT projects still fail
Despite strategic alignment among IT and business leaders, technical and transformational initiatives still fall flat at an alarming rate. Here’s how IT can learn from its mistakes.
Movers and Shakers
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.
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What is a solutions architect? A vital role for IT-business alignment
Solutions architects are a vital role in any organization that wants to align its business goals and needs with IT services, products, software, and infrastructure.
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New IBM sales strategy catches CIOs’ attention
IBM is streamlining its operations and simplifying its sales approach to align with a honed focus on hybrid cloud. Will CIOs buy from the revamped business?
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