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How a new tech-based Swedish payments authority will fight grant fraud
Every year, around $1.8 billion (SEK18 billion) is incorrectly paid out of welfare systems in Sweden. But with the use of automation and data analytics, payments will be centralized and monitored at a new IT-based authority.Feature
Authentic leadership: Building an organization that thrives
Authentic leaders place their emphasis on people, values, and ethics, creating a culture of authenticity, transparency, and honesty that ensures all employees are empowered and heard.Feature
6 hot IT leadership trends — and 6 going cold
The pandemic has greatly shifted what constitutes effective leadership in today’s IT, with process and politics giving way to an intentional focus on building strong, engaged, purpose-driven teams.Feature
Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships
Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership.CIO Survival Guide
A CIO’s guide to guiding business change
As CIOs re-think IT’s role in the enterprise, leading or facilitating business change is central to the conversation. Here’s one way IT can and should regain center stage.Feature
8 servant leadership do’s and don’ts
CIOs are increasingly embracing the servant leadership approach. The following tips will help you balance top-down direction and accountability with bottom-up empowerment.IDG TECHtalk Voices
Tips for CIOs in the digital age
Here are the 4 steps to altering your approach as a CIO for healthcare digital transformation.Interview
Building better IT leaders, one engagement at a time
CIOs-turned-executive coaches Jim Rinaldi and Jim DiMarzio share their hard-earned advice for aspiring CIOs looking to advance their careers and grow as leaders.Feature
7 tips for improving IT resilience in the digital era
In today’s IT world, resiliency means having the ability to deal with disruption without business interruption — all while delivering the experience users have come to expect from their tech.IDG TECHtalk Voices
The great divide: Separating operations and innovation
An organizational change that could make or break your digital transformationFeature
Wolverine hits pause for cloud success
The boot and shoe manufacturer’s COVID-delayed hybrid-cloud transformation has leapt forward of late, thanks to newly available tools and services — and a culture now primed to make the most of new tech.Feature
TOGAF certification guide: Options, training, cost, exam info
These certifications from The Open Group can help show employers you have the knowledge and skills to use the TOGAF framework for enterprise architecture management.Interview
Estée Lauder CIO Michael Smith on driving simplicity
The big-brand executive discusses designing for every audience, dabbling in the metaverse, and striving for simplicity.Feature
Unknown unknowns: CIOs prep for the next major business disruption
The pandemic has motivated IT leaders to rethink their approach to business continuity to ensure organizational resilience in the face of any future business existential event.Feature
What is a chief administrative officer? A strategic executive role for operations
Chief administrative officers play a vital role in keeping a company on budget, on task, and compliant. Here’s how this executive-level role helps companies operate efficiently.Feature
How Cairn Oil & Gas is using IT to overcome one business challenge after another
CIO Sandeep Gupta’s innovative use of technology has enabled the company to cut costs, reduce time to first oil, and manage decline in production.Interview
4 stories all CIOs should be able to tell
The stories that leaders need to tell fall into four broad categories: personal stories, customer success stories, employee-values-in-action stories, and perspective stories. Here's why they're effective tools for establishing personal connection.Feature
Digital twin helps NTT Indycar deliver better race experience to fans
Digital twin, AI, and predictive analytics help put fans behind the wheel of race cars in the NTT Indycar Series, including the iconic Indianapolis 500.Feature
Digital transformation never stops at IBM’s semiconductor plant in Québec
Exploiting extreme automation, secure operations, and a local talent pool, the computer giant’s largest semiconductor plant’s IT management evolves continuously as it develops new tech.CIO Survival Guide
The XaaS trap: ‘Everything as a service’ isn’t anything IT really needs
Everything as a service (XaaS) should be about extending SOA to how businesses organize. Instead, it’s just another chargeback pricing model — exactly what IT doesn’t need.Feature
What is RPA? A revolution in business process automation
More CIOS are turning to robotic process automation to eliminate tedious tasks, freeing corporate workers to focus on higher value work. But RPA requires proper design, planning and governance if it's to bolster the business, experts say.Feature
Misled by metrics: 7 KPI mistakes IT leaders make
Virtually every CIO uses metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to gauge the performance of their IT teams and strategies, but not always correctly. Here’s a look at what you’re doing wrong.Feature
JLL source-to-pay transformation proves value of automation
Born of the pandemic, the commercial real-estate company’s global source-to-pay automation system overcame localization and change management challenges to become a blueprint for a new strategic imperative.Feature
Kimberly-Clark’s business-first approach to digital transformation
Global CIO Manoj Kumbhat is overhauling IT to facilitate a business transformation aimed at bringing the personal-care corporation closer to its customers.The CIO Whisperers
3 CIOs-turned-board-members on raising your leadership profile
Julie Cullivan, Wayne Shurts and Carol Zierhoffer share leadership insights from the other side of the table.Feature
From CIO to consultant: IT leaders on making the shift
IT leaders seeking a new challenge can leverage their business and IT know-how to achieve sustained success in a consulting role. CIOs who have made the shift offer tips.Movers and Shakers
Q&A: Leading IT in a high-volume M&A environment
AssuredPartners acquired over 50 companies in 2021. For CIO Sankha Ghosh, the keys to success in this environment are a dedicated M&A team in IT, and the ability to tell their platform story.IDG TECHtalk Voices
How to enable cultural change through cloud adoption
Adopting hyperscale cloud can position your organization to react faster to the next “new normal.”Feature
7 IT governance mistakes — and how to avoid them
IT governance can be a minefield for the unwary. Don’t let these common errors damage your organization — and your career.Feature
IT leaders rethink the people part of business continuity
In an era of increasingly dispersed workforces, CIOs are grappling with how to help IT staff in peril — and keep the business moving forward when events disrupt employees’ ability to work.CIO Survival Guide
The Edison Ratio: What business and IT leaders get wrong about innovation
When it comes to innovation, great ideas matter. But in the end, understanding the need to act on fewer great ideas matters more.CIO Executive Council POV
USPTO’s agile course ignites change
At the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, CIO Jamie Holcombe is proving that an agile and innovative mindset, as well as individual accountability, can deliver new tricks for one of the country's oldest federal agencies.Feature
12 tips for achieving IT agility in the digital era
The pandemic has proved IT agility is an existential imperative. IT leaders versed with agile transformation share tips for speeding up IT’s ability to create business value and navigate change.Feature
The 10 biggest issues IT faces today
Economic, market, and worldwide turbulence continue to reshape the CIO agenda as priorities shift mid-year.Feature
Mattel innovation becomes toy maker’s e-commerce core
A startup-like initiative to enrich customer engagement with limited-release collectibles during the pandemic now fuels Mattel’s direct-to-consumer online business, opening new IP-based revenue sources for the company.The CIO Whisperers
JPMorgan Chase CIO Gill Haus on grooming digital leaders
The banking executive explains how thinking differently about growing talent keeps his organization future-ready.Feature
IT leader’s survival guide: 11 ways to thrive in the years ahead
Agility and resiliency have become organizational essentials in rapidly changing and challenging times. Here is how to establish an IT organization built for long-term success.Feature
What’s new in TOGAF 10?
The Open Group released TOGAF 10 and with it comes a more flexible, customizable framework that’s easier to implement in the enterprise.Feature
10 ways inflation will impact IT
As inflation rises across the globe, CIOs are strategizing ways to navigate rising prices for IT supplies, services, and talent by rethinking IT portfolios, reprioritizing IT spend, and honing business efficiencies.CIO Survival Guide
7 tools for mastering organizational listening
Organizational listening — knowing What’s Going On Out There — is leadership’s most poorly understood and undervalued responsibility. To fix this you need the right tools.Feature
CIO playbook: Collaborating with business leaders on their IT spend
With business units increasingly buying their own tech, IT leaders must shift into advisor mode, strengthen business-IT relationships, and commit to business value.IDG TECHtalk Voices
3 ways to avoid traffic on the road to product-based IT
Shifting to a product operating model is a major cultural and operational change – but it’s worth the effort.Feature
6 ways to reinvent your IT leadership career
Is your IT career ripe for a do-over? Then check out these ways to pull yourself out of a rut and get back on course.Feature
What is TOGAF? An enterprise architecture methodology for business
TOGAF is an enterprise architecture framework that helps define business goals and align them with architecture objectives around enterprise software development.Feature
AI in the cloud pays dividends for Liberty Mutual
The insurer’s mature cloud foundation has facilitated extensive use of emerging technologies, in particular machine learning models that help deliver premium service, CIO James McGlennon says.Opinion
Coding leaders forge a new path for IT career advancement
It used to be received wisdom that a programmer’s career had an expiration date, that the transition to management was the only way forward, and that the transition meant an end to coding. That truism is changing.The CIO Whisperers
Novant Health’s Angela Yochem on changing the cost center mindset
The healthcare executive explains why and how CIOs need to change the narrative around the business value of technologyFeature
Streamlining IT for agility
IT leaders share their experiences and advice for overhauling IT for speed, including cutting down on projects, shifting to product-based delivery, and spurring a cultural transformation.Feature
McDermott data innovations fuel business transformation
The oil rig contractor is shifting to stay ahead of sustainability trends. New products borne of IT innovations around the company’s data operations are helping it get there, CIO Vagesh Dave says.Feature
IT leaders take on pandemic tech debt
The past two years have seen CIOs accelerating digital initiatives as a matter of business survival. Now, those services are being reassessed for long-term value, as CIOs finally get serious about ensuring technical debt is no longer a drag.-
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