IT Leadership
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Top 7 challenges IT leaders will face in 2022
Facilitating hybrid working environments and ensuring a skills match for future success top the list of tough, ongoing issues IT leaders must navigate this year.
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What is Kanban? Workflow management simplified
Kanban helps organizations focus on specific tasks until completion. This simple workflow management system is an effective method for fostering collaboration and productivity.
Developing IT Leaders
CIO as business partner: 4 prerequisites IT leaders must master
IT leaders wanting to be seen and treated as an equal business partner and be included in the organization’s strategic vision, objectives, values, and decisions must first exhibit these four key business and communication attributes.
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Top 12 ITSM tools
IT service management has evolved into a key function for keeping the enterprise humming. These platforms can help you track and hone service workflows.
Movers and Shakers
Digital product factories enable a new business model at Toyota Financial Services
Chief innovation and digital officer Vipin Gupta and his team turned transformation logic upside down to create a mobility-finance-as-a-service platform that TFS now offers as a white label service to other mobility companies.
Interview
Value first, then structure: Lessons from GSK’s data transformation
The pharmaceutical company’s chief digital and technology officer Shobie Ramakrishnan discusses how starting “with the broadest possible ambition and the smallest possible effort” led to creating value at scale.
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7 hot IT budget investments — and 4 going cold
IT leaders are looking to leverage technology to fuel innovation and business transformation in the new year, with budget bets built to suit.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Healthcare leaders: Don't let telehealth be a pitfall
Virtual healthcare has proven its value – now, it’s time to expand and improve upon that foundation.
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Enterprise architecture in the agile era: Less policing, more coaching
Who says EA is too rigid for transformation? Modern agile enterprise architects start small, deliver value quickly, and collaborate with product teams.
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10 IT resolutions for 2022
IT leaders share their visions on how they hope to transform their teams, their organizations, and themselves in the new year.
Opinion
11 lies CIOs will tell themselves in 2022
Self-deception thy role is chief information officer. Here’s what you’re likely to be fooling yourself about the year ahead.
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Altria’s investment in career development pays off
Giving employees a clear path forward in their careers is a key factor in retaining them. At Altria, IT careers are a top priority, with defined goals and a variety of opportunities.
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7 enterprise architecture mistakes to avoid
Disruptive times require resilient, forward-looking enterprise architecture. Don’t let a faulty framework ruin your organization’s ability to meet current and future objectives.
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CIOs spell out top tech priorities for 2022
AI and automation will take center stage, as cloud and collaboration continue to impact IT agendas — and IT leaders keep apprised of disprupive technologies on the horizon.
CIO Executive Council POV
5 essential guard rails for keeping ML models on track
As machine learning makes more use of deep neural networks, businesses are increasingly dependent on a technology that experts don’t fully understand. Guard rails are required to ensure safe and predictable operating environments.
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IT leaders’ top 15 takeaways from 2021
After another tumultuous year, CIOs list the big lessons they learned and how they shape what’s ahead.
The CIO Whisperers
Centene CIO Mark Brooks on building IT’s business relevance
The healthcare executive explains what it takes for IT leaders to get and keep their seat at the leadership table and how to cultivate a mission-driven technology team.
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ParkMobile’s cloud transformation paves way to new business
The parking service provider turned a business downturn at the beginning of the pandemic into an opportunity to accelerate an infrastructure shift to the cloud.
Interview
Avery Dennison CIO Nick Colisto on enabling business innovation
The manufacturing company’s VP and CIO, and 2021 inductee into CIO’s Hall of Fame, discusses creating a culture that “can ignite creativity and agility” in a video interview with CIO contributing editor Julia King.
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7 mistakes to avoid with low-code deployments
Enterprises are ramping up ‘citizen developer’ efforts to digitize and automate business processes but use of low-code and no-code tools comes with caveats.
Movers and Shakers
Advantage Solutions CIO: We want to leapfrog our legacy culture
CIO Deanna Steele shares how she and her team strike a balance between the operation of legacy systems and implementation of new solutions that drive business strategy at Advantage Solutions.
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Cross-functional teams: The new IT imperative
Blending IT and business professionals in agile teams with autonomy over outcomes is fast becoming a key factor for digital success.
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What is a digital twin? A real-time, virtual representation
Digital twins are real-time representations of objects, processes, and systems that can help organizations monitor operations, perform predictive maintenance, and improve processes.
Interview
Ron Moskowitz: Leading IT innovation takes vision, energy
The South Coast Air Quality Management District CIO, and 2021 inductee into CIO’s Hall of Fame, discusses fostering a culture of innovation with CIO contributing editor Julia King.
The CIO Whisperers
5 questions with Cardinal Health SVP & CIO Michelle Greene
No stranger to pressure and disruption, the healthcare CIO discusses the skills and habits that enable great leaders to shine in challenging times.
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CIOs gear up for the long-term hybrid enterprise
With Omicron rising, IT leaders are looking at lessons learned from stopgap COVID workplace measures to establish intentional hybrid workplace strategies tailored for long-term success.
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IT takes on a product mindset
The need to co-create with the business has many CIOs shifting away from IT projects in favor of a product-based approach that, like so much else in business, is a journey that takes time to nurture and succeed.
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7 digital disruption myths
Myths play an important role in history and culture, yet when it comes to digital disruption, believing in fables can be both destructive and career crippling.
Building IT Relationships
4 trends disrupting managed infrastructure services
As providers adapt their go-to-market strategies, customers must plan ahead.Feature
IT training pays off big for MetroStar
The midsize government IT contractor’s focus on training and upskilling is helping it retain employees and improve job satisfaction, earning it a spot on IDG’s Best Places to Work.
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10 hidden benefits of hybrid work
The hybrid workforce is here to stay. And while blending in-person and remote work has its challenges, done well it can unlock significant upside, as these IT leaders attest.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
No, you cannot get rid of your IT department
But you can and should tweak the IT organization to meet modern requirements for agility, innovation, and digital-first operations. Here’s how.
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8 tips for managing low-code citizen developers
With low-code and no-code tools rising in prominence, IT leaders who leave the ‘app gap’ to business users to fill must still do their part to ensure citizen app development is productive and secure.
Movers and Shakers
The Hanover CIO Will Lee: Our architecture must have optionality built in
The P&C insurance market is changing so quickly that Will Lee, CIO, is asking his team to focus both on near-term and long-term transformation. Critically important to the second horizon, says Lee, is an architecture that can allow the business to pivot.
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7 tips for winning over your CFO
A strong CIO-CFO relationship can propel growth and innovation. Here’s how to get on the right track.
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Lean Six Sigma: Process improvement with a purpose
Lean and Six Sigma are the perfect pair for improving customer value by reducing waste, boosting productivity, and reducing defects and variations in products and services.
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7 steps for better business-IT collaboration
Breaking down barriers and building partnerships between IT and the business takes time and effort. But the business outcomes are well worth it.
Interview
MITRE CIO John Wilson on embracing complexity
The pandemic and the new world of hybrid work has changed how Wilson approaches instrumenting the organization. Learn how he is overcoming hybrid's hurdles.
CIO Executive Council POV
3 steps for creating a data-to-value ecosystem
The key to managing a mountain of data and disruptive technologies may lie in establishing a center of competency.
Managing Innovation & Disruptive Technology
10 strategic tech trends for the infrastructure industry in 2022
The time has come for digital transformation in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Here are 10 technology trends that will shape the future of infrastructure.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Three concepts to embrace for effective digitally driven innovation
As digital transformation moves from buzzword to business priority, understanding three critical concepts – and the subtle differences among them – will help you make the right adjustments to strategies and mindsets.
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7 compliance mistakes to avoid
Regulations related to IT systems and data are on the rise. IT leaders must do their part in avoiding common missteps that can lead to hefty fines for non-compliance.
The CIO Whisperers
5 questions with Qualcomm CIO Mary Gendron
A transformational leader explains why IT needs to lead with a business-first mindset.
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7 tips for better business-IT alignment
In a rapidly changing world, IT and business leaders need to work together to steer their enterprise in the right direction.
Interview
How PVH IT speeds innovation
Global CIO Eileen Mahoney shares her approach to IT innovation and lessons for building momentum.
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The Library of Congress goes digital
CIO Judith Conklin discusses the ongoing cloud migration and digitization of the world’s largest library — a massive endeavor to make more of its 170 million assets available to all.
Podcast
Podcast: CIO Leadership Live with Jamie Holcombe, CIO at the US Patent and Trademark Office
Jamie Holcombe, CIO at the US Patent and Trademark Office, joins Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, which is jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They will discuss how patent and trademark tech is transforming, digital debt, agile development, DevSecOps and more.rn
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Winter 2021: Supercharging IT innovation
As organizations seek to accelerate their digital transformations, time to market, and development of new customer engagement channels, CIOs must find ways to sustain innovation. Read on for advice for upping innovation velocity and more.
Movers and Shakers
Air Products CIO overhauls IT to support business transformation
To enable the $9 billion industrial gas provider to deliver new “mega projects,” CIO Brian Galovich has put self-service at the center of the target architecture, moved infrastructure to the cloud, digitized key business processes, and updated the IT operating model.
Opinion
The secret art of technical architecture improvement
Building effective IT 101: Now that you know what you have in your technical architecture, and how good (or not-so-good) it is, you’re ready to plan for its improvement.
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