IT Leadership
Feature
What is a CTO? The exec who sets tech strategy
The CTO has emerged as a key player in the C-suite, as digital transformations become high strategic priorities for so many organizations.
Feature
What is design thinking? An agile method for innovation
Design thinking eschews traditional development processes in favor of an agile, flexible method for developing products and services with a unique focus on the customer.
Inclusion, Inc.
Back to business, but not back to normal
The pandemic exposed the myth that the "normal" workplace worked. IT leaders have an opportunity to do better for diverse employees as they chart their paths to the future of work.
Opinion
The 3 IT processes CIOs need most
Building effective IT 101: Processes matter, but some matter more than others. Here’s where to put your skin in the game as an IT leader.
Feature
Carhartt ups its sales prospects with AI
The apparel company has developed an AI-driven tool that helps its go-to-market divisions take a coordinated data-driven approach to expanding their footprint in the marketplace.
Feature
8 tips for improving customer experience
CX is the new IT imperative. Here’s how IT leaders can staff up, get agile, and spearhead tech initiatives that deliver experiences that win over customers.
Feature
IT navigates the ‘Great Resignation’
With the pandemic causing many to reevaluate lives and career, IT organizations must embrace creative work models and source from new venues to stem an escalating talent crunch.
Feature
Fall 2021: Digital’s tipping point
Learn how IT leaders in award-winning organizations are reimagining products and services for a new era of customer and employee engagement.
Feature
Digital twins: 4 success stories
These four companies are using digital twins to monitor operations, plan predictive maintenance, improve customer service, and optimize their supply chains.
Feature
7 ways to rebuild a failed IT organization
Your CIO predecessor had some unique ideas about IT leadership — most of them terrible. Now it’s your job to clean up the mess. Here’s what how to get IT back on track.
Feature
Customer experience: The new IT imperative
CX has become a key factor for company success, and CIOs are rethinking operations and organizational culture to ensure customers remain squarely in focus with everything IT does.
Feature
Brown-Forman ‘digital shelf’ provides top-flight e-commerce
Amid pandemic shutdowns, the Jack Daniels purveyor doubled down on digital asset management to sell its spirits online, earning CIO Tim Nall a seat at the executive table.
Feature
What is SCOR? A model for improving supply chain management
The supply chain operations reference (SCOR) model helps businesses evaluate and perfect supply chain management for reliability, consistency, and efficiency.
Feature
Top 18 enterprise architecture tools for 2021
These popular and emerging EA tools offer businesses everything they need to support enterprise architecture and digital transformation.
Feature
Pfizer drives digital operations overhaul
With the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst, the pharmaceutical company has accelerated its digital transformation to manage its operations and supply chain more effectively.
Developing IT Leaders
IT technical fellowship: A new path to the top
IT pros at the top of their careers as individual contributors are often faced with few career choices: Go into management or stay where they are. Establishing an IT Technical Fellow career track can change that, providing a new way to recognize and retain top talent.
Feature
Real IT leadership: Selling the transformative dream
It's one thing to cook up a great new initiative, but making it happen requires powers of persuasion, solid partnerships, and access to genuine technical insight.
Feature
7 skills of successful digital leaders
Effective digital transformation requires strong leadership. Here’s how to helm your company’s digital journey through considerable organizational change.
Feature
UPS delivers resilience, flexibility with predictive analytics
The logistics titan has created a business intelligence platform that uses advanced analytics and machine learning to support forecasting, operations visibility, optimization, and reporting.
Feature
4 digital customer experience success stories
Walmart, Ally Financial, and Raytheon are among the wide range of companies that have moved rapidly to build out new digital services to accommodate customer preferences.
Movers and Shakers
CVS Health puts customers at the center in product management shift
CIO Roshan Navagamuwa explains how a software engineering culture and four-layer architecture are helping $268B CVS Health become the world’s leading health solutions company.
Feature
Leveling up your IT talent strategy
The promise of technology advancements and digital transformation has helped CEOs finally recognize what the best CIOs have known all along: IT is the business. Is your talent strategy keeping pace?
Feature
Five big ideas for reinventing IT
Whatever your challenges, reinvention requires big thinking.
Feature
Papa John's serves up AI for more efficient ordering
The quick-service chain rolls out AI-assisted call center software to help humans focus more on making and delivering its pizzas.
Feature
6 tips for ensuring IT manager success
Are your department managers reaching their full potential? Here’s how to gain relevant insights into their performance — and to ensure necessary adjustments are made.
Feature
CIOs embrace business-led IT amid tech democratization
Shadow IT no more: CIOs are increasingly welcoming technologies built or bought by business lines, while providing governance and vendor management support.
CIO Executive Council POV
4 reasons to prioritize developers' infrastructure needs
In the rush to deliver new digital solutions, companies often ignore the needs and requirements of development infrastructures and cut corners in devops processes, resulting in missed problems and costly fixes down the road.Managing Innovation & Disruptive Technology
How (and why) to create an emerging technology heat map
Use this rapid assessment tool to uncover the emerging technologies and trends that are of strategic importance to the business.
Developing IT Leaders
Looking to advance your IT career? Join the club
Active participation in IT industry associations is key to accelerating leadership growth. Here's how to reap the benefits now and throughout your career.
Movers and Shakers
Keysight Technologies CIO: Tech companies need to modernize IT too
The architecture is composable and processes are agile at the electronics manufacturer, but for Dan Krantz and team, a ‘growth mindset’ is just as important.
Opinion
11 dark secrets of application modernization
Dragging legacy apps into the modern era is a key pillar of digital strategies today. It’s also harder, more costly, and less rewarding than you might think.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
The new age of business ‘creators’
How citizen developers will help IT leaders usher in a new era of innovation, speed, and collaboration in application development
IDG TECHtalk Voices
3 common reasons for migrating to SAP S/4HANA – and why only one of them is right
S/4HANA is not just a technical upgrade; it’s a business transformation. Let that guide your approach.
Feature
TTX tackles turnover in moving ERP to the cloud
The railcar pooling company learned the importance of knowledge management when it replaced an on-premises SAP system with Oracle in the cloud.
Feature
Honeywell tech chief drives the digital agenda
Honeywell CDTO Sheila Jordan is taking a ‘holistic and horizontal’ approach to digital transformation, eschewing business-led IT in favor of guardrails and governance as she shifts to an insourcing model.
Feature
20 tips for supporting team mental health
The mental health of each team member is vital to your organization’s performance. Leaders at every level must intentionally and continually commit to finding ways to improve the mental health of their teams.
Feature
Lexmark retools, reskills for data transformation
To eliminate data silos and achieve more business value from the terabytes generated every week, Lexmark established a single, end-to-end source of data truth. Here’s what it took to get there.
Feature
IT asset management (ITAM): Best practices and certs for optimizing IT assets
ITAM is a centralized approach to managing IT systems and assets. A strong ITAM strategy will help you oversee and optimize the wide range of technology at the heart of your business.
Feature
7 toxic team behaviors IT leaders must root out
When an IT team member begins behaving poorly, performance and productivity will likely suffer. Here’s how to detect and eradicate destructive attitudes before they take root.
Feature
PVH finds perfect fit in hybrid IT operating model amid pandemic
The operator of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger brands jumpstarted ecommerce sales by prioritizing ship-from-store capabilities and mobile website conversion.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Are SMBs invited to the digital transformation party?
There’s value for smaller businesses in stepping up digital transformation investments. Doing so is critical to survival.
Feature
6 digital transformation tips from AT&T’s tech chief
The telecom’s CTO, Jeremy Legg, lends advice to IT leaders executing digital transformation at scale. The skinny? Business and IT alignment are critical.
Feature
How to make the most of an executive coach
Coaching can yield far-reaching benefits for your IT leadership career. IT execs share tips on how to make the most of an experience that will reshape how you work and lead.
Feature
7 new rules of project management
COVID-19 has greatly affected the future of work and how teams collaborate to get projects done, resulting in significant changes in the skills and strategies necessary to succeed as a project manager.
Movers and Shakers
Unilever CIO: Digital literacy is the most important new capability to develop
Unilever North America CIO Alessandro Ventura has created a digital literacy curriculum to drive tech innovation.
Feature
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.
Feature
6 IT management traps to avoid
When the work gets stressful, it’s easy to fall prey to quick management fixes that can harden into habits that do more harm than good.
Feature
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.
Accent Notes
5 tips for creating an IT culture where women thrive
Advice for women in tech from women in tech.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Change by design: The new role of digital and software in organizational transformation
It’s time to reimagine the role of digital transformation in the future of work, create new value for digital-first customers, reskill employees for the new world, and explore innovative technologies to build tomorrow’s business, today.-
Palo Alto Networks
-
-
Palo Alto Networks
-
-
Palo Alto Networks
BrandPosts
Learn More
×
BrandPosts are written and edited by members of our sponsor community. BrandPosts create an opportunity for an individual sponsor to provide insight and commentary from their point-of-view directly to our audience. The editorial team does not participate in the writing or editing of BrandPosts.
-
Sponsored By Stack Overflow
-
Sponsored By Sponsored by Visa Cybersource
-
Sponsored By CIO Events
