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IT’s new ROI: Return on innovation
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IT’s new ROI: Return on innovation

CIOs struggle to temper business expectations of 100 percent innovation success with the realities. Here’s how to foster a healthy innovation outlook.
By Stacy CollettNov, 13 2019
IT burnout: 7 ways to spot and help overwhelmed staff
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IT burnout: 7 ways to spot and help overwhelmed staff

When workloads go over the top, employee performance can sink. Identifying and supporting beleaguered staffers can help you boost productivity and stem turnover.
By John EdwardsNov, 12 2019
Sponsorship vs. mentorship: Which is best for your career?
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Sponsorship vs. mentorship: Which is best for your career?

While seemingly similar, mentorship and sponsorship offer distinct differences as workplace support and provide unique benefits for your career.
By Sharon FlorentineNov, 7 2019
How to avoid a knee-jerk hiring strategy
Talent is King

How to avoid a knee-jerk hiring strategy

If need is driving all of your recruiting decisions, you may be compromising.
By Sabatino GuerrieroNov, 4 2019
LinkedIn Talent Solutions: 10 tips for hiring your perfect match
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LinkedIn Talent Solutions: 10 tips for hiring your perfect match

Looking for the perfect candidate? LinkedIn Talent Solutions offers powerful tools and services for leveraging real-time data and machine learning to find your match.
By Sharon FlorentineNov, 4 2019
Ending white dominance in tech starts with white women
Inclusion, Inc.

Ending white dominance in tech starts with white women

When white women fail to see the access and privilege afforded them, the “women in tech” narrative will continue to be characterized by the white woman’s perspective, thus erasing the experience of black women and other women of color.
By Megan BigelowNov, 1 2019
What women want in the IT workplace: 6 key factors for hiring and retention
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What women want in the IT workplace: 6 key factors for hiring and retention

Women are exiting IT in droves, as companies struggle to hire and engage these valuable employees. The first step to change? Listening to what women want.
By Sharon FlorentineNov, 1 2019
Co-innovating with startups: 5 steps for success
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Co-innovating with startups: 5 steps for success

Startups can help your organization kick-start innovation. Here’s how CIOs can hone their approach to courting fledgling vendors of emerging technologies while reducing risk.
By Clint BoultonOct, 30 2019
6 important steps businesses can take to monitor and support mobile workers
Founder’s Corner

6 important steps businesses can take to monitor and support mobile workers

Keeping team members connected to tools, resources, and information in a virtual work environment is of course, essential for success, but without the tools and your virtual environment can easily fall apart or become too overwhelming to manage.
By Danielle SabrinaOct, 29 2019
I didn’t expect that
Revenue Accountability

I didn’t expect that

5 unexpected learnings from the past five years of IoT.
By Scott NelsonOct, 17 2019
How CIOs stoke the fires for the business engine of innovation
The Adaptive CIO

How CIOs stoke the fires for the business engine of innovation

CIOs tell me that they want to do more than align to the business agenda. They want a role in business innovation. But how do they achieve it?
By Myles SuerOct, 17 2019
6 tips for recruiting college IT talent
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6 tips for recruiting college IT talent

Don’t fear the FAANG: A targeted recruiting approach focused on establishing relationships and showing candidates their future can help any IT organization succeed on campus.
By Christina WoodOct, 15 2019
How to prepare tomorrow’s workforce? Focus less on devices and more on digital thinking
CIO Executive Council POV

How to prepare tomorrow’s workforce? Focus less on devices and more on digital thinking

Improving a person’s digital literacy can help them work, think and communicate more effectively in a world driven by technology innovation, notes the CIO at Clemson University. And it all starts by re-thinking traditional approaches to education.
By Russ KaurlotoOct, 8 2019
The reverse pitch: Enlisting startups to hone innovation
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The reverse pitch: Enlisting startups to hone innovation

Aflac, Bayer and Bosch are among a growing number of enterprises leveraging the ‘reverse pitch,’ in which companies pose business challenges they will pay winning startups to solve.
By Clint BoultonOct, 7 2019
Hiring STEM OPT employees: What businesses need to know
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Hiring STEM OPT employees: What businesses need to know

Everything you need to know about the DHS’s STEM Optional Practical Training program — and what is required to hire and employ STEM OPT student workers.
By Sharon FlorentineOct, 3 2019
How to attract and retain top female tech professionals
IT & Tech Hiring Insights

How to attract and retain top female tech professionals

How gender diversity within your workforce impacts your organization’s ability to innovate and drive revenue…and 4 strategies to not only attract but retain top female tech professionals.
By Stephanie Wernick BarkerOct, 2 2019
How TIAA invests in women in IT
Movers and Shakers

How TIAA invests in women in IT

With an innovative group mentoring program and local and global networking events, the financial service company's IT Women’s Council helps women grow into leadership positions.
By Martha HellerOct, 2 2019
Innovative CIOs strike back against digital disruption
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Innovative CIOs strike back against digital disruption

CIOs from every industry are looking to outmaneuver startups by taking a page from the disruptor’s playbook to deliver innovative digital products and services.
By Clint BoultonOct, 1 2019
A multi-channel approach to experimentation
The Tech Nest

A multi-channel approach to experimentation

Engage your business partners and customers where they are by creating a multi-channel approach to experimentation that positions your organization as a technology leader.
By Jose HernandezSep, 30 2019
Big business: You, too, can growth hack
Transforming Engineering

Big business: You, too, can growth hack

Big businesses have a lot of potential to unlock and can be scrappy to great effect if they push traditional approaches aside. The key is to always keep rethinking and continue reinventing.
By Sandeep ChoukseySep, 26 2019
IT’s latest survival skill: Embracing risk
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IT’s latest survival skill: Embracing risk

In today’s digital business world, IT has to stop playing it safe, as you can’t innovate without taking some risks. Still most IT professionals remain deeply risk-averse.
By Minda ZetlinSep, 25 2019
Is it even possible to overcome built-in AI/ML bias?
The Truth Will Out

Is it even possible to overcome built-in AI/ML bias?

As artificial intelligence and machine learning permeate every facet of our lives, machines are coming closer and closer to acquiring human-like language capabilities. Research has uncovered that, without intention, business and moral decisions are being made based on deeply ingrained biases that are obscured within AI/ML learning and language patterns.
By Robin AustinSep, 24 2019
How much cybersecurity funding is enough – is it a bottomless pit?
Straight Talk from a CIO’s Perspective

How much cybersecurity funding is enough – is it a bottomless pit?

No matter how much you spend on cybersecurity, there’s no guarantee you won’t have a significant incident. How do senior management and the board know what makes sense?
By Michael GabrielSep, 23 2019
As cognitive technologies take hold, preparing your workforce for change is key
CIO Executive Council POV

As cognitive technologies take hold, preparing your workforce for change is key

Enabling technologies like AI, machine learning and RPA will eliminate jobs and open doors to new opportunities. Here are one IT leader’s tips on what you can do today to prepare people for a new era of human-machine interaction.
By Gregory SimpsonSep, 23 2019
Make way for the new CIO: The chief innovation officer
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Make way for the new CIO: The chief innovation officer

The chief innovation officer role has increased in visibility, thanks to digital transformations, which often include the two flavors of CIO working in tandem.
By Esther SheinSep, 23 2019
Anatomy of a succession plan: How Rosendin Electric's CIO filled his own shoes
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Anatomy of a succession plan: How Rosendin Electric's CIO filled his own shoes

Sam Lamonica is retiring after working a decade as the electrical contractor’s CIO. This is the story of how he groomed his replacement.
By Clint BoultonSep, 19 2019
How Estée Lauder Companies developed a culture to attract and retain IT talent
Movers and Shakers

How Estée Lauder Companies developed a culture to attract and retain IT talent

Michael W. Smith, CIO of The Estée Lauder Companies, has initiated an impressive array of programs to attract and retain IT talent at the nearly $15 billion global prestige beauty company.
By Martha HellerSep, 18 2019
7 ways to foster greater IT creativity
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7 ways to foster greater IT creativity

Creativity is the spark that ignites innovation. Creating a team that's eager to apply IT knowledge in new and exciting ways can lead to long-term, enterprise-wide benefits.
By John EdwardsSep, 18 2019
Feeling handcuffed by your current IT vendor? Here’s how to increase your renegotiation leverage
Building IT Relationships

Feeling handcuffed by your current IT vendor? Here’s how to increase your renegotiation leverage

With the average size of renegotiated contracts ranging from $20-40 million and renegotiation frequency increasing, customer negotiating teams can no longer hand the perceived switching cost advantage over to the vendors.
By John BeldenSep, 16 2019
Raytheon’s cloud-based test bed takes risk out of innovation
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Raytheon’s cloud-based test bed takes risk out of innovation

Implementing new technology in the defense industry comes with a lot of considerations. Here’s how Raytheon development a virtual environment for experimentation without risk.
By Sarah K. WhiteSep, 16 2019
Redesigning business processes for digital success
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Redesigning business processes for digital success

CIOs find themselves in a unique position to re-imagine how their organizations operate in this digital age. Here’s how to develop a vision for business process reengineering and deliver.
By Mary PrattSep, 16 2019
5 key changes to the H-1B visa program
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5 key changes to the H-1B visa program

Changes to the H-1B visa program went into effect April 1, aiming to improve and streamline the application and selection process of foreign national talent.
By Sharon FlorentineSep, 13 2019
5 ways startups are innovating with data
The Business of Data

5 ways startups are innovating with data

Successful data-driven business models can be built from finding, aggregating and repackaging niche data from unexpected sources.
By Martin De SaullesSep, 12 2019
5G is critical to the competitiveness and future success of America’s small businesses
Founder’s Corner

5G is critical to the competitiveness and future success of America’s small businesses

5G represents an exciting range of new possibilities, but it's also important not to let the hype overwhelm the need for security, privacy and safety.
By Danielle SabrinaSep, 12 2019
Nationwide CIO’s ride-along sparks innovation and pays dividends
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Nationwide CIO’s ride-along sparks innovation and pays dividends

Spending time learning the business helped CIO Jim Fowler open eyes to a little-known Nationwide API platform and dive deeper into emerging technology such as virtual reality and AI.
By Clint BoultonSep, 12 2019
Playbook for stockpiling AI talent: Buy, borrow, build
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Playbook for stockpiling AI talent: Buy, borrow, build

Hiring, upskilling, and strategic partnerships are the cornerstones for assembling talent in data science and AI. CIOs would do well to employ all three approaches.
By Clint BoultonSep, 10 2019
Want to create a customer-centric culture? Meet your customers where they are
Movers and Shakers

Want to create a customer-centric culture? Meet your customers where they are

Digital evolution is challenging for a company as large as Qurate Retail Group. But CIO Karen Etzkorn is helping it succeed by creating a customer-centric culture and elevating digital experiences.
By Martha HellerSep, 4 2019
Can parenting affect your child's success in the workforce?
Level Playing Field

Can parenting affect your child's success in the workforce?

Parenting is difficult enough without taking the blame for your child’s poor choices. How can your decisions affect your child’s success?
By Sue WestonSep, 3 2019
Delivering results through the magic of experimentation
The Tech Nest

Delivering results through the magic of experimentation

Achieving the desired results for your innovation practice starts with identifying business-driven opportunities; exploring disruptive technology in ways that are fast, cheap, and delight your audience; and focusing momentum on the scope of work, the location of your innovation practice, and the process for engaging your business partners.
By Jose HernandezAug, 28 2019
Waste Management dumps legacy processes, drives digital change
Movers and Shakers

Waste Management dumps legacy processes, drives digital change

By applying three levers of digital transformation, Waste Management is infusing technology into the business model to drive growth.
By Martha HellerAug, 28 2019
7 secrets of high-performing IT teams
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7 secrets of high-performing IT teams

Getting staff to move beyond simply meeting basic goals is an art only select IT leaders possess. Here are seven performance-boosting techniques top IT pros rely on.
By John EdwardsAug, 28 2019
What is process improvement? A business methodology for efficiency and productivity
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What is process improvement? A business methodology for efficiency and productivity

A broken business process can cost your business time and money. But pinpointing exactly where a process breaks down — and where it can be improved — isn’t an exact science.
By Sarah K. WhiteAug, 27 2019
Transforming an insurance and financial services giant to meet customers’ digital expectations
Movers and Shakers

Transforming an insurance and financial services giant to meet customers’ digital expectations

Terrance Williams, President of Emerging Businesses and CMO, and Jim Fowler, Executive Vice President and CIO, on driving cultural change at Nationwide, one of the largest insurance and financial services organizations in the US.
By Martha HellerAug, 22 2019
5 ways to fast-track your next AI implementation
Managing Innovation & Disruptive Technology

5 ways to fast-track your next AI implementation

Some quick wins around this important enabling technology can further the business case for more investment in broader digital transformation and innovation initiatives.
By Nicholas D. EvansAug, 20 2019
How to make open-plan offices more productive
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How to make open-plan offices more productive

Open offices aim to spur collaboration and innovation but often have exactly the opposite effect. Here’s how to harness their lost promise of productivity.
By Sharon FlorentineAug, 20 2019
Summer 2019: Digital leaders level up
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Summer 2019: Digital leaders level up

While some companies flirt with digital transformation, experimenting with one-off projects, others make it a key pillar of their enterprise business strategies. Read on to see how some 2019 CIO 100 award-winning organizations are successfully scaling digital innovation.
By CIO staffAug, 15 2019
The 3 benefits tech professionals value most
IT & Tech Hiring Insights

The 3 benefits tech professionals value most

A competitive salary and expansive health insurance coverage are no longer enough to attract and retain the top tech professionals. How can your organization stand out? We recommend offering the supplemental sort of benefits that tech professionals value most to attract high-end applicants.
By Monika DowalAug, 14 2019
7 tips for leading remote IT teams successfully
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7 tips for leading remote IT teams successfully

Managing virtual work environments requires an assortment of real-world skills and tools. Here are the tactics that inspire creativity and productivity.
By John EdwardsAug, 13 2019
Digital transformation – don’t leave talent development crumbs on the table
Building IT Relationships

Digital transformation – don’t leave talent development crumbs on the table

When it comes to digital transformation, if you don’t recognize next generation talent development opportunities at the very beginning, the overall benefits derived from the program will be much less.
By Jeff LazartoAug, 6 2019
Are CIOs truly prepared for the next economic downturn?
The CIO In The Know

Are CIOs truly prepared for the next economic downturn?

Organizations found themselves in a precarious position during the last economic downturn. Here is a list of things to consider before the next one hits.
By Tim M. CrawfordAug, 2 2019
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