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CIO Think Tank: 5G in the enterprise
How will IT harness the power and promise of 5G? In this roadmap report, dozens of IT leaders share use cases, challenges, and insights.
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What is information architecture? Structuring content for maximum value
Information architecture ensures content and data is structured, organized, and categorized in an effective and usable way, thereby maximizing the value of your websites and applications.
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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.
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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.
The Business of Data
6 ways to harness the value of open data
A treasure trove of free information assets is dispersed across public and private institutions. Here's how can you use that data to drive business success.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
5 ways the CDO can strengthen analytics strategies
Get more value out of your data by avoiding common pitfalls.
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.
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.
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SAFe certification: Launch your Scaled Agile Framework career
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) helps large organizations leverage the benefits of agile, making those who have SAFe certification in demand. Here’s how to kick off your SAFe career in the right direction.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
The year of ransomware: Don’t be the next victim
Reducing your susceptibility to an attack will make you a less attractive target to financially motivated cyber-criminals.
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CSM certification: What you need to know
The Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification sets the standard for establishing Scrum theory, developing practical applications and rules, and leading teams and stakeholders through the development process.
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.
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Top 10 AIOps platforms
Infrastructure monitoring tools injected with artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms can anticipate and analyze events and alerts, keeping your enterprise stack humming.
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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.
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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.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
How automation helps to reduce time to market for IoT projects
An automation mindset can keep projects on track with a secure, seamless, and scalable model
CDO at the Center
Building an internal dataops team: 7 considerations for success
Advanced data analytics is transforming the way companies make decisions and respond to market changes. Here's what that means for CIOs looking to build internal dataops teams.
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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.
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CAPM certification: Cost, salary, training, and more
The Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM) certification is a great starting point for accelerate your project management career. Cost, salary expectations, training — here’s what you need to know.
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What is iPaaS? Integrating data flows to create new services
An integration platform as a service (iPaaS) is a cloud-based tool for linking existing applications and data flows into new services. Here are the key use cases, examples, and vendors.
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6 best practices for good data governance
Data governance is becoming a key strategic initiative. Here’s how to ensure critical data assets are reliable, secure, and available for your business.
Opinion
The hard truth about IT process success
Building effective IT 101: Want to design and implement effective IT processes? You must establish these four fundamentals before you can even begin.
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Discount Tire transforms CX on road to expansion
Letting customers choose whether to buy their tires on site, online, or on the phone means consolidating multiple databases.
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What is a project manager? The lead role for project success
Project managers play the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closing projects. Here is a look at the project manager role, responsibilities, relevant certifications, expected salaries, and job-seeking tips.
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Discover transforms data pipeline for AI success
Seeking to streamline the processes required to fully leverage machine learning and real-time data insights, Discover Financial Services has created a cloud-native data fabric that automates much of the work.
Building IT Relationships
4 tactics for getting SIs to bid on your project
Systems integrators will be in high demand this year as digital transformation projects heat up. Here's how to make your project stand out in a seller's market.
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What is project portfolio management? Aligning projects to business goals
PPM is a process in which an organization’s projects are evaluated to ensure strategic alignment with company goals. To achieve companywide objectives, project managers and executives must understand PPM's benefits, best practices, and software.
Movers and Shakers
Casey's General Stores IT delivers business outcomes in product management shift
CIO Adrian Butler has adopted a product management model to enhance the guest and team member experience at Casey’s 2,300 stores.
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Redefining IT risk in post-pandemic world
With technology ever more critical to enterprise success and survival, IT leaders are taking a larger, more strategic role in assessing business challenges and opportunities.
CIO Executive Council POV
How CareSource ditched its data silos
Taking a 'data fabric' approach in its shift from data silos to real-time access, the non-profit managed healthcare plan provider futureproofed its data platform, providing increased agility, interoperability, and accessibility for its members, network of doctors, and healthcare providers.
Movers and Shakers
Digital acceleration at Stanley Black & Decker places data at the center
CIO Rhonda Gass explains how a cloud data platform, technology business management framework, and agile architecture are keys to the $14B global company’s digital transformation.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Big Tech could be the answer to broadband affordability
The struggle of disconnected Americans during the pandemic underscored the need, once and for all, to close the digital divide. Tech companies should help fund the solution.Feature
What is master data management? Ensuring a single source of truth
MDM is a set of disciplines, processes, and technologies for managing data about entities, such as products and customers, around which business is conducted.
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CIO Think Tank: Reinventing IT
As companies accelerate out of pandemic disruption, how can IT meet increasing demands — and reap unprecedented benefits? In a series of virtual roundtables, dozens of IT leaders offered key insights about the road ahead.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
The rise of the cloud data platform
As impressive as the enterprise’s progress toward a data-driven economy was last year, the big bang we’ve been expecting from big data is still ahead.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Return to the office: Organizational resiliency and the new normal
The WFH pivot was remarkable, but workplace re-entry creates a new set of challenges for business leaders.
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VMware tackles ESG with innovation
VMware has created an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) function within the Office of the CTO that is working closely with the company’s CIO to mitigate risk and drive innovation.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
How data historians have evolved to make industrial data actionable
Democratizing data can level the playing field and empower your workforce to make better, data-driven decisions.
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6 'crackpot' technologies that might transform IT
Next-horizon technologies have piqued some IT leaders’ interest in terms of the business value they may ultimately drive. Others remain skeptical of the high-risk payoff.
CDO at the Center
4 tips to kickstart your agile practice
As we go from crisis to recovery in year two of COVID, it's time to reset your team's agile velocity. Here's how.
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7 IT governance myths
Are flawed beliefs damaging your IT organization’s governance framework? Here’s a rundown of common fallacies that should be immediately rooted out.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Ready for the hybrid workforce
Industry experts discuss how a hybrid workforce offers potential benefits for both workers and enterprises, but also comes with new security risks.rn
Opinion
The dirty secret of data analytics: Culture of honest inquiry required
For far too many organizations, analysis has been corrupted by a culture of tweaking parameters to support desired outcomes. Here’s how to establish an honest path to data-driven decisions.
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Healthcare CIOs fear (and fend off) ransomware threats amid pandemic
Hospital IT leaders are fending off more hackers looking to capitalize on the COVID-19 crisis for financial gain.
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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.
Movers and Shakers
4 tips for launching a successful data strategy
Becoming a data-driven company isn't as simple as amassing loads of data. If it were, more companies would already be reaping the rewards. Here, four CIOs offer their experience and advice on getting started turning data into business value.
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Project management methodologies: How to choose the best for success
Selecting the best project management methodology (PMM) for the job relies on developing a sound evaluation process. Our guide to evaluating PMMs will ensure you pick the perfect fit for your next project.
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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.
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.
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