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Finding the right balance in multi-cloud data management
IT leaders today have a lot more to consider in building a cloud-based and data-driven infrastructure than juggling resources and maintaining costs.Movers and Shakers
Land O'Lakes IT whips up business outcomes
To encourage cross-functional product teams to focus on business outcomes, CIO Marc Carlson replaces spot bonuses with a long-term incentive plan.Feature
The CIO’s coronavirus playbook: 7 tips for surviving the crisis
Don’t let the coronavirus crisis cripple your company. Follow this CIO survival guide to the pandemic.Building IT Relationships
5 tips for navigating supplier relationships in an economic downturn
Don't let cost-cutting derail your digital transformation; take these steps to strengthen supplier relationships.IDG TECHtalk Voices
When it comes to cybersecurity, we need to adapt for now and the future
As we adapt to a future of remote workers, this is a critical time to ensure you have an incident response plan in place, and can adapt for an indefinite change in operational processes – including who is managing this response.Boardroom Bound
Briefing the board on security: Put data in the driver’s seat
Skip the scare tactics and cultivate “tech champions” among your board directors via data-driven stories and cybersecurity scorecards.Feature
Business continuity: Coronavirus crisis puts CIOs' plans to the test
As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads, CIO have the perfect opportunity to brush up on business continuity planning as they strategize their response.Feature
Spring 2020: State of the CIO
CIOs’ expanding management and revenue-generation responsibilities are cementing their roles as business leaders. Traditional technologists need not apply.IDG TECHtalk Voices
COVID-19’s impact on the enterprise and remote work
With the COVID-19 virus forcing people to stay at home, many enterprises suddenly have to support an entirely remote workforce. IDG influencers shared advice about how IT leaders can handle this new dynamic and the technology required during a recent #IDGTECHtalk Twitter chat.IDG TECHtalk Voices
5 ways to tick off a CISO
As a venture capitalist that invests solely in seed stage cybersecurity entrepreneurs, I often ask myself what keeps CISOs up at night to inform which gaps the next round of enterprise security products needs to address.Navigating the Digital Universe
7 key findings from Cisco's CISO benchmark study
Understanding the state of security in 2020.Feature
CIOs take different paths to cultivating culture
CIOs have a tough call to make when joining an organization: Change the culture or build on the work of their predecessors? Here IT leaders and consultants share their experiences.News Analysis
ServiceNow: Not just for managing IT services anymore
ServiceNow is making a play to push beyond ITSM, thanks to new AI tools in the Orlando release of its Now platform and other recent AI-related moves.Feature
Stakeholder management: Your plan for influencing project outcomes
Stakeholder management can be more complex than project managers think. Here’s how to mentor, influence, and communicate with everyone impacted by your project.Feature
IoT success stories: Reaping value from sensor data
The internet of things (IoT) is helping organizations collect more data than ever. What they do with that information is critical as IT leaders share how IoT is transforming several industries.IDG TECHtalk Voices
Fear, loathing and profits – the battle over data access and data privacy in healthcare
The proponents of data access declare it to be a fundamental right for consumers. Those who stand to profit – or lose – from open access to patient data have different points of view.Navigating the Digital Universe
3 things you should know about cloud security in 2020
The cloud computing market is poised to be worth $623 billion by 2025. Still, despite all the excitement about its benefits, there are downsides.Feature
8 lies project managers tell themselves
From overvaluing milestones to assuming everyone has a unified vision of project success, don’t let these common PM self-deceptions sink your project.Feature
Posture management: Cloud security tools rise in wake of breaches
Capital One’s breach highlighted the pressing need for IT leaders to shore up misconfiguration errors. That’s where cloud security posture management and other tools come into play, experts say.IDG TECHtalk Voices
Organizing around the value stream
When working on multiple projects at once, it is hard to make good progress. If we organize around the value stream, then we can help the work to flow through our system.Feature
5 data analytics success stories: An inside look
Many CIOs are doubling down on their data analytics strategies to achieve business goals.Feature
Security vs. innovation: IT's trickiest balancing act
An innovative initiative is only as successful as it is secure. Here’s how CIOs are balancing risk-taking with risk aversion.IDG TECHtalk Voices
Enterprise security in 2020: How to keep attackers out
When every employee is part of the security equation, having a security culture that includes education, collaboration between IT operations and security teams, and security tools is essential. That was the consensus among participants in a recent IDG TECH(talk) discussion.Building IT Relationships
4 lessons from the Hertz vs. Accenture IT disaster
A tremendous amount of information and specific insight can be gleaned by analyzing projects gone wrong. Here are four lessons IT leaders can apply to any outsourcing agreement.Opinion
8 dark secrets of organizational change management
In the digital era, organizational change management is crucial to business success — far too crucial to be dogged by its misconceptions and false assumptions.IDG TECHtalk Voices
The next casualty of cyberwar could be your business
We seem to live perpetually in a state of heightened alert, and companies need to ensure their security teams are prepared for a nation-state cyberattack and be able to react in a split second.Feature
For BMC, internal IT is its own best customer
BMC’s shift to vetting its software on the front lines of its own IT department has been a game changer for improving customer experience, says CIO Scott Crowder.IDG TECHtalk Voices
AI, automation emerge as critical tools for cybersecurity
Organizations find new ways to relieve some of the burden on security teams while shoring up defenses.Feature
At Barings, IT culture change pays dividends
Sometimes enterprise require a culture shake-up — or at least a culture harmonization, as Barings CIO Andy Lennon learned when he accepted the challenge of unifying up 5 organizations under on tech umbrella.Feature
7 traits of successful enterprise architects
In an age of digital transformation, businesses need someone who can plan and build a forward-looking systems infrastructure. Here's how to find that elusive expert.Feature
20 IT resolutions for 2020
The new decade finds technology changing faster than ever. IT leaders must balance a wide array of priorities in developing a strategic agenda that can keep up.Feature
The state of digital transformation in 2020
The lessons learned from a decade of digital transformation provide a roadmap for those embarking on their own initiatives. CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World team up to dissect that legacy from every angle.Feature
‘Drop dead weight, think analogue’: The modern CIO’s New Year resolutions
Gartner lists non-digital tools to help CIOs up their game for the year aheadrnFeature
5 data analytics investments worth the hype
Analytics technologies are all too often hyped as transformational magic. But these five emerging analytics investments look promising and productive enough to fuel future bottom-line benefits.Feature
Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2020
From skills shortages to privacy concerns, tech execs will need to overcome a number of hurdles along their digital journeys this year.The Next Generation of Health IT
Applying cognitive science to champion data-management adoption
Business relationship managers today have new techniques to make data management stickier. Mix it up for greater data-enablement adoption.The Digital CIO
The big task for CIOs in 2020: Bringing security and IT operations together
Bridging the gap between these siloed teams pays off in improved visibility and better security.Feature
Inside Cisco's IT monitoring makeover
When Cisco’s IT team set out to replace a homegrown monitoring system, changing minds was as much of a challenge as changing code.Revenue Accountability
3 things digital health developers can learn from the Industrial Internet of Things
The second in a series on my insights into best practices for IoT solution development after working with developers and product managers across multiple industries.IDG TECHtalk Voices
What is the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018? Influencers in the know break down the details
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 is a bill intended to enhance online privacy rights and consumer protection for residents of California, United States. But the bill has national and global implications. Here’s how to prepare your organization for compliance and protect your customers.The Next Generation of Health IT
Take the training wheels off your vendor-management office
Why you’re not getting the most out of your third-party relationships.Feature
8 tips for dealing with IT project pushback
Technical initiatives are often met with resistance from business leaders, IT pros and end users alike. Here’s how to transform friction into feedback that can help push your project forward.Feature
CDO resumes: 4 tips for landing a chief data officer role
Chief data officers are on the rise as businesses embrace data-driven strategies. But you’ll want to follow these four tips to write the perfect CDO resume to get the job.Truth from the Trenches
Application proliferation – the lurking crisis
There are literally thousands of SaaS applications that can be used to manage almost every aspect of a company’s internal operations. On a bad day it may seem as if your company has purchased all of them! Here are some tips on how IT organizations can provide responsible application oversight even in the absence of direct application ownership.Revenue Accountability
3 practices Industrial IoT can learn from digital health and the Internet of Medical Things
The human-centric focus of healthcare has given digital health developers a different perspective on how they deploy IoT technology. Industrial developers can learn from these practices – patient first, the Quadruple Aim and the Nudge – to accelerate the success of their operation-centric efforts.I’ve Been Thinking – So Should You
Why are most organizations late to change?
The pace of change continues to escalate, and the saying “if you snooze you lose” has never been more relevant. Here are four ways to help your organization avoid being late to change.Feature
The chief data officer: The CIO’s newest ally
As organizations shift to data-driven strategies, the CDO role is rising. But to succeed as an entity, the CIO and CDO must work in concert — with clear delineations in responsibilities.Tech Policy Decoded
Rethinking government use of commercial exploit tools after WhatsApp spying
The recent WhatsApp lawsuit shows the significant risk to individuals, as well as public trust, that comes from allowing commercial systems to remain exploitable.The Tech Mindset
5 ways cybersecurity awareness trainings can strengthen your organization
As efforts to implement comprehensive security engineering frameworks and policies grow across various enterprises, it makes sense to implement a hands-on training program focused on educating your employees with basic cybersecurity best practices – so they don’t fall for phishing scams.Navigating the Digital Universe
Why corporate boards put their digital transformation at risk
Despite increasing cybercrime and dependency on digital revenues, many CEOs operate in the dark. A stunning 63 percent of CISOs don’t regularly report to their board, research by Ponemon Institute finds.
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