IT Operations
Divergent CIO
The culture shift in your DevOps environment
Incorporating best security practices into DevOps is not only good for your company and your product – it's good for your teams.
Feature
Data preparation tools: Your analytics strategy’s secret weapon
Data preparation is frequently cited as the leading roadblock to leveraging data within an organization. Getting the right tool for your organization can help you breakthrough.
Navigating the Digital Universe
Poor cyber resilience: an organization’s Achilles' heel
Research reveals a marked disconnect between the concern over cyber-risk concerns and the overall approach to managing it.
The Tech Mindset
5 practical ways your organization can benefit from DevSecOps
Behind the buzzword, is there a real need of and value for organizations in exploring DevSecOps? It’s important to understand why DevSecOps matters in this day and age of security breaches and what the pragmatic benefits are for your organization.
Digital Policy Outlooks
European Court of Justice 'right to be forgotten' ruling likely to be relitigated
Love it or hate it, it’s clear that whether the EU can apply the GDPR’s “right to be forgotten” globally is in question.
Driving Digital Transformation
5 technical capabilities required in modern enterprise data strategies
Becoming data-driven requires an ongoing commitment to excellence. It's not simple, but it shouldn't be daunting, either.
Divergent CIO
Have you dusted off your incident response plan?
As security incidents are more prevalent these days, we are seeing organizations that aren't sufficiently prepared because their incident response plan was outdated or non-existent.
News
Microsoft expands Dynamics 365 with e-commerce, in-store modules
Microsoft is tailoring its CRM tool for retail, and tuning it to deliver more insights from data.
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?
News
11 key takeaways from Oracle OpenWorld 2019
Autonomous Linux, digital assistants, and closer work with Microsoft, VMware and others were among the highlights from this year’s conference.
Digital Policy Outlooks
Why it’s time for a strong federal privacy law
A federal privacy statute can harmonize privacy law, leave room for states to regulate/enforce and enable American global tech policy leadership.
Feature
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.
Healthcare Technology Trends
Healthcare data’s moment of lift
The unlocking of patient data is leading us to a future when health care will be a vastly improved experience with superior outcomes. However, there will be guard rails around consumer access to personal health records.
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.
Navigating the Digital Universe
Almost all cyberattacks in 2018 were preventable
New research shows cyber-security incidents that exposed 5 billion records cost an estimated $45 billion last year.
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10 change management mistakes to avoid
Poor change management can be a transformation killer. Here’s how change initiatives can and do fail, and what can be done to course-correct.
The Mobile Enterprise
3 ways WiFi 6 can revolutionize your network
Lofty proclamations for what the emerging wireless standard will do for IoT don’t matter much to CIOs caring for the carpeted enterprise. But they will care about three new ways they can leverage WiFi 6 to retool for a much more reliable and cost-effective network.
Taming Enterprise Complexity
Effective data modeling
Understanding data is a prerequisite to gaining control of any enterprise. But understanding is only useful if that knowledge can be shared and transmitted. Effective data modeling should be a primary focus of any enterprise architect.
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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.
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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.
The Adaptive CIO
The end of project management?
IT project management as a discipline has been around for many years. However, is it relevant in the age of digital products? Or can it become a valuable adjunct to IT digital product management?
Navigating the Digital Universe
Lack of cybersecurity is the biggest economic threat to the world over the next decade, CEOs say
As digital transformation continues apace, CEOs see cybersecurity as the number one threat to the global economy in the next decade.Feature
Autodesk brings automation to its IT help desk
To handle demand for support from a growing workforce without adding helpdesk staff, CIO Prakash Kota has brought in a bot take over some of the busy-work.
Healthcare Technology Trends
The new innovation model: monetizing healthcare data
Healthcare enterprises are launching programs to monetize patient medical data by offering access to researchers and innovators. How these initiatives can benefit all stakeholders (or leave out some).
Dangerous Thinking
Data privacy is the new strategic differentiator
Pioneering corporations have an estimated nine to 18 months to “compete on data privacy” before it becomes table stakes.Feature
6 tips for ITIL implementation success
ITIL adoption requires more than software and tools. You need a bold strategy that aligns IT service with corporate goals and encourages employee and stakeholder buy-in.
Digital Policy Outlooks
Enhancing trust in artificial intelligence: Audits and explanations can help
There are a lot of tools available to help with AI audits and explanations and more will be available in the coming years.
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6 reasons why AI projects fail
Data issues are among the chief reasons why AI projects fall short of expectations. But if you can learn from the mistakes and commit to the long term, your AI efforts are more likely to pay off.
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10 customer experience strategies IT should target next
CIO are increasingly being asked to help attract, manage and support customers. These technologies and practices can help enhance your company’s CX and fuel revenue for your digital transformation.
Taming Enterprise Complexity
It’s all about the data
Gaining control of an enterprise’s data is a key element in taming enterprise complexity. But control without understanding is a recipe for trouble. Understanding data is an obligation of every enterprise architect.
Divergent CIO
Kubernetes security: Best practices for enterprise deployment
A well-laid plan, with all the stakeholders involved upfront, is the first step in building a more secure container environment.
Feature
Business requirements: Tracing project deliverables to business goals
Any successfully executed IT project is guided by pre-defined business requirements. Here’s how to ensure project deliverables and resource allocation trace back to business needs.
Feature
UNTS focuses on culture, governance to make data work
Drowning in data it couldn't use, the University of North Texas System adopted an ambitious strategy to build a data-driven culture and the ability to apply analytics to every aspect of its operations.
Truth from the Trenches
How to establish a security culture within IT
It’s impossible to establish a security culture within a modern enterprise if it doesn’t already exist within IT. IT organizations should have pervasive and conspicuous security cultures that can serve as examples to all other parts of a corporation. Here are six management triggers that IT leaders can use to build such cultures.News Analysis
As MENA moves to cloud, CIOs look to keep data in-country, study shows
Companies particularly in the UAE are quickly implementing cloud solutions, but with GDPR in play, data sovereignty is now top of the IT agenda.
Navigating the Digital Universe
Brand reputation at risk
While leading in digital transformation, TMT companies are more vulnerable to cyber-threats, research finds.
Feature
Insourcing, automation spark GE’s IT transformation
GE’s bold move to insource IT support and automate IT workflows has paid off in cost efficiencies and a vastly improved employee experience.
Feature
What is gap analysis? Uncovering the missing links to successful performance
Gap analysis helps companies objectively evaluate their current state and make improvements to advance the organization toward desired outcomes and to better achieve business goals.
Opinion
12 dark secrets of cloud security
The cloud is essentially a dark pool of computational power and that mystery can lull us into complacency. Here’s what you don’t know about keeping your data secure in the cloud.
Feature
What is Kaizen? A business strategy focused on improvement
Kaizen offers a more holistic approach than most IT frameworks in that it aims to improve everything in your organization from people to processes to products.
News
Schrems II: What the latest challenge to transatlantic data transfers means for IT
Austrian lawyer Max Schrems’ first complaint about Facebook’s transfer of his personal data to the U.S. brought down the Safe Harbor data sharing agreement. Now Europe’s highest court is examining his complaint about the use of standard contract clauses for this purpose.
Feature
What is NoOps? The quest for fully automated IT operations
Automation has IT leaders eyeing the possibility of environments with no hands-on operations work. But this evolution of DevOps may be more pipedream than practical reality.
The Adaptive CIO
Protecting data in an increasingly insecure world
Protecting data is only going to get tougher. Are CIOs ready to protect what is the most important enterprise asset?
Feature
How to better integrate IT security and IT strategy
Organizations see a future in which IT security is deeply woven into their overall IT strategy. Here’s how they plan to get there.
Tech Policy Perspectives
Antitrust enforcers can think of privacy as a parameter of competition
But it is not likely to improve privacy protection very much.
Feature
Hermes transforms data infrastructure to speed parcel deliveries
The UK logistics company changed its data model and moved to the cloud, enabling it to offer a host of new services around parcel delivery.
Feature
Data deletion: Your data strategy’s greatest defense
If data is the new oil, safe handling is essential to avoiding the digital equivalent of a toxic spill. It all begins with a strong data deletion policy.
The Tech Mindset
Is our obsession with regulation killing the web?
What started out as an open, connected and vastly unregulated platform of sharing information is consistently being crippled by legislation made by people who do not understand the fundamentals of technology. Unless we act fast, there may be no way of stopping the downfall.
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