IT Strategy
Opinion
IT leaders take note: The future is what you create
High-profile IT disasters are enforcing the dystopic visions and macro-pessimisms saturating the cultural consciousness. Only by steeling against perpetuating past IT sins and embracing possibility can we make something brighter.
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Examining the CIO time management dilemma
CIOs face a complex juggling act between operational responsibilities and strategic opportunities. So keeping the lights on and finding time for big-picture thinking requires a perspective that parallels how the role is expanding.
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The 7 new rules of IT leadership
The technology landscape is rapidly evolving — so too is the way IT chiefs should lead their organizations. Here’s which old rules of IT leadership are no longer relevant and what has replaced them.
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Nvidia offers retail loss prevention software to accelerate accelerator chip sales
As Nvidia’s customer tracking technology develops, scrutiny from retail CIOs is put into sharper focus.
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8 top priorities for CIOs in 2023
Begin the new year by tackling the most challenging issues head-on. Here’s a rundown of top-level priorities IT leaders must address in 2023.
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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023
Economy uncertainty, new forces in an already tight talent market, and rising technology costs top the list of tough, ongoing issues CIOs must navigate this year.
Opinion
How CIOs can be pillars of stability in an uncertain world
IT leaders have been navigating uncertainty since the inception of the role. Focusing on this one key differentiator will prepare your organization for whatever comes its way.
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10 IT resolutions for 2023
IT leaders have big objectives for the upcoming year, from driving their organization’s missions to delivering continuous improvement.
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What is DataOps? Collaborative, cross-functional analytics
DataOps (data operations) brings together DevOps teams with data engineers and data scientists to provide the tools, processes, and skills to enable the data-driven enterprise.
CIO Tech Talk Voices
Driving ESG readiness: Avery Dennison CIO Nick Colisto shares smart first steps
As the SEC and other regulators move to enact rules that require disclosure of emissions data, many CIOs are wondering where to start. Nick has some ideas.
The CIO Whisperers
Owens Corning’s Zerby and Baymiller on customer-centric innovation
Longtime CIO Steve Zerby will soon hand the IT reins to Annie Baymiller, whose authentic leadership will help the company capitalize on its customer-centered approach for years to come.
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Top cloud strategy mistakes CIOs can’t help making
Enterprise IT is increasingly fueled by the cloud. But IT leaders who don’t know how to blueprint for success are in for frustration, failed implementations, and could-be cost catastrophe.
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IT leaders’ top 12 takeaways from 2022
CIOs share insights on the lessons they’ve learned this year about the pace of business transformation, implementing value-oriented IT initiatives, and the benefits of a thriving workplace culture.
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Top 20 enterprise architecture tools
These popular and emerging EA tools offer businesses everything they need to support enterprise architecture and digital transformation.
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How tech leaders can better navigate organizational politics
Tech Whisperers podcast host Dan Roberts speaks with former Northwestern Mutual CIO Neal Sample about how fostering alliances keeps organizational politics in check as it transcends the office space.
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IT leaders adjust budget priorities as economic outlook shifts
Despite economic uncertainty, IT budgets will likely hold steady over the next couple of years, with CIOs reporting key investments in security, analytics, automation, cloud, and IT talent.
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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices
Project management plays a crucial role in enabling business transformation. Here’s a get-started guide for executing project management effectively in service of strategic goals.
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CIOs get serious about sustainability
IT leaders aren’t waiting to be pushed to address environmental concerns. Instead, they are working alone or together on new ways to advance sustainability within IT and throughout their businesses.
Movers and Shakers
CIO Carissa Rollins reimagines Illumina IT for business impact
The biotech company’s IT chief sees the capabilities management model as key to expanding Illumina’s business focus from research and manufacturing to clinical-based genomic health.
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5 ways to avoid IT purchasing regrets
Over half of organizations have experienced a high degree of regret over tech purchases made in the past two years. Here’s how to ensure your IT investments pay off.
How-To
What is outsourcing? Definitions, benefits, challenges, processes, advice
Outsourcing can bring big benefits, but risks and challenges abound when negotiating and managing outsourcing relationships. Here’s what you need to know to ensure your IT outsourcing initiatives succeed.
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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation
Enterprise architecture is the process by which organizations standardize and organize IT infrastructure to align with business goals. These strategies support digital transformation, IT growth, and the modernization of IT.
Managing Innovation & Disruptive Technology
10 tips for running a world-class innovation contest
Addressing key steps to structure an annual innovation contest, based on culture and core values, that strengthens best practices.
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IT leaders take charge of customer experience
With customer experience (CX) a central tenet for successful digital transformation, IT leaders are evolving their organization’s CX capabilities to deliver impressive results.
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8 reasons why digital transformations fail
Lack of vision, leadership support, and long-term commitment are just a few of the ways that digital transformation journeys take wrong turns or fizzle out.
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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success
Establishing product ownership, embracing agile, and nurturing the right tech and business talent are part of the success formula for transforming IT organizations and service delivery models.
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Implementation partners get strategic — so should CIOs’ use of them
Seeking to become more transformational, implementation partners are evolving. Here’s how IT leaders can leverage this shift without introducing more risk.
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What IT will look like in 2025
Forward-thinking CIOs are mapping out three-year plans that anticipate newly mainstreamed tech, blended teams, democratized IT, and more emphasis on integration, orchestration, and business results.
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7 KPIs for customer-centric IT
Becoming truly customer-centric requires access to deep insights and rapid action. KPIs are the tools that help IT discover what external and internal customers really want.
News
IT budgets remain solid, despite tech industry headwinds
While war and supply chain disruptions cause headaches for vendors, demand for IT products and services remains high.
News Analysis
Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2023: Gartner
Gartner has revealed its top 10 strategic technology trends for 2023, which focus on three themes: optimize, scale and pioneer.
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Ease of implementation, ROI dominate software buying decisions: report
The B2B software buying process is becoming increasingly complex due to challenges such as changes in buying teams and increasing use of software marketplaces.
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How to create a culture of innovation
Companies are increasingly looking to IT to develop new products and services. Here’s how to transform your IT organization into an innovation engine.
Movers and Shakers
CIO Shannon Gath on building IT value from day one
The Teradyne CIO believes a stakeholder-centric IT organization, an effective governance model, and a team willing to ask the right questions are the keys to IT value.
The CIO Whisperers
Discover CIO Amir Arooni on shifting to product-based IT delivery
The financial services IT chief is giving the digital bank a competitive edge by empowering IT with a product-based mindset and a commitment to ‘extreme automation.’
CIO Survival Guide
Why every IT leader should avoid ‘best practices’
‘Best’ may be the enemy of good. But in IT, ‘best practice’ is the enemy of good sense. CIOs would be wise to know there are no best practices, only practices that fit best.
Movers and Shakers
Jacobs revamps its IT operating model to accelerate business
To support the global professional services firm’s new business strategy, CDIO Madhuri Andrews conceptualized three modes of IT: customer transformation, global talent, and integrated global IT operations.
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9 investments CIOs should make before recession hits
In economic downturns, cost-cutting is essential. But so too is making the right IT investments, as IT can better position their organizations to weather lean times and come out ahead for the long run.
CIO Survival Guide
XaaS isn’t everything — and it isn’t serviceable
‘Everything as a service’ doesn’t include every service IT provides, not to mention everything outside IT that can be characterized as a service. And what it leaves out is arguably more important than what it includes.
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What is value stream mapping? A lean technique for improving business processes
VSM is a lean management technique that helps businesses eliminate process redundancies and waste by finding ways to improve current lean and agile business processes.
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How a new tech-based Swedish payments authority will fight grant fraud
Every year, around $1.8 billion (SEK18 billion) is incorrectly paid out of welfare systems in Sweden. But with the use of automation and data analytics, payments will be centralized and monitored at a new IT-based authority.
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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships
Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership.
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7 tips for improving IT resilience in the digital era
In today’s IT world, resiliency means having the ability to deal with disruption without business interruption — all while delivering the experience users have come to expect from their tech.
CIO Survival Guide
The XaaS trap: ‘Everything as a service’ isn’t anything IT really needs
Everything as a service (XaaS) should be about extending SOA to how businesses organize. Instead, it’s just another chargeback pricing model — exactly what IT doesn’t need.
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What is RPA? A revolution in business process automation
More CIOS are turning to robotic process automation to eliminate tedious tasks, freeing corporate workers to focus on higher value work. But RPA requires proper design, planning and governance if it's to bolster the business, experts say.
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The 10 biggest issues IT faces today
Economic, market, and worldwide turbulence continue to reshape the CIO agenda as priorities shift mid-year.
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IT leader’s survival guide: 11 ways to thrive in the years ahead
Agility and resiliency have become organizational essentials in rapidly changing and challenging times. Here is how to establish an IT organization built for long-term success.
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10 ways inflation will impact IT
As inflation rises across the globe, CIOs are strategizing ways to navigate rising prices for IT supplies, services, and talent by rethinking IT portfolios, reprioritizing IT spend, and honing business efficiencies.
CIO Tech Talk Voices
3 ways to avoid traffic on the road to product-based IT
Shifting to a product operating model is a major cultural and operational change – but it’s worth the effort.
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Streamlining IT for agility
IT leaders share their experiences and advice for overhauling IT for speed, including cutting down on projects, shifting to product-based delivery, and spurring a cultural transformation.-
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