How Aster DM Healthcare used federated learning to better secure AI analysis of sensitive data
The Indian hospital system’s Secure Federated Learning Platform promises to democratise access to health data, paving the way for the development of AI-enabled healthcare technology.
5 forces shaping the future IT workforce
From political and social issues to the four-day workweek, forces beyond the pandemic are reshaping the IT work landscape.
CIO Leadership Live with Kenny Thein, CIO at Restaurant Brands
Restaurant Brands Chief Information Officer Kenny Thein on evolving to meet customers’ ever changing needs, thinking like a start-up but operating as an enterprise, and the importance of sparking STEM curiosity in the younger generation.
The CIO’s guide to mastering IT trends
CIOs can be trend masters or trend victims. Those that fare best know how to navigate the sea of tech trend chatter to keep their organizations on top of the latest disruptions and opportunities.
Novanta CIO Sarah Betadam on the CIO-CEO relationship
Sarah Betadam, CIO at Novanta, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss CIO-CEO relationships, business/IT partnerships, servant leadership, agile mindsets vs. methodologies and more.FROM OUR ADVERTISERS
IT leaders get creative to fill data science gaps
The ongoing data scientist shortage sees enterprises reconfiguring data teams, upskilling promising employees, and partnering to improve talent pipelines.
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.
The small business CIO with big lessons for enterprise IT chiefs
Small and medium business’ CIOs have much to teach larger enterprises, according to Fabienne Wintle, CIO of Navii, the Australian government-backed platform that supports small and medium businesses going digital.
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Oracle Fusion Sales aims to automate repetitive sales tasks
The new version of Oracle Fusion Sales has added smart recommendations, helping it compete with rival CRM applications.
7 traits of inspirational IT leaders
All CIOs are leaders, yet only a select few are truly inspirational leaders. Here’s how you can become one of them.
How to get on a board of directors: 10 tips for CIOs
IT leaders seeking board opportunities need to network, raise their profile, nurture their relationships, and pursue their passion to land the right board roles where they can have an impact.
CIO Leadership Live with Alistair Vickers, CIO at Tu Ora Compass Health
Tu Ora Compass Health CIO Alistair Vickers on the evolving role of technology in healthcare, allowing for flexibility in any transformation plan, and the importance of creating new pathways for people into IT.
New Zealand’s IT leadership moves 2022
An updated list of the moves of New Zealand information technology executives.
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.
5 vendor sales negotiation tactics — and how to counter them
Far too many IT executives are ill-prepared for the sophistication of messaging and tactics vendors bring to the negotiation table. Here’s what you should know and how you can push back.
SAP Q2 results a mixed bag
Despite SAP’s cloud revenue going from strength to strength, the war in Ukraine continues to negatively impact the company’s bottom line.
The new CIO playbook: 7 tips for success from day one
Making the transition to the top IT leadership post can be an overwhelming leap for many. Setting yourself up for success begins with listening.
How CIOs can unite sustainability and technology
Delivering on the promise of sustainability will require CIOs to work in close collaboration with other executives to identify the technologies that will help their company achieve its ESG goals.
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.
Microsoft's AI-powered contact center service takes on AWS, Google
The new cloud-based Digital Contact Center offering combines AI capabilities with features of Microsoft applications including Dynamics 365, Teams, Power Platform, and Nuance.
CIOs contend with rising cloud costs
The pandemic rush to the cloud has many IT leaders midway through migrations, faced with sky-high monthly bills, a souring economy, and ROI still a ways off on the horizon.
Authentic leadership: Building an organization that thrives
Authentic leaders place their emphasis on people, values, and ethics, creating a culture of authenticity, transparency, and honesty that ensures all employees are empowered and heard.
IT spending projected to grow despite economic headwinds
Gartner forecasts worldwide IT spending to grow 3% this year, as IT decision makers spend more on cloud services and the data center.
6 hot IT leadership trends — and 6 going cold
The pandemic has greatly shifted what constitutes effective leadership in today’s IT, with process and politics giving way to an intentional focus on building strong, engaged, purpose-driven teams.
CIO Leadership Live with Sam Pickles, Chief Technology Officer at Red Shield
RedShield Chief Technology Officer Sam Pickles on being mindful of power struggles when changing legacy systems, keeping stakeholders engaged along the way, and why continuous learning is vital at every stage of your career.
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.
The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year
This past year has seen multiple billion-dollar-plus acquisitions in hardware, software, and services, as well as plenty of smaller, strategic merger activity in areas vital to enterprise IT.
Blockchain breakthroughs: A tech revolution told in whitepapers
Whitepapers are the standard mode of communicating innovation in the blockchain space. It’s something of a feast of technological creativity. Read on for a sampling of groundbreaking web3 whitepapers.
A CIO’s guide to guiding business change
As CIOs re-think IT’s role in the enterprise, leading or facilitating business change is central to the conversation. Here’s one way IT can and should regain center stage.
Progress report: A CIO’s cloud migration journey to S/4HANA
German retail cooperative ANWR Group has rebuilt its ERP system in the SAP cloud. But over nearly two years, CIO Sven Kulikowsky has had to navigate a series of challenges with the core system.
Oracle to launch two sovereign cloud regions for the European Union
The first two Oracle sovereign cloud regions for the EU will be located in Germany and Spain, with operations and support restricted to EU residents and specific EU legal entities.
5 keys to a successful API strategy
Application programing interfaces are proving vital to driving efficiencies and value in today’s digital business world. Here’s how strategic use of APIs can pay dividends at your organization.
Elevance Health Global CIO Anil Bhatt on using AI in predictive healthcare
Anil Bhatt, Global Chief Information Officer at Elevance Health, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss using AI in predictive healthcare, blockchain collaborations, the future of digital healthcare, global innovation trends and more.
The secret to successful citizen data science programs: Good governance
Putting data and visualization tools in the hands of business people is one thing; getting IT out of the business of running reports is quite another.
8 servant leadership do’s and don’ts
CIOs are increasingly embracing the servant leadership approach. The following tips will help you balance top-down direction and accountability with bottom-up empowerment.
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 Leadership Live with Kevin Rowland, CIO at Fliway
Fliway CIO Kevin Rowland on building trust through transparency, the importance of walking the shop floor to keep connected to end users, and why transformation is like eating an elephant – “best done one bite at a time.”
IFS to acquire enterprise asset management firm Ultimo
ERP vendor IFS is scooping up Netherlands-based Ultimo to help meet demand for cloud-based enterprise asset management technology.
TOGAF certification guide: Options, training, cost, exam info
These certifications from The Open Group can help show employers you have the knowledge and skills to use the TOGAF framework for enterprise architecture management.
6 ways to streamline IT vendor onboarding
While much of the vendor onboarding process is outside of the CIO’s control, there are things you can do to speed things along.
CIO Leadership Live with Toby Granwal, Global CIO at Fonterra
Fonterra’s Global CIO Toby Granwal on transforming the dairy co-op giant’s operating model, getting enterprise leadership mindsets embedded in the culture and why the organisation is looking to do fewer, bigger things.
Data lakehouses give enterprises analytics edge
Blending the structure of data warehouses and the flexibility of data lakes, data lakehouses are proving to be versatile tools for making the most of any data you want to collect.
What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes
Business analytics is the practical application of statistical analysis and technologies on business data to identify trends and predict business outcomes.
Unknown unknowns: CIOs prep for the next major business disruption
The pandemic has motivated IT leaders to rethink their approach to business continuity to ensure organizational resilience in the face of any future business existential event.
What is a chief administrative officer? A strategic executive role for operations
Chief administrative officers play a vital role in keeping a company on budget, on task, and compliant. Here’s how this executive-level role helps companies operate efficiently.
How Cairn Oil & Gas is using IT to overcome one business challenge after another
CIO Sandeep Gupta’s innovative use of technology has enabled the company to cut costs, reduce time to first oil, and manage decline in production.
CIO Leadership Live with Chief Digital Officer Terri Carajannis of Harrison Grierson
Harrison Grierson Chief Digital Officer Terri Carajannis on being ‘chief cheerleader’ for digital, the importance of wellbeing at work and why magic happens when you hear from everybody.
Digital transformation never stops at IBM’s semiconductor plant in Québec
Exploiting extreme automation, secure operations, and a local talent pool, the computer giant’s largest semiconductor plant’s IT management evolves continuously as it develops new tech.
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.