7 secrets of successful digital transformations
Getting digital right requires more than executive buy-in and financial commitment. It requires a nuanced approach to strategy, implementation, and collaboration.
At a loss for data project ROI? Evaluate it like a product
Ascertaining the value of data initiatives that support the business can be tricky. Here’s how data intelligence company Collibra took a product-based approach to evaluating the ROI of a key pre-sales dashboard tool.
7 famous analytics and AI disasters
Insights from data and machine learning algorithms can be invaluable, but mistakes can cost you reputation, revenue, or even lives. These high-profile analytics and AI blunders illustrate what can go wrong.
What is the 9-box talent review? A matrix for identifying top performers
The 9-box talent review grid is a popular HR tool used to measure employee performance and to identify employees with leadership potential.
IT companies join Ukraine war sanctions against Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal war against Ukraine is not leaving the IT industry unaffected. Here’s an overview of the sanction measures taken by some of the most important IT providers.FROM OUR ADVERTISERS
CIOs can and should play a pivotal role in ESG strategy
The ability to provide transparent, data-driven insights and measure progress toward objectives makes the CIO critical to the success of any ESG strategy.
Data as a service: Top vendors offering data on tap
Enterprises looking to supplement their data-driven decisions or digital services with data they might not otherwise have on hand have a growing number of options to turn to.
ATD banks on B2B digital transformation
The wholesale tire distributor has overhauled its core integration layer to be 100% cloud-native in preparation to offer slick digital sales channels to B2B buyers tired of traditional call centers.
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Oracle's ME employee experience suite targets workforce challenges
Oracle ME, an employee experience suite within the company’s Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) platform, is aimed at resolving workforce challenges such as attrition in the wake of the pandemic.
9 outsourcing myths debunked
Outsourcing has evolved — and so too have misconceptions about what makes a successful sourcing partnership in a world remade by pandemic, digital transformation, talent shortages, and geopolitical turmoil.
Truist CIO Scott Case on adopting a digital transformation mindset
For Case and his team, the pandemic, combined with the company’s merger, forced a focus on serving clients that became the guiding principle of their digital transformation.
How data from IoT devices is changing supply chain analytics
A variety of technologies are coming together to fast-track supply chain digitization and other innovations.
15 most misused buzzwords in IT
The tech industry is rife with overhyped jargon. Here IT leaders discuss buzzy terms all too often misapplied by vendors and colleagues alike.
The top 10 IT outsourcing service providers
Accenture maintained its position at the top of the IT service provider market, as Infosys leapt to No. 2 in a year of acute talent challenges, according to Everest Group's 7th annual rankings.
7 ways to elevate your CIO role
CIOs have long been viewed by many colleagues as second-string executives. Now is the time for IT leaders to expand their role, and to assert their unique vision and value.
Molex CDO proves the value of customer-centric IT
After years as a CIO at many different companies, Mike Giresi is defining the role of CDO at Molex and Koch Industries as one focused on customers and business operations, not just technology.
SAP is holding data for Russian customers
Shortly before the support freeze for Russian cloud customers, SAP offered to move their data abroad for free.
7 tips for leading productive remote teams
Even as many organizations chart plans to return to the office, remote leadership isn’t going away any time soon. It’s never too late to build on what you’ve learned leading through the pandemic to ensure productivity continues.
DevColor’s cohort approach to uplifting Black IT careers
DevColor's A* program brings together Black technologists into peer-led mentoring squads aimed at providing career advice and community for those who often feel isolated at work.
SAP at 50: The software group is at a crossroads
SAP made German software history, but the company is facing a number of new challenges. Now the young management team around CEO Christian Klein has to prove itself.
AI takes aim at employee turnover
With attrition an increasingly challenging issue, companies are turning to chatbots and machine learning to augment HR strategies for gauging employee sentiment, identifying flight risks, and strengthening career support.
The CIO’s missing priority
Directing decision-maker-awareness to the right targets is a key skill for CIO success. Investment risks that pit information security vs. information technology prove the point.
Corporate defenses must step up to meet a changing geopolitical landscape
IT and security teams must stay more vigilant than ever to protect against threats from both from the hacker community and government-backed organizations.
7 hot infrastructure and operations trends — and 7 going cold
When it comes to infrastructure and production systems, stability is king. And yet change persists, as organizations seek greater security and faster speeds u2014 without sacrificing reliability.
Web accessibility emerges as a top CIO priority
A variety of legal and regulatory developments, along with a substantial potential market, will make digital accessibility a top priority in 2022.
Business continuity planning: A proactive approach to threat management
Assessing the threat landscape and putting a plan in place can help you build operational resiliency against geopolitical and other potentially disruptive events.
Supply chain woes? Analytics may be the answer
Optimas Solutions, CarParts.com, and Lenovo exemplify an accelerating trend that sees organizations turning to analytics to address supply chain challenges.
Investing in IT careers pays off at Capital One
Capital One has designed several internal programs to upskill employees to fill skills gaps and to give anyone inside or outside of IT the resources to become a software engineer.
IBM’s z16 mainframe boasts on-chip AI acceleration
IBM says the z16’s security features also help protect enterprises from the ‘harvest now, decrypt later’ threat of quantum attacks.
CIO Leadership Live with Ken Spangler, Executive Vice President of IT and CIO, FedEx
Episode sponsored by Fairfax County Economic Development Authority: Ken Spangler, Executive Vice President of IT and CIO of Global OpCo Technologies at FedEx, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss digital acceleration, business agility and more. This episode is sponsored by Fairfax County Economic Development Authority. Learn more at FairfaxCountyEDA.Org.
The pandemic pivot: 5 key leadership lessons that will last
To navigate the pandemic, IT leaders have had to rethink team relationships and jury-rig new ways of getting work done. Here’s what they think will stick once the pandemic upheaval subsides.
Clean Harbors’ CIO: Hybrid approach to the cloud is a win-win
The hazardous waste cleanup giant is deploying AI and RPA in Azure cloud and integrating data with its on-premises Waste Information Network.
Microsoft to optimize process automation stack with Minit acquisition
Days after Celonis acquired a company to boost its offering on Microsoft’s Power Platform, Microsoft has made a process mining acquisition of its own.
Google Cloud brings its search smarts to retail customers
The new managed Retail Search service from Google Cloud wants to help digital retailers solve the dreaded search abandonment problem.
10 top HCM software tools and how to choose
HCM software is a suite of tools that helps organizations recruit, hire, develop, pay, manage, and retain employees. Here’s how to choose the best HCM software for your needs.
Combatting digital ignorance
CIOs: If your leadership team is asking about your cloud or 5G strategy, you’ve got some splainin’ to do.
What is a chief data officer? A leader who creates business value from data
A chief data officer (CDO) oversees a range of data-related functions to ensure your organization is getting the most from what could be its most valuable asset.
10 reasons to keep that data center running
With companies increasingly shifting most or all of their workloads to the cloud, the reasons for rolling your own server rack are dwindling u2014 but still very compelling.
South Africa’s Discovery drives customer loyalty via RPA, APIs
CIO Nadira Misthry explains how Discovery’s Vitality medical aids rewards programme is leveraging emerging technologies to improve customer experience, better integrate with partners, and update their systems.
Russians want to replace SAP with homegrown solutions
Russian corporations believe they can replace software from Western vendors such as SAP with solutions they have developed themselves. Meanwhile, thousands of IT specialists are leaving the country, and Ukraine asks SAP to end support for its software in Russia.
Informatica launches its first industry-specific Intelligent Data Management Cloud for retail
The retail industry-focused product aims to help enterprise customers unify their data and gain valuable customer, product, supplier, and location insights.
10 tips for getting started with decision intelligence
Adding intelligence and automation to decision-making processes can greatly improve business agility and outcomes. But making the most of decision intelligence takes continual tuning.
At Black & Veatch, a new IT operating model enables digital opportunities
CIO Irvin Bishop says the new model ensures that the company either wins, learns, or fails fast on its digital investments – but never loses.
Royal Caribbean revamps IT work models in pandemic push
CIO Martha Poulter and her team turned business disruption into an opportunity to reimagine how they do new technology deployments at sea.
Celonis beefs up its Power BI process mining capabilities
To improve its process mining offering on Microsoft Power Platform, Celonis has acquired Process Analytics Factory, developer of PAFnow
Working from a war zone: Ukrainian IT pros share their experiences
CIO.com spoke with Ukrainian technologists whose stories show their resolve and commitment to look forward despite the destruction and uncertainty being inflicted on their homeland.
SDG&E seeks speed advantage in the cloud
At San Diego Gas & Electric, digital transformation isn’t just a technology refresh but a wholesale change in its business, with speed gains afforded by the cloud being central to its strategy.
Snowflake launches Retail Data Cloud
The cloud data warehouse specialist has launched another industry-specific product, this time aimed at helping companies in the retail and consumer goods sectors to manage their data.
HP gets intentional about contracting with Black IT providers
CIO Ron Guerrier is working to diversify IT’s suppliers and boost the benefits they get from working with HP to build a more representative technology workforce.