IT Leadership

12 reasons good employees leave — and how to prevent it

Talent is your biggest asset, and while you'll never eliminate employee turnover, the following strategies can help you keep your best.

United Airlines CISO Deneen DeFiore on elevating cyber’s value to the business

The airlines’ cyber chief believes storytelling, facilitation, and a marketing mindset are vital for moving IT and cybersecurity up the organizational value chain to the benefit of the business overall.

3 powerful lessons of using data governance frameworks

Organizations all over the world—and in different sectors—are discovering three specific actions with data governance frameworks that lead to success.

What Choice’s CIO sees in a cloud-native approach to sustainability

Choice Hotels International CIO Brian Kirkland is at the head of a forward-looking sustainability effort fueled by a cloud-native imperative to deliver digital innovations to both franchisees and guests.

CIOs seek efficiencies as uncertain economy looms

CIOs seek efficiencies as uncertain economy looms

With increased scrutiny on spend, IT leaders are rethinking budget outlays, turning their attention to cloud usage, automation, lean operations, and the workforce.

The DR essential IT leaders can’t overlook

All too often companies ignore the public relations portion of their DR plans — an omission that can lead to worse business consequences than those caused by the disaster itself.

5 C-suite bridges every IT leader must build

Collaborating successfully with executive colleagues requires building individual relationships centered around understanding the nuances of each leader’s technical and business needs.

Examining the fallout of APAC tech skills shortages

Companies around the world are either experiencing or bracing for a skills gap. In the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region particularly, roles are becoming increasingly difficult to fill but efforts to address the business challenge are rising to the occasion

Allianz ditches mainframe for scale and innovation

Germany's largest insurer has jettisoned its mainframes in favor of Linux for its core applications and petabyte database. Allianz Technology CTO Axel Schell and team lead Sebastian Pongratz explain how ‘one of the riskiest and most diffic

Accenture’s Penelope Prett on the predictive value of data

The chief information, data, and analytics officer at the $61 billion consulting firm contends that the true power of data resides in the predictive capabilities that come from interconnections between different data domains.