Innovation

10 top priorities for CIOs in 2024

A new year offers fresh opportunities and challenges. Prioritizing your most critical tasks will help you save time and effort.

IT leaders explore footing amid shifting needs and the AI power struggle

On the eve of 2023, two and a half years after Covid-19 lockdowns ended in most countries, it appeared to be a return to business as usual for technologists. But then the real disruption came.

Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

Who are you as a leader? Not only is that a standard interview question, for which any self-respecting CIO should have a clear, detailed, and structured answer, it also challenges you to build a set of leadership principles and become a stronger exec

JLR revs up AI and intelligent automation initiatives

Auto maker Jaguar Land Rover has a long-term plan to transform its product range — but it’s also transforming its internal IT.

SAP faces breakdown in trust over innovation plans

SAP faces breakdown in trust over innovation plans

The company’s plan to offer future innovations in S/4HANA only to subscribers of its Rise with SAP offering is alienating customers, user conference hears.

CIO as enabler: Building an ecosystem of innovation partners

Given the complexity and pace of technical advances, modern CIOs must look beyond the enterprise to develop a range of partnerships aimed at creating solutions that solve big business challenges.

Why adaptability is the new digital transformation

As disruption in all its forms increasingly becomes the norm, IT leaders must rethink their approach to digital initiatives in favor of strategies that build adaptability into the way their organizations operate on a daily basis.

CIOs set their agendas to achieve IT’s ultimate balancing act

Ensuring operational excellence versus accelerating business growth has long been a conundrum (and trade-off) for IT. Greater prominence and honed IT strategies have today’s IT leaders better positioned to finally strike the right balance.

What a quarter century of digital transformation at PayPal looks like

Currently processing a volume of payments worth over $1.3 trillion, PayPal has repeatedly staked its claim as a digital success story over the last 25 years. But insiders agree this growth needs to be constantly supported by reliable technological ar

Gen AI success starts with an effective pilot strategy

To harness the promise of generative AI, IT leaders must develop processes for identifying use cases, educate employees, and get the tech (safely) into their hands.