IT Management

How leading CIOs cultivate business-centric IT

CIOs have done the work to become critical business leaders. Now they’re upleveling IT’s business intelligence with new strategies for hiring, collaboration, and training.

CIOs must address IT’s perceived value problem

With 2025 budget battles upon us, IT leaders must recognize the importance of perception and fix how IT value is measured to ease their arguments for adequate advantage-producing investment.

Are IT certifications replacing the college degree?

With skills-first hiring on the rise and degree requirements in question, IT certs are having a moment in the hiring equation and in advancing careers. IT pros, CIOs, and analysts weigh in on the trend.

Agentic AI: Decisive, operational AI arrives in business

With a focus on operational decision-making, agentic AI works autonomously in the background, directly impacting business processes and freeing up employees for higher-value work.

Legendary CIO Anil Cheriyan on delivering innovation that matters

Legendary CIO Anil Cheriyan on delivering innovation that matters

Knowing when to invest in emerging technologies and how to establish an innovative culture that also delivers on IT fundamentals are key areas of focus for those looking to build a decades-long career in IT leadership.

How not to hire a North Korean IT spy

CISOs are urged to carry out tighter vetting of new hires to ward off potential ‘moles’ — who are increasingly finding their way onto company payrolls and into their IT systems.

Rising cloud costs leave CIOs seeking ways to cope

Several factors, including price increases, a rush to adopt AI, inflation, and ongoing digital modernization efforts, are driving IT leaders to revisit cloud costs.

Moderate IT budget increases have CIOs shaping 2025 strategies to suit

IT leaders look to invest in AI, cut cloud spending, automate manual processes in differing measures, depending on budget outlooks as economic uncertainties loom.

Federal judge strikes down FTC’s ban on non-compete agreements

The judge ruled that the FTC lacked the authority to make such a ban. That authority must come from Congress, she ruled.

What high-performance IT teams look like today — and how to build one

As we enter the AI era, business priorities and the means and methods for achieving them are swifting changing. CIOs must adapt their strategies to develop teams capable of delivering business results.