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Toys ‘R’ Us shopper data insights can give toy makers and retailers an advantage

Toys u2018Ru2019 Us is shutting its doors, meaning consumers will begin looking elsewhere for their toy needs. Meanwhile, retailers of all shapes and sizes are clamoring to grab Toys 'R' Usu2019 market share. Location data could uncover ins

By Gladys Kong

Analytics Data Science Retail Industry

The future is bright for digital CIOs

Digital transformation is creating many opportunities for CIOs. Learn what they are and how to advance your career as a digital CIO.

By Martha Heller

CIO Digital Transformation Staff Management

How to manage IT risk without killing innovation

Success in managing the hidden risks of new initiatives will buy you credibility to invest further in innovation.

By Bruce Harpham

Compliance IT Governance IT Strategy

What are you going to do about IT skills gap?

Is it up to IT professionals to keep their skill set current? Or is it up to organizational leaders to create a learning of culture in their organizations and help keep their employees current with the pace of the technology?

By Ed Sattar

Careers IT Skills Technology Industry

How one IT leader measures the business value of IT

In part two of this Q&A series, ICW Groupu2019s vice president of IT discusses the importance of a business and IT alignment and how he measures IT value.

By Ross Mason

Enterprise Applications Outsourcing Risk Management

What technology risks can cause software outsourcing to fail?

Looking at what risks technology can pose to software development outsourcing.

By Steve Mezak

Apr 24, 2018 6 mins

How to build value into sourcing deals

A conversation about enterprise trends, service provider capabilities and bridging the two.

By Jeffrey Bannister

Enterprise IT Leadership Technology Industry

The hidden truths of IT’s gender pay gap

The gender pay gap in IT is real. But delve deeper into the data, and the underlying reasons for pay inequity u2014 discrepancies in roles, leadership and opportunities u2014u00a0come to light.

By Sharon Florentine

Apr 24, 2018 9 mins

Diversity and Inclusion IT Jobs Women in IT

Does your audience trust you and your body language?

How does your body language during a presentation change the perception of your audience?

By Theodore May

Careers IT Skills

Robotic process automation is reworking supply chains

RPA is colliding with business process services and inevitably will disrupt supply chains.

By Peter Bendor-Samuel

Supply Chain Management Software Technology Industry

8 top job search apps

Pressed for time but need to find a new job? Take your job search on the go with these mobile apps.

By Paul Heltzel

Careers IT Jobs Staff Management

A look at growing Agile trends

A high-level assessment of current industry trends in Agile for Executives to recognize and evaluate within their own organizations.

By Michael Dougherty

Agile Development Technology Industry

How artificial intelligence will transform the role of IT in 2018

As IT teams face new challenges and old constraints in 2018, artificial intelligence has finally emerged as a practical solution for improving productivity and effectiveness while transforming the perception of IT from cost-center to innovator.

By Jay Srinivasan

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation Technology Industry

CIOs reveal their artificial intelligence strategies

Global IT leaders from MITRE Corporation, Synchrony, Humana, and Agero describe AI implementations, risks, and opportunities.

By Brendan McGowan

Artificial Intelligence CIO IT Strategy

CIO Digital Magazine: Spring 2018

Forward-looking CIOs are not only modernizing legacy systems, but redefining how IT works. Hereu2019s a look at how to shift from being an IT order-taker to a next-gen technology leader.

By CIO staff

Apr 23, 2018 2 mins

CIO Innovation Internet of Things

Today’s competitive digital marketplace will drive policy changes

After the Facebook hearings policymakers should remember that thereu2019s plenty of room for new players in the digital marketplace

By Mark MacCarthy

Government Regulation Technology Industry

Healthcare IT: reading the tea leaves, part 2

Another go at predicting how emerging technical capabilities will affect healthcare services.

By Avery Cloud

Healthcare Industry Technology Industry

Is your digital transformation mobile-first? It should be

Smart adoption of mobile provides an opportunity to move out of platform- and device-specific siloes and toward a flexible and adaptable computing environment.

By Galen Gruman

Digital Transformation Mobile Small and Medium Business

The new rules of IT-business alignment in the digital era

Getting in sync with your organizationu2019s goals has never been more important, or more challenging. Hereu2019s how to align IT and business strategy for digital success.

By Minda Zetlin

Digital Transformation IT Leadership IT Strategy

Delivering future-focused enterprises

What are CIOs doing to differently than their peers at future-focused enterprises?

By Myles F. Suer

CIO Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Weather data + business data = optimized risk analysis

Gone are the days of relying on weather data alone to increase your operational decision-making. Instead, the most successful companies are merging weather data with other information to innovate the way they analyze risk and reward.

By Mark Hoekzema

Analytics Markets Risk Management

Enterprise CIOs should watch how AI and blockchain build the cannabis industry

The legal cannabis industry is proving to be fast moving and innovative. Its IT leaders have the challenge and the luxury to adopt new technologies, including AI and blockchain, without the limitations of legacy systems. Enterprise CIOs in industries

By Michael Zammuto

Blockchain Markets Technology Industry

Have you been thinking?

How much of your time is devoted to thinking about and planning for the future? Whatever your answer might be, it probably isnu2019t enough. Letu2019s change that.

By Randy Pennington

CIO IT Leadership

How Stripe empowers female entrepreneurs

Female entrepreneurship is on the rise, and Stripe is helping women make their mark in the technology space.

By Sharon Florentine

Careers Technology Industry

10 online data analytics bootcamps to boost your career

Data analysts are in high demand, as organizations look to create value from the data theyu2019re collecting. Here are 10 bootcamps designed for aspiring data analysists and those looking to brush up on their skills.

By Sarah K. White

Analytics Careers IT Skills

12 bad habits that slow IT to a crawl

Bottlenecks always seem born of the best intentions, but they must be rooted out u2014 and broken. From governance to manual provisioning, here's what's holding up your IT organization's ability to deliver results.

By Bob Lewis

Apr 19, 2018

12 bad habits that slow IT to a crawl

Bottlenecks always seem born of the best intentions, but they must be rooted out — and broken. From governance to manual provisioning, here's what's holding up your IT organization's ability to deliver results.

By Bob Lewis

Apr 19, 2018 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Tech Support Technology Industry

2 trends reshaping the future of IT support

We are in the early stages of a broader transformation in how enterprise organizations look at the role of support. In the near future, support will become much more automated, but will also become much more customer-facing.

By Charles Araujo

Apr 19, 2018

Your IT resolution for 2018: Build better budget habits

At this point in the year, you've likely abandoned all of your New Year's resolutions. But there's one you should stick with: rethinking the IT budget.

By Khalid Kark

Apr 19, 2018

Budgeting CIO IT Leadership

The IT skills gap: are companies missing the boat?

Are we taking the necessary steps to balance the supply and demand of tech workers? The answer to outsourcing could be starting with our students.

By Steve Cooper

Apr 18, 2018

IT Leadership IT Skills Staff Management

Establishing enterprise IT best practices for an SMB

Enterprises spend trillions of dollars each year on storage and security compliance. Here are some of the best practices that enterprise IT adhere to, and how small businesses could deploy similar systems for your own infrastructure setup.

By Chris Low

Apr 18, 2018 5 mins

IT Governance IT Leadership Small and Medium Business

160-year-old insurance giant transforms into a digital business

Northwestern Mutual's Karl Gouverneur discusses the insurance company's digital transformation journey and ITu2019s role in digital innovation.

By Martha Heller

Apr 18, 2018

CIO Digital Transformation IT Leadership

New AI tools make BI smarter — and more useful

Data science democratized: What used to take data scientists months to prepare may soon be put together in a few days by data-astute business users.

By Maria Korolov

Apr 18, 2018 10 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Business Intelligence

Improve end user device security and embrace the future via the cloud

Cloud has reshaped the client/server model. Are you evolving your architecture to suit?

By Larry Larmeu

Apr 17, 2018 8 mins

Cloud Security Network Security Technology Industry

IT effectiveness – Everyone’s desire, yet no one’s mandate

Technological innovations have been the primary driver of digital transformation until now. To maintain the momentum, digital transformation needs a corresponding wave of innovations in technology management. IT effectiveness is the strive to achieve

By Hakan Altintepe

Digital Transformation Financial Services Industry Technology Industry

Vision, alignment and the development of consensus

A vision document provides an efficient solution to find a consensus around what we will be building.

By Matt McBride

Artificial Intelligence IT Strategy Technology Industry

Navigating artificial intelligence strategy in your industry

Considering the impact of the artificial intelligence (AI) on your industry's business models, processes, products and services.

By Nicholas D. Evans

Apr 17, 2018 7 mins

Successful retailers make customers ‘fall in love’ with stores

Online shopping has shaken up the category, but physical retail u2013 with a big assist from technology u2013 will abide.

By Barbara Darrow

Retail Industry Technology Industry

Somewhere, hidden in the depths of your business, lies a threat you may never have considered. Lurking in the shadows, it silently multiplies beyond your control. It threatens your businessu2019 security and could cost you dearly under new regulatio

By Andy Berry

Big Data Regulation Technology Industry

Future-proof your IT career with these critical skills

In the era of digital transformation, IT pros must adjust to a rapidly shifting technology and business landscape. Hereu2019s a long-term look at where to aim your career in the years ahead.

By Mary K. Pratt

Apr 17, 2018 10 mins

Careers IT Skills

Customize your benefits to improve IT talent retention

Your valuable tech talent is more likely to stay if you offer benefits that match their needs u2014 as those needs evolve.

By Sharon Florentine

Apr 17, 2018 6 mins

Careers IT Leadership Staff Management

Who ‘owns’ the healthcare consumer of the future?

How the ongoing M&A scramble and the frantic pace of digitalization of healthcare are reshaping traditional relationships between healthcare consumers and providers.

By Paddy Padmanabhan

Digital Transformation Healthcare Industry Technology Industry

How to determine the value of enterprise data

The value of data is getting increasing attention from boards and CXOs as digital technologies disrupt entire industries, so getting a handle on the enterprise value of data is becoming more important for most corporations.

By Sanjay Srivastava

Technology Industry

Gender diversity doesn’t happen without advocacy

How mentoring programs are not enough to truly increase diversity in companiesu2019 leadership teams. Greater gender and ethnic diversity happens when advocacy from people in positions of authority embrace that responsibility.

By Nancy Novak

CIO IT Leadership Staff Management

Why the customer experience is the future of monitoring

Enterprise IT and business leaders are looking for technology solutions that help them simultaneously transform and reorient the organizationu2019s operating model around the customer experience, while being able to manage the complexity that such an

By Charles Araujo

Digital Transformation ITSM Technology Industry

11 bad hiring habits that will burn you

From dragging out the process to missing red flags, missteps in the hiring process can lead to talent shortages, retention issues and mismatches that often derail team cohesion and productivity.

By Paul Heltzel