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Should software developers have a code of ethics?

With great power comes great responsibility. As the details of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal reveal, the IT industry is still grappling with the question of how to deal with ethical dilemmas.

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Don’t wag the dog: digital transformation starts with company strategy

Today, headlines about digital transformation dominate blogs and journals. IT leaders feel that they should have already started their organizationu2019s transition into the digital age. But the amount of buzz around this trend shouldnu2019t force yo

By Mikhail Papovsky

Digital Transformation IT Leadership IT Strategy

Management requires special skills

4 criteria to consider before you start applying for that management role.

By Mike Sisco

IT Leadership IT Skills IT Strategy

Makeshift Society uses comedy to tell an important story about women in tech

A new TV series takes a funny-because-itu2019s-true look at a female founderu2019s journey to success in Silicon Valley.

Careers Technology Industry

Agile’s dark secret? IT has little need for the usual methodologies

For all its emphasis on collaboration and time to market, agile is all about product delivery u2014 not business improvement, let alone transformation.

By Bob Lewis

IT Governance Frameworks IT Strategy Project Management Tools

Leaving your job: What you can and can’t take with you

Outright theft is an obvious no-no, but there are still some gray areas when it comes to what you can take with you when you leave a job and what you could land you in legal hot water.

By Meridith Levinson, Sharon Florentine

Careers Legal Security

3 ways successful CIOs benefit from weather data, forecasts and alerts

How CIOs view the threat of weather and use that data.

By Mark Hoekzema

CIO Data Science IT Leadership

Portfolio velocity: the new measure of business value realized

Welcome to the last time you report on the number of projects your team delivered.

By Peter B. Nichol

CIO IT Leadership Project Management Tools

How to deal with legacy systems, the Achilles’ Heel of digital transformation

7 issues to keep in mind while dealing with legacy systems.

By Prashant Kelker

Digital Transformation Enterprise Applications SaaS

Best and worst practices in mobile expense management

Automation is the key in mobile expense management.

By Craig Riegelhaupt

IT Leadership IT Strategy Small and Medium Business

Denmark creates world’s first Tech Embassy to understand global tech giants impact on society

An interview with Casper Klynge, the newly appointed global tech ambassador of Denmark, the first position of its kind.

By Marquis Cabrera

Emerging Technology Government Technology Industry

Your technology suppliers provide a pipe, platform or other web-based application to enable their clients to do business over the Internet. Unless the client has stipulated their security requirements, the supplier is likely to only provide a basic s

By Rohan Light

Government Regulation Technology Industry

Slack anchors digital transformation at 21st Century Fox

Jeff Dow says Slack has become the hub of collaboration for the entertainment giant. Here Dow describes how Slack migrated from IT to the remaining business units.

By Clint Boulton

Mar 29, 2018 4 mins

Collaboration Software Enterprise Applications Small and Medium Business

Digital exhaust royalty: will it solve some of Facebook and Google’s personal data usage travails?

Has the time come now for users to be paid royalty for use of their u201cdigital exhaustu201d by corporations like Facebook and Google? Will a digital exhaust royalty framework be win-win for both: the corporations whose business model is based on th

By Deepak Seth

Mar 28, 2018 5 mins

Data and Information Security Privacy Technology Industry

Lessons for CIOs at legacy and digital native businesses

Digital transformation represents a key issue for all CIOs, but what do CIOs need to do to help their companies succeed at transformation?

By Myles F. Suer

Mar 28, 2018

Digital Transformation IT Strategy Technology Industry

Deconstructing silos in your enterprise service management towers of Babel

The most important goal is that all your employees understand each other.

By Nancy Van Elsacker Louisnord

Mar 28, 2018

IT Leadership ITSM

The human side of implementing AI

The issues holding back AI adoption arenu2019t technical. Hereu2019s how to navigate unrealistic expectations, change management issues and employees leery of AI job loss.

By Terena Bell

Mar 28, 2018

Artificial Intelligence IT Strategy Staff Management

Nearshoring and the human advantage: The risks and relationship-based rewards of nearshoring

Hiring an outside development company is hard, and itu2019s about to get even more complex. Digital transformation, automation and artificial intelligence are poised to generate great efficiencies, but they represent a great unknown. More than ever,

By Mike Barrett

Outsourcing Staff Management Technology Industry

How CIOs can empower today’s digital native workforce

Find ways to attract and retain a digitally native workforce.

By Paul Chapman

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Are the greatest IT change managers now facing the greatest change?

The role of the project managers is changing. Projects must mirror changing trends and adapt in terms of scope, domain, content and schedule to satisfy ever-faster business demands.

By David Cotgreave

Digital Transformation IT Leadership Project Management Tools

Ecommerce will be safer than ever thanks to blockchain technology

The current model has already proven itself to be insufficient, and the consequences of inaction could impact not just retailers themselves, but millions of users across the globe.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

Blockchain E-commerce Software Technology Industry

Your employee is as important as your customer

Treating employees like customers with employee service management.

By Steve Stover

Digital Transformation IT Leadership IT Strategy

Yin and yang: business and IT

Whatu2019s the single most important factor that drives your business? If you answered technology, you could be right one day, but business innovation could be the correct answer the next.

By Daniel Hebda

Enterprise IT Leadership IT Strategy

Healthcare IT: reading the tea leaves

What does the near-term future of healthcare IT and business in general look like? Here are 5 predictions…

By Avery Cloud

Healthcare Industry Technology Industry

Trust, partnership and agile

Building trust is not easy, but the steps are predictable for us all.

By Matt McBride

Agile Development IT Leadership

The evolution of devops from ‘Kumbaya’ to value

Weu2019re nearly 10 years deep in the devops movement. On the one hand, a great deal has been accomplished. On the other, many organizations still have a long way to go.

By Flint Brenton

Devops Technology Industry

Cryptocurrency and blockchain investor gives suggestions to global governments regulating new technologies

A talk with Miko Matsumura, who founded crypto exchange Evercoin and is a Venture Partner with BitBull Capital, on how governments might regulate blockchain and cryptocurrencies while still allowing for innovation.

By Marquis Cabrera

Government Regulation Technology Industry

Essential skills and traits of elite data scientists

These days the data scientist is king. But extracting true business value from data requires a unique combination of technical skills, mathematical know-how, storytelling, and intuition.

By Bob Violino

Analytics Data Science Staff Management

Women in tech: how to increase gender diversity

The sooner you address gender imbalance at your tech business, the sooner you can start reaping the rewards that increased gender diversity offers.

By Gianna Scorsone

Careers Staff Management Technology Industry

What ‘Ohio v. Amex’ really means for tech

Itu2019s not the get out of jail card critics say it is.

By Mark MacCarthy

Legal Technology Industry

2-step process: give and take advice

Embrace the power of the people around you: connect, share, grow and learn.

By Sue Weston

IT Leadership

IBM bets big on the ‘incumbent disruptor’

IBM's gambit will hinge on whether or not enterprise leaders can reshape and reorient organizations built for one era to meet the needs of the next.

By Charles Araujo

Blockchain Digital Transformation Technology Industry

Up, down or out? Perspectives on artificial intelligence in health care today

There are several high-value applications for artificial intelligence in health care. Challenges with underlying data sources and new ethical concerns have emerged as significant factors driving adoption.

By Paddy Padmanabhan

Analytics Electronic Health Records Healthcare Industry

How blockchain is disrupting the legal industry

For those in the legal profession, blockchain and its ramifications are likely to continue to be hot topics for the months and years to come.

By Kevin Rands

Blockchain Legal Technology Industry

Mark Zuckerberg’s Tylenol moment

It will be very expensive for the Facebook CEO to respond as decisively to fix his ailing social media platform in the spirit of James Burke, who successfully navigated Johnson & Johnson through its crisis of trust 35 years ago. It will be even m

By Mike Feibus

IT Leadership Privacy Social Networking Apps

Why a parent-friendly culture benefits your entire workforce

A flexible culture focused on u201coutcomes, not hoursu201d can boost participation in the workforce and keep employees engaged and loyal u2013 even if theyu2019re not parents.

Careers IT Leadership

Busting bias in AI

Bias in AI systems can lead to unintended consequences. Making sure you you understand the ways AI systems are interpreting the data they receive is one way to address the problem.

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Applications

3 tips for keeping the service you want despite net neutrality changes

Since the December repeal of net neutrality rules, there have been plenty of questions and concerns raised by businesses, consumers and lawmakers alike. Now is the time to start getting answers and take stock of the services you have and expect.

By Anna Frazzetto

Mar 22, 2018

Enterprise Internet Service Providers Regulation

Scaling EdTech to reach the next billion learners

How do we tackle the challenge of making educational technology that works for everyone?

By Alice Bonasio

Mar 22, 2018

Emerging Technology IT Skills Technology Industry

Why the industrial enterprise is moving to iOS

Why iOS may be just the kind of impactful disruption that the industrial enterprise needs.

By Nathan Brown

Mar 22, 2018 6 mins

Operating Systems Technology Industry

Bridging the cyber skills gap with automation

More than ever, we need automation to move security from human to machine speed.

By Mike Kail

Mar 22, 2018 4 mins

Data and Information Security IT Skills Technology Industry

16 tips for a smooth switch to agile project management

If your company is interested in making the switch to agile project management, here are some tips and strategies to help smooth the transition.

By Moira Alexander

Mar 22, 2018

IT Leadership Project Management Tools Software Development

5 reasons why technology selections matter in digital transformation programs and tips on evaluating winning platforms

Technology organizations driven to move faster may overlook important digital criteria that separate out winning platforms from others that may become tomorrowu2019s legacy systems.

By Isaac Sacolick

Digital Transformation Technology Industry

The importance of integrating legacy enterprises

In the digital age, the ability to integrate data, applications and process becomes critical u2013 and the ability to integrate at will becomes a competitive advantage.

By Myles F. Suer

CIO Enterprise Architecture IT Leadership

Female engineers need to fight their own battles

Female tech pros say mentorship and positive environments help, but the onus is on the individual to advance her career.

By Barbara Darrow

Careers IT Skills Staff Management

TOGAF and defining a digital vision

Embracing The Open Group Architecture Framework allows architects and organizations to adopt additional or fewer steps to match the culture and approaches required within the firm. Just donu2019t expect a tight, holistic view to come out of loosely c

By Ethan Pack

Digital Transformation Enterprise Architecture Technology Industry

Empowering everyone to be a developer with continuous learning

By changing the face of traditional education and traditional technology, we just may be able to quench the developer drought and move toward true empowerment and equality for all.

By Sarah Franklin