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Advancements in project portfolio management of technology investments

If you are responsible for managing portfolios of technology programs and projects, your success in maximizing business outcomes with finite resources is vital to your companyu2019s future in a digital world. New management techniques can help you br

By Hakan Altintepe

Jan 31, 2018

Driscoll’s cultivates digital strategy with AI, blockchain

The berry producer is exploring emerging technologies to establish a holistic view of the business, from research and development to business operations.

By Clint Boulton

Jan 31, 2018 6 mins

Digital Transformation IT Strategy Supply Chain Management Software

6 ways to find AI talent—are you looking in the right places?

Where can you find the talent you need to deploy AI in your organization?

By Chris Curran

Jan 30, 2018 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Staff Management Technology Industry

Thriving in the speed age: 3 questions to rev up your decision cycle

When you remove decision cycle bottlenecks, the results can be remarkable.

By Erik Larson

IT Leadership IT Strategy

Top 3 strategies to help you hire tech professionals faster

Speeding up your hiring process is a proven strategy that yields access to higher quality hires, savings on related costs and resources, potentially higher acceptance rates and enables you to net high-end talent faster.

By Gianna Scorsone

IT Jobs Staff Management Technology Industry

Starting with prototyping? Wait

By jumping straight into prototyping, you reduce or eliminate strategic outcomes.

By Pradeep Henry

3D Printers IT Strategy Technology Industry

The battle between ERP and CRM for B2B commerce

Change can be intimidating, and ERP loyalists must either adapt or risk losing market share.

By Ray Grady

CRM Systems ERP Systems Technology Industry

Digital disruption: software testing with machine learning

The sooner you can implement an in-house AI platform to assist you in your application testing, you will discover a more accurate and efficient deployment with reduced effort.

By Brian E. Thomas

Jan 30, 2018 4 mins

App Testing Machine Learning Technology Industry

5 top trends driving digital agendas in 2018

Digital technologies will continue to offer companies the opportunity to radically alter their business models, transform operations and create better customer experiences.

By Sanjay Srivastava

Digital Transformation IT Strategy Technology Industry

Navigating the Chinese cloud

Chinese startups leverage the cloud to navigate legal and intellectual property (IP) risks internationally u2013 you should do the same.

By Tim Molino

Cloud Computing Intellectual Property Regulation

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey’s DX dive into virtual medicine

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey takes the next step in its digital transformation, which includes digital doctors, an agile culture and helping customers get a better handle on healthcare.

By Tim Scannell

Digital Transformation Emerging Technology IT Leadership

10 under-the-radar cities with great tech career opportunities

Just off the well-trod IT path are 10 smaller metro areas that offer incredible job opportunities, short commutes, lower cost of living and amazing quality of life.

By Sharon Florentine

Jan 30, 2018 6 mins

Careers IT Jobs Salaries

Big data is not a barrier to entry

Just as big data is not the u201cnew oilu201d or u201cinformation infrastructure,u201d neither is it a barrier to entry. Companies have vast quantities of new and free data available to them.

By Mark MacCarthy

Big Data IT Strategy Technology Industry

Predictive software engineering: the ultimate way to deliver working software

The framework consists of seven specific concepts. Together they ensure transparency, as well as render the process controllable and predictable in its essence.

By Boris Kontsevoi

CIO Developer Development Tools

Hybrid cloud holding you back? Try Microsoft Azure Stack

Supported by the right network and services, enterprises can use a hybrid cloud platform to comply with data regulations, streamline devops and support edge applications. Azure Stack is a case in point.

By Brandon C. Curry, Jeffrey Bannister

Cloud Computing Hybrid Cloud IT Strategy

15 places to use requirements when selecting enterprise software

Not understanding how important requirements are and where they are used is the root cause of most problems with implementing software.

By Chris Doig

Enterprise Applications

Apple and the democratization of patient health records

Appleu2019s new announcement last week is not just about their entry into the EHR market. Itu2019s the beginning of the democratization of personal health records.

By Paddy Padmanabhan

Electronic Health Records Healthcare Industry Technology Industry

The Big-D Jargon Hit list: Cutting out Disintermediation

Purging overused buzzwords opens our minds to the new realities of succeeding in business today

By Adam L. Stanley

Enterprise IT Leadership

5 steps to build a business case for customer journey mapping

Customer journey mapping is crucial to helping your company improve the customer experience and building brand loyalty. Now to argue for it.

By Daniel Hebda

Digital Transformation E-commerce Software IT Leadership

AI becomes the game changer in the public cloud

Today, the artificial intelligence (AI) hype wouldn't exist without cloud computing. Only the easy access to cloud-based innovative AI services (machine learning etc.) and the necessary and fast available computing power enable the developments

By Rene Buest

Jan 26, 2018 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Management Technology Industry

How big data is disrupting the gaming industry

For gaming companies that are in it for the long-run, they need to use all the tools they have access to and use them to their fullest potential u2013 and this now includes big data analysis.

By Kevin Rands

Jan 26, 2018

Big Data Gaming

94 women entrepreneurs on how to fix sexism in the VC world

Amanda Greenberg's survey offers suggestions for addressing sexism in the tech venture capital world.

By Sharon Florentine

Jan 26, 2018

Digital Transformation Healthcare Industry Small and Medium Business

VITAS improves hospice care with mobile transformation

To accelerate data entry, VITAS Health equipped its clinicians with iPhones and iPads, giving them more time to care for bed-ridden patients. The mobilization paves the way for a greater, cloud-first digital transformation.

By Clint Boulton

Jan 26, 2018

Want a job in data analytics? Here’s why you should consider health and wellness

Professionals with a background in data analytics are in high demand. Find out what an analytics career in the health and wellness industry offers that other industries donu2019t.

By Kevin Troyanos

Healthcare Industry IT Jobs Technology Industry

Log-scale gains for your digital transformation

Donu2019t fall behind from your inability to build the infrastructure thatu2019s required for your business.

By Mansour Karam

Digital Transformation Technology Industry

A process model for measuring relationships with COBIT

Expanding your relationships requires first measuring them to determine how effectively youu2019re building credibility.

By Peter B. Nichol

CIO IT Leadership IT Strategy

Leveraging business capabilities for strategic planning

Changing how IT goes to market with a common language for business improvement.

By Chris Davis

IT Leadership IT Strategy

Taking machine learning to new heights using Docker containers

Joining the robust capabilities of containers and the innovative technology of machine learning presents new challenges, but new opportunities as well.

By Brian E. Thomas

Jan 25, 2018 4 mins

Containers Machine Learning Technology Industry

5 ways for public sector leaders to accelerate innovation in 2018

Different approaches that can help to further advance the way ideas are sourced, shared, scoped and shepherded through the innovation process, so that public sector organizations can improve the yield of ideas moving through their pipelines.

By Nicholas D. Evans

IT Strategy Innovation Technology Industry

Who cares about your IT initiative?

We often get distracted by the strategies and tactics of a given IT initiative when looking for reasons it performed the way it did. Thereu2019s a bigger, less tangible reason for why a project succeeds or fails: is it in the hands of someone who car

By Mikhail Papovsky

IT Leadership IT Strategy

Want a more diverse workforce? Hire bootcamp graduates

Coding bootcamps are producing more than double the number of graduates as the U.S.u2019s largest traditional CS programs, and those graduates are far more diverse.

By Sharon Florentine

Careers IT Leadership Staff Management

5 artificial intelligence trends that will dominate 2018

Everyone is talking about machine learning, deep learning, and AI. Here are five AI trends to watch in 2018.

By Thor Olavsrud

Analytics Artificial Intelligence IT Strategy

CIO Digital Magazine: Winter 2018

The 2018 State of the CIO survey found stronger cooperation and better alignment between IT and its LOB partners, especially as digital transformation initiatives heat up.

By CIO staff

Jan 24, 2018 2 mins

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Is Ethereum’s smart contract dominance being eroded?

Smaller companies that offer vast improvements over Ethereum's use of smart contracts.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

E-commerce Software Financial Services Industry Technology Industry

Data is not the new oil or the infrastructure of the digital economy

Some are claiming that data is the u201cnew oil.u201d Some claim that data is infrastructure. Both of these assertions are false.

By Mark MacCarthy

Analytics Big Data Data Management

CIOs: Are you ready for the BIoT? Making sense of blockchain joining the IoT

Blockchain technology doesnu2019t just power the worldu2019s cryptocurrencies u2013 it could potentially unleash the scalability of the IoT by addressing key security concerns u2013 and it may overhaul your core business strategies in the process.

By Steve Weston

Internet of Things Technology Industry

Establishing role-based access control in the workplace

Access control is necessary, and every organization must implement it in some form.

By Chris Low

Access Control Data and Information Security Technology Industry

Missile launches, false alarms and a user experience wake-up call

It's long past time for enterprise leaders to see the role of the interface and the importance of the customer experience in its rightful, mission-critical place.

By Charles Araujo

The revolution finally hits business software

The last generation of business software was built by engineers. The next generation is being built by designers and engineers.

By Nathan Brown

Enterprise Applications Graphic Design Tools

The ABCs of a singular global IT architecture

How Chad Couch, CIO of Brightstar, embedded IT into the customer experience, integrated service lines, and made IT central to the business rather than just an order taker.

By Martha Heller

CIO Careers Staff Management

Can AI predict when that new hire will quit?

New pattern matching tech takes aim at predicting how long new hires will stay, potentially saving employers billions per year. But has AI really cracked the code on employee retention?

By Terena Bell

Jan 24, 2018 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers Staff Management

Immersive learning transforming education

Mixed Reality is increasingly being used to teach the creative and collaborative skills needed for the digital age.

By Alice Bonasio

Technology Industry Virtual Reality

Key cloud trends for 2018

Some realizations that enterprises are likely to have about how the cloud impacts their business.

By Kumar Srivastava

Cloud Computing Technology Industry

How BRMs can tap into the value of business architecture

Wondering how to drive value realization through an enterprise? The blueprint of the enterprise holds many answers.

By Peter B. Nichol

CIO IT Leadership IT Strategy

Most ICOs are dubious – but it’s still the future of software economics

Crowdfunding mechanisms such as initial coin offerings (ICOs) are going to fundamentally disrupt software economics.

By Lucas Geiger