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7 considerations when creating a corporate innovation lab

How do I understand the consequences of technological change and position my company to capitalize on the opportunities?

By Chris Davis

IT Leadership Innovation Technology Industry

Sherlock Holmes – the original enterprise architect?

Sherlock Holmes had a keen ability to see minute details often overlooked by other investigators, but also possessed a unique capability to stitch together clues and apply context to arrive at the correct answers that eluded others.

By Daniel Hebda

Data Management Enterprise Architecture Technology Industry

How consumer technologies are impacting IT

Leveraging and meeting employee expectations that have been set by consumer technologies.

By Jim Haskin

Consumer Electronics Technology Industry

How to maintain progress toward becoming a collaborative digital workplace

A digital workplace is a new paradigm for collaboration and teamwork u2013 but getting there wonu2019t happen overnight.

By Paige O'Neill

Collaboration Software Digital Transformation Small and Medium Business

CIOs, listen up: voice recognition meets the printer!

Voice/speech recognition is increasingly a part of the new technology paradigm the CIO is confronted with. The sector is rapidly evolving and what was hitherto considered a home-fad is rapidly making inroads in the office environment. Google, Siri, A

By Deepak Seth

Artificial Intelligence CIO Internet of Things

Think you’ve created an agile business culture? Not so fast

Understanding the clash between IT and end-users and how to foster agility.

By Nathan Shinn

Dec 4, 2017

IT Leadership IT Strategy Software Development

Staying competitive, one API at a time

Talking APIs, fintech and digital banking with Sonia Wedrychowicz, Head of Consumer Banking Technology at DBS Bank in Singapore.

By Jill Dyché

Dec 4, 2017

Financial Services Industry IT Leadership

A change success manager could revolutionize your business

Stealing the role of customer success manager from the world of SaaS is the key to making your digital transformation efforts a success.

By Braden Kelley

Dec 4, 2017

IT Leadership

5 tips for speeding up the hiring process

If youu2019re losing out on top tech candidates, you might want to speed up your hiring process. Hereu2019s how to ensure you remain competitive without compromising the quality of your hiring experience.

By Sarah K. White

Dec 4, 2017 5 mins

Careers IT Leadership Staff Management

Lifting big data to the sky: Hadoop-as-a-Service is gaining rapid traction

The cloud is becoming the location of choice for organizations expediting their digital activities. Here's what to consider when evaluating a HaaS provider.

By Marc Wilczek

Big Data Hadoop Technology Industry

AI strategies – know thy capabilities

Companies that are successfully embracing AI are committed to transformation programs. Top management will need to embrace change and be able to comprehend the necessary capabilities to deliver their strategies without directly or indirectly overprom

By Mitch De Felice

Dec 1, 2017 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation IT Leadership

3 steps to greatness

Strategies for claiming recognition at work.

By Sue Weston

IT Leadership

Investing in women: How The Helm is shaking up the VC world

Lindsey Taylor Wood and Erin Shipley, along with Emily Verellen Strom, founded The Helm to disrupt the pipeline of capital for women founders.

By Sharon Florentine

Careers Technology Industry Venture Capital

12 tips for using DevOps to fuel digital transformation

DevOps can help your organization accelerate software and services delivery. IT leaders from Intuit, MetLife and Red Hat outline key points CIOs can follow as they look to support their digital transformations with DevOps.

By Clint Boulton

Digital Transformation IT Governance IT Strategy

CEO Andy Jassy reveals AWS’ plans for the IoT

If we can really u201crain downu201d machine learning combined with modular computing, connectivity, and closed-loop controls in a secure framework at the edge u2013 we wonu2019t be u201cwaitingu201d for IoT success anymore.

By Scott Nelson

Internet of Things

How cloud impacts APIs and microservices

What strategies are companies employing for migrating legacy apps to the cloud?

By Peter Bendor-Samuel

Digital Transformation IT Strategy PaaS

How CIOs can relieve the tension between security and network operations

If businesses are to become agile, dynamic organizations, the tension between the security and network teams must go away. A security delivery platform will help align the teams.

By Zeus Kerravala

CIO IT Strategy Network Management Software

Why an outsourced ERP system support desk could be the answer

For many businesses, supporting their ERP system internally can prove to be a time-consuming and costly procedure. Outsourcing the requirements to a specialist service provider can often prove to be a more cost-effective decision.

By Ryan Warnock

ERP Systems IT Leadership Outsourcing

Why weather data is now your business

4 strategies for CIOs to maximize the value of advanced weather data.

By Mark Hoekzema

Analytics Big Data Disaster Recovery

Outsourcing remains strategic in the digital era

Companies racing to digitalize their businesses are adopting cloud computing at a rampant rate. But traditional outsourcing also remains a crucial option for CIOs looking to free up valuable IT resources.

By Clint Boulton

Digital Transformation IT Strategy Outsourcing

CIO reflections on Dreamforce

Some key takeaways from Salesforce's colossal conference.

By Myles F. Suer

Nov 29, 2017

CIO Careers IT Governance

How to ensure IT works on the right projects

To keep Veritiv's technology priorities straight, CIO Dave Hudson applies a combination of vision, goals and governance.

By Martha Heller

Nov 29, 2017

Ready or not, here they come

A lack of operational readiness when IT go-lives begin can throw participants into confusion and panic u2013 and an otherwise well-run IT project will be perceived a terrible failure.

By Avery Cloud

IT Leadership Project Management Tools

Agile Scrumban: the best approach for customer success

An 'Agile Scrumban'u00a0solution, a combination of the Scrum framework and the Kanban system, both associated with agile, is ideal for managing customer success.

By Tim Conder

CRM Systems Software Development

Smarts from within: 3 reasons to embrace machine learning

Why investing in machine learning technology and AI capabilities makes sense to drive smarter and more automated enterprise service management.

By Steve Stover

ITSM Machine Learning Technology Industry

Align your IT and business strategy…or else!

Understanding the business strategy is vital to adding real IT value. Hereu2019s whyu2026

By David Cotgreave

CIO IT Leadership IT Strategy

It was never about ITIL

Really. It never was.

By Joel Pomales

ITIL ITSM Technology Industry

Got SD-WAN?

SD-WAN offers multi-cloud enablement, improved network performance, centralized control and cost rationalization opportunities for the forward-thinking CIO.

By Deepak Seth

Nov 28, 2017 8 mins

Enterprise Architecture Networking SD-WAN

Adopt real-time data analytics or get left behind

As innovators race toward real time, the wise CIO is one who embraces the fastest and most efficient means of analyzing data.

By Jindou Lee

Analytics CIO

How blockchain tokens can be key to nurturing ecosystems

Ultimately, successful ecosystems are those that inspire users to consolidate activities within them. Tokens make the participation in these ecosystems not only convenient but also potentially profitable.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

E-commerce Software Payment Systems Technology Industry

H-1B visa changes – IT service providers hedging their bets

Will their customers feel the impact?

By Greg Hall

Government IT Skills Technology Industry

5 resume tips for aspiring executives

Writing an executive-level resume requires a unique approach. Hereu2019s how to craft your experience and accomplishments into a resume fit for an executive role.

By Sarah K. White

Careers IT Jobs IT Leadership

12 myths of data analytics debunked

From data concerns to staffing needs to technology combinations, data analytics misconceptions abound. Hereu2019s a no-bull look at how to leverage data science to deliver bona fide business results.

By Bob Violino

Data Mining Data Science IT Strategy

How to determine, document, and communicate your project scope

Determining, documenting and sharing a project's scope can be complicated and stressful. Here are a couple of business leaders willing to share how they go about it and what they found to be successful.

By Moira Alexander

Nov 24, 2017 6 mins

IT Leadership Project Management Tools

Information Is Beautiful has a fantastic visual breakdown of how tech companiesu2019 workforces compare against the overall U.S. population.

By Sharon Florentine

Nov 22, 2017

Technology Industry

CIOs need to focus on customer experience now

A Five9 survey shows customer service experience has overtaken price, product quality and all other factors as the top factor for customers when deciding with whom to do business.

By Zeus Kerravala

Nov 22, 2017

Digital Transformation IT Leadership Technology Industry

A software developer makes a great executive advisor

Often, itu2019s a management consultant who gets the call for help. But, for most IT issues, executives need to also talk to software developers for their advice and perspective.

By Mikhail Papovsky

Nov 22, 2017

CIO Developer IT Leadership

New technologies take aim at IT’s diversity problem

From the job description to the workplace, female entrepreneurs are designing new tools to mitigate bias in hiring, company culture and decision making.

By Terena Bell

Nov 22, 2017 8 mins

Careers Staff Management Startups

The rationale behind cryptocurrencies

The modern crypto revolution did not start overnight…

By Chris Low

Financial Services Industry Technology Industry

Stop talking about mission, vision, strategy and tactics

How to avoid business terms that create more confusion than clarity.

By Henrik-Jan van der Pol

Are you a Great Dane or a Chihuahua?

There are all sorts of techniques to estimate development tasks u2013 dog breeds, t-shirt sizes u2013 but whatu2019s the best one?

By Eugenio Bartolo

Agile Development Digital Transformation IT Leadership

9 ways you’re failing at business intelligence

Solid business intelligence is essential to making strategic business decisions, but for many organizations, BI efforts are derailed by poor data practices, tactical mistakes and more.

By Bruce Harpham

Analytics Business Intelligence IT Strategy

The secret to orchestrating your digital mess

As the enterprise tech market expands to include more types of digital experiences, orchestration tools will become the secret sauce to keeping both internal and external experiences cohesive and seamless.

By Chris Stone

CIO CRM Systems Technology Industry

5 technologies disrupting the app development industry

Developers who want to be at the top of their game will need to roll with the times and constantly innovate, whether theyu2019re playing around with new form factors or whether theyu2019re learning to code in a new language.

By Kevin Rands

Developer Internet of Things Technology Industry

Excellence is not optional

Repeatability is the key to consistent results at scale.

By Andrew Filev

How to narrow the CMO-CIO divide

In the absence of common performance metrics linked to business outcomes, u201cwho should own IT?u201d is a debate about authority without accountability.

By Hakan Altintepe

How to manage the millennial mindset

Millennials are rapidly redefining workplaces in the U.S. and around the globe. For those of us in the IT sector, what does it take to successfully manage and motivate this growing force?

By Anna Frazzetto