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IoT architecture: To run on the cloud or not?

The answer, as always, depends on the use case.

By Sanjay Srivastava

Cloud Computing Enterprise Architecture Internet of Things

Smart contracts are winning over tech startups

From banking, investment, and even business-to-business transactions, smart contracts are a key innovation that could open the doors to more mainstream acceptance of blockchain.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

Financial Services Industry Internet

Changing the definition of software testing in the AI era

AI-driven software requires an updated approach to software testing.

By Kumar Srivastava

App Testing Artificial Intelligence Software Development

10 key warnings for your Windows 10 migration

If youu2019re looking at a Win10 rollout, like Damocles staring at the sword, there are a few important tidbits that every executive needs to understand. Here is your report from the Win10 trenches.

By Woody Leonhard

IT Strategy Small and Medium Business Windows

The top 9 ITSM suite vendors for 2017

Gartneru2019s 2017 Magic Quadrant report stacks up the best IT service management vendors currently in the market. These nine vendors offer strong ITSM tools to suit businesses with a variety of complexity and needs.

By Sarah K. White

IT Governance Frameworks IT Leadership IT Strategy

The CIO identity crisis

The lack of a concrete definition for the CIO is making it hard for companies to find the right talent to manage critical cyber assets and investments.

By Christopher C. Barron

Oct 9, 2017

CIO IT Leadership Staff Management

5 ways newer ERP systems overcome traditional limitations

Consider one of the new breed of ERP when your ERP system needs a refresh

By Bart Perkins

Oct 9, 2017

ERP Systems Enterprise Applications

A maturity model for vendor relationships: you can’t marry all of them

Not all IT vendor relationships are destined to progress to the level of "strategic partnership." Some, in fact, may need to regress.

By Mikhail Papovsky

Oct 6, 2017

CIO Enterprise IT Leadership

Women deserve a say in tech product design and development

Women make up roughly half the human population. Yet their voices and their needs are continually ignored when it comes to designing and developing life-changing technology.

Careers IT Jobs Staff Management

Oct 6, 2017

Why CXOs need to jump off a plane

Being ready to metaphorically jump off a plane seems to be a key requirement to deal with the rapid pace of technological and organizational change. Discomfort is the new comfort zone, and individuals as well as teams must learn to adapt to that.

By Deepak Seth

Mentoring Personal Software Project Management Tools

How to avoid digital downfall: the Toys R Us case, part 1

Lessons learned from Toys R Us digital downfall, actionable insights into industry disruption's impacts on businesses and IT, and practical approach to digital strategy, innovation implementation, and digital transformation.

By Philippe A. Abdoulaye

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

What makes a winning product?

Why do some products succeed while other highly innovative products fail?

By Christoph Schell

Computers and Peripherals

The backward way of gathering enterprise software requirements

Organizations ask users for their requirements, only to find that when enterprise software goes live, it doesnu2019t meet user expectations. It turns out that we have been doing this backward for years.

By Chris Doig

IT Governance IT Governance Frameworks Project Management Tools

What Apple’s App Store can teach us about digital transformation

To help drive the company vision forward, CIOs need to decentralize IT and foster a culture of self-service not unlike that of Appleu2019s App Store.

By Ross Mason

Amazon.com Apple CIO

How to plan a CRM project that’s guaranteed to fail

We all want our CRM projects to succeed, and one way of making a winner is avoiding the characteristics of failed projects. Think of this article as a recipe for disaster and follow none of the advice herein.

By David Taber

CRM Systems Enterprise Applications Project Management Tools

CIOaaS? How IT partners must now have the flexibility of a yoga master

Your IT partner needs to be flexible in how it advises, designs and delivers IT services.

By David Cotgreave

IT Leadership IT Strategy

Everything-as-a-Service: seizing the next big cloud opportunity on the horizon

The emerging service economy is creating new market categories and providing ample room for growth for companies that can connect the external dots and minimize internal overhead.

By Marc Wilczek

Cloud Computing Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Building shared services in a culture of fierce decentralization

After implementing a centralized IT strategy, Magna International's CIO says complaints about IT fragmentation and costs have dropped and talk is more about how to "use technology for business benefit."

By Martha Heller

CIO Careers IT Governance

Remote work: A productive perk worth keeping

Thinking of curtailing your remote work options? Thatu2019s exactly the wrong way to encourage productivity and innovation u2014 and to attract and retain tech talent.

Careers IT Leadership Staff Management

6 tips to pick the right ICO

ICOs are high-risk, high-reward investments. Itu2019s important to know how much one is willing to invest and possibly lose before participating in one.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

Data Breach Internet Regulation

Ladies and gentlemen, restart your IT funding engines

Stronger collaboration between marketing and IT can be the road to success.

By P. Tracy Currie

IT Leadership Outsourcing Technology Industry

What to do before, during, and after meetings to make them more effective

As mobility continues to change the business landscape, CIOs are going to have to ensure that meetings keep pace.

By Paige O'Neill

Careers IT Jobs IT Skills

The CIO’s big challenge: Keeping employees intellectually stimulated

Unleash the true potential of employees by making them active participants in "innovation thinking."

By Deepak Seth

Emerging Technology IT Leadership Mentoring

Can managed services fit in a digital services model?

New digital models are disrupting managed services and leading enterprises to question their value going forward.

By Peter Bendor-Samuel

Digital Transformation Managed Cloud Services Technology Industry

3 questions from employees on digital transformation and how to answer them

Employees ask questions out of fear of losing their jobs, falling behind in skills, and not knowing how they can help their companies transform. Surfacing these questions and answering them can help bring on new drivers and participants in digital tr

By Isaac Sacolick

CIO Digital Transformation Mentoring

10 internet of things success stories

From government, to utilities, to logistics, the internet of things (IoT) is having a profound effect on many industries. Here are organizations from five verticals undergoing transformation thanks to innovative use of IoT technologies.

By Thor Olavsrud

Internet of Things Markets

Data governance: The discover phase

Starting with a discover phase for your data governance initiative will provide you with a greater probability of success.

By Nancy Couture

Oct 2, 2017 2 mins

Backup and Recovery Data Management

Bandwidth as a service: The End of DDoS?

Blockchain-oriented firms have started to tackle the twin problems of website security and communication speeds. Thanks to its decentralized and heavily encrypted design, blockchain is ideally suited for protection.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

Cybercrime Emerging Technology Security

Harnessing the power of Slack bots and apps in the workplace

All the team chat apps today allow using bots. Slack leads this area with its u201cappsu201d that even have the ability to post custom-formatted content directly to the chat.

By Chris Low

Collaboration Software Enterprise Applications Small and Medium Business

Getting big data right

The evolution of big data, data science and analytics was on full display at this yearu2019s Strata Data Conference with one overarching message: We need to get big data right.

By Charles Araujo

Analytics Data Science Predictive Analytics

3 steps to better confidence

Like Dumbo, we each have the ability to achieve greatness. It sometimes requires reframing your self-messaging to improve confidence and recognize your potential.

By Sue Weston

IT Leadership IT Skills

3 top things I look for when hiring a modern technology team

How to hire, build and retain a modern international technology team.

By Ryan Fay

IT Jobs IT Skills Staff Management

Digital transformation: Your career at a crossroads

IT leaders find themselves in need of new skills and strategies, thanks to digital transformation. Hereu2019s how to keep ahead of the curve before digital disruption curtails your career aspirations.

By Esther Shein

Careers Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Westfield woos customers with digital makeover of mall experience

Mall operators are countering retail store closures with digital technologies and new partnerships. At Westfield, that includes digital signage, smart parking and Uber deliveries.

By Clint Boulton

Digital Transformation IT Leadership Retail Industry

Welcome to the Hotel California of Artificial Intelligence

The Feast of the Beasts.

By Rene Buest

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Technology Industry

Getting to the collaborative mindset

While technology does get the most attention as the most critical for collaboration in an organization, it is actually the least critical factor for success. What is most critical is getting to a 'collaborative mindset.'

By David Coleman

Collaboration Software IT Skills Small and Medium Business

Digital health solutions: Forget the AI-washing. ROI is king.

The digital health landscape is in the early stages of maturity. Solution providers need to align with what healthcare executives are focused on, and not get distracted by shiny new slogans.

By Paddy Padmanabhan

Technology Industry

Why are women leaving technology jobs?

A look at the possible reasons why women are moving away from STEM careers.

By Jamie Mercer

IT Jobs Staff Management Technology Industry

Why the ‘cult’ mentality in IT hinders diversity

The persistent notion that a tech job should be not just your job but your hobby, your passion, your everything is detrimental to a more diverse tech workforce.

Careers IT Jobs Staff Management

In praise of paranoia

Paranoia is not seen as a good thing but it is increasingly necessary in the complex world of IT. As Andy Grove of Intel used to say, only the paranoid survive.

By Iain Smith

CIO IT Leadership

Why we need to change our approach to measurement to drive innovation

How do we measure the true impact of IT on the ability of a business to innovate and provide better consumer experiences?

By Vic Bhagat

CIO Digital Transformation Innovation

3 ways CIOs can beat the innovation curve

The innovation race is on. Will you be left behind?

By Kevin Rands

Sep 28, 2017 5 mins

CIO Digital Transformation Intellectual Property

Widespread cybercrime costs reaching $11.7 million on average per organization

Overall, breaches have increased by 23 percent over the previous year, and demand a security approach that builds resilience from the inside out.

By Marc Wilczek

Cybercrime Data Breach IT Leadership

Product management using business architecture

As product designs and launches become more complicated and are executed at a quicker pace, product managers and business/enterprise architects need to work together more often to deliver products.

By Daniel Lambert

Digital Transformation Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy

Duality of a CIO’s responsibility

Itu2019s not about keeping the trains on time vs. implementing the hyperloop. Itu2019s about doing both.

By Bask Iyer

IT Leadership

10 critical security skills every IT team needs

Focus on hiring talent with the following security skills and your team will be equipped to prevent, protect and mitigate the damage of cybersecurity attacks u2014 and speed recovery efforts.