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Digital transformation 2025: What’s in, what’s out

This year CIOs will want to increase focus on developing AI-ready employees, improving data governance, and enhancing training efforts rather than take a moonshot approach to delivering AI-infused transformation.

Your CEO has little idea who IT is or what IT does

Business execs are almost entirely lost when it comes to understanding the people and processes of your technology organization — and that’s a problem, yours specifically.

Nvidia unveils generative physical AI platform, agentic AI advances at CES

Nvidia has announced world foundation models (WFMs) for creating generative physical AI to power autonomous factories and warehouses, traffic control systems, and even surgical rooms.

With o3 having reached AGI, OpenAI turns its sights toward superintelligence

OpenAI’s newest, most performant model, announced in December, has passed the ARC-AGI test, purportedly outperforming most humans. Now Sam Altman says the company is looking to go far beyond that.

Microsoft will invest $80B in AI data centers in fiscal 2025

More than half of these data centers are expected to be built in the US, Microsoft President Brad Smith said.

9 IT resolutions for 2025

From delivering more value from AI initiatives to empowering their teams, CIOs share their plans for elevating their IT organizations in the year ahead.

What is an EPMO? Your organization’s strategy navigator

If your organization struggles to turn strategy into results, you’re not alone. C-suite leaders are often frustrated by projects that don’t deliver business outcomes, which can derail growth, drain budgets, and stifle competitive advantag

AI as a growing child: How we can shape its future responsibly

Designed to examine human development, ecological systems theory when applied to AI reveals the interconnected layers that guide its growth — and its need for governance.

Download the ‘Top Certifications for Hot IT Careers’ Enterprise Spotlight

In this issue, we survey the top certifications for some of the most desirable IT roles in today’s technology market.

NACD report: Boards need greater oversight, deeper insights, and foresight of enterprise technology

Without adequate oversight, it’s impossible to get reliable insight. Without reliable insight, foresight of enterprise technology will be wrong, incomplete, a bad bet, a waste of money, or non-existent.

Gen AI in 2025: Playtime is over, time to get practical

Pilot fatigue, aimless experimentation, and failure rates have many organizations shifting generative AI investments toward more targeted — and promising — business use cases.

Tractor Supply’s Rob Mills on the CIO as chief growth officer

The lifestyle retailer’s IT chief shares how his IT organization has helped foster transformational growth opportunities for a business that always puts its customers first.

How AerCap’s CIO has been a catalyst for a robust M&A strategy

In a 25-year career as a CIO, Jörg Koletzki learned hard lessons about supporting business growth through M&A, and gained vital experience to merge two market leaders in the aircraft leasing industry.

What fuels Soltour’s strategy of digitalization and innovation

With an eye on the year ahead, CIO Miguel Abril outlines the Spanish tour operator's digital transformation strategy, and delves into key priorities to remain competitive.

6 ways you’re failing at change management

Technical transformations are all too often derailed by poor change management strategies. Here’s how organizations unknowingly set themselves up to not succeed.

30,000 examples of how Ikea works with AI

In addition to broad efforts in data strategy, a large cross section of employees has attended full-time AI training to build a more vigorous workforce.

The long-term impacts of AI on networking

Analyzing AI traffic flows is critical in choosing cluster network hardware, say enterprise IT professionals who found they knew little about AI network needs until they ran their own trials.

Change management: Achieve your goals with the right change model

To be successful, change management is a must. Learn more about the methods and models of change management that can significantly increase the success of your transformation projects.

12 AI predictions for 2025faster and more widespread adoption

This year we’ve seen AI move from pilots into production use cases. In 2025, they’ll expand into fully-scaled, enterprise-wide deployments.

Corporate One enables immediate payments with Data Orchestration Hub

By giving access to the industry’s new payment rails, Corporate One members can make immediate payments easier and faster.

Critical warning from Microsoft: .NET install domains changing

Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions installation tools 'dependent on some of the resources,' the company says; less than two weeks to make the change.

The Special Olympics embarks on digital journey to empower its athletes

Strategic partnerships, operational efficiencies, and a cloud strategy that emphasizes training tools and accessibility are helping the nonprofit better serve its unique and talented community.

What is data governance? Frameworks, tools, and best practices to manage data assets

Data governance defines roles, responsibilities, and processes to ensure accountability for, and ownership of, data assets across the enterprise.

Network problems delay flights at two oneworld Alliance airlines

American Airlines flights were grounded for up to an hour on Dec. 24, while 71 JAL flights were delayed and four cancelled on Dec. 26.

What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one

IT consultants advise and support businesses in designing, developing, and executing technology implementations in service of business goals. Here’s what you need to know about an IT consultant’s work and career.

6 ways to turn your IT help desk into a strategic asset

The help desk is often seen as IT’s purgatory — for the issues it addresses and the staff working there. But strategic intelligence and opportunity lurks in this IT ‘dungeon.’

Tech supply chains at risk as the US launches probe into China’s legacy chip dominance

The Biden administration has alleged that China’s dominance stems from anti-competitive practices, including cyber intrusions, forced technology transfers, and underpricing chips by 30% to 50% — often below production costs.

8 major IT disasters of 2024

Major CrowdStrike outage overshadowed most other IT problems, but this year also saw IT systems accusing employees of theft, and PC makers shipping devices with malware.

The 4 key aspects of a successful data strategy

If you want to exploit the potential of your data, you need to develop a data strategy. This includes not only technology: processes, organization and culture should also be examined.

Trump taps Sriram Krishnan for AI advisor role amid strategic shift in tech policy

The appointment signals a strategic focus on AI innovation, data governance, and US enterprise competitiveness.

IT leaders’ top 9 takeaways from 2024

CIOs share insights on the lessons they’ve learned this year about navigating change — and helping others do the same — while getting real about AI and leading IT initiatives exclusively with business value in mind.

SAP customers still slow to deploy AI broadly

Organizations are interested in leveraging AI to optimize internal processes and analyze data for insights, but security, data quality, and governance remain hurdles.

Mastering Azure management: A comparative analysis of leading cloud platforms

In this article, we will understand the core components of the Azure cloud computing environment and how enterprises can master them.

Sweat the small stuff: Data protection in the age of AI

Businesses everywhere are making moves to adopt AI technologies and protocols in their organizations. Yet, as this wave unfolds, it has created a complex security landscape where organizations are uncertain about the undefined AI risks and boundaries

GAO report says DHS, other agencies need to up their game in AI risk assessment

Findings reveal agencies responsible for US critical infrastructure have work to do; analyst is not surprised.

WordPress.org statement threatens possible shutdown for all of 2025

The move likely won’t have direct impact on most enterprise users, but indirect impact — which could be just as bad — is a definite possibility.

Does SAP reward systematic bullying?

Female former employees of SAP’s BPM division Signavio are making serious accusations against a senior manager — and the company management.

United Airlines sets its flight plan for gen AI success

The Chicago-based airlines has moved beyond the pilot phase with production LLMs built on a strong data foundation in the cloud.

What is data architecture? A framework to manage data

Data architecture translates business needs into data and system requirements, and seeks to manage data and its flow through the enterprise.

A manager’s story of transforming decision-making and sales with AI-powered BI and analytics

Learn how one company leveraged a modern BI and analytics platform to overcome fragmented data, empower its team, and drive significant sales and operational efficiency improvements. Understand the key considerations for selecting and implementing a

IDC chief research officer: GenAI, from experimentation to adoption

Climate tech opportunities for IT pros

For IT pros who want to work in in the climate tech space, there are ample jobs in a number of industries.

How will AI agents be priced? CIOs need to pay attention

Salesforce has priced its agent per conversation, but several other pricing models are emerging. The best choice depends on how much an organization uses agents.

5 job negotiation tips for CAIOs

As you look toward a possible next role as a chief AI officer, here are five keys to negotiate your offer before embarking on your first 90 days.

Salesforce’s Agentforce 2.0 update aims to make AI agents smarter

The second release of Salesforce’s agentic AI platform offers an updated reasoning engine, new agent skills, and the ability to build agents using natural language.

European authorities say AI can use personal data without consent for training

The European Data Protection Board advised national regulators to allow personal data to be used for AI training, as long as the final product doesn’t reveal personal information.

When voice deepfakes come calling

What call center agents don’t know can hurt you.

Is SaaS dead? Not quite, but it’s evolving rapidly

Buyers are consolidating, pricing and delivery models are shifting, and AI is (of course) having a major impact, but vendors aligned with customer value will survive – and thrive.

Infosys co-founder says 70-hour workweek is India’s answer

The consulting giant’s Narayna Murthy still believes 70 hours per employee weekly will help Indian citizens living in poverty by making India innovation No. 1.

Ride the AI wave: Learn to flow

The workplace is disengaged and drowning in distraction. AI is the answer, not the threat. Learn how to flow with AI to unlock human potential and dominate the future of work.