feature What women want in the IT workplace: 6 key factors for hiring and retention Women are exiting IT in droves, as companies struggle to hire and engage these valuable employees. The first step to change? Listening to what women want. By Sharon Florentine Nov 1, 2019 11 mins Diversity and Inclusion IT Leadership Staff Management opinion Solving IT’s looming leadership crisis IT leaders are failing the next generation, but a one-on-one approach u2014 at scale — can make the difference. By Dan Roberts Oct 31, 2019 8 mins Careers IT Leadership IT Skills feature Blockchain for business: 5 promising pilots Big brands in financial services, logistics and other sectors are betting on blockchainu2019s potential to facilitate transactions and verify provenance of products. By Clint Boulton Oct 31, 2019 Digital Transformation Financial Services Industry Technology Industry feature Co-innovating with startups: 5 steps for success Startups can help your organization kick-start innovation. Hereu2019s how CIOs can hone their approach to courting fledgling vendors of emerging technologies while reducing risk. By Clint Boulton Oct 30, 2019 Digital Transformation IT Leadership Innovation interview Vanguard’s investment in agile pays employee engagement dividends John Marcante, CIO of Vanguard, discusses how agile development and product management are driving a culture of engagement and business outcomes at the large global investment advisory firm. By Martha Heller Oct 30, 2019 Agile Development Careers IT Leadership opinion 6 important steps businesses can take to monitor and support mobile workers Keeping team members connected to tools, resources, and information in a virtual work environment is of course, essential for success, but without the tools and your virtual environment can easily fall apart or become too overwhelming to manage. By Danielle Sabrina Oct 29, 2019 IT Leadership Staff Management opinion Chief Trust Officers: Why, who and when As markets continue to shift globally, organizations seek to differentiate on trust and transparency in addition to experience, engagement, price and quality. Data privacy has entered the C-suite as a catalyst for this level of differentiation and is By Richie Etwaru Oct 29, 2019 CIO IT Leadership opinion First, define “good” to scale your organization Reposition your organization for success by connecting your vision to behaviors for organizational growth. By Peter B. Nichol Oct 29, 2019 IT Leadership opinion What exactly is a data-driven organization? Understanding what makes a data-driven business is essential for any company wishing to remain relevant over the next decade. By Martin De Saulles Oct 28, 2019 IT Strategy Technology Industry opinion Ensuring CIOs are in the know CIOs need to achieve many things these days, but one of the most important is integrating themselves into the business. Easier said than done? Not necessarilyu2026 By Myles F. Suer Oct 28, 2019 CIO IT Leadership feature IT’s drive to improve the customer experience CIOs are hiring BRMs and BPOs, embedding IT in the business and sending IT staff into the field u2014 all in a quest to better court business customers. By Stacy Collett Oct 28, 2019 Business IT Alignment Digital Transformation IT Leadership feature MHBE proves the value of mobile for health insurance customers The Maryland Health Benefit Exchange worked around strict industry regulations to create a scalable online marketplace for customers to sign up, check their benefits and compare health insurance plans. By Sarah K. White Oct 28, 2019 CIO 100 Digital Transformation Healthcare Industry opinion Social media companies shouldn’t censor campaign ads from legitimate political candidates Congress needs to extend the old broadcasting rules against media control of candidate messages to cover cable and social media. By Mark MacCarthy Oct 24, 2019 Government Technology Industry opinion Make the right way the easy way If we want teams that are empowered to move quickly and safely, instead of giving them strict instructions on how to perform their jobs, we can make the right way the easy way, and allow the business to thrive. By Dave Mangot Oct 24, 2019 Devops Digital Transformation IT Leadership feature 6 tips for surviving digital disruption Once considered a competitive differentiator, digital transformation is now table stakes, according to Gartner, which offers tips for surviving disruption scenarios businesses may face in the year ahead. By Clint Boulton Oct 24, 2019 6 mins Digital Transformation IT Leadership feature Ticketmaster tackles tech debt with streaming data platform Online box office takes data science enterprise-wide without rewriting all its code. By Peter Sayer Oct 24, 2019 Data Science Digital Transformation Retail Industry feature 7 steps to turning around an inherited IT department Congratulations, you've just inherited your predecessor's IT dumpster fire. Now, it's up to you to get essential operations back on track. Here's how to get started. By John Edwards Oct 23, 2019 Digital Transformation IT Leadership opinion Restructuring IT for growth How Terex CIO Andrew Campbell turned the manufacturer's IT generalists into specialists who are true partners with the business. By Martha Heller Oct 23, 2019 7 mins Careers IT Leadership feature 7 tips for improving IT-marketing collaboration A strong relationship between IT and marketing correlates with improved business growth. Hereu2019s how to bury past frictions and build a better business-focused, cross-functional team. By Stephanie Overby Oct 22, 2019 Business IT Alignment Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business feature 4 steps to RPA success As companies move beyond limited RPA pilots to full-blown implementations, there are four practices to keep in mind to ensure things stay on track. By Beth Stackpole Oct 22, 2019 Robotic Process Automation opinion 5 primary activities for CIOs transforming to a data-driven organization No one said transforming to a data-driven organization was going to be easy… By Isaac Sacolick Oct 21, 2019 CIO Digital Transformation IT Leadership opinion Shifting the sustainability focus from the individual to the corporation There is too much focus on the individual when it comes to sustainability and being environmentally friendly. By David Mytton Oct 21, 2019 Technology Industry feature IT pros go back to school to advance their careers To keep pace with change, IT pros are enrolling in courses and programs aimed at expanding their horizons. Here are five areas that are paying off. By Bob Violino Oct 21, 2019 10 mins Careers IT Leadership IT Skills feature Miami Heat net higher sales with frictionless fan experience The Miami Heat boosts fan engagement with mobile ticket entry and payment services, coupled with a burgeoning analytics strategy designed to provide a 360-degree view of each customer. By Clint Boulton Oct 21, 2019 Digital Transformation IT Leadership news Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd dies Hurdu2019s death leaves Oracle in the hands of its other CEO, Safra Catz By Peter Sayer Oct 18, 2019 Oracle Technology Industry opinion I didn’t expect that 5 unexpected learnings from the past five years of IoT. By Scott Nelson Oct 17, 2019 Emerging Technology Innovation Internet of Things opinion How CIOs stoke the fires for the business engine of innovation CIOs tell me that they want to do more than align to the business agenda. They want a role in business innovation. But how do they achieve it? By Myles F. Suer Oct 17, 2019 CIO IT Leadership Innovation opinion Creating the IT culture you need Re-engineering your culture requires developing new core skills. Learn how three CIOs are tackling IT transformation from a human perspective. By Dan Roberts Oct 17, 2019 Careers IT Leadership IT Skills feature The turnaround: Inheriting digital transformation With digital transformations either stalled or splintered, newly hired CIOs must pick up where their predecessors left off and remake IT with a singular focus on supporting the business vision. By Clint Boulton Oct 17, 2019 8 mins CIO Digital Transformation IT Leadership opinion Digital health innovation: Addressing the two-canoe problem How leading health systems are balancing their immediate priorities with investments for a digital future in a value-based care era. By Paddy Padmanabhan Oct 16, 2019 Healthcare Industry IT Leadership opinion IT-as-a-business is dead. Long live BusOps Thanks to digital transformation, technology is embedded in every business process and practice your company relies on. Itu2019s time to take a tip from DevOps, and rethink the business-IT divide. By Bob Lewis Oct 16, 2019 Business IT Alignment Digital Transformation IT Strategy opinion Poor cyber resilience: an organization’s Achilles’ heel Research reveals a marked disconnect between the concern over cyber-risk concerns and the overall approach to managing it. By Marc Wilczek Oct 15, 2019 Data Breach Privacy Risk Management feature IT Resume Makeover: Restructuring for the C-suite In this resume makeover, Andrew Ysasi helps a candidate update his already-strong resume with better formatting and a more visually appealing design. By Sarah K. White Oct 15, 2019 CIO Careers Resumes feature 6 tips for recruiting college IT talent Don't fear the FAANG: A targeted recruiting approach focused on establishing relationships and showing candidates their future can help any IT organization succeed on campus. By Christina Wood Oct 15, 2019 10 mins Careers IT Skills Staff Management opinion 5 practical ways your organization can benefit from DevSecOps Behind the buzzword, is there a real need of and value for organizations in exploring DevSecOps? Itu2019s important to understand why DevSecOps matters in this day and age of security breaches and what the pragmatic benefits are for your organization By Ax Sharma Oct 14, 2019 Developer IT Strategy Security feature The rise of the chief experience officer As companies bear down on customer experience as a key differentiator, they are carving out a new CxO role. Are CIOs a natural fit for the new post? The answer is, it depends. By Beth Stackpole Oct 14, 2019 CIO Careers IT Leadership feature At Amtrak, business-IT co-creation engineers CX success Close collaboration between IT and marketing is helping Amtrak provide a more seamless omnichannel experience for passengers. By Clint Boulton Oct 14, 2019 Digital Transformation IT Leadership feature The customer journey map: A new playbook CIOs must master CIOs driving digital business strategy must master customer experience. That means working with marketing on a critical initiative: the customer journey map. By Clint Boulton Oct 11, 2019 Digital Transformation IT Leadership IT Strategy opinion Information technology – what is it good for? Technology fads come and go over time but the fundamental business benefits that IT can deliver remain the same. Any technology initiative that can produce dramatic improvements in process automation, data democratization or ease of use will material By Mark Settle Oct 10, 2019 IT Strategy Technology Industry opinion The new core competencies IT must master The technical skills that earned you a seat at the table won't earn you a voice at the table. A new set of skills is essential for high-level IT success. By Dan Roberts Oct 10, 2019 8 mins Careers IT Leadership IT Skills feature What is decision science? Transforming decision-making with data Decision science is one of the most interesting areas of data science for businesses but it needs to be part of the data science ecosystem your organization builds. By Mary Branscombe Oct 10, 2019 10 mins Data Mining Data Science Machine Learning opinion European Court of Justice ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling likely to be relitigated Love it or hate it, itu2019s clear that whether the EU can apply the GDPRu2019s u201cright to be forgottenu201d globally is in question. By Carl Schonander Oct 9, 2019 Government Legal Technology Industry opinion Are you creating a valuable employee experience? Are you participating in the generational shift taking place in how companies treat their staff? New research confirms that creating a positive employee experience pays dividends. Find out what it means for you and your organization. By Randy Pennington Oct 9, 2019 Careers IT Leadership feature 10 IT-business collaboration mistakes to avoid Ignoring conflict, missing out on post-mortems, failing to prioritize trust u2014 hereu2019s what is holding you back when co-creating and collaborating with business colleagues.u00a0 By Paul Heltzel Oct 9, 2019 Business IT Alignment CIO Small and Medium Business opinion How to prepare tomorrow’s workforce? Focus less on devices and more on digital thinking Improving a personu2019s digital literacy can help them work, think and communicate more effectively in a world driven by technology innovation, notes the CIO at Clemson University. And it all starts by re-thinking traditional approaches to education By Russ Kaurloto Oct 8, 2019 Careers IT Skills Staff Management feature The reverse pitch: Enlisting startups to hone innovation Aflac, Bayer and Bosch are among a growing number of enterprises leveraging the 'reverse pitch,' in which companies pose business challenges they will pay winning startups to solve. By Clint Boulton Oct 7, 2019 8 mins IT Strategy Innovation Startups feature Merck proves 3D printing’s transformative power Merck's core IT infrastructure team took the lead in helping the business innovate by exploring the transformative power of 3D printing. By Thor Olavsrud Oct 7, 2019 CIO 100 Digital Transformation Healthcare Industry opinion An achievable view of artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence has been the holy grail of computing for half a century. And like the mythical cup, it always remains just out of reach But there are ways to deploy a measure of real artificial intelligence that yields tangible benefits. By John McDowall Oct 4, 2019 Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Technology Industry opinion Bad beginnings have bad endings If you get off to a bad start on a project, you may never be able to recover. By Paul T. Cottey Oct 3, 2019 IT Leadership IT Strategy opinion 8 leadership lessons from Comcast’s Innovator-in-Chief Comcast tech executive Tony Werner shares what he's learned about great leadership. 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