feature Multi-cloud strategy: Pros, cons and tips Flexibility and feature functionality are among CIOs' reasons for embracing a multi-cloud strategy. Experts explain the pros and cons of multi-cloud strategy and offer tips to get there. By Clint Boulton Oct 3, 2019 7 mins Cloud Computing feature Hiring STEM OPT employees: What businesses need to know Everything you need to know about the DHS's STEM Optional Practical Training program — and what is required to hire and employ STEM OPT student workers. By Sharon Florentine Oct 3, 2019 8 mins H-1B Visas IT Skills Staff Management opinion How Amazon, Walgreens and Walmart are changing the landscape for online patient experience A slew of consumer health apps from non-traditional players have hit the market lately. Traditional healthcare providers are also stepping up to meet consumer needs and preferences. 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By Adam Mansfield Oct 1, 2019 Enterprise Google Microsoft opinion Shift your focus from technology acquisition to real solutions and outcomes Enterprise buyers don't just want technology…they're looking for business solutions. By Dave Smith Oct 1, 2019 IT Strategy Technology Industry feature Innovative CIOs strike back against digital disruption CIOs from every industry are looking to outmaneuver startups by taking a page from the disruptor's playbook to deliver innovative digital products and services. By Clint Boulton Oct 1, 2019 8 mins CIO Digital Transformation Innovation opinion 5 technical capabilities required in modern enterprise data strategies Becoming data-driven requires an ongoing commitment to excellence. It's not simple, but it shouldn't be daunting, either. By Isaac Sacolick Sep 30, 2019 Data Management IT Leadership IT Strategy opinion A multi-channel approach to experimentation Engage your business partners and customers where they are by creating a multi-channel approach to experimentation that positions your organization as a technology leader. By Jose Hernandez Sep 30, 2019 IT Leadership Innovation opinion Want to be a good leader? Learn how to fail forward Instead of avoiding failure, the most successful leaders fail fast…and bounce back stronger than ever. By Sue Weston Sep 30, 2019 IT Leadership opinion What about Toastmasters? If Toastmasters provides you with a space and ready audience for the regular practice of the basic tenets of business presentation, great. But remember why you are there. By Theodore May Sep 30, 2019 IT Leadership IT Skills feature 6 strategies for avoiding cloud vendor lock-in A credible threat of defection can help you leverage competitive pricing opportunities and escape long-term relationships gone bad. By Bob Violino Sep 30, 2019 Cloud Computing IT Strategy feature FedEx Cloud Dojo accelerates digital transformation FedEx needed experts to build and operate a cloud platform. So CIO Rob Carter found a solution in the Cloud Dojo, a bootcamp for cloud-native engineers. By Clint Boulton Sep 30, 2019 Cloud Computing Digital Transformation IT Skills opinion The 5 ways strategic partnerships fuel uncommon growth Tangible ways a strategic partnership channel can drive otherwise unrealized growth. By Pankaj Bengani Sep 27, 2019 IT Strategy Technology Industry feature How to predict who will quit — and whom to poach Predictive analytics can help pinpoint why your talent is leaving, how to prevent it, and whom to go after when recruiting from competitors. By Sharon Florentine Sep 27, 2019 Big Data IT Jobs Predictive Analytics opinion Strategic partnership: A magic bullet for enterprise innovation Strategic partnerships have emerged as an opportunity to help enterprise businesses scale. Make sure your organization doesnu2019t get stuck on the sidelines! By Pankaj Bengani Sep 26, 2019 IT Strategy Technology Industry opinion Big business: You, too, can growth hack Big businesses have a lot of potential to unlock and can be scrappy to great effect if they push traditional approaches aside. The key is to always keep rethinking and continue reinventing. By Sandeep Chouksey Sep 26, 2019 IT Leadership IT Strategy Innovation feature The CIO’s chief of staff: A force multiplier CIOs canu2019t do everything themselves. They need someone to help manage strategy and innovation. Enter the chief of staff. By Dan Roberts Sep 26, 2019 Careers IT Leadership news 9 key takeaways from SAP TechEd Las Vegas SAP seeks to simplify app development on its cloud platform, while helping customers make the most of machine learning. By Peter Sayer Sep 26, 2019 ERP Systems SAP Technology Industry feature CIO succession planning in the digital age The tech talent squeeze means CIOs must build deep leadership benches. Here, CIOs and analysts reveal how to groom high potentials for top roles. By Clint Boulton Sep 26, 2019 CIO Careers IT Skills opinion Have you dusted off your incident response plan? As security incidents are more prevalent these days, we are seeing organizations that aren't sufficiently prepared because their incident response plan was outdated or non-existent. By Brian E. Thomas Sep 25, 2019 Data Breach IT Strategy Ransomware feature IT’s latest survival skill: Embracing risk In todayu2019s digital business world, IT has to stop playing it safe, as you canu2019t innovate without taking some risks. Still most IT professionals remain deeply risk-averse. By Minda Zetlin Sep 25, 2019 IT Leadership IT Strategy Innovation opinion RPA – useful for business, or more trouble than it’s worth? In certain industries – or even specific departments within any enterprise organization – Robotic Process Automation can free employees from repetitive, manual tasks so they can focus on more important, higher-value work. But is it worth the investme By Ginevra Adamoli Sep 24, 2019 BPM Systems ERP Systems Technology Industry opinion Is it even possible to overcome built-in AI/ML bias? As artificial intelligence and machine learning permeate every facet of our lives, machines are coming closer and closer to acquiring human-like language capabilities. Research has uncovered that, without intention, business and moral decisions are b By Robin Austin Sep 24, 2019 Machine Learning Staff Management Technology Industry feature Explainable AI: Bringing trust to business AI adoption For many organizations, AI remains a mystery not to be trusted in production, thanks to its lack of transparency. But demand, advances, and emerging standards may soon change all that. By Maria Korolov Sep 24, 2019 15 mins Artificial Intelligence news Microsoft expands Dynamics 365 with e-commerce, in-store modules Microsoft is tailoring its CRM tool for retail, and tuning it to deliver more insights from data. By Peter Sayer Sep 24, 2019 Microsoft Retail Industry Technology Industry opinion How much cybersecurity funding is enough – is it a bottomless pit? No matter how much you spend on cybersecurity, thereu2019s no guarantee you wonu2019t have a significant incident. How do senior management and the board know what makes sense? By Michael Gabriel Sep 23, 2019 Budgeting Data Breach IT Leadership opinion As cognitive technologies take hold, preparing your workforce for change is key Enabling technologies like AI, machine learning and RPA will eliminate jobs and open doors to new opportunities. Here are one IT leader's tips on what you can do today to prepare people for a new era of human-machine interaction. By Greg Simpson Sep 23, 2019 5 mins IT Jobs IT Skills Staff Management feature Make way for the new CIO: The chief innovation officer The chief innovation officer role has increased in visibility, thanks to digital transformations, which often include the two flavors of CIO working in tandem. By Esther Shein Sep 23, 2019 13 mins CIO IT Leadership Innovation news 11 key takeaways from Oracle OpenWorld 2019 Autonomous Linux, digital assistants, and closer work with Microsoft, VMware and others were among the highlights from this yearu2019s conference. By Peter Sayer Sep 23, 2019 Blockchain Oracle Technology Industry opinion Why it’s time for a strong federal privacy law A federal privacy statute can harmonize privacy law, leave room for states to regulate/enforce and enable American global tech policy leadership. By Carl Schonander Sep 20, 2019 Government Legal Privacy opinion Moving operations to ‘Simple’ with Cynefin Part of the responsibility of high-performing Operations teams is to keep the developers moving as fast as possible. Using the Cynefin framework, we have a way of characterizing our initiatives and shaping their outcomes, to achieve maximum throughpu By Dave Mangot Sep 19, 2019 Devops IT Leadership opinion Redefining omnichannel: The challenge for technology leaders For technology leaders, now is the time to invest in the right technology to pave the way for omnichannel success. By Carl Perry Sep 19, 2019 IT Strategy Technology Industry opinion Digital platforms are under attack The state AGsu2019 new antitrust investigation and Californiau2019s new independent contractor law both target digital platforms. Ironically, that could be their defense too. By Mark MacCarthy Sep 19, 2019 Government Legal Technology Industry opinion 12 dark secrets of technical debt Software development is never done. Whatever feature requests that fall by the wayside or later crop up become an amorphous, hard-to-define debt with payback rules all its own. By Peter Wayner Sep 19, 2019 Enterprise Architecture Software Development feature Anatomy of a succession plan: How Rosendin Electric’s CIO filled his own shoes Sam Lamonica is retiring after working a decade as the electrical contractoru2019s CIO. This is the story of how he groomed his replacement. By Clint Boulton Sep 19, 2019 CIO IT Leadership Staff Management opinion Delegation IS leadership development CIOs need to be open to delegation and learn to do it effectively as they themselves grow into more strategic leaders. By Tony Gerth Sep 18, 2019 IT Leadership IT Skills feature Tableau explains your data with new natural-language tool Tableau latest self-service capability, Explain Data, provide users with automated analysis of their data visualizations in ways they can readily understand. By Peter Sayer Sep 18, 2019 Analytics Business Intelligence Technology Industry feature 7 ways to foster greater IT creativity Creativity is the spark that ignites innovation. Creating a team that's eager to apply IT knowledge in new and exciting ways can lead to long-term, enterprise-wide benefits. By John Edwards Sep 18, 2019 IT Leadership Innovation feature How Estée Lauder Companies developed a culture to attract and retain IT talent Michael W. Smith, CIO of The Estu00e9e Lauder Companies, has initiated an impressive array of programs to attract and retain IT talent at the nearly $15 billion global prestige beauty company . By Martha Heller Sep 18, 2019 10 mins CIO Mentoring Staff Management opinion The promise – and potential pitfalls – of blockchain technology Blockchain's distributed database technology has the potential to solve a number of headaches in the enterprise. But to get to the reality of what's possible, CIOs will have to cut through a lot of hype. By Ginevra Adamoli Sep 17, 2019 Blockchain Technology Industry news Oracle goes all in on cloud automation Oracle adds more automation, business networking, recruitment tools and a plethora of digital assistants to its cloud apps. By Peter Sayer Sep 17, 2019 ERP Systems Oracle Technology Industry opinion Feeling handcuffed by your current IT vendor? Here’s how to increase your renegotiation leverage With the average size of renegotiated contracts ranging from $20-40 million and renegotiation frequency increasing, customer negotiating teams can no longer hand the perceived switching cost advantage over to the vendors. By John Belden Sep 16, 2019 Budgeting IT Leadership opinion Are you ready to become a digital technology leader? In u201cDesigned for Digital," which will be released next week, the authors suggest that winning at digital requires more than a mastery of social, mobile, analytics, cloud and IoT. It requires the willingness to experiment and to create new di By Myles F. Suer Sep 16, 2019 Digital Transformation IT Leadership IT Strategy feature Raytheon’s cloud-based test bed takes risk out of innovation Implementing new technology in the defense industry comes with a lot of considerations. Here's how Raytheon development a virtual environment for experimentation without risk. By Sarah K. 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