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A new paradigm for cloud training

Leading enterprises have recognized that building skills from within is the best long-term solution to contend with the current skills gap, which is why a new paradigm for cloud training is needed.

By Stefano Bellasio

IT Skills Technology Industry

Strategic planning gets real when you connect strategy to delivery

The strategic planning process creates strategic roadmaps that make your plan actionable and track its execution enterprise-wide. With the right tools, you can compare scenarios, prioritize initiatives, monitor progress and iterate and execute to ach

By Greg Gilmore

Digital Transformation IT Leadership IT Strategy

Reaching the APEX

Describing the enterprise as a pyramid helps reveal the breadth and depth the EA function and helps define the necessary structure for an effective practice

By Ethan Pack

Enterprise Architecture IT Leadership

Where startups are impacting long-term change for CIOs

Startups are showing up in big ways when it comes to ePrivacy, microservices, and fighting for talent. These are long-term shifts CIOs should keep in mind when it comes to figuring out what to devote attention and resources to.

By Dave Welsh

CIO IT Leadership Startups

Why companies end up spending more on digital technologies than anticipated

Digital technologies are like animals that travel and hunt in packs.

By Peter Bendor-Samuel

Budgeting ROI and Metrics Technology Industry

Prioritizing projects

Understand the context in which project prioritization methods are designed and managed. With this foundation you will be enabled to build a well-tuned model for prioritization.

By Avery Cloud

Aug 6, 2018 6 mins

IT Leadership Project Management Tools

When an IT project isn’t an IT project, engagement soars

Calling an IT project "an IT project" may be doing your project a disservice.

By David Cotgreave

IT Leadership Project Management Tools

Can Centers of Excellence become a separate line of business in software outsourcing?

The current competition on the software development market is so intense that awards, conferences, partnerships and other marketing crafts fade in the buzz. To win the race for a dream customer, the creative providers create a halo of uniqueness arou

By Boris Kontsevoi

Enterprise Applications Outsourcing

Why organizations must act like software companies with agile, devops, APIs and analytics capabilities

More evidence showing that business that successfully invest and deliver technologies outperform their peers and capture most of the market share.

By Isaac Sacolick

Digital Transformation Technology Industry

Is your data center dust?

Is it time to stop investing in applications that are on-premises?

By Myles F. Suer

Budgeting Data Center IT Strategy

A CIO’s dashboard must show bench strength. Does yours?

With more complete employee data at your fingertips, you can mitigate talent risk and make better decisions.rn

By Steve Trautman

CIO IT Leadership Staff Management

How to build the next generation of IT leaders

Forward-thinking CIOs are setting up their organizations for sustained success by anticipating, articulating and developing the skills IT will need at the top in the years ahead.

By Mary K. Pratt

CIO Careers IT Skills

Yamaha revs up digital strategy in race for new revenue

Yamaha CIO Glenn Coles is banking on digital and mobile channels, augmented reality and customer data to bolster the recreational vehicle manufacturer's fortunes.

By Clint Boulton

Digital Transformation IT Leadership IT Strategy

Reverse hybrid cloud: how the cloud is moving on-premises

Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services are moving into private data centers.

By Stephen Watts

Cloud Computing Data Center Hybrid Cloud

Millennials say no to legacy software

For your upcoming software purchases, think beyond the feature set and cost axes. Make it a strategic goal to have a modern ecosystem using ubiquitous, current technologies. Top talent wants more than high pay. Give them something to get excited abou

By Nathan Brown

Enterprise Applications IT Skills Staff Management

How to make the most of a tech bootcamp

Bootcamps provide quick access to sought-after skills, but it takes drive and ambition to transform a few months of hands-on instruction into a full-fledged career.

By Sarah K. White

Careers IT Skills

CIO Spotlight: Jamshid Rezaei, Mitel

Rezaei discusses Mitelu2019s digital transformation, the goal of improved customer service, and how he measures success.

By IDG Connect

Careers IT Leadership

Are open-office plans sexist?

A study from U.K. researchers shows how open-office plans can be subtly u2014 and overtly u2014 sexist.

By Sharon Florentine

Careers IT Jobs Personal Software

Project managers need to be warriors, not bookkeepers – or your projects are doomed

Project management is about leadership. Learn to develop, hire and celebrate the warrior project managers.

By Jim Haskin

IT Leadership Project Management Tools

Developing your talent

Some concrete steps CIOs take to develop IT talent.

By Myles F. Suer

IT Leadership IT Skills

Remote workforce challenges are increasingly being met with telecom expense management: IDC survey

Rapidly expanding remote workforce + fast evolving mobile telecom technology + ever-changing carrier rate and equipment plans = big challenges for enterprise telecom managers. New survey by IDC finds four most significant challenges for managers. The

By Craig Riegelhaupt

IT Leadership Staff Management Technology Industry

Leverage video to boost digital workplace experiences

When evaluating video communications and collaboration solutions, donu2019t make decisions in a vacuum. Factor in the overall impact on the digital workplace and other technology investments and initiatives.

By Dave Smith

IT Skills Video Videoconferencing

7 signs you have a sexual harassment problem

Do you have a Harvey Weinstein-style sexual harassment problem brewing right in front of you? Would you know?

By Christina Wood

Analytics Healthcare Industry Technology Industry

IT Leadership

How blockchain is impacting information security in companies

Blockchain has the ability to impact and disrupt multiple business sectors; and as hacking, phishing and security threats are becoming more prominent, companies are turning to groundbreaking technologies to protect not only their information, but the

By Philip Kushmaro

Aug 1, 2018

Blockchain Security

How health care orgs are addressing AI challenges

Health care companies are embracing artificial intelligence for everything from drug research to diagnostics, but challenges centered around privacy, data and the AI u2018black boxu2019 remain.

By Maria Korolov

Aug 1, 2018

3 reasons CRM financial analysis always fails

A smart person once said, 'As long as you're asking the wrong questions, it doesn't matter what answers you come up with.' When it comes to making the business case for CRM, the CFO is likely to ask too many of the wrong questions

By David Taber

Aug 1, 2018 10 mins

CRM Systems Enterprise Applications

How IT is helping to create a culture of consumerism in healthcare

CIO Jonathan Shoemaker explains how Allina Health is turning patients into customers using technology and tools regularly used by retailers.

By Martha Heller

Aug 1, 2018

CIO Digital Transformation Healthcare Industry

5 top blockchain trends of 2018

Watch for Internet of Things connectivity, increased use of smart contracts, increased regulation, content streaming, and blockchain in the jobs market.

By Kevin Rands

Blockchain Technology Industry

The consumerization of the workplace is changing collaboration

The consumerization of the workplace is here to stay, and it is transforming the way your teams work together.

By Andrew Filev

Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Recognizing and solving for AI bias

AI is unlocking tremendous value for businesses by solving many last-mile automation problems that previous waves of technology could not address. But just like any technology early in its evolution and application, there are a few things to watch ou

By Sanjay Srivastava

Analytics Artificial Intelligence

Business excellence: why sound business methods fail so often

Donu2019t confuse the scaffolding for the building.

By Stephen Parry

BPM Systems IT Leadership

8 secrets of effective change leaders

Change doesnu2019t come easy. Hereu2019s how transformational leaders inspire their organizations to take on new ways of thinking and working in the digital era.

By Mary K. Pratt

Digital Transformation IT Leadership Project Management Tools

Farmers Insurance scales training with virtual reality

Farmers Insurance Group leverages VR to accelerate the training of its claims adjusters by giving them the opportunity to experience thousands of scenarios.

By Thor Olavsrud

CIO 100 Digital Transformation IT Skills

CIOs reveal their security philosophies

Global IT leaders describe their approaches to cybersecurity application and communication.

By Brendan McGowan

CIO IT Strategy Security

Do you have a plan for harnessing IoT data?

As things become more connected through the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence will become more powerful. But, raw IoT data alone isnu2019t enough to uncover the true value of AI.

By Chris Curran

Analytics Business Intelligence Internet of Things

More artificial intelligence options coming to Google Cloud

At Next 2018, Google announced it is making Nvidia's Tesla P4 GPU available as a cloud service, enabling more businesses to get started with AI projects quickly.

By Zeus Kerravala

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing

Undercover Boss: a powerful CX insight tool

A conversation with Chief Customer Experience Officer Shane Bray about experiencing what customer engagement agents experience.

By Howard Tiersky

IT Leadership Relationship Building

How a grassroots approach can tackle the digital skills gap

The problem of equipping the next generation with the skills to have a healthy and productive relationship with technology seems a daunting one for many educators. Yet successful initiatives show how a community-level approach can effectively empower

By Alice Bonasio

Careers IT Skills

Can blockchain rescue journalism?

Falling print ad margins and loss of online ad revenue to aggregators have put publishers and content creators in a bind.

By Barbara Darrow

Blockchain Financial Services Industry Internet

10 reasons to ignore computer science degrees

Many organizations are looking beyond the CS degree to hire programmers who can deliver real results. Here's why they might be right.

By Anonymous

Jul 30, 2018 10 mins

Careers IT Skills Staff Management

UPS counters Amazon.com challenge with IoT, analytics

IoT sensors and data about delivery routes and vehicles are helping UPS fend off Amazon.com, its No. 1 threat in the shipping business.

By Clint Boulton