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How RTC and Black Wings support women in tech

Rewriting the Code’s Black Wings empowers Black women and helps break down barriers in tech by providing mentorship, networking, and professional development opportunities to members.

How to avoid the hidden costs of onboarding

The success of any organization hinges on its ability to attract and retain top talent, and onboarding is a critical step in the hiring process. Getting it wrong can mean valuable time, money and promising talent lost.

AI priorities: IT leaders emphasize productivity over innovation

Many IT executives see AI as a tool to reduce employee headcount, and nearly half don’t expect to pay more for new AI features from their current IT vendors.

How company philosophy transcends tech at Cisco

CIO Fletcher Previn reveals his vision of a cultural roadmap for the multinational tech developer that accommodates AI regulations, internal tech projects, and a balance between legislation, innovation, and risk.

IDC launches TechMatch to help businesses select software vendors

The AI-enhanced tool provides self-service vendor evaluations backed by analyst input.

Can AI live up to its promise?

The realm of artificial intelligence, long a source of imaginative tales, has transitioned into a robust and evolving discipline. It's emerging as a major catalyst for societal transformation.

Product-based IT: 6 key steps for making the switch

Shifting to product management from a traditional project-based approach has its challenges. Ensuring IT operations and service delivery are aligned to business outcomes is the key to success.

KeyBank CIO Amy Brady heeds the transformative call of IT leadership

Brady has built an impressive career in the financial services industry, moving from the business side into IT at a time when technology was becoming banking’s primary agent of change.

Startup Opkey launches agentic AI platform for ERP lifecycle optimization

The test automation startup’s ERP Lifecycle Optimization Platform aims to revolutionize how enterprises configure, test, and support ERP operations via AI agents.

IT infrastructure: Inventory before AIOps

If you want to take advantage of the possibilities offered by automation and AIOps, you first need to get your IT infrastructure in shape. However, modernization involves a great deal of homework.

What gives IT leaders pause as they look to integrate agentic AI with legacy infrastructure

Complexity and security are primary concerns but enterprises first have to ensure they have a modern stack.

Salesforce and Google expand partnership to bring Agentforce, Gemini together

The expansion of the strategic partnership will enable customers to build Agentforce AI agents using Google Gemini and to deploy Salesforce on Google Cloud.

Is your business data forward enough to capitalize on what’s coming?

Data-forward isn't tech; it's a mindset. Ditch silos, speak one language and let insights drive human-powered innovation. Are you ready?

CIO hiring on the rise: How to land a top tech exec role in 2025

Job opportunities are picking up for CIOs and other IT leaders in 2025, but so are expectations, with AI, change acceleration, and business transformation at the top of most companies’ wish lists.

How CIOs can help the future suck less than the present

It is time for IT leaders to embrace positivity and provide a ‘can’t wait to get there’ picture and path to the future.

6 reasons so many IT orgs fail to exceed expectations today

CEOs may be less impressed with their IT organization’s performance, but vague expectations, misapplied metrics, and resource issues are playing a role.

IT leaders: Perform these 3 actions in 2025, says PwC

The accounting firm says ambitious CIOs have a golden opportunity to be more strategic this year as they help organizations hire key talent, navigate complexity, and modernize data.

How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

A Grant Thornton audit reveals systemic governance, expertise, and vendor management failures led to catastrophic ERP rollout.

AI humanoid robots inch their way toward the workforce

Generative AI and mechatronics advances from a slew of vendors could soon remake the ‘smart robot’ marketplace in a range of industries, but costs, capabilities, and use cases remain hurdles.

Better student housing with a unified data platform

As real estate developer Article Student Living looked to the future, the team knew they needed a network of prop tech solutions and data streams to create a holistic strategy. Here, Erica White, SVP of technology and strategic innovation, explains h

Download our CIO Pulse AI priorities survey

Industry analysts predict huge growth in investment in AI, and 80% of CIOs surveyed say it is critical to their operation. But for CIO priorities, AI falls behind many other areas, including security, risk management, and digital transformation.

Why HR professionals struggle with big data

Many organizations struggle with prolonged vacancies and stalled human resource development. This problem could be addressed if employers honestly considered three key questions.

Outdated business apps can cloud your AI vision

Legacy apps may not collect enough data for AI to be effective, and the cost of maintaining them can take money away from AI projects. Modernization and integration can help.

Six Sigma certification: The six-level path to Master Black Belt

Six Sigma is a quality management framework that businesses use to streamline business processes. Earning these certifications can demonstrate you have the right skills and knowledge to assist on Six Sigma projects in your organization.

‘Teleportation’ breakthrough could solve quantum computing’s scalability problem

Researchers have developed a distributed quantum algorithm that makes it possible to link small quantum units together, which could lead to functioning quantum computer systems on a large scale.

SAP taps Splunk’s Simon Davies to lead reorg’d APAC region

Paul Marriott passes the helm to the former Splunk exec who had previous stints with Salesforce and Microsoft in the region.

Musk’s plan to replace government workers with AI could create chaos

Without human oversight, a technocrat-led plan to push AI tools into government could mistakenly deny benefits and strand citizens in ‘endless loops’ of appeals, AI experts say.

EuroStack: Europe’s path to digital independence?

The EuroStack initiative aims to reduce Europe’s technological dependency through European solutions — but is the budget sufficient?

Beyond the hype: 4 use cases that show what’s actually working with gen AI

The numbers are starting to come in, and many companies report that some gen AI investments are starting to pay off — but not all.

The people and AI that fuel Repsol’s digitalization

The multinational energy and petrochemical company doubles down on its transformation and commitment to gen AI as the pace of progress quickens.

Synthetic data takes aim at AI training challenges

Organizations are expected to increasingly turn to computer-generated data to protect customer privacy and deliver the volumes of data necessary to build better AIs.

Data center spending to top $1 trillion by 2029 as AI transforms infrastructure

AI is driving an unprecedented transformation in data centers, with global data center CapEx spending projected to more than double from $430 billion in 2024 to $1.1 trillion by 2029.

Prioritizing AI investments: Balancing short-term gains with long-term vision

AI's impact demands attention. Start with data quality, then build platforms for machine learning and genAI. Agentic AI is coming, but you must offset shiny objects with practical innovation for long-term value.

8 reasons your cloud costs are too high

Are your cloud costs soaring into the stratosphere? You’re likely to find the cause by looking inward.

Why the CIO role should be split in two

The CIO role is being splintered into too many mini-CIO positions, bringing increasingly problematic complexity to IT strategy. It’s time to rethink how we divvy up IT leadership.

Black IT leaders weigh in on what DEI means for IT

Black technology leaders share how attention to diversity, equity and inclusion has benefited individuals and organizations.

What’s changing the rules of enterprise AI adoption for IT leaders

The barriers to entry for AI developers just got much lower, and that’s good news for businesses deploying AI.

CIOs and CISOs grapple with DORA: Key challenges, compliance complexities

Now in force, DORA has proved challenging for many IT leaders to achieve compliance, particularly around third-party providers, suppliers, and subcontractors.

How AI is empowering tech leaders — and transforming procurement

AI is revolutionizing procurement by automating routine tasks, improving decision-making, and enhancing efficiency. It’s also enhancing strategic procurement, helping procurement teams drive long-term value for their organizations.

8 tips for being a more decisive leader

Making decisions is an important part of leadership. But being decisive is an art. These tech leaders have mastered it.

6 revealing stats about career challenges Black IT pros face

Opportunity and advancement in IT are anything but equal. Survey data sheds light on the roadblocks Black IT pros still experience in trying to get ahead.

Which risk assessment frameworks do you use?

SAP aims to unify data for AI, analytics with new Business Data Cloud

SAP is partnering with Databricks to offer advanced data science and AI capabilities within Business Data Cloud.

AI’s achilles heel: Securing the next revolution

AI is revolutionizing business, but its vulnerability to attacks and ethical breaches is a ticking time bomb. Learn how to secure your AI future before it's too late.

SAP builds new business suite in the cloud

SAP is taking more control: From the new Business Suite to the Business Data Cloud and the AI apps, everything is to be pre-configured in the cloud.

CIOs look beyond ‘Big 3’ cloud providers for AI innovation

Athos Therapeutics’ decision to go niche with a GPU-as-a-service from upstart Vultr could point the way forward for similar organizations with specialized AI needs.

Nationwide’s Jim Fowler on reshaping business and the future workforce

The insurance giant’s EVP and CTO sees a bright future for IT in digitizing the ordinary things workers do in order to humanize the extraordinary things they do.

Hesitant digitization hamstrings manufacturers’ outlook

Instead of digitizing processes quickly, many companies in the manufacturing industry are standing still — and thus are in danger of falling further behind.

From data to decisions: Graham Construction’s digital journey

From data silos to AI-ready, learn about one leader's journey building a unified data strategy, fostering diversity and navigating the future of tech.

The low-code lessons CIOs can apply to agentic AI

If you’re searching for a playbook for successful gen AI adoption, look back at what works for citizen developers.