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5 tips for career rebranding

Changing careers can be difficult and daunting. Here are 5 quick tips for making a career change and rebranding yourself professionally.

By Mike Morrow

LinkedIn Mentoring Resumes

Lending as a service (LaaS) and why it matters

Traditional financial services providers have tightened their lending requirements, leaving many small business owners with few channels to uncover the capital they need.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

Cloud Computing Financial Services Industry

3 keys to negotiating successful cloud agreements

It is almost impossible to avoid the cloud in any sized organization, but negotiating with your software provider means several key considerations need to be addressed to ensure you execute a best-in-class cloud agreement.

By Adam Mansfield

Cloud Computing Microsoft

Why CIOs must bet on enterprise cloud to boost digital business

Actionable perspectives, strategies, and approaches to win big with enterprise cloud in the flourishing digital business.

By Philippe A. Abdoulaye

Cloud Computing Digital Transformation Enterprise Architecture

How the API economy is igniting a cultural shift in businesses

As the fast eat the slow, CIOs need to redefine the role of IT and enable the broader business to speed up the pace of innovation through self service.

By Ross Mason

APIs Digital Transformation IT Leadership

IT success means improving ‘time to value’ for the business

Steve Ambrose, CIO of DTE Energy, realized IT had to change its definition of success u2014 to connect it to business value. Now it bakes business outcomes into the IT culture.

By Martha Heller

CIO Digital Transformation Staff Management

Workplace flexibility: Your key to hiring and retaining the best

If you want to hire and retain the best tech talent, you have to be flexible. Workplace flexibility is fast becoming a must-have perk for candidates and employees alike; itu2019s even more important than healthcare.

By Sharon Florentine

Careers IT Leadership Staff Management

TGI Fridays’ quest to reinvent happy hour (and itself) with chatbots and IoT

To return to relevancy in an increasingly digital world, the casual dining chain is developing chatbots and experimenting with bar-top tablets, personalized TV services and other IoT technologies to lure more millennials to its restaurants.

By Clint Boulton

Digital Transformation Internet of Things Retail Industry

Splunk’s CIO on DevOps, APIs and the evolving role of IT

In this Q&A, Splunk CIO Declan Morris shares insight into the technology approaches that will enable Splunk to double revenue in the next three years.

By Ross Mason

APIs Devops Digital Transformation

Bimodal transformation: Avoiding five common pitfalls to success

A bimodal transformation approach can instill innovation, provide a less-risky way to experiment, and encourage change. But it's critical that companies stay focused on a well-defined project plan and keep sight of any potential impediments to s

By Sanjay Srivastava

Digital Transformation IT Strategy Innovation

The CIO’s data dilemma: The paradox of plenty?

Classical data strategies have focused on "what the data looks like" and can it provide "answers." Newer approaches provide the ability to move beyond that to "how can I use what I have" and can it provide "directio

By Deepak Seth

Business Intelligence Data Warehousing Enterprise Architecture

How should tech companies invest in the next generation and prepare for the future?

A playbook for hiring the top IT talent of the future.

By Flint Brenton

Digital Transformation IT Jobs IT Skills

Back to the (SQL) Future, Part 3

In the first post in this series, I discussed the emergence of NoSQL to address the need to make databases compatible with cloud needs. And in my last blog post, I talked about the dichotomy between smart databases and smart applications. I asked whe

By Barry Morris

Cloud Computing Data Management SQL

IT relevance and delivery model changes when moving to digital models

How ITu2019s value is becoming more relevant in a digital age.

By Peter Bendor-Samuel

Digital Transformation IT Leadership Technology Industry

Artificial intelligence and digital communication are disrupting the contact center space

How do you know what to focus your R&D resources on right now? The Innovator's Dilemma is happening right now in the contact center space. Artificial intelligence and digital communication is changing everything.

By Matt Wilbanks

Innovation SaaS Unified Communications

Bank acceptance of bitcoin key to wider adoption of crypto

Bitcoin has been the talk of the town of late, but adoption of cryptocurrencies and crypto services are still limited. Ordinary consumers aren't using bitcoin to pay for everyday transactions, and banks and bitcoin still appear to be at odds wit

By Ralph Tkatchuk

Technology Industry

Three lines of defense for data management

Firms are considering data risk in their group risk appetite statements. Here's how to build three lines of defense for data management and data risk.

By Suriya Subramanian

Cellular Networks Data Mining Regulation

Digital transformation in oil and gas: 10 companies to watch

Disruption by data in the oil and gas industry.

By Kevin Rands

Analytics Digital Transformation Energy Industry

Crossing the chasm: How to operate containers and microservices at scale

Organizations are increasingly employing containers and microservices aiming to spur their digital growth. Here is how to turn it into a success.

By Marc Wilczek

CIO Digital Transformation PaaS

3D printing is now entrenched at Ford

While 3D printing was little more than a toy for engineers 20 years ago, today Ford Motor Co. could not develop new cars without it. New technologies ensure it's coming to a production line near you.

By Lucas Mearian

3D Printers Manufacturing Industry Technology Industry

What to make of enterprise IT in a digital world?

The monopoly of enterprise IT on corporate technology spending is diminishing, but not necessarily for the right reasons.

By Hakan Altintepe

CIO Digital Transformation IT Strategy

Bitcoin lessons from the California gold rush

Weu2019re at the beginning of another u201cKodak momentu201d as the world shifts more and more towards bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. As the world transforms, the lessons from the California gold rush may help you put your best foot (or shovel) forwar

By Nicholas D. Evans

Digital Transformation Emerging Technology Financial Services Industry

This fall, college towns and businesses can get smart with location data

When students and their parents descend on campuses this fall, they'll bring college towns and local businesses an array of untapped data-driven opportunities.

By Gladys Kong

Data Science Technology Industry

A team or B team?

CIOs share their perspectives about team construction and business leadership.

By Myles F. Suer

CIO Careers Relationship Building

Information security policies every business must implement

Important information security practices are often overlooked despite all the major hacks discovered in recent years. It is unfortunate that preventive measures are often adopted only after a crippling incident.

By Chris Low

Backup and Recovery Data and Information Security

High-performing teams: Lessons from the symphony orchestra

An orchestra is a great example of a high-performing team. How well are your employees playing together?

By Morag Barrett

IT Leadership

Make your CIO more relevant using business architecture

To succeed, CIOs need to focus more resources in communicating and building business architecture change maps that will involve business executives, business architects and obviously the CIO.

By Daniel Lambert

CIO Enterprise Architecture IT Governance

The business value of data-driven storytelling

Today, business executives are most concerned with this: Whatu2019s the best way for us to extract value from the deluge of data weu2019re collecting every day?

By Paige O'Neill

Enterprise Applications IT Leadership Technology Industry

How IT became business problem solvers at Level 3 Communications

IT doesnu2019t wait for business requirements at Level 3 Communications u2014 it co-creates them, says CIO Atilla Tinic. Learn how he is changing the culture in his IT organization.

By Martha Heller

CIO Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business

12 Microsoft Power BI success stories

Microsoft Power BI provides organizations with self-service business intelligence tools that allow users to analyze, visualize and share data using the familiar Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Here are 12 success stories built on Power BI.

By Thor Olavsrud

Analytics Business Intelligence Microsoft

Brexit creates supply chain uncertainty

Monitor Brexit closely to avoid having your supply chain disrupted. If you don't, Britainu2019s exit from the EU might not be the only exit in your future.

By Bart Perkins

IT Leadership Supply Chain Management Software

Get your priorities straight before you start applying artificial intelligence in your business solutions

"If you try tou00a0chase two rabbits,u00a0you willu00a0not catch eitheru00a0one"

By Bas de Baat

Digital Transformation IT Strategy Internet of Things

Is your organization a top performer?

When it comes to digital transformation, CIOs need to be customer- and innovation-centric

By Chris Curran

IT Leadership

Navigating the brave new world of decentralized IT

As economic and competitive pressures push organizations toward more rapid product and service delivery, the ways organizations engage with technology u2013 and the people who support it u2013 are changing.

By Todd Thibodeaux

CIO IT Leadership

How to harness the power of shadow IT

The business risks posed by Shadow IT are very real. But, when properly managed, so are its benefits.

By Jeffrey Bannister

CIO IT Leadership

Assessing your organization’s digital transformation maturity

While there are perennial capabilities and skills that are required for business success u2013 investment, leadership, culture, change management, governance u2013 digital transformation requires new capabilities that organizations need to acquire an

By Nicholas D. Evans

Digital Transformation Technology Industry

7 things startups need to know about cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is now simply one the many realities of doing business today. You should know the risks, and put programs in place that will help you avoid getting hit by cyberattacks down the line.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

Data and Information Security Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

10 early warning signs of ERP disaster

Enterprise resource planning systems reap business efficiency by tying together disparate systems and services. But an ERP implementation can quickly unravel into disaster if you donu2019t heed these early warning signs.

By Bruce Harpham

ERP Systems IT Leadership IT Strategy

Why are USB sticks wrinkle-free?

Roughly half of lost USB sticks and other mobile gadgets get returned to owners, which triggers the million-dollar question: What happens to the other half?

By Marc Wilczek

Data Breach Encryption Malware

4 steps toward building a productive IT culture

IT and other executives must learn how to use corporate culture as a tool to boost their teamu2019s efficiency, morale and effectiveness.

By Eric Bloom

IT Leadership IT Skills Personal Software

How to manage the fear of change in IT projects

Change is inevitable, especially working in IT projects, so adapting and working in collaboration with technology is vital. Hereu2019s why.

By David Cotgreave

IT Leadership Project Management Tools

Breaking down artificial intelligence to form a starting point for adoption

To leverage, communicate and sell the power of artificial intelligence, we first must capture its essence.

By Peter B. Nichol

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Architecture

Leadership bootcamp: Lessons from military veteran CIOs

The U.S. Armed Forces takes leadership training seriously. Here, a trio of IT leaders reflect on the key leadership competencies they learned while serving in the military.

By Brian P. Watson