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Navigating the honeymoon phase of a new product launch

Your product launch high won’t last — so master the politics, the product and the process fast, or get ready for heartbreak.

By Alok Bhide

Aug 1, 2025 7 mins

IT Leadership Staff Management

Spotlight report: How AI is reshaping IT

IT organizations have already been challenged to find the resources and skills to support major shifts like cloud, automation, and a dramatically altered risk landscape. The emergence of AI as the next big game changer adds an additional level of str

By CIO staff

Aug 1, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership

How Atlantic Health’s retrofit eliminates specimen management error rates

Combining the best of its existing infrastructure and technologies with a mobile application, the New Jersey-based nonprofit healthcare network can now increase accountability and improve diagnostic accuracy due to its Electronic Specimen Tracking Pr

By Joanne Carew

Aug 1, 2025 5 mins

Application Performance Management CIO CIO 100

A 4-step framework for generative AI success

By adapting the Lean Startup method to fit gen-AI project pilots, organisations can de-risk AI adoption and better ensure tangible results at scale.

By Lorraine Longhurst and Jeremy Hubbard

Aug 1, 2025 8 mins

Generative AI IT Governance Frameworks Innovation

How agentic AI supercharges efficiency and innovation across 4 key industries

From detecting fraud to curing disease, agentic AI isn’t just smart — it’s rewriting the rules of how entire industries work.

By Magesh Kasthuri and Ramachandran Padmanabhan

Jul 31, 2025 13 mins

Banking Generative AI Insurance Industry

From tool to strategic partner: A 4-step blueprint for CIOs

Stop treating IT like a utility! CIOs who lead with strategy, not servers, will win the digital race before their competitors know it started.

By Krist Davood

Jul 31, 2025 5 mins

Digital Transformation IT Leadership IT Strategy

7 tips for a more effective multicloud strategy

As organizations increasingly find themselves operating in multiple clouds, IT leaders must get more intentional about how they address the resulting complexity, security issues, and cost concerns.

By Bob Violino

Jul 31, 2025 10 mins

Cloud Computing IT Strategy Multicloud

Will AI agents eat the SaaS market? Experts are split

Time will tell if backend databases will be needed at all once agents end up doing most of the work.

By Grant Gross

Jul 31, 2025 7 mins

Generative AI Markets SaaS

At the center of the AI experience

AI centers of excellence seek to explore the tech’s enormous potential, and for two multinationals in particular, the purposes might be similar but approaches to organization and training vary.

By María Ramos Domínguez

Jul 31, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI IT Strategy

The AI disruption: From global business to your breakfast table

AI isn’t just coming for your job — it’s already messing with the most important meal of the day. Welcome to disruption, served sunny-side up.

By Christina Sandema-Sombe

Jul 30, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation Supply Chain

Stop leading automotive like it’s 1995

Automotive transformation is stalled not by tech, but by outdated leadership that can’t keep pace with today’s speed, complexity and cultural needs.

By Terry Onica and Jan Griffiths

Jul 30, 2025 6 mins

Automotive Industry Digital Transformation Staff Management

Why we said no to AI chatbots

Short answer? Because we fixed the root cause instead of slapping a high-tech Band-Aid on a broken system.

By Justin Brown

Jul 30, 2025 9 mins

Chatbots Generative AI IT Strategy

How to win allies and influence boards

CIOs need to be intentional and focused when communicating with their boards, which often means getting out of their comfort zones.

By Brian Watson

Jul 30, 2025 6 mins

C-Suite CIO Relationship Building

5 tactics to reduce IT costs without hurting innovation

From smarter infrastructure to tighter CFO partnerships, IT leaders are finding practical ways to trim budgets while still advancing transformation.

By Linda Rosencrance

Jul 30, 2025 10 mins

C-Suite CFO CIO

Siemens builds fully automated warehouse with digital twin

Siemens has invested around four million euros in a state-of-the-art warehouse at its electric motor plant in Bad Neustadt.

By Jürgen Hill

Jul 30, 2025 3 mins

Digital Transformation Manufacturing Industry

Indian IT outsourcing layoffs put service stability on the line for CIOs

As India’s tech giants trim thousands of mid-tier jobs, CIOs must reassess delivery resilience, renegotiate contracts, and shore up in-house AI skills before costs climb and service quality dips.

By Gyana Swain

Jul 30, 2025 6 mins

IT Jobs IT Strategy Outsourcing

Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice

The reasons behind the move were global and complex, but for CIOs, it raises frightening new risks, where cloud or SaaS vendors can cut a company off with no warning.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 29, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Risk Management

IT leaders scramble as Windows 10 deadline nears

Migrate to Windows 11, pay for extended Windows 10 support, or forgo security updates? With less than three months to go, IT leaders are taking a multi-pronged approach.

By Robert Mitchell

Jul 29, 2025 1 min

Budget

What optimizing SOX, auditing AI, and leading across 2 continents taught me

What if audit stopped looking backward and started shaping the future? Ditch the checklists — real risk leadership starts with trust, not control.

By Ravi Sharma

Jul 29, 2025 10 mins

Legal Regulation Security Audits

Java is dead: Long live Java!

Java defies the hype cycle, thriving at 30 with unmatched enterprise trust, modern AI integration, and a vibrant, global developer community.

By Karina Varela and Otavio Santana

Jul 29, 2025 17 mins

Developer Java Technology Industry

7 enterprise cloud strategy trends shaking up IT today

The cloud is moving rapidly in new directions. Here’s a rundown of the latest top strategy trends.

By John Edwards

Jul 29, 2025 7 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Management Cloud Security

FMC brings more predictability to farming with pest control mobile app

The agricultural sciences company is bringing precision agriculture to the field, using a variety of data to help farmers decide when to apply insecticides and other crop treatments.

By Grant Gross

Jul 29, 2025 5 mins

Agriculture Industry CIO 100 Mobile Development

How SAP S/4HANA powers the sustainable enterprise

Sustainability isn’t a side hustle — SAP S/4HANA makes it the engine of innovation, profit and future-proofing your entire enterprise.

By Vipin Jain

Jul 28, 2025 16 mins

ERP Systems Green IT SAP

The Premier League transforms the fan experience with AI

With help from partner Microsoft, the Premier League is leveraging AI to power fan engagement, modernize its digital infrastructure, and transform broadcast match analysis and organizational operations.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 28, 2025 7 mins

Analytics CIO des Jahres Digital Transformation

Kieran Gilmurray: AI strategy without purpose is pointless

Kieran Gilmurray, whose company was recently named one of the Top 50 thought-leading companies on agentic AI in 2025, discusses the importance of foresight, ethics, and business impact.

By Tabish Ali

Jul 28, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership IT Strategy

What the CIO role will look like in 2028

The emergence of AI marks a point of inflection in the evolution of the top tech exec position, with greater strategic responsibilities and career growth on the horizon for those who embrace the challenge that change brings.

By Mary K. Pratt

Jul 28, 2025 10 mins

Business IT Alignment CIO IT Leadership

AI governance gaps: Why enterprise readiness still lags behind innovation

Enterprises are racing to deploy AI — but without real governance, they're flying blind and putting the whole ecosystem at risk.

By David Talby

Jul 25, 2025 6 mins

Data Governance IT Governance IT Governance Frameworks

Designing for humans: Why most enterprise adoptions of AI fail

AI won't save your business if no one trusts it. Ditch the hype, fix the culture and stop choking innovation with red tape.

By Mark Greville

Jul 25, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation Staff Management

UPS transforms air cargo operations with data, AI

Digital asset tracking and advanced communications are helping the global shipping company leverage AI and ML at its Worldport air hub to reduce costs, improve on-time performance, enhance operational safety, and deliver a better CX.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 25, 2025 6 mins

CIO CIO 100 Transportation and Logistics Industry

Hard lessons from a chaotic transformation

Persistence pays off after three years of digital and cultural change at a tourism giant.

By Jean-Loup Richet

Jul 25, 2025 9 mins

Change Management Digital Transformation IT Strategy

The missing backbone behind your stalled AI strategy

Without a formal AI CoE, most organizations stall at experimentation; this is the blueprint for building the structure that drives scale.

By Michael Bertha and Chris Davis

Jul 24, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership IT Operations

Cultivating performance through fun: a case study of IT culture transformation at Wieland Group

The 125-member IT team has put in place a deliberate evolution of culture that focuses on enjoyment of work, scrum-based autonomous operations, and agile leadership.

By Eveline Oehrlich, director of IDC Executive Advisory

Jul 24, 2025 11 mins

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

CAIOs drive better AI results, but companies still lag on AI leadership

Organizational AI maturity matters. Dedicated leadership, strong governance, and strategic use of metrics can improve results and set the foundation for long-term AI success.

By Grant Gross

Jul 24, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership IT Strategy

Colonial Pipeline’s Afshean Talasaz on decision-making at the speed of AI

Today’s IT execs face a relentless pace of technology and business change. An intentional approach to executive decision-making can help ensure better business outcomes amid constant disruption.

By Dan Roberts

Jul 24, 2025 10 mins

Business IT Alignment Critical Infrastructure IT Leadership

Join our live discussion – CIO Essential Insights: IT Leadership in the Age of AI

Join host John Gallant and a panel of expert CIOs to share the latest essential research data for CIOs – this month focusing on IT leadership and building the AI-ready organization. Find out how CIOs are balancing innovation with operational demands,

By Matt Egan

Jul 24, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership

Microsoft Fabric to lose auto-generated semantic models

Microsoft is moving more of the data governance workload to users, but says that this will lead to greater accountability and transparency.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 23, 2025 5 mins

Analytics Business Intelligence Data Warehousing

Data infrastructure: The missing link in successful AI adoption

You can’t fuel AI with outdated pipes. Without the right data infrastructure, even the smartest AI is just guessing.

By Matheus Dellagnelo

Jul 23, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Architecture Data Quality

Navigating the crunch point: Volatility and change in manufacturing

Manufacturing’s under fire — AI could be the lifeline, but only if leaders can outrun chaos, outsmart cyber threats and win over a wary workforce.

By Andy Stump

Jul 23, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation Manufacturing Industry

The 10 fastest growing US tech hubs for IT talent

You don’t need to move to Silicon Valley to cash in on the boom for IT talent. These 10 US cities are among the fastest growing tech hubs, according to CompTIA.

By Sarah White

Jul 23, 2025 7 mins

Careers IT Skills Salaries

Is AI overload leaving your organization drowning in insight?

Decision-makers have access to more information than ever. But digital leaders must set expectations about the right pace, and place, to exploit disparate data sources to achieve winning results.

By Mark Samuels

Jul 23, 2025 9 mins

CIO Data Quality Generative AI

The NFL’s winning AI game plan

CIO Gary Brantley discusses building AI capabilities across every aspect of the league's operations.

By Martha Heller

Jul 23, 2025 7 mins

CIO Data Quality Generative AI

The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

When Hewlett Packard bought knowledge management software firm Autonomy, it didn’t realize it was buying into a multibillion accounting cover-up. Shareholders sued HP, which sued Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, and the cases took years to reach a conc

By Peter Sayer

Jul 22, 2025 11 mins

HP HPE Mergers and Acquisitions

The GRIT framework: A new definition of leadership

How growth, recognition, inspiration and trust can transform culture and performance

By Kamanasish Kundu

Jul 22, 2025 6 mins

IT Leadership Staff Management

The 90-day IT turnaround: Real-time dashboards that rescue failing projects

Why wait for disaster? Real-time dashboards can turn failing IT projects around in just 90 days — if you act fast and embrace the data.

By Vivek Singh

Jul 22, 2025 8 mins

Analytics Business Intelligence Project Management

7 things you need to know about AI and the data center

AI and machine learning are gradually taking over routine and advanced tasks. Will managers and staff be locked out?

By Josh Fruhlinger

Jul 22, 2025 13 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Center

Buyer’s remorse: What to do when an IT purchase isn’t a great fit

Due diligence sometimes doesn’t fully pan out in staving off purchase regret. By acting quickly to leverage out clauses and renegotiation opportunities, CIOs can make the best of a difficult situation.

By Mary Shacklett

Jul 22, 2025 6 mins

Budgeting IT Strategy Infrastructure Management

Your enterprise business needs an AI policy. Here’s how to build it out

Hint: It’s not about restriction — It’s about managing risk

By Arti Deshpande, Robert Stines and Mike Vaughan

Jul 21, 2025 7 mins

Legal Regulation Risk Management

Human and machine: Rediscovering our humanity in the age of AI

As machines master our tasks, the real question is: Will we forget what makes us human — or fight to keep it alive?

By Kathy Pham

Jul 21, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership Staff Management

Rethinking and realigning IT for the AI era

CIOs from a range of industries discuss how AI’s emergence as a transformative force is leading them to adapt and reimagine how IT operates to better harness the technology’s potential to revolutionize their business.

By Esther Shein

Jul 21, 2025 12 mins

Business IT Alignment Change Management IT Strategy

Textron takes flight with gen AI

By leading with trust and experimentation, the aerospace and defense manufacturer launched a gen AI initiative that’s transforming frontline operations and redefining enterprise innovation.

By Michael Bertha

Jul 21, 2025 5 mins

Aerospace and Defense Industry CIO Generative AI