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Examining low-code/no-code popularity across Africa and its range of disruption for CIOs

Despite pockets of implementation, low-code/no-code technologies aren’t mature enough to be widely popularized in CIO communities in Africa. But some entrepreneurs and companies have had enough success with them to stoke broader interest.

By Aurore Bonny

Nov 24, 2022 8 mins

Emerging Technology Innovation No Code and Low Code

What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation

Enterprise architecture is the process by which organizations standardize and organize IT infrastructure to align with business goals. These strategies support digital transformation, IT growth, and the modernization of IT.

By Sarah K. White

Nov 23, 2022 9 mins

Enterprise Architecture IT Governance Frameworks IT Strategy

5 pitfalls to avoid when partnering with startups

By adding startups to their portfolio of partners, IT leaders can jumpstart innovation and deliver digital solutions quickly — provided they know how to navigate the unique risks of working with upstarts.

By Yashvendra Singh

Nov 23, 2022 10 mins

Innovation Outsourcing Startups

10 tips for running a world-class innovation contest

Addressing key steps to structure an annual innovation contest, based on culture and core values, that strengthens best practices.

By Nicholas D. Evans

Nov 22, 2022 5 mins

IT Strategy Innovation

IT leaders take charge of customer experience

With customer experience (CX) a central tenet for successful digital transformation, IT leaders are evolving their organization’s CX capabilities to deliver impressive results.

By Mary K. Pratt

Nov 21, 2022 10 mins

IT Leadership IT Strategy

Music distributor tracks SaaS usage to boost security, satisfaction

SaaS management is about much more than cost control, says CD Baby’s VP of IT Tom Beohm.

By Peter Sayer

Nov 21, 2022 7 mins

ERP Systems SaaS Security

XPO Logistics invests in IT for the long haul

The logistics company’s less-than-truckload freight operations are fueled by in-house freight applications fine-tuned to leverage loads of data in the cloud.

By Paula Rooney

Nov 18, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Data Management

CDO resumes: 5 tips for landing a chief data officer role

Chief data officers are on the rise as businesses embrace data-driven strategies. But you’ll want to follow these five tips to write the perfect CDO resume to get the job.

By Sarah K. White

Nov 17, 2022 9 mins

Careers Data Management Resumes

Sanjib Sahoo on the CIO as chief value officer

The CDO of Ingram Micro discusses the importance of taking accountability, having a bias for action, and communicating with compassion as the keys to being a successful IT leader today.

By Dan Roberts

Nov 17, 2022 9 mins

CIO IT Leadership

5 ways to find hidden IT talent inside your organization

Hidden IT gems: From bootcamps to internal skills marketplaces, companies are discovering tech talent where they wouldn’t expect it.

By Stacy Collett

Nov 16, 2022 9 mins

Hiring IT Training

CIO and CTO Art Hu on incubating a new business inside Lenovo

With Lenovo expanding its focus to software solutions, Art Hu kept his CIO role at the $70 billion business while also becoming CTO of its new $5 billion ‘startup.’

By Martha Heller

Nov 16, 2022

IT Leadership

Are product managers chief executives of their product? It depends.

Two ways PMs are like CEOs — and one way they aren’t.

By Karl Rumelhart

Nov 15, 2022

Business IT Leadership Roles

Veeam’s new pitch to CIOs: Outcome-based backup and recovery offerings

Veeam is making a play for CIOs with a new offering that would allow enterprises to pay based on whether it is able to meet agreed-on backup and recovery time objectives.

By Varun Aggarwal

Nov 15, 2022 4 mins

Backup and Recovery Technology Industry

SAP seeks to make builders of business technologists

SAP Build provides enterprises with a new low-code development resource built on the same infrastructure as its pro-code development tools.

By Peter Sayer

Nov 15, 2022 5 mins

Application Management Build Automation SAP

Why CIOs should invest in digital through economic headwinds

According to analysts at Gartner, CIOs should use digital investment through the recession in order to deliver growth, and repeatable financial and environmental benefits.

By Doug Drinkwater

Nov 15, 2022 7 mins

Digital Transformation Innovation Machine Learning

7 ways CIOs get themselves fired

Keeping your job as CIO is tough, even when you do everything right. Here are seven ways unwary CIOs make their jobs even riskier.

By Bob Lewis

Nov 15, 2022 7 mins

CIO IT Leadership

Tata Consultancy Services delivers self-service analytics in-house

TCS CIO Abhijit Mazumder built an analytics platform to empower the IT services provider’s business users to gain insights from soaring volumes of data without IT intervention.

By Moumita Deb Choudhury

Nov 15, 2022 6 mins

Business Intelligence and Analytics Software

Johnson & Johnson’s big bet on intelligent automation

Three years in, Johnson & Johnson’s Ajay Anand and Stephen Sorensen reflect their quest to deliver half a billion dollars of impact from intelligent automation at the pharmaceutical titan.

By Thor Olavsrud

Nov 11, 2022 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Robotic Process Automation

Zendesk announces 300 job cuts to reduce costs

The layoffs are estimated to set Zendesk back by about $28 million, primarily due to costs incurred on severance payments and employee benefits.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 10, 2022

IT Jobs

IT leaders meet the challenge to innovate frugally

IT budgets are under pressure, yet innovation must continue unabated. Here’s how IT leaders are developing high-value solutions on a shoestring budget — and reaping the rewards.

By Yashvendra Singh

Nov 10, 2022 13 mins

Innovation

Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

Microsoft is accused of using new licensing rules for its productivity software to push European enterprise customers toward its Azure cloud infrastructure.

By Peter Sayer

Nov 10, 2022 5 mins

Cloud Management Cloud Storage Microsoft

Veteran CIOs on leading IT today

Mike Goodwin, DiAnna Thimjon, and Woody Groton discuss how leadership practices and philosophies gained from their military experience have continued to serve them well in their civilian careers.

By Dan Roberts

Nov 10, 2022

IT Leadership

Salesforce announces hundreds of job cuts

Salesforce has joined ranks with technology peers Twitter and Meta as it starts laying off hundreds of employees this week.

By Charlotte Trueman

Nov 9, 2022 2 mins

Staff Management

5 tips for excelling at self-service analytics

Organizations are accelerating their ability to make data-driven decisions by offering analytics capabilities directly to business users. Here’s how to do it right.

By Bob Violino

Nov 9, 2022 9 mins

Business Intelligence

Examining the digital transformation juggling act at Novanta

Sarah Betadam, CIO of photonics, vision, and precision motion technology supplier Novanta, spoke during a recent CIO Leadership Live session about how she engages with myriad teams, functions and channels to effectively initiate digital transformatio

By CIO staff

Nov 9, 2022 4 mins

Agile Development Digital Transformation Remote Work

8 secrets of successful IT freelancers

IT freelancing can be an enticing and rewarding part- or full-time occupation, but only the skilled and persistent survive let alone thrive.

By John Edwards

Nov 8, 2022 7 mins

Careers

What the CIO balancing act looks like to Ovo Energy’s Christina Scott

Considering the urgency of climate issues, volatile markets, and building up the next generation of leaders, Christina Scott, chief product and technology officer (CPTO) at energy supplier Ovo Energy, talks about how she’s able to address these

By Doug Drinkwater

Nov 8, 2022

CIO Energy Industry

How to Launch Your AI Projects from Pilot to Production – and Ensure Success

IT leaders can take an active role in improving how many AI projects get fully off the ground.

By Isaac Sacolick

Nov 7, 2022 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Science Machine Learning

Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

Establishing product ownership, embracing agile, and nurturing the right tech and business talent are part of the success formula for transforming IT organizations and service delivery models.

By Beth Stackpole

Nov 7, 2022 11 mins

IT Leadership IT Strategy

Mapping a Cloud Strategy for 2023

Learn about controlling cloud costs, why you might want to try industry clouds, and incubating your own cloud products at CIO’s Future of Cloud Summit on November 8.

By bkormanik

Nov 4, 2022 3 mins

Cloud Computing Foundry Events IT Strategy

10 future trends for working with business leaders

The IDC FutureScape team has turned its attention to CIOs’ relationship with business leaders to predict 10 winning digital business strategies for the years ahead.

By Peter Sayer

Nov 4, 2022 8 mins

CIO Data Governance Digital Transformation

Regeneron turns to IT to accelerate drug discovery

CIO Bob McCowan’s digital and data transformation sets the stage for innovation by equipping the pharmaceutical’s scientists with the data they need to experiment and test hypotheses.

By Paula Rooney

Nov 4, 2022 7 mins

CIO 100 Healthcare Industry Machine Learning

The new CIO security priority: Your software supply chain

With so much unknown about what your developers and systems rely on to be productive — and what those tools and code bases rely on in turn — it’s time to get serious about securing your software supply chain.

By Mary Branscombe

Nov 3, 2022 10 mins

Application Security Security Practices Software Deployment

How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

One year into life after Google, Trainline CTO Milena Nikolic is building a platform for growth through multi-disciplinary teams, professional development, microservices and infrastructure-as-code.

By Doug Drinkwater

Nov 3, 2022 7 mins

CIO Digital Transformation Women in IT

How to launch—and scale—a successful AI pilot project

For enterprise AI projects, the proof is in the pilot. Here’s how four enterprise IT leaders set themselves up for success.

By Robert Mitchell

Nov 2, 2022 13 mins

CIO Machine Learning Project Management

JetBlue optimizes data operations with shift to the cloud

After struggling with an on-premises data warehouse, the airlines has unlocked self-service reporting and the power of machine learning by migrating its data to the cloud.

By Thor Olavsrud

Nov 2, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Data Management

Menora Mivtachim goes digital to speed up pension transfers

The Israeli insurance company has transformed its customer experience for the least IT-literate segment of the population — the elderly. CIO Moshe Morgenstern shares lessons learned for those seeking to serve this growing market.

By Inna Lazareva

Nov 1, 2022 7 mins

Digital Transformation Innovation

CIOs rethink how they hire for hard-to-fill IT roles

A willingness to consider far-flung candidates and offering meaningful work are just two of the ways IT leaders are getting more strategic about addressing IT hiring challenges.

By Johanna Ambrosio

Nov 1, 2022 11 mins

Hiring IT Training

Cloud spending forecast to grow despite faltering global economy

Spending on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is expected to grow the most, with platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) showing signs of slowdown, Gartner reports.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 31, 2022 4 mins

Budgeting Cloud Computing

7 hard truths of business-IT alignment

Think you’re just responsible for technology? You’re wrong. Here’s what IT leaders need to accept and act on to help get business-IT alignment right.

By Minda Zetlin

Oct 31, 2022

Business IT Alignment IT Leadership

Product manager salary: Pay range factors, tips for making more

While salaries vary across companies and industries, certain factors universally impact product manager pay, and there are tips that can help you boost your compensation.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Oct 31, 2022 9 mins

Careers Project Management Salaries

Macroeconomic jitters further slow AWS growth in Q3

Revenue for the third quarter of 2022 marks AWS’ slowest expansion in the last few quarters.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 28, 2022 3 mins

Cloud Computing Technology Industry

What transformational leaders too often overlook

You can’t innovate without a strong foundation. That’s why it’s vital to think strategically about IT infrastructure — and to get your C-suite colleagues and board members too as well.

By Thornton May

Oct 28, 2022 5 mins

Digital Transformation IT Leadership Innovation

How to prepare for your first CIO role

Don’t jump into your first CIO role cold. Instead, you should explore your organization, volunteer for external opportunities and build your profile to hit the ground running in the first 90 days.

By Doug Drinkwater

Oct 28, 2022 9 mins

CIO Careers

ServiceNow buoyant about growth despite economic headwinds

The company remains confident of posting strong revenue numbers for the rest of the year despite uncertain macroeconomic conditions.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 27, 2022 3 mins

Service Management Software ServiceNow Technology Industry

5 top ERP trends for 2022 — and their implications for IT leaders

Staying on top the latest shifts in enterprise resource planning (ERP) strategies and implementations will help IT leaders deliver maximum value from these business-critical systems.

By Yashvendra Singh

Oct 27, 2022 7 mins

ERP Systems

Top 14 CompTIA certifications

From security to the cloud, CompTIA provides vendor-neutral, entry-level to advanced certifications on a wide range of topics to boost your IT career.

By Moumita Deb Choudhury

Oct 27, 2022

Certifications

Leadership playbook: Michelle McKenna’s winning formula for CIOs

The former NFL CIO discusses how she game-plans for success. It all starts with strong self-awareness and a keen understanding of what it takes to put together a championship team.

By Dan Roberts

Oct 27, 2022 10 mins

IT Leadership