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How (and why) great CIOs lead through teaching

Accidental learning delivers accidental results. Here's how six CIOs avoid that trap by leading through teaching.

Aug 4, 2020

4 hot project management trends — and 4 going cold

The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a number of project management trends already under way u2014 and greatly altering long-held practices that no longer seem as relevant as remote work rises.

By Christina Wood

Aug 4, 2020 13 mins

IT Leadership Project Management Project Management Tools

How IT leaders can effectively address systemic racism

Systemic racism in IT is an uncomfortable truth. Now is the time to recognize it and eradicate it. Here's how to get started.

By Damon Carter

Aug 3, 2020 11 mins

Diversity and Inclusion IT Leadership Staff Management

Best bang for your IT budget

With budgets uncertain and project priorities pivoting in the wake of the pandemic, IT leaders are finding several key areas worth investing in.

By Bob Violino

Aug 3, 2020

Budgeting IT Leadership

GSK takes targeted approach to data-driven transformation

The pharmaceutical titan has developed a data strategy to mine value from its existing data with a series of analytics initiatives carefully targeted at specific business priorities.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 31, 2020

CIO 100 Digital Transformation Healthcare Industry

6 steps to successful SaaS renewal negotiations

It's no secret that preparation is key to successful contract negotiations, but SaaS renewals come with their own set of challenges. What are you doing to prepare for negotiation success?

By Jeff Lazarto

Jul 30, 2020

IT Leadership IT Skills SaaS

Qlik Sense vs. Tableau: Self-service analytics tools compared

Self-service business intelligence has become the go-to tool for business decisions. Here's how Qlik Sense and Tableau stack up on features and pricing.

By Martin Heller

Jul 30, 2020 7 mins

Analytics Business Intelligence

IT leaders juggle staffing strategies, post-COVID

As project priorities (and IT budgets) shift, CIOs are rethinking how to acquire much needed skills in uncertain times.

By Mary K. Pratt

Jul 29, 2020

IT Leadership Outsourcing Staff Management

Don’t squander that crisis-induced transformation

Veteran CIO Phil Fasano has some straight talk for CEOs and corporate boards about why they should invest in the technologies that support new ways of working.

By Martha Heller

Jul 29, 2020

Digital Transformation IT Leadership Remote Work

What stays and what goes: CIOs shuffle IT project priorities

Responding to rapidly shifting business needs, CIOs are reprioritizing IT projects to position their organizations for future growth.

By Clint Boulton

Jul 28, 2020

IT Leadership

Corporate allyship: Show your work or quiet down

Does your company truly stand with the principles of the Black Lives Matter movement or are you an 'Optical Ally'? Your Black employees and customers will know the difference.

By Elizabeth Stock, Rihana Mungin

Jul 28, 2020

Diversity and Inclusion IT Leadership

Wipro to run its business on SAP in Google’s cloud

The Indian IT services giant is accelerating its move to S/4HANA as it prepares to migrate workloads to the cloud

By Peter Sayer

Jul 27, 2020

ERP Systems Google SAP

Microsoft 365 certification: Skills and training to advance your career in the cloud

Microsoft's cloud productivity suite enables employees to work from anywhere. These Microsoft 365 certs can give you the training and skills to move your career forward.

By Sarah K. White

Jul 27, 2020

Certifications IT Skills Microsoft 365

Black IT leaders: The challenging path to the top

For Black IT professionals, the path to leadership remains fraught with systemic racial issues and few outlets for support. Here, Black IT leaders shed light on their experiences and share advice for change.

By Beth Stackpole

Jul 27, 2020

Careers Diversity and Inclusion Staff Management

3 factors for implementing contact tracing in the workplace

As businesses plan to return to the office, CIOs need to develop a contact tracing strategy for a safe working environment.

By Zeus Kerravala

Jul 24, 2020 6 mins

Budgeting IT Leadership IT Strategy

6 common project management mistakes — and how to avoid them

Projects seldom go as planned, leaving project managers with any number of small fires to put out. Here are the most common issues projects encounter and how to get things back on track.

By Moira Alexander

Jul 24, 2020 7 mins

IT Leadership IT Strategy Project Management Tools

Reskilling revolution: Enterprises accelerate remote learning amid pandemic

To keep ahead of the digital curve, Shell, S&P Global and BMW are embracing MOOCs to train staff in emerging technologies.

By Clint Boulton

Jul 23, 2020 8 mins

Careers Digital Transformation IT Skills

T-Mobile’s returnship program aims to get women back into tech

A text message prompted T-Mobile to launch a returnship program designed to foster gender diversity by retraining women trying to get back into IT after taking time off.

By Sarah K. White

Jul 23, 2020

Careers Diversity and Inclusion Staff Management

7 tips for getting the most from your project team

In today's challenging IT and business world, it's more important than ever to tackle new projects with people who will work skillfully and efficiently. Here's how to build your dream team.

By John Edwards

Jul 22, 2020

IT Leadership Project Management

Turning IT on a dime at Perdue Farms as the coronavirus struck

Six weeks into his new CIO role, Mark Booth and his team moved 3,000 office workers to remote work — and created a safer working environment at the company's plants.

By Martha Heller

Jul 22, 2020

IT Leadership

4 tips for quick automation wins

COVID-19 has enterprises eyeing automation to streamline operations and solve business issues spurred by the pandemic. IT leaders share tips for achieving quick, sustainable success.

By Bob Violino

Jul 21, 2020 10 mins

BPM Systems Build Automation IT Strategy

Dick’s Sporting Goods leans into curbside delivery amid coronavirus

After shuttering its stores in April, the retailer offers customers contactless curbside pickup. The modification of its in-store pickup service is the latest wrinkle in Dicku2019s omnichannel strategy.

By Clint Boulton

Jul 21, 2020

Digital Transformation IT Leadership Retail Industry

CIOs rethink the 18-month IT plan, post-COVID

The dramatic events of 2020 have IT leaders adjusting mid-range roadmaps on the fly, fast-tracking productivity, automation and customer initiatives while forgoing previously planned upgrades.

By Mary K. Pratt

Jul 20, 2020 12 mins

Budgeting IT Leadership IT Strategy

Several large U.S. healthcare systems have teamed with Google and SADA to establish an open data platform to provide hospitals and government officials granular views of ICU and ventilator utilization at the local level.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 20, 2020

Analytics Data Visualization Healthcare Industry

NLP poised to revolutionize the enterprise

From powering customer-facing chatbots, to keeping track of contractual commitments, to making the most of meetings, natural language processing holds great potential to transform your business.

By Mary Branscombe

Jul 17, 2020 12 mins

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Natural Language Processing

Building board diversity

As corporate boards show some progress in welcoming women and people of color in the latest wave of new members, diversity trends pave the way for more tech leaders in the boardroom.

By Maryfran Johnson

Jul 16, 2020

Careers Diversity and Inclusion

Secrets of successful business-IT co-creation

Great things happen when business and IT define and solve problems together. Here's how to make the shift — and deliver results.

By Minda Zetlin

Jul 15, 2020 10 mins

Business IT Alignment IT Leadership Innovation

Freddie Mac banks on modern delivery

Frank Nazzaro, CIO of Freddie Mac, explains how the modern delivery software development model, which goes beyond Agile, increases development velocity and quality.

By Martha Heller

Jul 15, 2020 7 mins

Agile Development IT Leadership Software Development

SAP offers new marketplace for filling staff vacancies

Contingent labor has been hard to find during the COVID-19 pandemic. SAP Fieldglass External Talent Marketplace aims to offer access to a larger temp staffing pool.

By Peter Sayer

Jul 14, 2020

Staff Management Technology Industry

10 ways to get value from your system integrator’s quality review

Though the SI's proposals focus on the benefits the client is intended to receive from these quality reviews, the SIs are actually realizing a large portion of the benefits. Hereu2019s how to ensure you benefit as well.

By John Belden

Jul 14, 2020

IT Leadership

You canu2019t offer solutions to racial problems in tech without a broader understanding of actual career experiences. Three Black tech professionals step forward to tell their stories.

By Eric Knorr

Jul 14, 2020

Careers Diversity and Inclusion Staff Management

Insight everywhere: The state of analytics in 2020

Analytics has made itself indispensable for everything from business planning to infrastructure optimization. A set of five articles brings the broad benefits of data-derived insights to life.

By Eric Knorr

Jul 13, 2020

Big Data Business Intelligence Data Science

Lennox enlists BI to anticipate COVID-19 supply chain disruptions

With the pandemic significantly upending global supply chains, the HVAC manufacturer quickly rolled out a BI dashboard to predict, respond to and get ahead of potential problems.

By Peter Sayer

Jul 13, 2020 6 mins

Business Intelligence Data Visualization Manufacturing Industry

Healthcare analytics: 4 success stories

These four healthcare organizations are using analytics to drive better patient outcomes, streamline operations and cut costs.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 13, 2020

Data Science Healthcare Industry Machine Learning

Lessons in IT resiliency for the COVID-19 era

Rapid response to disruptions caused by the pandemic will lead to better continuity plans going forward, participants in an #IDGTECHtalk Twitter chat said.

By Beth Stackpole

Jul 10, 2020

Business Continuity Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery

5 tips for remote IT onboarding

If you're hiring during the pandemic, onboarding can be tricky. IT leaders share advice for developing a secure, seamless onboarding process for new IT hires at a distance.

By Sarah K. White

Jul 10, 2020 7 mins

IT Leadership IT Skills Staff Management

4 steps to a more resilient, multi-generational IT workforce

Intergenerational differences among tech workers can create collaboration challenges and a culture of blame when things go wrong u2014 particularly in the heightened anxiety of todayu2019s business environment. The CIO is in a unique position to chan

By Daniel Sanchez-Reina

Jul 10, 2020

IT Leadership

What is the Risk Management Framework (RMF)? A standardized security framework

Risk management and security are top concerns for most organizations, especially in government industries. The Risk Management Framework (RMF) integrates security into the early development stages to help speed up time to delivery while avoiding risk

By Sarah K. White

Jul 9, 2020

IT Governance Frameworks Risk Management Security

From CIO to CEO: 10 tips for taking your career to the top

CIOs turned presidents and CEOs discuss their rise to the top and offer insights for IT leaders considering similar leaps.

By Clint Boulton

Jul 9, 2020

CIO Careers IT Leadership

The art (and science) of the IT project pivot

Shifting business needs and faltering progress are just a few reasons why an IT project needs course-correction. Hereu2019s how to recognize the signs and make difficult changes for the good.

By Esther Shein

Jul 8, 2020 12 mins

Digital Transformation IT Leadership Project Management

Diversity in tech: 3 stories of perseverance and success

IT organizations need to create cultures of inclusion and break through the unconscious bias found in traditional hiring and management practices.

By Sue Weston

Jul 7, 2020

IT Leadership

7 attributes to look for in a deputy IT leader

The CIO has become pivotal — and demanding. But having a trusted No. 2 can help ease the pain. Here's how to find the best second-in-command.

By John Edwards

Jul 7, 2020

CIO IT Skills Staff Management

The CIO’s return to the workplace playbook

IT executives will face unique challenges when employees begin returning to the workplace. Here are seven key questions every CIO must answer in devising their optimal plan.

By Stacy Collett

Jul 6, 2020

CIO IT Leadership

HSBC banks on startup for AI guardrails during coronavirus crisis

The bank is using software from startup CognitiveScale to monitor its AI algorithms for bias, data drift, and other business risks, says Gavin Munroe, HSBC's global CIO of retail and wealth banking.

By Clint Boulton

Jul 6, 2020 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Financial Services Industry IT Leadership

Managing work from the front

Being a frontline manager requires a careful negotiation between the business and the engineers. If we focus our efforts on needs, weu2019ll always be doing the right things.

By Dave Mangot

Jul 2, 2020

Agile Development Devops IT Leadership

Preparing your organization for post-traumatic growth

Research shows that the vast majority of those who experience stress will also experience growth. Here's how to create space for both pain and gain in your organization.

By Scott Hutcheson

Jul 2, 2020

IT Leadership Innovation

9 emerging job roles for the future of AI

Artificial intelligence is fast proving a business differentiator. Here are the key roles and skills you may soon need to fill for your AI A-team.

By Maria Korolov

Jul 2, 2020 14 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Science Staff Management

20 reasons why software projects fail

From outsized expectations to fundamental feature changes, software development projects get derailed u2014 or declared failures u2014 thanks to a variety of project management and technical factors.

By Peter Wayner

Jul 1, 2020

IT Leadership IT Strategy Project Management Tools

Ellie Mae turns to AI for autonomous threat hunting

The mortgage processor is using threat intelligence, predictive analytics, and AI to proactively hunt advanced persistent threats like ransomware.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 1, 2020

CIO 100 Predictive Analytics Voice Assistants

4 ways to run a leaner dev team

Covid-19 has brought many challenges for today's IT leaders, including continuing to drive new value without adding talent or increasing budget. Here's a new look at running lean.

By Anna Frazzetto

Jun 30, 2020

IT Leadership Project Management Software Development