Sixty-four percent of IT leaders say their departments are taking the steps necessary to drive innovation in their business. Are you one of them?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
“All technology positions are migrating towards having to be hands-on,” Christopher Barron, CIO at Zander Rose LLC, told the audience at the December 2016 CIO Perspectives event in Houston. “That classic perception of a strategic CIO as being someone who always sits away, who tells other people what to do [is going away] …. All the leadership positions in IT, even if you are strategic, you’re going to have to be hands-on. Your customers will demand that.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
Seven out of 10 companies say that “employee engagement” is critical to their organization’s success, according to an oft-cited Gallup poll. Now those companies are counting on HR software to help them get a clearer picture of their workforce and encourage greater engagement.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
Cloud migrations can fail for a variety of reasons, such as a cloud strategy that isn’t aligned with business goals, cultural resistance or lack of a viable cloud security plan. Managing these migration risks is the focus of a free online course presented by training company Logical Operations Inc., in partnership with IDG Enterprise.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
“If you ever happen to find yourself in Indonesia, there are two important things you need to know about the way the internet operates there. The first thing is before anyone can look at anything online all of the content first has to pass through this tiny, disorganized, chaotic server room in Jakarta. The second thing you need to know is that there’s a man in charge of that room” — and he can take anything offline at any time.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
UPS operates in more than 220 countries and territories with more than 1,800 facilities, with a delivery fleet of over 100,000 ground vehicles and over 500 aircraft (both owned and charter). So when the company’s vice president of IT Kim Felix talks about the challenge of building a business intelligence system to manage UPS’s transportation network, you can imagine the size and scale of data she’s dealing with — 8,700 events per second, every second of the day, Felix says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
Roughly half of the audience informally polled at last month’s CIO 100 event said they had attended an IoT event in the last 12 months. "So what were the other half [of you] doing on the most hyped word on the internet today?" asked Vernon Turner, senior vice president of enterprise systems & fellow for the internet of things at IDC.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
It’s an all-too-familiar tale: A CIO pushes a new process, platform or digital transformation effort across the company and when it fails (as 70 percent of all change programs do, according to the famous statistic reported by Harvard Business Review), the CIO pins the blame on uncooperative end users.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
Wherever you turn, businesses are putting analytics into action. Retailer American Eagle outfitters, for example, uses an algorithm to figure out how best to fulfill online orders with products shipped from physical stores. Insurance company Allstate calculates premiums using an algorithm that weights different risk factors. Even beverage maker Minute Maid is applying algorithms to its orange juice, taking into account not just consumer preferences but its supply chain.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
Business executives are able to hold two contradictory thoughts in their heads: Technology is costly, but the internal IT services they use are free. An IT governance process is the way to get those execs to understand IT’s true costs — and opportunities.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
“We were an organization of ‘no’ and we had to transform to an organization of ‘how,’” said Robert Fecteau, CIO of government contractor SAIC, describing his effort to turn the IT department into a partner trusted by other parts of the business.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
"We are moving more and more towards a place where one-to-one relationships are going to be more the norm, even at mass scale," said Andy Markowitz, general manager of GE's performance marketing lab during a panel discussion at CES 2016.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
Only 11 percent of IT executives said they have a “robust” talent acquisition pipeline, according to a recent survey of 133 IT executives conducted by the CIO Executive Council (CEC). That’s a big problem in an increasingly competitive talent market, where corporate IT shops compete not only with each other for talent but also with cloud vendors and Silicon Valley.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
Why Microsoft is your best strategic partner for the futureAvanade CEO Adam Warby details how a $2 billion IT services company is capitalizing on new Microsoft cloud and collaboration capabilities to power digital transformation projects.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Why Microsoft is your best strategic partner for the futureAvanade CEO Adam Warby details how a $2 billion IT services company is capitalizing on new Microsoft cloud and collaboration capabilities to power digital transformation projects.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Most people know that a student who does well in a class would likely do well in another class, but could you predict whether a student would succeed based on how many times they logged into the campus network?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
New research shows that IT executives view “responsiveness” and “collaboration” as the top characteristics of a strategic vendor.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
In his keynote address at the CIO Perspectives event in Dallas last month, attorney Matthew Karlyn instructed the crowd about what CIOs and other business leaders need to know about the laws surrounding data breaches and preparing for the worst before a breach happens.Karlyn also addressed some of the myths surrounding security, including the suggestion that companies should “just let the IT department handle it.”“Does human resources have a role to play in information security? Of course they do - they’re storing the most sensitive data on all of your employees," said Karlyn. "Does finance have a role to play in information security? Of course they do - they’re funding the IT infrastructure. If they don’t understand what they’re funding, they’re going to say no… Does legal have a role to play in information security? Of course they do. No, it’s not just an IT department issue.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
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Matthew Karlyn, Partner, Technology Transactions & Outsourcing Practice, Foley & Lardner LLP
“I’ve been in meeting after meeting after meeting where companies like all of yours absolutely underestimate the impact of security breaches on the company,” Matthew Karlyn, Partner, Technology Transactions & Outsourcing Practice, Foley & Lardner LLP told attendees at the CIO Perspectives event in Houston in November 2015.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
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