IT Leadership

6 strategies for avoiding cloud vendor lock-in

A credible threat of defection can help you leverage competitive pricing opportunities and escape long-term relationships gone bad.

The 5 ways strategic partnerships fuel uncommon growth

Tangible ways a strategic partnership channel can drive otherwise unrealized growth.

How to predict who will quit — and whom to poach

Predictive analytics can help pinpoint why your talent is leaving, how to prevent it, and whom to go after when recruiting from competitors.

Strategic partnership: A magic bullet for enterprise innovation

Strategic partnerships have emerged as an opportunity to help enterprise businesses scale. Make sure your organization doesnu2019t get stuck on the sidelines!

Big business: You, too, can growth hack

Big business: You, too, can growth hack

Big businesses have a lot of potential to unlock and can be scrappy to great effect if they push traditional approaches aside. The key is to always keep rethinking and continue reinventing.

The CIO’s chief of staff: A force multiplier

CIOs canu2019t do everything themselves. They need someone to help manage strategy and innovation. Enter the chief of staff.

CIO succession planning in the digital age

The tech talent squeeze means CIOs must build deep leadership benches. Here, CIOs and analysts reveal how to groom high potentials for top roles.

Have you dusted off your incident response plan?

As security incidents are more prevalent these days, we are seeing organizations that aren't sufficiently prepared because their incident response plan was outdated or non-existent.

IT’s latest survival skill: Embracing risk

In todayu2019s digital business world, IT has to stop playing it safe, as you canu2019t innovate without taking some risks. Still most IT professionals remain deeply risk-averse.

How much cybersecurity funding is enough – is it a bottomless pit?

No matter how much you spend on cybersecurity, thereu2019s no guarantee you wonu2019t have a significant incident. How do senior management and the board know what makes sense?