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Digital transformation drives next wave of application delivery controllers

F5 Networks previews the evolution of application delivery controllers (ADCs) to meet the demands created by digital transformation.

By Zeus Kerravala

Cloud Computing Digital Transformation

7 keys to self-service BI success

Self-service business intelligence empowers business users to glean valuable insights from data u2014 without IT intervention. Hereu2019s how to make the most of this growing trend.

By Bob Violino

Analytics Business Intelligence

How GM CIO Randy Mott rebuilt IT for success

General Motors CIO Randall Mott discusses how he brought the auto maker's IT strategy in-house to drive competitive advantage, and shared his playbook for success with peers at the CIO 100 Symposium.

By Clint Boulton

Digital Transformation IT Strategy Outsourcing

7 steps to becoming a thought leader

Learn how to help your career, your organization and the IT community by sharing your expert knowledge with others.

By John Edwards

Aug 27, 2018 10 mins

Careers IT Leadership Relationship Building

Enabling critical reporting capabilities during a strategic transaction

Transitions during mergers and acquisitions can bring up questions about integrated and interim reporting.

By William P. Miller

IT Leadership IT Strategy Mergers and Acquisitions

Artificial intelligence: clearing hurdles to get to value faster

Artificial intelligence excels at specific tasks, and clearing those can prove value (and investment) quickly.

By Kris Fitzgerald

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Innovation

Reduce your mean time to value (MTTV) with low-code cloud platforms

Create apps to solve business problems in hours instead of months.

By Larry Larmeu

Development Tools Technology Industry

Why tech recruiters need more fun and games

To fill the gaping tech skills gap, companies need to cast their nets wider.

By Barbara Darrow

Careers IT Jobs IT Skills

5 design considerations for your design thinking workshop

The most productive ideation workshops, and those with the best customer experience, are those that have a unique DNA comprised of strategy, people, process, technology and which have been refined and optimized over years of experience.

By Nicholas D. Evans

IT Leadership Technology Industry

How successful IT leaders take charge from day one

CIOs looking to win over their IT departments and business peers need to move quickly. Three CIOs offer tips for how to jump into a new gig and thrive.

By Clint Boulton

IT Leadership

Mobile-first strategy streamlines AZDCS case work

A mobile-first strategy leveraging cloud-based mobility helps the Arizona Department of Child Safety (AZDCS) better serve families and children.

CIO 100 Digital Transformation Small and Medium Business

Moving from a legacy business to a digital disruptor?

Is it possible to go from last to first in the digital era?

By Myles F. Suer

Digital Transformation Technology Industry

5 ways businesses are modernizing ITSM

ITSM is more than service management; itu2019s a framework for supporting business needs. As new technology moves in and digital transformation takes hold, ITSM strategies must grow and adapt.

By Sarah K. White

Digital Transformation IT Governance Frameworks IT Strategy

What is the balanced scorecard? A framework for organizational success

The balanced scorecard is a strategic planning and performance management framework that tracks financial and non-financial measures to determine an organization's effectiveness and when corrective action is necessary.

By Bart Perkins

Budgeting IT Governance Frameworks IT Strategy

New research highlights the racial wage gap in the tech industry

Techu2019s diversity problem goes beyond underrepresentation. Black and brown tech workers do not get equal pay for equal work, regardless of their gender.

Salaries Staff Management Technology Industry

Data governance: the start of something wonderful

Data governance enhances business engagement, shared understanding, focus and alignment, bringing an ever-increasingly disconnected data environment together, and providing data value optimization across many EDM initiatives.

By Nancy Couture

Aug 23, 2018 6 mins

Data Management IT Governance Technology Industry

It’s time for a uniform national privacy law

In light of new laws from Europe and California privacy needs to be on the Congressional agenda.

By Mark MacCarthy

Aug 23, 2018

Government Regulation Technology Industry

Machine learning turns unstructured secondary storage into globally accessible data

Cohesityu2019s Helios converts the massive amounts of secondary storage from a wasted asset into data capable of creating competitive differentiation.

By Zeus Kerravala

Aug 23, 2018

Cloud Computing Digital Transformation

How AI is revolutionizing business productivity

Rather than replacing staff, current AI tools and services are boosting employee productivity by improving workflows, expediting search and discovery, and fine-tuning collaboration.

By Mary Branscombe

Aug 23, 2018

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Applications Personal Software

Why driving process excellence is key to sustainable business success

Agility will enable your organization to be more productive and innovative u2014 and ultimately, achieve long-term growth and competitive advantage.

By Ivan Seselj

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Use UX design thinking to create an office people actually want to come to

Today, itu2019s not just pay and benefits that matter when it comes to hiring and keeping talented employees. The work environment needs to be better than what they can get at home.

By David Levin

Graphic Design Tools IT Leadership Staff Management

Best practices for your enterprise’s successful IoT transformation

As IoT shifts us from the Internet of Humans to the Internet of People and Things and how they interact, the factors for success move away from mastering the technology itself to how the products should be designed, and their interaction with the res

By Prashant Kelker

Digital Transformation Internet of Things

Sheltered Harbor ensures cyber resilience for financial services firms

After the infamous Sony Pictures hack in 2014, the financial services industry came together to develop Sheltered Harbor to ensure customer financial data would remain secure and accessible in the event of a cyberattack.

Digital Transformation Financial Services Industry Fraud

Aug 22, 2018 6 mins

Redefining work in the digital age

Digital technologies are changing the way work is done at CIO100 award-winning organizations, empowering employees to shift focus to higher-value activities.

By Beth Stackpole

CIO 100 Digital Transformation Internet of Things

How Autodesk is creating the digital workplace

Prakash Kota, CIO of Autodesk, discusses his approach to using digital technology to improve employee productivity.

By Martha Heller

CIO Digital Transformation Staff Management

How zero-based principles can align your organization around the tech capabilities that matter

Enhanced ZBB, or ZBx, in IT is not solely about reducing cost. It also presents an opportunity to modernize legacy technology, reinvigorate teams with more agile ways of working, and infuse emerging skills and capabilities into the business.

By McCree Lake

Aug 21, 2018

Budgeting Digital Transformation IT Leadership

CEO and CIO cyber disconnect: Fixing the communications breakdown

In this new business environment, to help their organizations bolster their cyber security protections and also boost their careers, CIOs must find ways to communicate more effectively and consistently with their CEOs and the board.

By Tony Buffomante

Aug 21, 2018

CIO IT Leadership

7 compelling qualities of business and enterprise architects

Business and enterprise architects that excel have certain skill sets.

By Daniel Lambert

Aug 21, 2018 7 mins

Enterprise Architecture IT Leadership IT Skills

Moving agile beyond IT: The secret to successful software delivery

Creating an agile enterprise requires more than just implementing agile methodologies within IT. CIOs must spread the gospel to encourage participation from ITu2019s business colleagues.

By Mary K. Pratt

Aug 21, 2018

IT Leadership Project Management Tools Software Development

Anthem taps RPA, AI in digital transformation push

The health insurance company is using robotic process automation to balance data center workloads as part of CIO Tim Skeen's effort to make IT operations more nimble for stakeholders.

By Clint Boulton

Aug 21, 2018 6 mins

BPM Systems Digital Transformation IT Strategy

Monetizing data at scale

Data monetization is the next competitive hurdle, but for most CIOs, itu2019s uncharted territory.

By Martha Rounds

Aug 21, 2018 5 mins

CIO

Your first 100 days as CIO came and went. Now what?

Sure, the first days in your role as CIO are critical. Advice abounds in books, blog posts and presentations for how to approach your initial 90- or 100-day period. These recommendations are compelling and directionally sound. In reality, itu2019s ra

By Mikhail Papovsky

CIO IT Leadership

Finding the holy grail of centralized employee services

How to deliver operational efficiency, provide a great employee experience, and ubiquitously deploy it via the cloud.

By Steve Stover

Cloud Computing ITSM Technology Industry

Events: the low-hype plumbing reshaping large-scale commerce architecture

Event-related architecture, technology and commercials are all so appealing that now is absolutely the time to start adopting this style of architecture.

By Kelly Goetsch

Enterprise Architecture Technology Industry

7 skills of successful digital leaders

Effective digital transformation requires strong leadership. Hereu2019s how to helm your companyu2019s digital journey through considerable organizational change.

By Esther Shein

Careers Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Six tips for creating a winning talent strategy

Talent may not be the only factor for transforming IT for the digital era, but itu2019s one of the most critical.

By Khalid Kark

IT Leadership Staff Management

How National Life manages organic growth from the inside out

One of the fastest-growing American life insurance companies focuses on transformation in a traditionally staid industry

By Brendan McGowan

CIO IT Leadership IT Strategy

How to overcome the top challenges of achieving identity resolution

Identity resolution is the key to delivering personalized engagements. To be successful in delivering these engagements, there are three important business applications that build the base to help drive personalization at scale.

By George Corugedo

Aug 17, 2018

Identity Management Solutions Technology Industry

What is your time to answer?

Consolidation of data management and analytics is advancing speed and accuracy of every business decision.

By Paul Barth

Aug 17, 2018

Analytics Data Management Digital Transformation

5 qualities to look for in an IT career coach

Is your IT career stuck in neutral? An insightful coach can help you shift your professional life back into top gear.

By John Edwards

Aug 17, 2018 8 mins

Careers IT Leadership IT Skills

Gender pronouns: Small changes have big impact on workplace inclusion

Gender pronouns are becoming more important in the workplace as diversity and inclusion conversations continue.

Aug 17, 2018

Careers IT Leadership

Why IT leaders need to meet the needs of the hourly worker

Hourly employees are frequently overlooked in IT strategy u2014 but often present the highest case for return on investment.

By Peter Yared

IT Leadership IT Skills Staff Management

7 things you need to know about maintaining your ERP system

Have your ERP system in place but unsure of the steps you should be taking to maintain it? We have detailed the 7 things you need to be most aware of when it comes to the upkeep of your ERP system.

By Ryan Warnock

ERP Systems IT Leadership

User vs. service incidents: what’s the distinction?

Think gymnasium and magnesium. They rhyme, but theyu2019re different.

By Joel Pomales

ITIL ITSM Technology Industry

Sprint calls on open source analytics to prevent cyberfraud

Sprintu2019s open source Elastic Stack analytics implementation helped the mobile device and network provider reduce mobile phone fraud by 90 percent.

CIO 100 IT Leadership Open Source

Augmented reality examples: 9 ways companies are putting AR to work

AR is no longer a future tech dream; it has become a realistic, game-changing tool for visualizing data in industries from engineering and manufacturing to construction and healthcare.

By Paul Heltzel