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CIO Leadership Live with Bernie Gracy of Agero | Ep 1

How the roles of CIOs and CDOs are changing and expanding in today's digital business ecosystem.

CIO Leadership Live with Ron Guerrier of Farmers Insurance | Ep 2

How next-generation technologies are helping to shape the insurance industry.

CIO Leadership Live with Kristin Darby of Cancer Treatment Centers | Ep 3

How IT systems convergence is enabling connected care for patients.

CIO Leadership Live with Joel Jacobs of MITRE | Ep 4

How IT innovation, from predictive analytics to mobile app development, is a never-ending mission.

CIO Leadership Live with John Hill of Carhartt

How the evolving role of the IT leader includes an ongoing quest for innovation game changers.

Jun 6, 2018 1 min

CIO Leadership Live

CIO Leadership Live with Mojgan Lefebvre of Liberty Mutual | Ep 6

How the insurance firm is leveraging the cloud and creating a business-specific data strategy.

CIO Leadership Live with Klara Jelinkova of Rice University | Ep 7

How the university's GDPR project was an opportunity to talk about data security and privacy.

CIO Leadership Live with Sanjay Shringarpure of E.&J. Gallo Winery | Ep 8

How the landscape of IT and innovation technologies is changing in the agriculture industry.

CIO Leadership Live with Cynthia Stoddard of Adobe | Ep 10

How data strategy, automation and AI impact the new IT roles at Adobe.

CIO Leadership Live with Jack Clare of Dunkin’ Brands | Ep 9

How the company is striving to improve customers' drive-through experience.

Powering AI for government

In the coming years, artificial intelligence will become increasingly pervasive, spurring massive innovation across the private and public sectors. This development offers governments large and small major opportunities to surmount operational and bu

By Dan London

Government Government IT Technology Industry

David Shrier thinks we need a better model of how we deploy new technologies (and he’s right)

Oxford and MIT futurist David Shrier explains how augmented and extended intelligence may protect global governments against cyberattacks.

By Marquis Cabrera

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology Technology Industry

Avoid these digital transformation false starts

Expert CIO Bruce Lee discusses three traps that can trip up CIOs as they drive digital transformation initiatives.

By Martha Heller

CIO Digital Transformation Staff Management

The future of manufacturing is digital

Forward-thinking manufacturers are moving beyond building great products, undertaking wide-ranging digital transformations to deliver new services and enhanced customer experiences.

By Mary K. Pratt

Digital Transformation Internet of Things Manufacturing Industry

Even CIOs need a hard hat: Agile construction is a secret weapon for smarter IT

Agile construction methodologies are dramatically changing how IT infrastructure is being built. Those construction practices will, in turn, give CIOs more flexibility in how they do IT planning and save money on a fast-growing aspect of their budget

By Nancy Novak

CIO IT Leadership Markets

New purpose-built platforms are ready to leverage the Age of Instrumentation

The information technology industry is rife with tools developed to serve a specific need.

By Mark Herring

CRM Systems Data Center Technology Industry

Why Google and Amazon can win in any business – including yours

From film production and consumer electronics to healthcare and grocery delivery, Amazon and Alphabet (Google) are moving in many directions at once. They have pioneered a new strategic model and their data-first principles allows them to enter and d

By Michael Zammuto

Enterprise Technology Industry

SAP wants to woo businesses back to its CRM

SAP has integrated several existing cloud-based front-office tools into a new CRM suite, C/4HANA.

By Peter Sayer

CRM Systems Cloud Computing ERP Systems

Is the employee experience the digital transformation linchpin?

Leadership experts have long held that unhappy employees equal unhappy customers. Therefore, the opposite must be true, right? Business leaders, however, must go beyond that simple intuition and determine if an investment in the employee experience w

By Charles Araujo

Digital Transformation IT Leadership Technology Industry

How a CIO decreased cost and leveraged the right technologies to increase revenue

Yan Purba, CIO of Larry H. Miller Management Corporation, reveals how CIOs can support the C-suite to increase margins, revenue, and customer satisfaction.

By Ryan Westwood

CIO IT Leadership Technology Industry

4 resource management practices that improve business agility

Resource management is the most complex component of any services business. It is also the most misunderstood.

By Ray Grainger

Digital Transformation IT Leadership IT Strategy

Healthcare IT: reading the tea leaves, part 3

This is the last installment on my three-part series of predictions in the healthcare IT space, but itu2019s not ending due to a lack of trends to be analyzed. In fact, there are so many divergent and intersecting technological trends in our world th

By Avery Cloud

Healthcare Industry Technology Industry

The dark secrets of enterprise architecture

Architecture matters too much to entrust to a framework or methodology. But donu2019t worry: Not having a methodology isnu2019t a problem; itu2019s a liberation.

By Bob Lewis

Enterprise Architecture IT Leadership IT Strategy

10 change management courses for IT leaders

Leading change in an organization requires a balance of hard and soft skills. These 10 change management courses will help you strengthen the skillset necessary to lead organizational change.

By Sarah K. White

Certifications IT Leadership IT Skills

Why aren’t more women in computer science?

Women are equally qualified for careers in computer science and yet there is a shortage of professional talent. Learn how you can be part of the solution.

By Sue Weston

Jun 4, 2018

IT Skills Staff Management Technology Industry

Let your people guide you when adding capabilities to the cloud

To build a truly intelligent enterprise with emerging technology, business transformation must be guided by human insights and needs.

By Paul Gaynor

Jun 4, 2018

Cloud Computing IT Leadership

IT projects: do we actually ever learn ‘lessons learnt’?

We record 'lessons learnt' as part of the project management process, but do we actually learn from them?

By David Cotgreave

Jun 4, 2018

IT Leadership IT Skills Project Management Tools

10 things you need in a CRM vendor proposal (and 3 you don’t)

If you're doing a CRM system conversion, expansion, or initial implementation, there are some things you need to look for — and look out for — in a vendor proposal. We'll help you sort it out.

By David Taber

Jun 4, 2018 8 mins

CRM Systems Enterprise Applications

How CIOs transform IT for the digital era

CIOs are disrupting their IT departments, introducing new operating models to stay ahead of digital changes driving their respective industries.

By Clint Boulton

CIO Digital Transformation Technology Industry

Migrating data to the cloud: back to the future?

With real insights on the readiness of your data to move to the cloud, and a cloud-native catalog ready to manage it, you can accelerate migration with both confidence and control.

By Paul Barth

Business Intelligence Cloud Computing Data Management

Lessons learned from the 12th State of Agile Report

A few observations…but it's important for any executive team dependent on software for delivering key services to customers to spend some time reading this research and other similar surveys to better understand how changes and trends will imp

By Flint Brenton

Agile Development IT Leadership Technology Industry

Is your company a retailer? Should it be?

With the need for direct access to the consumer becoming increasingly prevalent, the one market that most exemplifies and enables face-to-face relationships is retail.

By Dave Sprosty

Digital Transformation Retail Industry Technology Industry

Is Snap the next Uber?

Silicon Valleyu2019s toxic culture rears its ugly head once again u2013 this time at Snap.

By Sharon Florentine

IT Leadership Technology Industry

Governance as code: keeping pace with the rate of change in the cloud

We need a fundamentally new approach to managing the cloud that allows decentralized teams to adopt the cloud and run at cloud-speed, while still maintaining the best practices and optimum security/efficiency required by our business.

By Joe Kinsella

Cloud Computing Digital Transformation IT Leadership

4 most in-demand cybersecurity skills

As cyber attacks continue to increase in number and escalate in complexity, companies are looking to hire hard-to-find cybersecurity experts to help secure their needs. Hereu2019s a look at the four most in-demand cybersecurity skills for 2018 and be

By Gianna Scorsone

Careers IT Skills Staff Management

Think youu2019re done with hearing about GDPR? Not so fast. Data privacy legislation isnu2019t going anywhere and thereu2019s a lot we can learn from the ups and downs of the EU experience.

By Philip Kushmaro

May 31, 2018

Compliance Regulation Technology Industry

How to lead a virtual team: 5 keys for success

You've got the tools, you've navigated the logistical hurdles, but you still may not be leading your remote team in the most effective way possible. Here's how to get virtual teams right.

By Josh Fruhlinger

May 31, 2018

Collaboration Software Project Management Tools Small and Medium Business

AI-powered data analytics: Inside this transformative trend

Real-world AI data projects, based primarily on machine learning, are impressive and largely successful. Some CIOs see AI as the most significant trend in IT.

By Scot Finnie

May 31, 2018

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Predictive Analytics

The business evolution within the 4th Industrial Revolution

With all of its technological advancements both anticipated and yet realized, the 4th Industrial Revolution may be a revolution of industry but also a radical evolution of how business itself is conducted.

By Mohamed Kande

Digital Transformation Enterprise Technology Industry

What can machine learning do for your business right now?

As a few companies race to monetize the kind of machine learning that focuses on teaching robots to behave more like humans, many companies are grappling with how to leverage artificial intelligence and smart machines.

By Anna Frazzetto

May 30, 2018 4 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Business Intelligence

Healthcare goes mobile: how consumer devices are changing the future of care

Today, the most ubiquitous devices in our homes and offices are finding a new place in the healthcare arena. Consumer devices u2013 like smartphones, tablets and VR headsets u2013 are transforming care by making it easier, more affordable, and more e

By David Rhew

Healthcare Industry Smartphones Technology Industry

The passive-aggressive side of a digital transformation

As with most significant changes, digital transformation can elicit both passive and aggressive reactions. In the correct context and with the right audience, both perspectives can be valid and useful. How can IT leaders embrace these representations

By Mikhail Papovsky

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Cyber insurance: Is it worth the investment?

While cyber liability insurance policies are complex and proving claims can be daunting, CIOs in the midmarket space agree access to resources provided in the policies make the investment worthwhile.

By Blair Shiver