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Weather data + business data = optimized risk analysis

Gone are the days of relying on weather data alone to increase your operational decision-making. Instead, the most successful companies are merging weather data with other information to innovate the way they analyze risk and reward.

By Mark Hoekzema

Analytics Markets Risk Management

Enterprise CIOs should watch how AI and blockchain build the cannabis industry

The legal cannabis industry is proving to be fast moving and innovative. Its IT leaders have the challenge and the luxury to adopt new technologies, including AI and blockchain, without the limitations of legacy systems. Enterprise CIOs in industries

By Michael Zammuto

Blockchain Markets Technology Industry

Have you been thinking?

How much of your time is devoted to thinking about and planning for the future? Whatever your answer might be, it probably isnu2019t enough. Letu2019s change that.

By Randy Pennington

CIO IT Leadership

How Stripe empowers female entrepreneurs

Female entrepreneurship is on the rise, and Stripe is helping women make their mark in the technology space.

Careers Technology Industry

10 online data analytics bootcamps to boost your career

Data analysts are in high demand, as organizations look to create value from the data theyu2019re collecting. Here are 10 bootcamps designed for aspiring data analysists and those looking to brush up on their skills.

By Sarah K. White

Analytics Careers IT Skills

12 bad habits that slow IT to a crawl

Bottlenecks always seem born of the best intentions, but they must be rooted out u2014 and broken. From governance to manual provisioning, here's what's holding up your IT organization's ability to deliver results.

By Bob Lewis

Apr 19, 2018

IT Leadership IT Strategy

12 bad habits that slow IT to a crawl

Bottlenecks always seem born of the best intentions, but they must be rooted out — and broken. From governance to manual provisioning, here's what's holding up your IT organization's ability to deliver results.

By Bob Lewis

Apr 19, 2018 10 mins

IT Leadership IT Strategy

2 trends reshaping the future of IT support

We are in the early stages of a broader transformation in how enterprise organizations look at the role of support. In the near future, support will become much more automated, but will also become much more customer-facing.

By Charles Araujo

Apr 19, 2018

Artificial Intelligence Tech Support Technology Industry

Your IT resolution for 2018: Build better budget habits

At this point in the year, you've likely abandoned all of your New Year's resolutions. But there's one you should stick with: rethinking the IT budget.

By Khalid Kark

Apr 19, 2018

Budgeting CIO IT Leadership

The IT skills gap: are companies missing the boat?

Are we taking the necessary steps to balance the supply and demand of tech workers? The answer to outsourcing could be starting with our students.

By Steve Cooper

Apr 18, 2018

IT Leadership IT Skills Staff Management

Establishing enterprise IT best practices for an SMB

Enterprises spend trillions of dollars each year on storage and security compliance. Here are some of the best practices that enterprise IT adhere to, and how small businesses could deploy similar systems for your own infrastructure setup.

By Chris Low

Apr 18, 2018 5 mins

IT Governance IT Leadership Small and Medium Business

160-year-old insurance giant transforms into a digital business

Northwestern Mutual's Karl Gouverneur discusses the insurance company's digital transformation journey and ITu2019s role in digital innovation.

By Martha Heller

Apr 18, 2018

CIO Digital Transformation IT Leadership

New AI tools make BI smarter — and more useful

Data science democratized: What used to take data scientists months to prepare may soon be put together in a few days by data-astute business users.

By Maria Korolov

Apr 18, 2018 10 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Business Intelligence

Improve end user device security and embrace the future via the cloud

Cloud has reshaped the client/server model. Are you evolving your architecture to suit?

By Larry Larmeu

Apr 17, 2018 8 mins

Cloud Security Network Security Technology Industry

IT effectiveness – Everyone’s desire, yet no one’s mandate

Technological innovations have been the primary driver of digital transformation until now. To maintain the momentum, digital transformation needs a corresponding wave of innovations in technology management. IT effectiveness is the strive to achieve

By Hakan Altintepe

Digital Transformation Financial Services Industry Technology Industry

Vision, alignment and the development of consensus

A vision document provides an efficient solution to find a consensus around what we will be building.

By Matt McBride

IT Leadership IT Strategy

Navigating artificial intelligence strategy in your industry

Considering the impact of the artificial intelligence (AI) on your industry's business models, processes, products and services.

By Nicholas D. Evans

Apr 17, 2018 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Strategy Technology Industry

Successful retailers make customers ‘fall in love’ with stores

Online shopping has shaken up the category, but physical retail u2013 with a big assist from technology u2013 will abide.

By Barbara Darrow

Retail Industry Technology Industry

Somewhere, hidden in the depths of your business, lies a threat you may never have considered. Lurking in the shadows, it silently multiplies beyond your control. It threatens your businessu2019 security and could cost you dearly under new regulatio

By Andy Berry

Big Data Regulation Technology Industry

Future-proof your IT career with these critical skills

In the era of digital transformation, IT pros must adjust to a rapidly shifting technology and business landscape. Hereu2019s a long-term look at where to aim your career in the years ahead.

By Mary K. Pratt

Apr 17, 2018 10 mins

Careers IT Skills

Customize your benefits to improve IT talent retention

Your valuable tech talent is more likely to stay if you offer benefits that match their needs u2014 as those needs evolve.

Careers IT Leadership Staff Management

Apr 17, 2018 6 mins

Who ‘owns’ the healthcare consumer of the future?

How the ongoing M&A scramble and the frantic pace of digitalization of healthcare are reshaping traditional relationships between healthcare consumers and providers.

By Paddy Padmanabhan

Digital Transformation Healthcare Industry Technology Industry

How to determine the value of enterprise data

The value of data is getting increasing attention from boards and CXOs as digital technologies disrupt entire industries, so getting a handle on the enterprise value of data is becoming more important for most corporations.

By Sanjay Srivastava

Technology Industry

Gender diversity doesn’t happen without advocacy

How mentoring programs are not enough to truly increase diversity in companiesu2019 leadership teams. Greater gender and ethnic diversity happens when advocacy from people in positions of authority embrace that responsibility.

By Nancy Novak

CIO IT Leadership Staff Management

Why the customer experience is the future of monitoring

Enterprise IT and business leaders are looking for technology solutions that help them simultaneously transform and reorient the organizationu2019s operating model around the customer experience, while being able to manage the complexity that such an

By Charles Araujo

Digital Transformation ITSM Technology Industry

11 bad hiring habits that will burn you

From dragging out the process to missing red flags, missteps in the hiring process can lead to talent shortages, retention issues and mismatches that often derail team cohesion and productivity.

By Paul Heltzel

IT Leadership Staff Management

How CIOs can tap into their investor network when looking for vendors

CIOs should turn to investors for insight into vendors as they can provide CIOs with an understanding of technologies offered by their portfolio companies, insights into the tech solutions their portfolio companies are using, an early read on upcomin

By Dave Welsh

Apr 13, 2018

CIO IT Leadership

Working with our allies is the best way to persuade China to practice open trade and investment

The administrationu2019s announced tariff actions is a mistake.

By Mark MacCarthy

Apr 13, 2018

Government Technology Industry

Opposites attract – fintechs and incumbents

The banking industry is undergoing substantial change as customers demand digital services. To meet these evolving needs, banks are realizing the value of partnering with fintech firms to spark innovation. So, how can banks and fintech companies best

By Rob Hetherington

Apr 13, 2018

Financial Services Industry IT Strategy Technology Industry

The ultimate way to effective software evaluation

Ensuring the quality of a software product is more than bug fixing. Today, it is about detecting technical and business pains. Following this ultimate way of software evaluation, you can cure your product pains before they turn into your debts.

By Boris Kontsevoi

Apr 12, 2018

App Testing Developer Enterprise Applications

Yes, the cloud computing category can grow (almost) forever

Market projections on cloud IT spending vary, but theyu2019re all heading in the same direction.

By Barbara Darrow

Apr 12, 2018

Budgeting Cloud Computing Technology Industry

7 ways to bounce back from a career setback

When the roof falls in on your current situation, it's time to roll up your sleeves and dig your way out to brighter prospects.

By John Edwards

Apr 12, 2018 9 mins

Careers

How to get a failing project back on track

While each project is unique and subjected to its own specific risks, there are some universals to heed when it comes to recovering a failing project.

By Moira Alexander

Apr 12, 2018

IT Leadership IT Strategy Project Management Tools

Driving effective organizational diversity

Why does diversity matter to CIOs? And what role if any do have CIOs have in creating it?

By Myles F. Suer

CIO Staff Management Technology Industry

IT effectiveness – the engine of digital transformation – is ailing. Why?

More than one-fifth of IT effort is potentially wasted on technology outputs that are never used, up to forty percent of business opportunities may be missed due to delays, and outdated management practices tax the IT workforce productivity by double

By Hakan Altintepe

Digital Transformation Financial Services Industry Technology Industry

Equal Pay Day 2018: Good news and bad news

Thereu2019s cause for celebration and continued concern around Equal Pay Day 2018. Awareness is improving, but we still have a long way to go, especially for black and Latina women.

Careers IT Jobs Salaries

Enhanced IT productivity through the use of low/no-code software development

The trick with low-code/no-code platforms, as with all employed technologies, is to do your homework up front to assure itu2019s implemented in an orderly, secure, productive and maintainable manner.

By Eric Bloom

Development Tools IT Leadership

How #MeToo and #TimesUp impact IT hiring

In IT organizations that may already be struggling to find and retain talent, the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements add new urgency to address D&I and bust biases.

IT Leadership Staff Management

State of the CIO, 2018: IT-business alignment (finally) gets real

After years of casual courting, IT and business are finally forging effective ways of working together to pursue shared objectives for digital transformation.

By Beth Stackpole

Apr 11, 2018 12 mins

CIO Digital Transformation IT Leadership

This blog is dedicated to detailing the capabilities your organization needs to comply with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and, eventually, to operationalize and enhance your privacy compliance and processes.

By Tony Buffomante

Government Regulation Technology Industry

Using data to cross the finish line

How enterprises can gain data management inspiration from the sports industry.

By Greg McStravick

Analytics Data Management

Why your IT team should be obsessed with your customers

When IT knows what customers want, it can anticipate their needs. Plus, it gives the team the credibility and respect to contribute in the business at a much more strategic level.

By Dan Roberts and Larry Wolff

CIO IT Leadership IT Strategy

IT’s worst addictions (and how to cure them)

Are you a control freak? A data fiend? An infrastructure junkie? Your tech addictions may be bringing your company down. Here's how to go cold turkey.

By Dan Tynan

Collaboration Software IT Strategy Small and Medium Business

Regulators will begin enforcing the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation on May 25. Here are steps you can take to make sure your compliance program is ready.

By Thor Olavsrud