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VITAS improves hospice care with mobile transformation

To accelerate data entry, VITAS Health equipped its clinicians with iPhones and iPads, giving them more time to care for bed-ridden patients. The mobilization paves the way for a greater, cloud-first digital transformation.

By Clint Boulton

Jan 26, 2018

Want a job in data analytics? Here’s why you should consider health and wellness

Professionals with a background in data analytics are in high demand. Find out what an analytics career in the health and wellness industry offers that other industries donu2019t.

By Kevin Troyanos

Healthcare Industry IT Jobs Technology Industry

Log-scale gains for your digital transformation

Donu2019t fall behind from your inability to build the infrastructure thatu2019s required for your business.

By Mansour Karam

Digital Transformation Technology Industry

A process model for measuring relationships with COBIT

Expanding your relationships requires first measuring them to determine how effectively youu2019re building credibility.

CIO IT Leadership IT Strategy

Leveraging business capabilities for strategic planning

Changing how IT goes to market with a common language for business improvement.

By Chris Davis

IT Leadership IT Strategy

Taking machine learning to new heights using Docker containers

Joining the robust capabilities of containers and the innovative technology of machine learning presents new challenges, but new opportunities as well.

By Brian E. Thomas

Jan 25, 2018 4 mins

Containers Machine Learning Technology Industry

5 ways for public sector leaders to accelerate innovation in 2018

Different approaches that can help to further advance the way ideas are sourced, shared, scoped and shepherded through the innovation process, so that public sector organizations can improve the yield of ideas moving through their pipelines.

By Nicholas D. Evans

IT Strategy Innovation Technology Industry

Who cares about your IT initiative?

We often get distracted by the strategies and tactics of a given IT initiative when looking for reasons it performed the way it did. Thereu2019s a bigger, less tangible reason for why a project succeeds or fails: is it in the hands of someone who car

By Mikhail Papovsky

IT Leadership IT Strategy

Want a more diverse workforce? Hire bootcamp graduates

Coding bootcamps are producing more than double the number of graduates as the U.S.u2019s largest traditional CS programs, and those graduates are far more diverse.

By Sharon Florentine

Careers IT Leadership Staff Management

5 artificial intelligence trends that will dominate 2018

Everyone is talking about machine learning, deep learning, and AI. Here are five AI trends to watch in 2018.

By Thor Olavsrud

Analytics Artificial Intelligence IT Strategy

CIO Digital Magazine: Winter 2018

The 2018 State of the CIO survey found stronger cooperation and better alignment between IT and its LOB partners, especially as digital transformation initiatives heat up.

By CIO staff

Jan 24, 2018 2 mins

Is Ethereum’s smart contract dominance being eroded?

Smaller companies that offer vast improvements over Ethereum's use of smart contracts.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

E-commerce Software Financial Services Industry Technology Industry

Data is not the new oil or the infrastructure of the digital economy

Some are claiming that data is the u201cnew oil.u201d Some claim that data is infrastructure. Both of these assertions are false.

By Mark MacCarthy

Analytics Big Data Data Management

CIOs: Are you ready for the BIoT? Making sense of blockchain joining the IoT

Blockchain technology doesnu2019t just power the worldu2019s cryptocurrencies u2013 it could potentially unleash the scalability of the IoT by addressing key security concerns u2013 and it may overhaul your core business strategies in the process.

By Steve Weston

Internet of Things Technology Industry

Establishing role-based access control in the workplace

Access control is necessary, and every organization must implement it in some form.

By Chris Low

Access Control Data and Information Security Technology Industry

Missile launches, false alarms and a user experience wake-up call

It's long past time for enterprise leaders to see the role of the interface and the importance of the customer experience in its rightful, mission-critical place.

By Charles Araujo

The revolution finally hits business software

The last generation of business software was built by engineers. The next generation is being built by designers and engineers.

By Nathan Brown

Enterprise Applications Graphic Design Tools

The ABCs of a singular global IT architecture

How Chad Couch, CIO of Brightstar, embedded IT into the customer experience, integrated service lines, and made IT central to the business rather than just an order taker.

By Martha Heller

CIO Careers Staff Management

Can AI predict when that new hire will quit?

New pattern matching tech takes aim at predicting how long new hires will stay, potentially saving employers billions per year. But has AI really cracked the code on employee retention?

By Terena Bell

Jan 24, 2018 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers Staff Management

Immersive learning transforming education

Mixed Reality is increasingly being used to teach the creative and collaborative skills needed for the digital age.

By Alice Bonasio

Technology Industry Virtual Reality

Key cloud trends for 2018

Some realizations that enterprises are likely to have about how the cloud impacts their business.

By Kumar Srivastava

Cloud Computing Technology Industry

How BRMs can tap into the value of business architecture

Wondering how to drive value realization through an enterprise? The blueprint of the enterprise holds many answers.

CIO IT Leadership IT Strategy

Most ICOs are dubious – but it’s still the future of software economics

Crowdfunding mechanisms such as initial coin offerings (ICOs) are going to fundamentally disrupt software economics.

By Lucas Geiger

IT Leadership IT Skills Staff Management

The 8 most common IT training mistakes

Poor training can sink a technical implementation, derail a digital transformation or leave you scrambling to fill gaps when employees leave. Hereu2019s how to structure you training practices for practical success.

By Bruce Harpham

Jan 23, 2018 9 mins

Why (and how) utilities see a future in the cloud

Faced with challenges old and new u2013 the regulatory landscape and new players challenging their monopoly status u2013 utilities see a cloud-driven future. Hereu2019s why.

By Michael O'Donnell

Cloud Computing Energy Industry Technology Industry

Why low code platforms are the future of app development

They're easier, faster and a more efficient use of time. And it doesnu2019t matter whether developers are on-board with this change or not.

By Kevin Rands

Developer Development Tools Technology Industry

Marketers deserve mobile location data transparency, not smoke and mirrors

The mobile location data sector is young enough that we still can establish standards and best practices around data quality and transparency.

By Gladys Kong

Marketing Mobile Small and Medium Business

7 steps to become an AI-enabled enterprise

Finding your artificial intelligence enterprise strategy.

By Rene Buest

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership IT Strategy

Should you trust those agile charts?

As long as they follow the CASH principle, the answer is…perhaps.

By Michael Dougherty

Agile Development Analytics ROI and Metrics

Achieving business transparency

How can CIOs achieve business transparency? What is required for them to succeed here?

By Myles F. Suer

CIO Digital Transformation IT Strategy

Communicating and marketing a portfolio of initiatives that drive digital transformation

CIOs should market and communicate their portfolio of digital initiatives across several dimensions to keep everyone engaged in the journey.

By Isaac Sacolick

5 factors that form a formidable business leader, according to Oracle CIO Mark Sunday

Consistency is key in remaining competitive over time u2014 especially in an era of fast-paced change.

By Ryan Westwood

IT Leadership

The unexpected benefits of data analytics

Data analytics can uncover surprising insights that lead to unexpected new program or product ideas, as these six real-world examples show.

By Bob Violino

Analytics Data Management Data Mining

The future of delivery processes and ways of working (ablauforganization)

Every business wants to be agile, but pitfalls lurk on the way. We show you how to circumvent them and succeed with pragmatic solutions.

By Prashant Kelker

BPM Systems IT Leadership IT Strategy

The critical role of processes in your disaster recovery strategy

Putting in the advance groundwork during quieter times not only leads to cooler heads during more turbulent times, but will also make a tremendous difference to your customers, employees and future business performance.

By Ivan Seselj

Disaster Recovery IT Leadership IT Strategy

Robotic process automation brings a new approach to common M&A challenges

New techniques are being identified to leverage the power of RPA to realize more than a dozen benefits, such as reducing processing errors, freeing up teams to perform more knowledge-based work and accelerating the divestiture and integration life cy

By William P. Miller

Emerging Technology Mergers and Acquisitions Technology Industry

Diverse and inclusive tech conferences to attend in 2018

Looking for a more diverse and inclusive tech conference experience? Here are some great options for 2018.

By Sharon Florentine

Careers Events

CBRE CIO fosters a tech-driven culture

Capital One alum Chandra Dhandapani infused the real estate company with progressive leadership at a time when the industry is turning to cutting-edge technology.

By Brian P. Watson

IT Leadership

5 ways you can unlock your enterprise mobility strategy

As the enterprise moves towards strategies that emphasize speed, flexibility and choice, unlocked devices are helping mobile deployments do the same.

By Eric McCarty

Mobile Small and Medium Business

Where is your company on the path to optimizing a collaborative digital workplace?

Once you identify where exactly you are, youu2019ll be better able to see your way forward.

By Paige O'Neill

Collaboration Software Digital Transformation Small and Medium Business

Architecting innovation-driven BRM success

Success isnu2019t random u2013 itu2019s architected into the process. Thereu2019s a reason business-capability models resonate with executives. They transform businesses, box-by-box.

CIO IT Leadership IT Strategy

4 ways big data will shake up supply chain systems

Big data analytics can provide visibility into where things are, where they should be, and whatu2019s gumming up the system.

By Jen A. Miller

Analytics Data Management Supply Chain Management Software

Top of the year focus on your digital transformation bottom line

Resetting your digital transformation and business performance objectives for 2018.

By Steven Malme

What is the ‘Location of Things’ and how is it minimizing risk?

Understanding the relationship between people, places and things is crucial to reducing risk. How are different industries doing this, and what are the benefits?

By Andy Berry

7 key factors of successful digital transformation

What it takes to make DX initiatives succeed within large, existing organizations…from someone who's done it firsthand.

By Eric Bloom

Jan 17, 2018 5 mins

3 BRM tools for evolution not revolution

Focusing on strategic initiatives is possible once tactical needs are met. Use these three tools to talk about strategy faster.

IT Leadership IT Strategy

Small service providers becoming heavyweights and outcompeting system integrators

Retail banku2019s strategic implementation illustrates new third-party services trend.

By Peter Bendor-Samuel

Financial Services Industry Payment Systems Technology Industry

Education of the future: everywhere, for everyone, all the time

The role online learning will play in education models of the future has only just begun.

By Sarah Franklin