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IS ETL dead? In the age of AI, not quite

It's just more complex, harder and significant.

By Kumar Srivastava

Artificial Intelligence Data Management Technology Industry

The cloud is changing IT. But not really…

All those great IT habits your organization has created over the years are still needed.

By Chris Bovasso

Cloud Computing IT Leadership

IT productivity through project failure

When a project fails, does it have to diminish the reputation of IT as a whole?

By Eric Bloom

CIO IT Leadership Project Management Tools

Is this ITIL’s last gasp?

For any service management framework or approach to remain relevant, their core focus must be to help shift and reorient organizations away from systems-centric or even service-centric operating models to customer-centric ones.

By Charles Araujo

ITIL ITSM Technology Industry

Establishing business architecture standards: an industry imperative

The advantages that standardization provides to consumers and practitioners apply to the discipline of business architecture.

By Daniel Lambert

Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy Technology Industry

5 ways to kill your digital transformation program

Leaders of transformation programs have the challenge of getting the right business and IT people involved and collaboration practices in place.

By Isaac Sacolick

CIO Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Facebook takes on non-consensual intimate images

Non-consensual intimate images are a serious problem that tech companies are trying to prevent. Facebooku2019s pilot reporting program in Australia is a thoughtful first step to address this major social issue.

By Mark MacCarthy

Nov 15, 2017 4 mins

Internet Privacy Regulation

Fall 2017: Hot trends in data analytics

Big data, machine learning, data science u2014 the data analytics revolution is evolving rapidly.

By CIO staff

Analytics Business Intelligence CIO

How to strengthen IT’s connection to your business

When IT understands the business, it can better fulfill its needs. To achieve that and foster a business outcomes culture, CIOs are using a combination of approaches.

By Martha Heller

CIO IT Leadership IT Skills

Do you really want to be a platform?

Platform businesses are all the rageu2014but trying to become a platform isnu2019t the only path to business success in todayu2019s digital world.

By Anant Jhingran, Michael Endler

Technology Industry Web Development

It’s time for IT to take a product management approach

The 10-point product manager manifesto that will help you beat your competition to market and the next innovation.

By Patrick Tickle

Nov 14, 2017 14 mins

IT Leadership

How neural networks will transform e-commerce

E-commerce is a multi-trillion-dollar industry undergoing a big transformation u2013 one that will permanently change the way we sell and the way consumers will buy.

By Irfan Jafrey

E-commerce Software Retail Industry Technology Industry

Your first 60 seconds

The first 60 seconds are critical to the success of any business presentation.

By Theodore May

IT Leadership

Regulatory technology: innovating compliance and your business

Regulatory technology can help to not only effectively manage regulatory requirements, but also help companies to enhance customer service and develop new offerings.

By John Ivanoski

Compliance Regulation Technology Industry

How blockchain technology is disrupting the remittance industry

Blockchain disruption is coming. Itu2019s up to you whether you prepare yourself.

By Kevin Rands

Financial Services Industry Payment Systems Technology Industry

Who needs an IT service desk analyst anyway?

While new processes, approaches and technologies may change the way that support is provided, the requirements for technical resources wonu2019t.

By Jarod Greene

CIO ITSM Technology Industry

Project management salaries: Talent gap reveals long-term growth

State of the project manager: Growing demand for project-based professionals is fast fueling a worldwide talent gap, leading to substantial career opportunities in project management u2014 and salaries that can be expected to rise considerably.

By Moira Alexander

Careers Project Management Tools Salaries

Long live levity: the benefits of becoming a funny leader

Levity provides relief from the bad, it can inspire and help us work through stressful situations creatively.

By Erika Flora

IT Leadership IT Skills

The 6 keys to Matson’s global digital transformation

The shipping companyu2019s IT consolidation and digital transformation efforts created massive efficiencies. An effort made possible thanks to six crucial elements.

By Brendan McGowan

CIO Enterprise Architecture IT Governance

Why holiday mobile commerce is an opportunity for brick-and-mortar retail

This holiday season, phone-wielding shoppers should be seen as a challenging opportunity for smarter retail marketing, not a reason for the holiday blues.

By Gladys Kong

Digital Transformation E-commerce Software Technology Industry

AI will take over the world – and that’s a good thing

From Elon Musk to Stephen Hawking, there has been much discussion about machine intelligence. Far from taking over the world, the advances in AI are a necessary part of our evolution.

By Christopher C. Barron

Artificial Intelligence Technology Industry

Blockchain IDs need international consensus

Just as they agreed on the booklet format of a passport and the information included within, they must also do so for the next generation of IDs.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

Data and Information Security Government Technology Industry

Intelligent image and video management for the enterprise

As image and data quality goes up u2013 driven by better capture, transfer, processing and compressing technologies u2013 the ability to store and process these images and video data easily becomes a competitive advantage.

By Kumar Srivastava

Data Management

Future of the corporate data center: what if we are all wrong?

There is a widespread belief, verging upon a theological conviction, that corporate data centers are a thing of the past. Industry prognosticators and practitioners have convinced themselves that cloud computing is an inexorable force that will event

By Mark Settle

CIO Data Center

The top 10 internal issues impacting vendor relations

These considerations can serve as a starting point to enable you to improve future negotiations and partner relationships.

By Len Riley

CIO IT Leadership

The tyranny of service providers’ global rate cards

Increasing pressure on service providersu2019 margins will strike back at clients.

By Peter Bendor-Samuel

IT Leadership Managed Cloud Services

What’s the difference between a chief data officer, chief digital officer, and chief analytics officer?

Companies are increasingly developing new executive roles aimed at making the organization as a whole more data-driven and digitally adept. Here's how three new tech exec titles take different approaches to tackling the same problem.

By Minda Zetlin

Nov 13, 2017 10 mins

CIO Data Management Digital Transformation

Disaster recovery in the age of data and AI

To ensure that data is not lost, and outages are recovered from swiftly and efficiently, enterprises need to invest in high levels of redundancy in their infrastructure.

By Kumar Srivastava

Artificial Intelligence Business Continuity Disaster Recovery

Get ready to face the realities behind blockchain hype

How 2018 is shaping up in blockchain technology.

By Martha Bennett

Financial Services Industry IT Leadership

Information blindness

Many leaders are crying out to see u2013 to both access and visualize information that may be spread across multiple platforms and geographies. Here's how one healthcare organization healed themselves.

By Avery Cloud

Analytics Business Intelligence Digital Transformation

How to be a better ally to minority colleagues

The heads of diversity and inclusion at ThoughtWorks, Twilio and Qualcomm discuss how white people can be better allies to underrepresented groups.

By Sharon Florentine

Careers IT Jobs IT Leadership

The CIO’s future: tech is no longer enough

Along with the implementation of digital strategies, IT is evolving from a centralized support function into an advisor, enabler, broker and orchestrator of business services.

By Marc Wilczek

Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

CIO IT Leadership

CIOs pay attention: VR and AR are about to disrupt your industry

Nvidia's Holodeck shows how virtual and augmented reality can improve collaboration and speed up business decisions. Companies must get on board or be left behind.

By Zeus Kerravala

Nov 10, 2017 6 mins

Why your BI strategy needs a universal semantic data layer

A universal semantic data layer is a single business representation of all corporate data aimed at helping users access data using common business terms via the BI and analytics tools of their choice.

By Thor Olavsrud

Business Intelligence Data Mining Data Science

The slippery slope of getting what we pay for

Too often egos, along with deeply ingrained attitudes about money, superiority and quality make it very difficult to stand back and clearly evaluate performance and outcomes.

By Adam L. Stanley

IT Leadership IT Skills

Ecommerce and the importance of staying organized

Ecommerce tools like CRM allow you more control (and profits), but require an investment.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

CRM Systems E-commerce Software Internet

Digital initiatives should exploit innovation opportunities available in encapsulated processes

Itu2019s not just the processes surrounding tech; processes present in tech too offer opportunities to make strategic contributions.

By Pradeep Henry

IT Leadership IT Strategy Innovation

CIOs reveal what vendors need to know about the purchasing process

Four IT leaders share what tech vendors need to know about the CIO role and the buying process.

By Brendan McGowan

Budgeting CIO Technology Industry

Defining AI: reasoning, interaction and learning

What is possible today is represented by the intersection of these three fields. Progressive CIOs and other executives must pick the business use cases that are at this intersection to get the most out of AI.

By Sanjay Srivastava

Artificial Intelligence CIO Technology Industry

Transformational IT trends in 2018

4 trends in digital transformation that the next year holds for IT.

By Vic Bhagat

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

8 data science bootcamps to boost your career

Whether youu2019re a recent grad, seasoned IT pro or someone looking to make a career change, these bootcamps will set you on the right path for a career in data science.

By Sarah K. White

Certifications Data Science IT Skills

CIOs will make the Chief Digital Officer obsolete in 2018

CIOs will render the role of the Chief Digital Officer obsolete as he/she will provide the technology and service that allows your company to succeed in the Age of the Customer.

By Matthew Guarini

CIO IT Leadership

What CIOs can learn from Jimmy Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock

For CIOs facing constant transition, this classic film serves as a parable about harnessing the power of paranoia and uncertainty to your benefit and the benefit of your organization and its customers. It also displays the danger of isolation in vivi

By Keith Collins

CIO IT Leadership IT Strategy

4 technologies that are enabling workplace transformation

A combination of flexible policies and smart, cutting-edge technology will help you engage your entire workforce u2013 and not just Millennials.

By Stephanie Hallford

Collaboration Software Digital Transformation Small and Medium Business

The missing link in IT collaboration

IT managers must drive digital transformation with seamless, secure and easy ways to share content. It all starts in the meeting room.

By Tom M. Garrison

Collaboration Software IT Leadership Small and Medium Business

Looking for nails to hit with my blockchain hammer

A Q&A with Adventium blockchain expert T.D. Smith

By Scott Nelson

Data and Information Security Technology Industry

How blockchain is putting the power in the hands of indie game devs

Just as consumers once benefitted from centralization, they will also benefit from its reversal.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

Developer Gaming

2 lessons cloud native companies have for enterprise leaders

IT leaders must push their organizations to continuously explore and discover solutions for problems that do not yet exist.

By Charles Araujo

Cloud Computing Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Export your IT people into the business

By letting IT staff work with business teams, Scotts Miracle-Gro CIO Mark Sims created a structure that distributes development, delivery and support across the enterprise.

By Martha Heller