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When UI is about experience – and when it is not

The same objectives driving 'higher' level steps of strategy translation must drive all steps right until the end. The steps include the task of designing the user interface (UI) architecture.

By Pradeep Henry

Enterprise Applications Technology Industry

Anatomy of an IT strategic plan in the era of digital disruption

To effectively support todayu2019s IT-informed business strategies, CIOs must embrace new approaches to IT strategic planning that are more business-driven, flexible, and frequently revisited than in years past.

By Stephanie Overby

Business IT Alignment Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy

CIOs need to prioritize intelligence, innovation and customer experience

Defining the new metrics relevant to your businessu2019s bottom line is one thing, but how do you determine what to focus on in order to drive real change?

By Vic Bhagat

CIO IT Leadership

How to pitch your product for review in 10 thoughtful steps

It's not just email blasting. It takes time, research, effort and relationship building.

By Samantha Leggat

Oct 27, 2017 6 mins

Careers Marketing

Ascending the stairway to digital heaven

Is your company digitally mature enough for digital transformation?

By Daniel Hebda

Digital Transformation IT Leadership Technology Industry

Stop before your employees drop

Employees are a companyu2019s most important asset. Manage them like it.

By Avery Cloud

CIO IT Governance IT Leadership

Leadership through the generations

u201cWith age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.u201d u2013 Oscar Wilde

By Bask Iyer

IT Leadership

Changing the definition of diversity

No matter what Apple thinks, 12 white, blonde, blue-eyed men do not a diverse workforce make.

Careers IT Leadership Staff Management

GSK accelerates data analytics for clinical trials

CDO Mark Ramsey is helping the pharmaceutical giant turn decades of data into a drug-discovery asset, thanks to a homegrown big data analytics platform that processes petabytes.

By Clint Boulton

Analytics Data Management Digital Transformation

10 most telecommuting-friendly companies in tech

Remote work is a boon for both employers and employees alike. If you're looking for a job that allows (or even encourages) telecommuting, these 10 tech companies are the places to begin your search.

Oct 26, 2017 4 mins

Careers IT Jobs

10 most telecommuting-friendly companies in tech

Remote work is a boon for both employers and employees alike. If you're looking for a job that allows (or even encourages) telecommuting, these 10 tech companies are the places to begin your search.

Careers IT Jobs Remote Work

Oct 26, 2017

Wi-Fi disaggregation: IT buyers poised to win again

The flexibility and lower costs that disaggregating Wi-Fi can bring could be the next big revolution for enterprises.

By Mike Feibus

Oct 26, 2017

Technology Industry Wi-Fi

How Dow’s CIO balances mega-M&A and digital transformation

Melanie Kalmar became CIO at a time of massive change for the chemical giant. Now sheu2019s calling on past experience to guide the company into its next chapter.

By Brian P. Watson

Oct 26, 2017

CIO Digital Transformation Mergers and Acquisitions

The relationship between evidence-based and data-driven medicine

The potential biases of evidence-based medicine can be overcome with data-driven medicine, now that we are amassing large data sets from which AI algorithms can learn and discover.

By Robert Rowley

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Industry Technology Industry

6 ways to engage with your customers in real-time

Improving the way that you communicate with your customers will have both short-term and long-term impact on your business.

By Philip Kushmaro

E-commerce Software Technology Industry

Business imperatives and the tech time bomb

Many transformational programs in enterprise IT are no more than shiny objects sitting on a veneer layer that masks the unsustainable, expensive legacy they depend on.

By Alan Nance

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Arbitration mechanisms key to viable smart contract platforms

Smart contract platforms are now making it easy for companies to adopt the technology with minimal technical expertise.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

E-commerce Software Enterprise IT Leadership

Contract-to-hire jobs on the rise: how to leverage this trend

The rising contract-to-hire trend provides your business with the opportunity to make more informed and effective full-time tech hires. Here's how to capitalize on this hiring shift.

By Gianna Scorsone

IT Leadership Staff Management

Compliance strategy is just the start of your privacy program

Understanding the conflicting privacy regulations in countries around the world.

By Enza Iannopollo, Heidi Shey

Compliance Privacy Regulation

Google touts programmers 10 times more productive

Should your company go the Google route and invest in this strategy for increasing productivity?

By Peter Bendor-Samuel

IT Leadership Technology Industry

CIOs are ready for the COO chair

Phil Fasano, who spent a career in the CIO role, says CIOs should do more than drive operational change u2014 they should become operations leaders.

By Martha Heller

CIO IT Governance IT Skills

7 simple ways to fail at agile

Creating and sustaining a successful agile program requires a strong commitment and careful planning. Yet ruining a functional agile initiative is remarkably easy.

By John Edwards

IT Leadership IT Strategy Project Management Tools

To be AI-first, move beyond managing data warehouses

Enterprises need to define a path to data-maturity and that requires reshaping and reorganizing their data storage, description, maintenance and value generation processes, procedures, tooling and functions.

By Kumar Srivastava

Artificial Intelligence Data Warehousing IT Leadership

Out with the E, in with the C: the new battleground for digital health

Healthcare IT needs a new buzzword every year, and it seems like weu2019ve found one for 2018 that indicates a shift in the battleground for technology providers.

By Paddy Padmanabhan

Electronic Health Records Healthcare Industry Technology Industry

What does it take to be a successful CIO?

The CIO role requires an unusual ability to be both a big picture strategist and an execution oriented leader who can pay attention to details. It also helps to be surrounded by good people with a diverse skillset.

By Mark Blanke

CIO IT Leadership

The secrets of highly successful data analytics teams

Effective data teams bring diverse, cross-functional skill sets to bear on clearly defined business priorities — without losing sight of the value of experimentation and ongoing education.

By Bob Violino

Analytics Careers IT Leadership

AI-defined infrastructure: be prepared for a new generation of business models and applications

An AI-enabled Infrastructure is an essential part of todayu2019s enterprise stack and builds the foundation for the AI-enabled enterprise.

By Rene Buest

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Technology Industry

Counting database costs: databases and elasticity

How database systems are finally lining up with the rest of the application stack to support modern elastic data centers, and deliver the associated cost benefits.

By Barry Morris

Data Center Databases IT Leadership

Encouraging and enabling collaboration in modern workplace

When it comes to employee communication and collaboration, IT leaders need to ask themselves, u201cAre we the gatekeeper to employees collaborating or are we enablers and champions?u201d

By Jim Haskin

Collaboration Software IT Leadership Small and Medium Business

But it worked for me…

By the time someone approaches you with a problem, you have missed the first few chances to prevent the situation from occurring.

By Paul T. Cottey

App Testing IT Governance IT Leadership

Tech’s worst layoffs, 2017

A look back at the year in pink slips

By Josh Fruhlinger

IT Jobs Technology Industry

At the innovation tipping point — outward, forward-thinking prevails

Innovation is moving from promise to reality more quickly than ever before. With all this opportunity, however, many companies find it hard to know how to harness it, where to invest, or even the right questions with which to begin.

By DJ Paoni

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Virtual reality and blockchain — the future of STEM?

While blockchain helps retail and financial industries to evolve, its u201ckiller appu201d might end up being completely unrelated to profits of any kind. We can only hope.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

Technology Industry Virtual Reality

A checklist for superior leadership

Far too many leaders think that their technical or operational prowess is a benchmark for success. The superior ones, however, understand the power of influence, empathy and everything else that's required for leading people.

By Louis Gerzofsky

CIO IT Governance IT Leadership

3 small mistakes IT vendors make during a sourcing event that are detrimental to their success

If IT vendors can help alleviate the frustrations voiced by buy-side companies, they may find themselves more successful during a sourcing event.

By Adam Mansfield

Enterprise Supply Chain Management Software Technology Industry

Travel conference CEOs worry technology could drive the de-personalization of travel

And in an era where travelers have more stress than ever, is reducing genuine human contact actually increasing the sense of isolation and anxiety?

By Howard Tiersky

Technology Industry

The chatbot startup that has the Fortune 500 listening

Fortune 500 companies are tapping the digital design expertise of startup Conversable for virtual digital assistant software to help consumers find information and complete transactions.

By Clint Boulton

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation Technology Industry

Leading change in the digital age

More than ever before, all business sectors must track and manage the coming magnitude of change or find themselves paying the high price of ignorance

By Adam L. Stanley

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

How you can use UC to beat shadow IT communication channels

The simple act of optimizing your communication and maximizing the benefit of a single UC solution over others will quickly eliminate some of the shadowy internal competition.

By Dan Burkland

IT Leadership Unified Communications

75% of customers are willing to pay a premium for enhanced hosting and cloud services

Cloud users are willing to pay an average 30 percent premium for enhancements such as security, uptime and performance. Still, many providers fail to meet customersu2019 expectations.

By Marc Wilczek

Cloud Computing Digital Transformation IT Leadership

How application development and maintenance has become a loss leader

Agile, cloud, ready-to-buy platforms and other advances have eroded the statusu2014and the marginsu2014of application development.

By Esteban Herrera

Agile Development Budgeting IT Leadership

Stopping sexual harassment: Ready for a ‘witch hunt’?

If calling out those who participate in or perpetuate sexual harassment constitutes a u201cwitch hunt,u201d then sign me up.

Careers IT Leadership Technology Industry

5 pitfalls of self-service BI

Self-service business intelligence offers many benefits, but bringing analytics and reporting closer to business units by bypassing IT can have unintended u2014 and costly u2014 consequences.

By Thor Olavsrud

Analytics Business Intelligence IT Strategy

Why design thinking is key to efficient innovation

Sixty-nine percent of organizations surveyed by Everest Group say that design thinking makes their innovation process more efficient. Download the free report to learn more.

By Everest Group

Analytics Digital Transformation Innovation

Can devops be delivered in a distributed labor model?

The key to a high-functioning devops team? Two pizza boxes and one Nerf ball.

By Peter Bendor-Samuel

Oct 19, 2017

Devops IT Leadership

EU privacy law says companies need to explain the algorithms they use

Explainable AI is needed to fully comply with the new EU data protection law. But companies don't need to sacrifice the benefits of machine learning accuracy to do it.

By Mark MacCarthy

Oct 19, 2017

Government Regulation Technology Industry

Top 10 states for software jobs

The software industry has an enormous impact on the U.S. economy and employment nationwide. Based on data from Software.org: the BSA Foundation's survey, ten states stand out as your best bet for software jobs.