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In the digital era, CIOs not buying ‘this bimodal crap’

To stave off disruption, savvy CIOs know they need to move at one speed: Fast. Bimodal is not an option.

By Clint Boulton

Agile Development CIO Technology Industry

How a small ISP delivers ultra-fast broadband when the giants won’t

Why you canu2019t get gigabit fiber: Big telephone companies are blocking rivals from deploying gigabit fiber while overly cautious cities erect barriers.

By Bill Snyder

Broadband Consumer Electronics Internet Service Providers

CIOs: Stop talking about tech, start talking about value

CIOs need to focus on technology not for the 'cool factor,' but because it can create a better employee experience and create value

By Paige O'Neill

May 2, 2017 3 mins

Data Center IT Leadership

Youth, IT pros and health experts to gather at YTH Live

The May 7-9 conference in San Francisco will focus on finding new ways to use technology to improve youth health and wellness.

By Andre Bourque

Healthcare Industry Software Development

How Microsoft plans to reinvent business productivity

Microsoft's Office has barely changed in 25 years. If weu2019re going to get more productive in the office and out, maybe itu2019s time for Microsoft to change the standard tools that we use to create documents.

By Mary Branscombe

Collaboration Software Office Suites Small and Medium Business

Why AI careers can start with a degree in linguistics

If you are looking to land a career in the artificial intelligence field, studying linguistics is a great place to start.

By Sharon Florentine

Artificial Intelligence IT Jobs IT Skills

15 ways to make meetings more productive

Business and HR experts share their top tips on what managers can do to improve meeting attendance and make them more constructive.

By Jennifer Lonoff Schiff

IT Leadership

What do cognitive science and swarm intelligence have in common?

The future of artificial intelligence is self-organizing software. Multi-agent coordination and stigmergy will be useful in our quest to discover dynamic environments with decentralized intelligence.

By Peter B. Nichol

Analytics Artificial Intelligence IT Strategy

How to connect business strategy with project management

Making the connection between your business strategy and project management isn't easy, but it is necessary if projects are going to serve a purpose and meet inherent business needs. Here are some things you can do to make the connection.

By Moira Alexander

Enterprise Architecture Project Management Tools Technology Industry

7 tips for engaging millennials in tech companies

Technology companies are infamous for high turnover and rapid burnout. Why is this, and how can senior leaders navigate a rapidly evolving talent market?rnrn

By Mike Morrow

CIO CMO CTO

The new paradigm for big data governance

Instead of heavy-handed restrictions on data usage and documentation, big data governance is agile, collaborative and efficient. It engages, not separates, analysts in capturing their learnings to accelerate production readiness.

By Paul Barth

Analytics Big Data Data and Information Security

Digital disruption is coming but most businesses don’t have a plan

A study by Harvard Business Review Analytics Services finds that whlie most companies believe digital disruption is already or soon will disrupt their industry, fewer than half have enacted a digital strategy.

By Thor Olavsrud

IT Strategy Microsoft Technology Industry

Making us all into makers

How creative classroom hacking can teach children how to be lifelong makers and help plug the digital skills gap.

By Alice Bonasio

Big Data Election Hacking Government

Careers IT Skills

Maplight data analytics helps ‘follow the money’ in politics.

'Follow the money' was the advice for reporters investigating Watergate. Researchers now use technology to analyze the influence of money in government.

By Deepak Puri

May 1, 2017 5 mins

Embracing continuous delivery to power the programmable enterprise

Putting data at the fingertips of developers and decision makers to deliver new capabilities at a high velocity

By Snehal Antani

Devops IT Leadership

Foundation of digital transformation

Digital transformation has been the buzzword in every organization, but the fundamental component of this transformation is leadership. Without the right leadership, the transformation won't be successful. Here are the four leadership strategies

By David Chou

CIO IT Leadership

Enterprise analytics is about finding better problems

The digital part of transformation is only the technology element. Transformation happens when the enterprise mission changes. Once an organization is a certain size it becomes like a vertebrate: Everything needs to connect to the technology backbone

By Rohan Light

Analytics C-Suite IT Strategy

7 successful ways marketers battle and beat media burnout

Dial back some of your media consumption and avoid burnout with these suggestions.

By Dipti Parmar

Careers Marketing Social Networking Apps

Building a Hackintosh without the help of tonymacx86

Building a Hackintosh can be fairly easy if you use the tools at tonymacx86. But what happens if you wing it when building your Hackintosh?rn

By Jim Lynch

Computers and Peripherals MacOS

Robotic process automation market poised for explosive growth

Early experiments with robotic process automation are successfully cutting costs and achieving fast ROI. That will lead to a boom in full-scale deployments. Download a free Everest Group report to learn more.

By Mitch Betts

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership

Class of 2017 may be in for a rude awakening

New research shows a major disconnect between what recruiters and hiring managers expect from entry-level IT talent and the skills and experience new grads actually have.

By Sharon Florentine

IT Jobs IT Skills Relationship Building

A deeper look at Samsung’s Galaxy S8

While it's likely that Apple will still reign in the enterprise for a while longer, the Galaxy S8 is the first Android device to compete with the iPhone in the business world.

By Sarah K. White

Samsung Electronics Small and Medium Business Smartphones

As smartphone time dominates, branding imperatives shift

More consumers are turning to their smartphones first for research and purchases. That's changing the development mindset for digital branding in mobile

By Ross Rubin

Marketing Mobile Apps Mobile Development

Cybersecurity is one of the top risks organizations must manage in 2017

Recent high-profile data breaches highlight the challenges in understanding how laws apply to a wide variety of information management scenarios and a host of other regulatory, compliance and legal issues.

By David Adler

Amazon.com Gadgets Mobile Apps

Cybercrime Security

Amazon Echo Dot gets more portable and better sound from Vaux

A new speaker/dock called Vaux gives Echo Dot two things Amazon left out. But does that make Echo Dot and Vaux a better buy than Amazon Tap?

By James A. Martin

Apr 29, 2017 2 mins

What happens when ‘Net Neutrality’ becomes ‘Pay-To-Play’?

"Organizing the Women's March on Washington would have been much harder without Net Neutrality. We may not even have been able to afford it."

By Deepak Puri

Broadband Carriers Regulation

Microsoft and Google riding the cloud wave

Cloud-based services and infrastructure are boosting the financial performances of Microsoft and Google. In earnings calls this week, Google says it has developed 'deep enterprise' strengths and Microsoft says it's executing on digital

By Matt Kapko

Cloud Management Google Microsoft

The North Face’s parent company names new CIO

Sandra Harris is taking over for retiring Martin Schneider at a time when retailers are overhauling both back-end and customer-facing technology to meet consumers' digital shopping habits.

By Clint Boulton

CIO IT Jobs Technology Industry

What the Fox News Bill O’Reilly fiasco teaches businesses

Columnist Rob Enderle writes that there is a lesson to be learned from the Bill Ou2019Reilly Fox News fiasco: The cost of not identifying and eliminating abuse of power is far too high to ignore.

By Rob Enderle

IT Leadership

IT leaders say current H-1B program works

Corporate technology leaders worry that proposed H-1B visa changes will increase costs and scarcity for highly skill IT talent, according to Harvey Nash survey.

By Stephanie Overby

H-1B Visas Outsourcing Technology Industry

Why swarm intelligence enhances business and Bitcoin

Can intelligence be amplified by thinking together? Ants do it. Birds do it. What about humans? Collective intelligence is the next wave of intelligence. Swarm intelligence connects systems with real-time feedback loops. Individual efforts combine to

By Peter B. Nichol

IT Strategy Predictive Analytics Virtual Reality

ATSC 3.0: Broadcast’s last addressable stand

ATSC 3.0 represents another opportunity for broadcasters and marketers to cash in on knowing more about viewers. But it's arriving just as cellular-based live TV streaming is heating up.

By Ross Rubin

Broadband Consumer Electronics Marketing

Digital success: 3 areas where you need to broaden your horizons

Organizations such as Allianz look far beyond the boundaries that defined traditional tech projects

By Pradeep Henry

Business IT Alignment IT Leadership IT Strategy

Corporate culture will always matter

Will remote working options be the end of company culture as we know it? Hardly.

By William Craig

Careers IT Leadership

Ditching passwords and increasing ecommerce conversion rates by 54%

If you want to dominate ecommerce, focus on removing friction u2013 especially from checkout. rn

By Andre Bourque

CIO Retail Industry Technology Industry

Internet

Retail CIO accelerates IT service delivery

Gap CIO Paul Chapman has reorganized his technology organization and created a new IT operating model that emphasizes collaboration and faster decision-making.

By Clint Boulton

Apr 27, 2017 5 mins

ITSM’s MVP

And it may not be who or what you think…

By Joel Pomales

Apr 27, 2017 6 mins

IT Governance Frameworks IT Leadership

Is there a misalignment between healthcare enterprises and the tech community?

The flow of healthcare investment dollars toward transformative digital health solutions may be overstated.rn

By Paddy Padmanabhan

Electronic Health Records Healthcare Industry Venture Capital

Information governance for counties and municipalities

Most local governments don't have formal information governance programs, but adopting IG would reduce risks, lower costs and improve the quality of services.

By Jeffrey Morgan

Government Government IT IT Governance

Can Project Halium revive Linux on mobile?

A group of developers have come together to bring open source mobile projects under the same roof to create a fully open source mobile framework.rn

By Swapnil Bhartiya

Linux Open Source Small and Medium Business

Digital advertising surpassed TV ads in 2016

Television has finally been ousted by smaller and smarter screens. Digital advertising jumped 22 percent in 2016, beating the TV market for the first time.

By Matt Kapko

Mobile Small and Medium Business

Are poor communities “redlined” out of AT&T’s fiber-to-the-home service?

AT&T deploys ultra-fast broadband in rich neighborhoods, while poor communities are stuck with slow DSL, researchers claim.

By Bill Snyder

Broadband Consumer Electronics

Who’s smartest — Alexa, Siri, Cortana, or Google Assistant?

You won't be shocked to learn that Apple's Siri virtual assistant has the best sense of humor. But you might be surprised to learn which virtual assistant is the smartestu2014and which one is no. 2 with a bullet.

By James A. Martin

Artificial Intelligence Gadgets Mobile Apps

9 essential tools for the security-conscious mobile worker

From a webcam cover and laptop lock to a USB port blocker and an encrypted flash drive, we've found some security- and privacy-centered gadgets you will want to keep handy.

By Paul Mah