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On a mission

Technology leaders and employees are being pressured to demonstrate the value of technology to the business. In order to be successful, they must advocate for IT through a strong mission statement that clearly communicates the departmentu2019s goals

By Tim Goggin

CIO IT Leadership

5 mistakes to avoid when creating foolproof surveys

The internet has made it so easy to conduct consumer surveys. The downside is that there are now too many surveys and their value is declining. Here are some things you can do to make your survey a success.

By Dipti Parmar

Internet Marketing

Wanted: More women CIOs (but do they want the job?)

Although women account for less than 20 percent of CIOs at large enterprises, experts say new leadership opportunities are emerging as companies undertake digital transformations.

By Clint Boulton

CIO IT Jobs Technology Industry

Diving into Microsoft’s Azure Data Lake

The new Azure Data Lake service aims to let you get value out of all your data in the cloud, using familiar tools and skills.

By Mary Branscombe

Big Data Internet of Things Predictive Analytics

CIO Career Coach: How to resign from an executive position (video)

IT executive recruiter Martha Heller explains what it takes to resign from a high-profile technology role without burning bridges.

By Martha Heller

CIO Careers IT Leadership

Don’t confuse project outcomes with business outcomes

As the new year approaches, here's one resolution that will pay you back big time if you stick with it through 2017.

By David Cotgreave

IT Leadership Project Management Tools

4 employee wellness predictions for 2017

Members of the Virgin Pulse Science Advisory board say that 2017 wellness programs will include AI, machine learning and more data than ever.rn

By Sarah K. White

Careers IT Leadership

6 tools to help boost your personal brand

One of the best weapons in your job seeking arsenal is your personal brand. Here are six digital tools you can use to help elevate it.

Careers IT Jobs IT Skills

Dell EMC joins The Linux Foundation’s OpenSDS Project

The company is also making its first code contribution to the project.rn

Cloud Computing Open Source

Why software capitalization can be wasteful

The treatment of enterprise applications as capital assets is a relic of the industrial-age IT operating model. In the digital age, capitalization of the application development cost can be wasteful and counterproductive.

By Hakan Altintepe

C-Suite IT Governance IT Governance Frameworks

7 (plus 1) predictions for healthcare IT in 2017

I review my predictions for 2016, and offer a set of predictions for 2017 (while duly acknowledging that some things are unpredictable).rn

By Paddy Padmanabhan

Cybercrime Healthcare Industry Internet of Things

Gone are the days of the pure proprietary technology stack: Madhura Maskasky

An exclusive interview with the co-founder of Platform9.rn

Cloud Computing Linux Open Source

Dec 19, 2016 5 mins

5 strategic moves that show Apple is more CIO-friendly

Apple can no longer ignore cries of help from its enterprise customers. Call them marriages of necessity, but Apple is striking corporate deals that make it more friendly to CIOs. We look at five of those partnerships.

By Clint Boulton

Apple Mobile Device Management Small and Medium Business

WUMT is a viable Windows Update alternative

When it comes to handling Windows updates, WUMT offers several options bound to appeal to Windows admins and power users alike. And the price is right u2013 WUMT is freeware.

By Ed Tittel

Operating Systems Small and Medium Business Windows

The kid in all of us

We sometimes forget the good things about technology.

By Paul T. Cottey

Consumer Electronics Technology Industry

Here we go again

CIO.com publisher Adam Dennison disagrees with Gartner's conclusion that CMOs have larger technology budgets than CIOs. He says a sneak peek at the findings of CIO.comu2019s 2017 State of the CIO survey reveals that 54 percent of all enterprise

By Adam Dennison

CIO IT Leadership

Making holograms in the classroom a reality

HoloStudy is looking to revolutionize education by bringing mixed reality lessons to the masses, using realistic, interactive holograms to teach subjects such as biology, chemistry and physics.

By Alice Bonasio

Consumer Electronics Emerging Technology Virtual Reality

What makes a company a ‘best place to work’?

Glassdoor has released its annual Best Places to Work list for 2017 and while a diverse group of companies are represented, there are common elements that experts say the best employers share.

IT Jobs Relationship Building Technology Industry

The rise of the feedback culture

Performance reviews are dreaded by employees and managers alike, so itu2019s not surprising to see more companies moving away from this traditional corporate practice and embracing a culture of consistent feedback.

By Sarah K. White

Careers IT Leadership Relationship Building

What it takes to be a great project manager

Project management certifications and training, in general, focus heavily on technical knowledge and project phases, but there's still so much more to being a successful leader. Do you have the necessary soft skills to be a top project leader? H

By Moira Alexander

IT Governance IT Skills Project Management Tools

What CEOs can learn from President-elect transition process

Columnist Rob Enderle writes that the process where President-elects are given time to get their house in order before formally taking the job may be one of the few business best practices from the government that other businesses could benefit from.

By Rob Enderle

Government IT Leadership

What to check for before accepting that newly created role

A checklist to go through when making the leap to that new dream job.

By Louis Gerzofsky

CIO IT Jobs Relationship Building

Businesses eye cloud for big data deployments

Big data cloud deployments have surged over the past year and business intelligence is now the number 1 big data workload, according to a new survey of big data professionals.

By Thor Olavsrud

Big Data Business Intelligence Hadoop

Grading our 2016 IT outsourcing predictions

We predicted this was the year that security and integration challenges would become key considerations, companies would embrace robotic process automation and offshore captive models, and the IT outsourcing contracting process would become more agil

By Stephanie Overby

Outsourcing Technology Industry

21st Century Cures Act’s impact on healthcare interoperability

New advances in medicine happen daily. But despite spending billions of dollars, we haven't been able to connect the network of healthcare providers in the United States. The 21st Century Cures Act may help.

By Peter B. Nichol

Electronic Health Records Health and Fitness Software Healthcare Industry

Apple’s new TV app has some sad shortcomings

Apple replaced the Videos app in iOS with TV, new software that aims to enable single sign-on access to multiple video sources. The app helps unify the streaming video experience, but it also fails to deliver in some key areas.

By James A. Martin

Consumer Electronics Mobile Apps iOS

Can I capitalize my system implementation or get tax advantages?

With the introduction of software as a service, organizations need to understand and evaluate their options to account for their SaaS implementation expenses for both book and tax purposes. Here's a look at two major accounting considerations fo

By John Hoebler

C-Suite IT Governance IT Strategy

T-Mobile’s free DIRECTV NOW deal is full of gotchas

The 'Un-carrier' continues to roll out offers that sound too good to be true … until you read the fine print. T-Mobile's latest DIRECTV Now ploy is an all-out insult to AT&T.

By Bill Snyder

Carriers Media and Entertainment Industry Small and Medium Business

How natural language processing empowers consumers

As companies look for more efficient ways to provide value to their customers, natural language processing (NLP) is providing an alluring solution. The power of NLP can be deceptively disruptive providing consumer empowerment in incremental stages.

By Mitch De Felice

Big Data IT Strategy Technology Industry

One way to be the change you want to see in your life

You want to eliminate an unhelpful habit, address a hot-button issue or negotiate a change at work. You find yourself hesitant and don't know where to begin. There's no substitute for firsthand experience.

By Mary C. Schaefer

Careers

Reinventing the job of CIO in financial services

The role of the CIOI think in financial services doesnu2019t need to be enriched. It needs to be entirely reimagined.

By Richard Stein

CIO Financial Services Industry IT Leadership

Nextcloud is the open source answer to mass surveillance

Keep your data out of the prying hands of governments.rn

Cloud Storage Linux Open Source

Dec 15, 2016 3 mins

The employee happiness advice no one is giving

Leaders talk a lot about employee happiness, but could we be better at questioning which employees benefit from happiness programs?

By William Craig

IT Leadership

The best (and worst) tech products of 2016

2016 brought us a mixed bag. Here's the good, the bad and the ugly.

Gaming Accessories Gaming Platforms Small and Medium Business

Dec 15, 2016 8 mins

Innovation’s duel: how to time the launch of innovative ideas

Game theory has consumed innovation. The duel of innovation depends on timing, and timing depends on how you play the game. Take control of your game and play with new strategy in the new year.

By Peter B. Nichol

Foundry Events IT Strategy Innovation

Feds frustrated by constantly crashing apps

New report from Riverbed Technology identifies pervasive headaches stemming from unreliable applications in the federal government.

By Kenneth Corbin

Government IT Internet Productivity Software

Android apps on Chromebook aren’t ready for prime time

Acer's new Chromebook R 13 is worth a look, but the Android app experience leaves much to be desired.

By James A. Martin

Android Chrome OS Small and Medium Business

2017 IT forecast: Budgets will rebound

TEKsystems 2017 IT forecast shows IT budgets rebounding from a slump in 2016 and IT leaders' confidence is high going into the new year. But some challenges will persist.

Careers IT Jobs Technology Industry

The reason women don’t ‘lean In’ (it’s not just the commute)

The house of cards many working women build to manage career, child care, housework and other tasks is made even more fragile when you add commuting to the mix.

Careers IT Jobs IT Leadership

4 tips to help you resign without burning bridges

Leaving an executive position will require more than just two-weeks' notice. The process can take months. But these four tips will help you resign without burning any bridges.

By Sarah K. White

IT Jobs IT Skills Relationship Building

How chatbots like Siri will get smarter

The next wave of advancements in artificial intelligence will consider how chatbots reside within a human system and how rapidly they adapt to changes in their environments.

By Tarun Gangwani

Artificial Intelligence Consumer Electronics

MariaDB adds support for big data analytics

MariaDB announces general availability of MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0, which is designed to provide a single SQL interface for analytic and transactional workloads.

By Thor Olavsrud

Analytics Big Data Open Source

UC Irvine creates model for digital innovation in the enterprise

New public-private partnership approaches in higher ed show how enterprise organizations can increase the speed of innovation and create a rapid cultural shift.

By Charles Araujo

IT Leadership ITSM

10 examples of the AWS path of disruption

$13 billion later u2026. Amazon Web Services is not only a serious contender in the enterprise, it has changed the business strategy of some of the biggest names in tech.

By Clint Boulton

Cloud Computing Data Center

Tip No. 2: Create an enabling team structure

The second tip for successfully creating and leading agile data management development teams.

By Nancy Couture

Agile Development IT Leadership

Reviews: Are Apple’s AirPods worth buying?

Are Appleu2019s AirPods worth your hard earned dollar? Check out these two reviews from Rolling Stone and Pocket-lint to find out.

By Jim Lynch

Dec 14, 2016 5 mins

Consumer Electronics Small and Medium Business iOS

14 email marketing mistakes to avoid

Email marketers and small business owners share their tips on how to decrease the likelihood of your emails being immediately deleted by prospective and existing customers.

By Jennifer Lonoff Schiff