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Augmenting the project manager

The enthusiasm for the application of artificial intelligence is encouraging and indicating that people's readiness to adopt the technology in their life and work is bright. The technology will replace some of the tasks of the project manager bu

By Bas de Baat

Emerging Technology IT Leadership Project Management Tools

Apple Watch 2 reviews roundup: Is it worth the money?

The Apple Watch 2 offers better CPU and GPU performance, GPS and a brighter screen. But is it worth buying?

Health and Fitness Software Small and Medium Business Smartwatches

Sep 14, 2016 7 mins

Cisco spotlights iOS 10’s best business features

Apple's latest version of iOS comes packed with features for Cisco's corporate customers. At least 30 organizations have already tested the iOS enhancements, and Cisco says they saw significant IT management gains.

Apple Small and Medium Business iPhone

Will forensics thwart data thieves lurking in hospital EHR corridors?

Block intruders with ambient cognitive cyber surveillance 'digital fingerprint' technology

By Donald Voltz

Electronic Health Records Healthcare Industry Security

Linus Torvalds picks Dell XPS 13 as his next laptop

The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition has everything that Linus Torvalds needs.rn

Laptops Linux Open Source

Sep 14, 2016 7 mins

When a project fails, don’t blame your end users

Change isnu2019t an end-user problem, but a leadership opportunity, says former Red Robin CIO Chris Laping.

By CIO staff

CIO Innovation Project Management Tools

DataRobot aims to help create data science executives

New DataRobot University course is designed to teach executives how to identify opportunities to optimize their business using machine learning.rn

By Thor Olavsrud

Analytics Big Data IT Skills

New Verizon, AT&T streaming options threaten net neutrality

Two new zero-rated services from Verizon and AT&T let subscribers stream premium content on their smartphones and tablets devices without eating into their monthly data quotas, but they also test net neutrality rules.

By Bill Snyder

Consumer Electronics

5 principles of effective feedback

Nobody likes to give tough feedback, yet we will all need to do so at some point. Whether you are delivering good news or bad news here are five ways to ensure a successful conversation.

By Morag Barrett

IT Leadership

Why IT will be key to successful VR marketing

Savvy CIOs have an opportunity to position themselves at the intersection of marketing and virtual reality, and their IT teams should get involved early and take a vested interest in the advancement of VR.

Marketing Technology Industry Virtual Reality

Tips for keeping Gen-Z and millennial workers happy

Forget everything you think you know about millennials and their successors in the workplace, Generation Z. Hereu2019s what they are looking for from employers.

By Sharon Florentine

CIO CMO CTO

Project management: To debrief or not to debrief

If you're a project manager or part of a project team, you know all about the hurried pace of this field. Once projects near their close, is debriefing useful or a waste of time?

By Moira Alexander

IT Governance IT Governance Frameworks Technology Industry

Digital transformation boosts captive offshore center growth

As enterprise demand for digital transformation grows, expect to see more global in-house centers.

By Stephanie Overby

Emerging Technology Outsourcing Technology Industry

Taking your first steps in digital health (or, here’s the best way to eat an elephant)

There are several types of digital health technologies, and each has its own special approach. See how these systems and devices can engage today's patient/consumer.

By Tom Barnett

Health and Fitness Software Healthcare Industry IT Leadership

Moonlighting for CIOs: how to get a second job

IT leaders can benefit greatly from getting a second set of responsibilities in their organization: a new perspective on the business, expanding skills and solidifying careers.

By Francois Estellon

C-Suite CIO Small and Medium Business

How to make hybrid cloud work

What enterprises are doing now with hybrid cloud is more sophisticated than you might think.

By Mary Branscombe

Cloud Computing Hybrid Cloud

Do you know how to get real feedback?

You have enough on your plate without asking for more. Yet, asking for feedback can reap magical results.

By Mary C. Schaefer

Careers

iPhone 7 reviews roundup: Is it worth the money?

Should you upgrade to the iPhone 7 or 7 Plus? Find out what the critics think of Appleu2019s newest iPhones before you buy one.

Small and Medium Business Smartphones iPhone

Sep 13, 2016 12 mins

How IT greases the wheels of aerospace-and-defense supply chain

Ken Bell, CIO of Orbital ATK, discusses four trends in supply-chain innovation.

By Martha Heller

CIO Careers Innovation

Hands on with Elementary OS Loki

A great Linux distribution thatu2019s still a work in progress.

Linux Open Source Operating Systems

SAS adds cognitive computing support

At Analytics Experience in Las Vegas yesterday, SAS unveiled SAS Visual Investigator and SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning for the Viya analytics platform.

By Thor Olavsrud

Analytics Data Mining Technology Industry

Career Roadmap: Making a career in DevOps

Variety is the spice of life, and it's part of what makes a career in DevOps both fascinating and challenging. This month, Eric Sigler, head of DevOps for PagerDuty, talks about his career and what gets him out of bed in the morning.

By Sharon Florentine

Agile Development IT Jobs IT Skills

Facebook Messenger now supports native payments

Facebook today announced Messenger Platform v1.2, and the company's head of Messenger, David Marcus, says it is committed to making the bot experience even better than traditional app experiences.

Consumer Electronics Internet Social Networking Apps

Sep 12, 2016 3 mins

Being pushed out of your comfort zone can make your IT career

Vanguard CIO John Marcante was working his dream job as the head of the companyu2019s software development team. However, things were about to change.

By Brian P. Watson

CIO Careers Innovation

Functional areas where machine learning is applied first

AI solutions like machine learning transform how people interact and make every day decisions. The application of machine learning is so close to the existence of human beings.

By Bas de Baat

Business Intelligence Emerging Technology IT Strategy

Creative ways 7 startups growth-hacked their way to brand exposure

Sometimes brand exposure can be achieved with a little creativity through growth hacking.

By Andre Bourque

Marketing Social Networking Apps Startups

CIO Career Coach: How to write a great resume (video)

Executive recruiter Martha Heller shares six tips for writing a great IT resume.

By Martha Heller

CIO Careers Relationship Building

With analytics, strategic CxOs should avoid conventional ROI

Analytics investments should not be judged using logic developed for evaluating manufacturing investments.

By Rohan Light

Analytics C-Suite IT Strategy

Driving IT productivity using automation as a service

A technology trend that's quietly gaining momentum

By Eric Bloom

BPM Systems Cloud Computing Development Tools

CIO’s seat on board reflects IT’s move to agile, DevOps

Former T-Mobile CIO Gary King says he joined the board of directors at Soasta, a maker of performance monitoring software that is hitting its stride as IT departments increasingly adopt agile and DevOps methodologies.

By Clint Boulton

Agile Development CIO Technology Industry

Presenting yourself

Understanding the roles you play when giving a business presentation.

By Theodore May

IT Leadership IT Skills

Has your cloud consultant gone crazy?

You might not have noticed it, but cloud implementation consultants and contractors have been acting increasingly stupid over the last couple of years. If you think this doesnu2019t affect you and your project, youu2019re wrong.

By David Taber

Cloud Computing IT Leadership

CIOs, CTOs playing greater role in technology decisions

New research from Deloitte shows that CIOs and CTOs at mid-market companies are in the drivers' seat more often when it comes to technology decisions.

By Sharon Florentine

Budgeting CIO CTO

iOS 10: How to use Magnifier

Magnifier lets you use your iPhone or iPadu2019s camera to make things larger and easier to see such as small text on food labels and other products.

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Sep 12, 2016 3 mins

Huawei Matebook: A hybrid tablet that almost competes

Huawei released the Matebook, the latest 12-inch hybrid tablet aimed at changing the way you perform daily computing tasks. However, this device is bigger on looks than it is on brains.

By Sarah K. White

Laptops Small and Medium Business Tablets

5 tips to successfully pitch your IT project

So many worthwhile IT projects never even get green-lighted.

By David Cotgreave

IT Leadership Project Management Tools

CIO Quick Takes: What does innovation look like?

Everyone talks about innovation, but quantifying it can be a bit, well, fuzzy. Here three CIOs put innovation into more concrete terms.

By Dan Muse

Sep 10, 2016

CIO Innovation Technology Industry

Linux Mint 18 review: Playing it safe

Linux Mint has taken a great leap with this release and finally introduced Plasma 5.x desktop.rn

Linux Open Source

Overcrowding in the C-suite

Have we hit u2018peak C-roleu2019 in the drive to digital dominance?

By Anna Frazzetto

C-Suite IT Leadership

How to write an arbitration clause for offshore outsourcing deals

To avoid litigation and headaches, in general, itu2019s imperative that you incorporate an effective arbitration clause into international outsourcing contracts.

By Stephanie Overby

IT Leadership Outsourcing

Why Sling TV should be on every cord cutter’s radar

Streaming TV is quickly becoming a realistic alternative to expensive cable packages, and Sling TV recently joined Netflix and Hulu among the top streaming services.

By Bill Snyder

Internet Media and Entertainment Industry Video

Why not taking a lucrative layoff package is brain-dead stupid

What should you do if you are offered a lucrative layoff package? Columnist Rob Enderle writes that the answer is a no brainer: Take the money and run.

By Rob Enderle

Careers IT Leadership Staff Management

Why iPhone 7 might be a better fit for enterprise than consumers

Apple's new iPhone 7 may not have an audio port, but it does pack many improvements that are much more important to business users.

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Google’s Apigee buy validates API economy

Googleu2019s $625 million acquisition of the leading API management platform provider validates CIOsu2019 plans to use APIs to build out digital businesses.

By Clint Boulton

APIs Google Technology Industry

HPE deal makes SUSE an enterprise heavyweight

SUSE will become the preferred Linux partner of HPE.

Data Center Linux Open Source

The value of identifying the ‘failure stream’

Understanding the value stream of a process is important. But it's also important to understand the 'failure stream.' Start by asking, 'At what point can things go wrong?'

By Joel Pomales

IT Leadership

Why hasn’t artificial intelligence made the Internet smarter?

With all the advancements in machine learning, you would think artificial intelligence already would have created a smarter Web experience. Sadly, this is not the case.

By Mitch De Felice

Business Intelligence Data Architecture Internet

Government ill-equipped to thwart cyberwarfare

The U.S. infrastructure is outdated and vulnerable to cyberattacks. If government reaction doesnu2019t improve the country electrical could be crippled.

By Jen A. Miller

Cyberattacks Cybercrime Government

Super Mario Run might disappoint iPhone and iPad gamers

Don't get your hopes up about Super Mario Run for the iPhone and iPad. It's not quite the same kind of game as the Mario we've come to know on Nintendo's own systems.