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Addappt makes your address book smart

Take back your social network by making your contacts addappt

Consumer Electronics Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business

May 3, 2016 7 mins

Why your outsourcers’ cost of living adjustments don’t work

Cost of living increases are intended to keep IT outsourcing staff happy and working hard on your account. However, only a fraction of the money makes it into the pockets of those workers. Here are three ways to fix that.

By Stephanie Overby

Careers Outsourcing Technology Industry

How to identify, engage and nurture high-potential talent

Succession planning should be a core part of your workforce management strategy. Here's how to get it right.

Careers IT Jobs Relationship Building

10 best-paying companies in tech

The technology industry offers some of the highest salaries of any industry, thanks to high demand for software engineers, developers or data scientists. But, according to Glassdoor, these 10 tech companies pony up the top pay.

By Sarah K. White

IT Jobs IT Skills Relationship Building

Why there’s no waiting for wearables

Wearables in the workplace are closer than you think. And that's pretty cool.

By Dan Muse

Consumer Electronics IT Leadership Wearables

Why CEOs must go big in digital (or go home)

CEOs are investing heavily in digital business strategies, hoping to avoid the kind of disruption roiling sectors such as transportation, banking and other industries. And thatu2019s good news for CIOs.

By Clint Boulton

CIO IT Strategy Technology Industry

Digital transformation: Why it’s important to your organization

Digital technologies u2013 are changing the face of business. And this change is accelerating and faster than the pace of transformation in organizations.

By Mark Edmead

Business IT Alignment IT Strategy Technology Industry

When will the product be done?

Why is it so hard to estimate Agile solutions?

By Michael Dougherty

Agile Development IT Governance IT Governance Frameworks

How contract modeling could reshape the NFL—and help hospitals succeed

Applying data-mining and predictive modeling to level the playing field during contract negotiation.

By Paul Bradley

Data Mining Healthcare Industry Sports Software

5 obstacles that kill adaptivity

It's nice to say that you want your organization to be adaptive, but before heading down that path and becoming frustrated by slow progress, do you understand five obstacles that could be holding back progress in a major way?

By Matt Lyteson

IT Governance IT Leadership

CIOs: Match security plans to your company’s ‘risk appetite’

In this free report from the CIO Executive Council, CIOs discuss their risk-management strategies for dealing with cybersecurity threats and the aftermath of a data breach.

By CIO.com staff

CIO IT Leadership Risk Management

7 ways small businesses can benefit from mobile apps

Small business, mobile marketing and customer experience experts share their tips and advice regarding how mobile applications can help businesses to better engage with customers, keep employees connected and boost the bottom line.

By Jennifer Lonoff Schiff

Mobile Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business

CoreOS Fest goes to Berlin

A must-attend event for anyone who wants to know what the next wave of infrastructure will look like.rn

Linux Open Source Virtualization

10 tips to help CIOs reduce stress

Too much work-related stress is unhealthy, but reducing it may be easier than you think.

By Paul Rubens

CIO IT Leadership

Design thinking for healthcare

Digital technology designers and business design architects have shifted from designing physical objects or services to designing our interactions with them.

By Peter B. Nichol

Health and Fitness Software Healthcare Industry Technology Industry

Apple’s new CareKit apps are great news for consumers. If.

The last mile in healthcare, the place where healthcare consumers meet healthcare providers, is a cauldron of technology-led innovation today. Apple's CareKit apps join a burgeoning ecosystem that's trying to rewrite the rules.

By Paddy Padmanabhan

Health and Fitness Software Healthcare Industry Mobile Apps

Why referrals make the best hires

Most HR pros say job candidate referrals are safer bets when hiring, but most job seekers aren't networking effectively to get those referrals, according to a new study from Future Workplace and Beyond.com.

Careers IT Jobs Relationship Building

Hearthstone: Freemium iOS gaming done right

Hearthstone is my new addiction, and one of the best games available for iOS and OS X. Who knew that a freemium PVP card game could be so much fun?

By Jim Lynch

MacOS Video Games iOS

Overcoming presentation nerves

Why itu2019s OK to be nervous when you have to give a big presentation.

By Theodore May

C-Suite IT Leadership IT Skills

How a medical device maker took control of its sales data

With more than 50 distributors, each supplying sales data in different formats, medical diagnostic equipment maker Alere had limited visibility into its own customer base until it built a single-source data strategy built on master data management.

By Thor Olavsrud

Big Data Data Architecture Healthcare Industry

Cloud Foundry launches fellowship program

The Cloud Foundry Foundation Fellowship program will serve as a think tank for the industry.

Cloud Computing Open Source

Apr 29, 2016 2 mins

4 key takeaways from Samsung’s Developer Conference

Virtual reality, the Internet of Things and smartphones took center stage at Samsung's annual developer conference this week, but what the company didn't say was equally notable.

By Al Sacco

Innovation Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

How to deal with a manager who hates you

Sometimes itu2019s your boss, sometimes itu2019s you. Columnist Rob Enderle writes that itu2019s important to figure out why you and your manager donu2019t get along. Then you have to decide if itu2019s something you can fix or if you simply need to

By Rob Enderle

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Careers IT Leadership

Twitter dives as Facebook continues to thrive

Facebook continues to defy expectations with incredible growth in virtually every important area of business success, and its accomplishments stand in stark contrast to Twitter's decidedly tepid performance.

By Matt Kapko

Apr 29, 2016 4 mins

Dark cloud looms over ownCloud as founder resigns

Frank Karlitschek has left the company citing a conflict between the interests of the company and those of the community.

Cloud Storage Linux Open Source

Apr 29, 2016 4 mins

From tacos to HR, chatbots make it personal

Chatbots are emerging as a shiny new tool for enterprises. These virtual assistants can differentiate themselves by personalizing the software with contextual information such as location.

By Clint Boulton

CIO Innovation Technology Industry

Microsoft won’t let you use new Cortana features without Edge or Bing

Microsoft's Cortana, Bing and Edge are now joined at the hip, and the company limited a set of new features in its digital assistant to people who use its own browser and search engine.

By Bill Snyder

Browsers Microsoft Small and Medium Business

Cybersecurity: State of the Union

With our quickly evolving digital world financial institutions need radical innovation in cybersecurity.

By Jim Kittridge

Cybercrime Financial Services Industry Innovation

Samsung explains why it’s all in on VR

Virtual reality was the star of the show when Samsung executives took the stage this week at its annual developer conference.

By Al Sacco

Developer Gadgets Small and Medium Business

What Apple’s first down quarter in 13 years really means

All eyes are on Apple after the company suffered its first period of revenue decline since 2003. The next iPhone release will be a defining moment for the company, according to analysts.

By Matt Kapko

Apple Smartphones iPhone

How to build leadership DNA skills

If you werenu2019t born with the leadership skills you need to be successful as a CIO in the continuously-changing environment we work in today, donu2019t worry. You can evolve them.

By Alyssa Burkus

IT Leadership

5 things containers need to win the enterprise

Container technology like Docker and CoreOS offers tremendous benefits in terms of flexible service and application delivery, but it needs these five key things to take off in the enterprise.

By Thor Olavsrud

IT Strategy Technology Industry Virtualization

IBM Watson teams up with Elmo

Apps built on IBM Watsonu2019s cognitive computing platform could make Sesame Streetu2019s Elmo a personalized tutor for preschoolers, reading and analyzing cues in real time and responding with engaging educational activities.

By Kenneth Corbin

Apr 28, 2016 4 mins

High-Performance Computing Internet Internet of Things

What kind of ERP solution do you seek, Mr. Right or Mr. Right Now?

When evaluating a new ERP system, companies have a hard choice to make. Do you they want something that can satisfy their needs best right now or are they looking for solutions that will grow with them long term and meet needs that they donu2019t kn

By John Hoebler

C-Suite ERP Systems Financial Services Industry

How Snapchat paves the way for future of location marketing

Snapchat has made location a standout feature of its social network. The company's geofilters and live stories curated for specific locations demonstrate the importance of place in social media, and its campaign to capitalize on location could a

By Matt Kapko

Marketing Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business

Upstarts such as Cards Against Humanity and iconic companies including Burberry are getting much more creative with social media. These 10 recent campaigns from the past year are examples of how quirky, unique and even risky social media marketing ca

By James A. Martin

Internet Marketing Social Networking Apps

Why paid family leave is good business

Offering paid paternity/maternity leave is the right thing to do, period. But it's also a boon to businesses.

C-Suite Careers IT Jobs

IT managers may need to change their work behavior to succeed

IT attracts a certain type of personality, or work behavior. What helps us become successful technical experts can be major roadblocks to IT manager success.

By Mike Sisco

Careers IT Jobs Mentoring

Deadpool: The first R rated superhero movie is on iTunes

Bad ass. Smart ass. Great ass. Get Deadpool for $14.99 on iTunes. It's one of the most hilarious and entertaining comics movies in a very long time.

By Jim Lynch

Apr 28, 2016 3 mins

Consumer Electronics Media and Entertainment Industry

Learning to let go and get out of the weeds

We all struggle to let go at times, however learning to delegate, to allow others to decide how to complete a task is a critical skill that all of us need to pay attention to.

By Morag Barrett

IT Leadership

CIO banks on bots to bolster customer experience

USAA, the financial services firm for military veterans, will create messaging bots to automate financial services for its 11.4 million customers.

By Clint Boulton

CIO Financial Services Industry Innovation

Startup brings together OLTP, OLAP and Spark

The startup has secured series A funding led by Pivotal, GE Ventures and GTD Capital with a new in-memory hybrid transactional analytics database.

By Thor Olavsrud

Startups Technology Industry Venture Capital

BI review: Tableau, QlikView, MicroStrategy and Oracle OBIEE

Enterprise users weigh in on their favorite features and offer suggestions for improvement

By IT Central Station

Business Intelligence Enterprise Applications

How ServiceNow aims to manage every workflow in your company

The cloud provideru2019s Chief Strategy Officer explains how ServiceNow is expanding its service management capabilities beyond IT to include HR, security and other departments.

By John Gallant

Cloud Computing IT Leadership IT Strategy

5 years into the ‘cloud-first policy’ CIOs still struggling

Government tech chiefs see challenges in management and ownership aspects of cloud contracts, while security concerns persist.

By Kenneth Corbin

CIO Cloud Security Government IT

What really motivates workers? (It’s not always money)

What's really driving employee engagement, job satisfaction and career advancement? According to a nationwide survey from BambooHR, money's only part of the equation.

Careers IT Jobs Relationship Building

How to fix cross-cultural communication issues

If your company operates on a global scale, you might find yourself running into problems with colleagues on other continents. If thatu2019s the case, itu2019s time to and reevaluate how your company handles cross-cultural communication.

By Sarah K. White