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10 digital transformation roadblocks — and 5 tips for overcoming them

Aspiring transformational leaders can learn a lot from what most often derails digital success. Here’s a roundup of challenges you’ll want to anticipate and ways to help prepare your organization for the journey ahead.

How Synchrony helps veterans become IT leaders

Bridging the transition from military to civilian life, Synchrony’s Veterans Leadership Program helps veterans supplement and hone the skills they gained in their military careers for a career in tech.

4 ways ICA rebuilds and cleans up IT

CIO Benny Svensson explains how Sweden’s leading grocery retailer is recalibrating its digital capabilities and simplifying its technology landscape to better serve customers.

How the new AI executive order stacks up: B-national AI regulation

The executive order represents a step in the pivotal regulation and advancement of AI in the United States. However, it has its challenges and ambiguities, which warrant further scrutiny and refinement.

Chief AI officer: What it takes to land the C-suite’s hottest new job

The CAIO role is fast becoming a new fixture in the C-suite, responsible for setting the AI agenda. Here’s why so many companies are looking to fill this role, what it entails, and whether you have the right stuff to earn the latest IT leadersh

In transition: How Kyndryl’s CIO weaned the company off IBM’s systems

When IBM spun out its managed infrastructure services business as Kyndryl in 2021, the new company had two years to transition to its own IT systems. It also chose to use that time to undertake a major transformation.

Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

IT budgets are being tested like never before due to many factors. But savvy CIOs, tightly aligned with the C-suite, have found ways to adjust to rising costs while others remain on the back foot.

Principal Financial unifies IT to lay foundation for growth

Under CIO Kathy Kay, the financial services company has united its IT strategy to establish the holistic data and cloud architecture necessary to elevate the customer experience and better leverage AI.

How a tech model at Univeris fosters team building with empathy

During a recent CIO Leadership Live session, Manas Khanna, associate VP of global technology operations at retail wealth management specialist Univeris, spoke about the benefits of diverse teams, a reverence for humble beginnings, and generative AI b

Salesforce Automotive Cloud adds Einstein Studio, Fleet Management

CRM provider Salesforce is adding a host of features to its Automotive Cloud, including Automotive Loan, Lease Console, and connected car capabilities.

Breaking down data silos for digital success

The ability to share data across the enterprise is a vital first step on any transformation journey. Here’s how IT leaders are unifying data strategies by knocking down data (and political) walls.

The CIO’s fatal flaw: Too much leadership, not enough management

Compared to management, leadership is what has the mystique. But mystique isn’t what gets work out the door.

What is Kyndryl? IBM’s managed infrastructure services spin-off explained

To sharpen its focus on AI and the cloud, IBM spun off its legacy IT activities as an independent business. Now that company, Kyndryl, is setting its own course toward automation and hybrid infrastructure after a rocky start.

IT leader’s survival guide: 8 tips to thrive in the years ahead

The shifting business and technology landscape are placing increasing pressure on IT leaders to deliver. Here’s how to adjust and remain invaluable to the business.

Employee engagement: 10 best practices for improving your culture

A culture of engagement can improve business productivity and employee retention. IT leaders and experts share tips on keeping your staff connected and committed.

What Duxbury Networking’s CIO does to balance head with heart

As CIOs become more strategic business leaders, they’re faced with increased responsibility to not only leverage new technologies to deliver value, but be an example of empathy.

When least privilege is the most important thing

The Principle of Least Privilege is a bedrock of information security. With mobile apps, IoT, the cloud, and AI, it is more important than ever.

Is your data strategy ready for gen AI? LOB leaders may disagree

Analytics and IT decision-makers are feeling the pressure to implement unified data strategy and better data management to support generative AI efforts, research by Salesforce reveals.

CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

Experience, best practices, and better tools are helping IT leaders get savvier about cloud economics. But emerging technologies such as generative AI and the drive to innovate will perennially complicate the equation.

What is data analytics? Transforming data into better decisions

Data analytics is a discipline focused on extracting insights from data, including the analysis, collection, organization, and storage of data, as well as the tools and techniques to do so.

Rajeev Ronanki on making the leap to CEO

The former chief digital officer explains how IT executives can capitalize on an ongoing sea change between technology and business that, in the age of AI, might be tech chiefs’ finest hour yet.

SAP unveils tools to help enterprises build their own gen AI appslow-code applications

SAP Build Code suite combines new and existing developer tools, while a foundational AI model trained on anonymized customer data will be available to help automate tasks.

A simplified view of the enterprise tech market

Industry analysts over-complicate the enterprise tech landscape by creating evermore narrow categories. The real focus should be on helping enterprise IT leaders solve their most pressing challenges. This simplified view of the enterprise tech market

Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

Volvo Cars is undergoing a major transformation of both its business model and products. To cope, core systems are being replaced and standardized, while methods of working within the digital organization are tightened.

CIOs still grapple with what gen AI can do for the enterprise

A year since ChatGPT burst on the scene, and despite demonstrable benefits, IT leaders have yet to go all in on gen AI, choosing instead to proceed with caution.

8 ways IT can help supercharge your sales team

Strong sales are essential. IT should do all it can to help sales teams meet and exceed their goals.

Ethics in IT: The CIO’s new business imperative

To date, corporate ethics has been reduced to compliance with pre-existing, created-by-others rule sets. The ethical IT organization of the future will require a new path — and business viability will depend on it.

AI Safety Summit: What to expect as global leaders eye AI regulation

The UK government has grand ambitions for the event this week, but its place among other similar summits and the absence of key heads of state may undo the main focus of addressing urgent AI risks.

The rise of the chief transformation officer

As a new leadership role emerges to spearhead broad-scale business transformation, IT leaders continue to make a mark driving digital change — regardless of title.

Why adaptability is the new digital transformation

As disruption in all its forms increasingly becomes the norm, IT leaders must rethink their approach to digital initiatives in favor of strategies that build adaptability into the way their organizations operate on a daily basis.

Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

The airline’s new digital-focused business unit is adopting a cross-functional, product-centric approach to enhancing the customer experience, with hubs across Europe.

AWS revenue growth stabilizes with a boost from generative AI-led services

Competitors, however, are catching up fast with twice the revenue growth rate as AWS tries to defend its position as the largest public cloud provider.

What IT executives are saying about vendor consolidation

Vendor consolidation is real. Senior IT executives share their input from the buyer's perspective.

IBM bets on generative AI to escape economic headwinds

IBM’s third-quarter earnings were boosted by enterprises’ interest in generative AI, which drove up its software and consulting revenue.

5 key leadership skills an executive coach can help you master

Making the leap from IT expert to business leader requires CIOs to communicate differently, foster new relationships, and develop greater confidence and executive presence. Here, coaching can help.

What is a business intelligence analyst? A key role for data-driven decisions

The business intelligence analyst role is highly analytical and requires a balance of IT, communication, and problem-solving skills.

COO Marina Bellini on leading IT talent for growth

The Banco Itaú executive breaks down the guiding philosophies she uses to build cohesive cultures and help people grow with confidence beyond their comfort zones, one saying at a time.

3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

Establishing an open ecosystem of services can be a powerful business value multiplier. But it works only if your API strategy has a solid foundation.

How Whirlpool’s CIO makes digital business models run end to end

During a recent CIO Leadership Live session, Danielle Brown, SVP and CIO of household appliance giant Whirlpool, detailed how collaborative teams and data management are integral to both product leadership and the entire customer journey.

7 sins of digital transformationdriving efficiencies through automation

Even as business drivers for transformation evolve, some things stay the same — and that includes the outcome-derailing habits CIOs too often fall prey to. Here’s how to right yourself for the next wave.

Transforming IT for digital success

From adopting customer-centric mindsets to embracing product-based approaches, CIOs are reimagining IT structures and strategies to better fuel continuous business transformation.

5 steps for making tech ethics work for your company

Accelerating AI capabilities underscore the need for ethics frameworks to help guide the design and development of all technologies. Here’s how to put ethics into action and ensure your efforts have an impact.

Three burning questions before FutureIT New York

Allstate’s cloud-first approach to digital transformation pays off

The insurer is going cloud native by rebuilding its core applications to align with next-generation business processes tailored to enhance and accelerate the customer experience.

What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

With agile development a standard practice at most companies, Scrum masters are in great demand. Here is a look at the Scrum Master role, responsibilities, relevant certifications, and expected salaries.

5 modern challenges in data integration and how CIOs can overcome them

Data practitioners come across many challenges throughout the data management lifecycle. Let us learn about the most common day-to-day challenges we face and how to overcome them.

Inside Walmart’s generative AI journey

Ben Peterson, head of People Product, shares how the Fortune One retailer went from vision to viable with its gen AI My Assistant in sixty days.

13 power tips for Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft’s power analytics tool can do a lot more than help you visualize your data. From AI-powered insights to integrating curated data into other apps and services, here’s how to make the most of Power BI.

CIOs press ahead for gen AI edge — despite misgivings

As we near the first anniversary of ChatGPT’s public release, IT leaders are pushing forward gen AI pilots and production use of a technology viewed to be industry-redefining — and shrouded by unknowns.

Predictive analytics helps Fresenius Medical Care anticipate dialysis complications

Fresenius Medical Care has developed a predictive model using machine learning and cloud computing to help proactively identify when kidney dialysis patients might be suffering a potentially life-threatening complication.