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The ever-increasing speed of business, especially as enterprises seek to digitally transform with demands for flexibility and agility, is straining IT infrastructure.That’s why companies are starting to take a page from the public cloud’s “rent ....

Tech companies are always looking for more ways to increase efficiency, and today, DevOps is the way they're doing it. For the uninitiated, DevOps is a series of practices that brings software development teams together ....

Business intelligence definition Business intelligence (BI) leverages software and services to transform data into actionable insights that inform an organization’s strategic and tactical business decisions. BI tools access and analyze data sets and present analytical ....

The following is excerpted from There’s No Such Thing as an IT Project: A Handbook for Intentional Business Change. To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

The continuing hold of fee-for-service in payment models has implications for the adoption of technology-led innovation in health systems. In the inevitable shift towards value-based care, health systems relying on fee-for-service face shrinking operating margins ....

To break into the upper echelons of IT, your resume has to be honed to emphasize leadership skills and experience. Even if your resume has a strong foundation, shifts in structure and subtle tweaks can ....

Digital advances are recreating global business through ongoing advances in artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), data availability, blockchain, and other key areas. The rapidity with which these technologies are evolving and reconfiguring traditional ....

Few investment opportunities are as lucrative as real estate. By buying low, renovating, and selling when the time is right, investors have the potential to make millions of dollars in profit. Unfortunately, this practice is ....

CIOs focused on business agility take note: There’s strong evidence that a key to success with this goal can be found in a greater emphasis on network automation.A recent survey of IT decision makers at ....

Filling open IT positions has become difficult. Filling them with diverse and talented staff — the dream of everyone running an IT department — seems impossible.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

It’s right there in the moniker: DevSecOps , a portmanteau of Development, Security and Operations,  implies introducing security early on – as a part of a comprehensive, agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) used by ....

John Morhous came up through the ranks on the traditional technology track. After graduating Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with B.S. in information technology, he served in a number of tech-related roles, including director of IT engineering ....

Delivering a superior customer experience (CX) requires close partnerships between IT leaders and their business peers. That's been the ticket for Amtrak, where IT and marketing are co-creating digital services to inspire brand loyalty among ....

From carriages to quantum computing, have today's industries learned how to harness creative destruction?

The digital era has altered C-suite dynamics. Once unlikely collaborators, IT and marketing are partnering closely on new customer-facing technologies, an acknowledgment that both parties must work together to help their companies — and careers ....

The IT industry is roughly 50 years old. During that period of time it’s experienced many digital transformations. Technology transitions from mainframe computers to client-server architectures to personal PCs and to the Internet, the cloud ....

Python is one of the easiest programming languages to learn, but mastering it allows you to build apps and games or even take advantage of neural networks for deep learning. But first, you’ll need to ....

One of the common aims of digital transformation is often phrased as “becoming a data-driven company.” Whether it’s business intelligence, predictive analytics or machine learning, using objective data rather than hunches to drive decision-making is ....

The most revolutionary outcome of AR is that the physical world will function like the digital world. And that's a big deal for enterprises.

Pilgrimages to Silicon Valley have long been a rite of passage for IT leaders seeking game-changing innovation. During those jaunts, venture capital firms host "speed-dating" sessions, trying to match their tech startups with CIOs.To read ....

3D printing has proven transformative in industries ranging from automotive to aerospace. But can it do the same in biopharmaceuticals?To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

Getting your resume 'just right' in order to attract recruiters, HR pros and hiring managers is as daunting as it is critical. To jump start the process, Insider Pro has assembled this collection of real ....

This is one of Huawei's annual corporate-level flagship events. It has witnessed the release of many crucial strategies and products of Huawei. On HUAWEI CONNECT 2018, Huawei released its AI strategy and AI processors.In fact, ....

The power line team had one last transmission tower to check on their inspection schedule. It just happened to be on top of a mountain. With no time for lunch, the crew leader and his ....

You can find out how crucial an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software rollout can be for a company from a single word: billions—as in, lawsuits over failed ERP and customer relationship management (CRM) implementations are ....

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been just over the horizon for decades now. From the cautionary tale of AI run amok in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, to the benign computerized assistant that helped Captain ....

AI is having a big impact on organizations of all sizes, across all industries. But if you don’t have the proper data architecture in place to support AI and machine learning, you’re likely to be ....

Corporate decision makers, particularly chief marketing officers and their teams, increasingly rely on data to inform and drive decisions on strategy and to improve the customer experience (CX). But they’re finding it can be difficult ....

To say that Comcast tech executive Tony Werner is a legend in telecommunications is an understatement. Not only has he been at the forefront of innovation in the industry since the early ‘80s, he’s even ....

"Mali principii malus finis."– Proverb I like quoting Latin proverbs because it makes me feel smart. It also makes me feel like I am not alone since someone wrote about my situation 2,000 years ago!  ....

Enterprise migration to AWS is only a first step in the transformation journey. Migrating applications to AWS with minimal or no changes is often considered a high-velocity approach for a higher NPV and a lower ....

As the cost of employer-provided healthcare breaches the $20,000 a year mark for a family of four, Walmart’s corporate slogan of “Save Money. Live Better” couldn’t be more ironic. Not surprising then, that the company launched a ....

As a woman working in the tech sector for over a decade, I know firsthand how real the gender talent gap is. Women held nearly 57 percent of all professional occupations in the 2018 U.S. ....

In today's IT world, hard work, reliability and productivity are no longer enough to ensure long-term career success. Few of today's top leaders were able to make a name for themselves — or boost their ....

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic among IT and business leaders as it promises to be the biggest driver of change in human history.  The way we work, live, learn and play will ....

Women make up less than twenty percent of the technology workforce. We need not discuss the many downsides to this low number; our time is better spent working to improve it.Rahul Merchant is doing just ....

There is no magic formula for getting ahead in business, other than applying the same dedication and devotion you focus on your hobbies. Begin by aligning your profession and your passion.Through the eyes of an ....

A few months ago, I wrote about a critical consideration for establishing an innovation practice – location. I explored the power of leveraging research-based universities and their role in invention and innovation. While I have ....

Creating a data strategy a decade ago was relatively easy compared to today. Back then, database experts debated the capabilities and performance of relational databases from Oracle, Microsoft and IBM, or whether to use open ....

Communication and collaboration tools are meant to help everyone work together, so there's no point designing them in a way that leaves some users out. For GoTo, accessibility isn't an afterthought at the end of ....

One of the questions I get asked all the time is, “What about Toastmasters?”  Students and managers that I work with want to know if I think they should join Toastmasters.Toastmasters International offers anyone who ....

Today, the shift toward partner-driven growth can be seen almost everywhere, with businesses of all sizes, and across all verticals. Enterprises are actively assessing suppliers’ ability to become partners, certifying those that qualify and then ....

Predictive analytics is already well-known for helping organizations better analyze customer interactions, predict systems failures and forecast emerging market trends. But turn the lens inward, and analytics can also help managers improve employee retention, hiring, ....

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Consumer demand is becoming increasingly more complex, and businesses must scale while remaining nimble. But companies can’t “be everything” to their customers. In an effort to cover customer needs, enterprises employ creative innovation strategies, new ....

Silicon Valley worships the growth-hacking mindset, yet large companies typically stop growing when they’ve hit an inflection point, and these drop offs are inevitable. Growth hacking helps with igniting that growth, rethinking situations, approaching problems ....

IBM InterConnect, Code/Media, SXSW, Google Next, Microsoft WPC, Adobe Summit...conferences you may have only dreamed of attending! So many technology conferences, so little time (or money).Maybe you're looking to stay on top of emerging trends ....

In an ideal world, machines would never break, nor would they need upgrading. In our world, this happens all the time. Back in the ideal world, we would already know how to fix or upgrade ....

In the late 19th century, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis published the “Right to Privacy,” articulating for the first time in the United States a privacy right, defining it as the “right to be let ....

We all love a good mystery ― the whodunnit, where all the players are in plain sight, but the actors’ motivations aren’t. But all is revealed in the end, and everything falls into place ― ....

On behalf of 50 state Attorneys General, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a nationwide antitrust probe of Google on September 9 and issued a 29-page civil investigative demand, which was obtained by the business ....

To reach consumers, brands need omnichannel strategies that deliver a consistent customer experience at every touchpoint. Yet today’s technical and business conversations about omnichannel are often too limited in scope to achieve what’s ultimately possible. ....

In 2007, David Snowden and Mary Boone published an article in Harvard Business Review called “A Leader's Framework for Decision Making.” In it, they describe a way of looking at different classes of problems, and ....

In the beginning, programmers didn’t worry about the past. They opened an empty file and created something out of nothing. Everything was a green field.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

Forward-thinking CIOs talk about crafting a solid succession plan. Few get to complete this critical task with digital disruption breathing down their necks and their tenures trimmed to under 4 years.To read this article in ....

All sorts of products are now available as a service, and consumers are getting more and more accustomed to buying them in this way – from music and movies to office space and cars. We ....

In today’s healthcare industry, accessibility and ease-of-use are paramount, as customers have come to expect easy-to-navigate services designed to make once complex processes simple. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

The C-suite is growing increasingly crowded as organizations are bringing in a variety of new roles, including chief digital officers, who often work in tandem with CIOs on digital transformation initiatives on an enterprise-wide basis ....

IT leaders are finding themselves at the center of a major shift, as the way people get work done is changing. Traditional nine-to-five workers are adopting a more flexible approach and schedule, and open office ....

As a leader of your organization, you strive for one thing more than any other – having a team performing at its best. It’s a win-win-win situation. When the team performs at the highest possible ....

As smart and mobile devices become the main tools that enable end users to do their work, options for delivering a secure, productive workspace have expanded greatly. Just a few years ago, the usage model ....

Enhancing endpoint security can be a real challenge, yet it remains a critical component of effective cyberdefenses. With a cloud-based, modern management framework for Windows 10, best-in-class digital workspaces can provide improved protection against real-time ....

In the lead up to Synchrony Financial being spun out from parent company GE and launching an initial public offering (IPO), Carol Juel was front and center explaining the newly independent company’s business strategy and ....

Structure Tone, a global construction management firm, was family owned for 40 years. In 2016, however, the family shifted ownership to employees and a consortium of outside investors. Since then, the firm has conducted mergers ....

The use of comprehensive customer experience data and analytics is shaping the future of many key marketing initiatives. As organizations move data out of silos, integrate it, and develop a single cohesive view of the ....

Employee experience has become a top priority for CIOs and HR leaders alike. In fact, research company Gartner lists employee experience as the third-highest key initiative for 2019 in a survey of 843 human resources ....

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)  a division within the World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that non-ionizing radiofrequency radiation (NRFR) – which is emitted from cellphones, laptops, home appliances and all smart ....

What is big data? A quick Google search reveals it has many definitions – mostly including a bunch of “V”s: the volume (amount) of data, the velocity (speed) at which it is collected, and the ....

Enhancing the customer experience is the most important business issue that boards want IT to work on, for more than half of the CIOs in the recent KPMG CIO Survey. And 91 percent of CIOs ....

Formula One (F1) race cars are among the most technically advanced land vehicles on the planet. Since 2014, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport has dominated the World Constructor's Championship, awarded by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) ....