IDG Contributor Network: A process model for measuring relationships with COBIT

How do you measure the business-partner relationship with your provider organization? Apply COBIT 5. CIOs have recently reinvigorated the dull IT liaison role by coining it “the business-relationship manager.” This role is accountable for the relationship between information technology and the business partners. Before business-relationship managers skip off to schedule strategic road-mapping discussions, relationships need…

IDG Contributor Network: 5 ways for public sector leaders to accelerate innovation in 2018

Leaders in public sector organizations are facing ever-increasing demands and expectations from their constituents to deliver services more effectively and efficiently, to streamline processes, improve productivity, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction all the while dealing with limited resources in terms of personnel and budgets.  In this environment, innovation – and, more specifically, accelerating the…

5 artificial intelligence trends that will dominate 2018

2017 saw an explosion of machine learning in production use, with even deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) being leveraged for practical applications. “Basic analytics are out; machine learning (and beyond) are in,” says Kenneth Sanford, U.S. lead analytics architect for collaborative data science platform Dataiku, as he looks back on 2017. Sanford says practical…

CIO Leadership Live: Watch live on Thursday, Feb. 1 at 2 pm ET

Join host Maryfran Johnson on Twitter (@CIOonline) for an in-depth interview with CIO Joel Jacobs of MITRE Corp., a private non-profit research organization that provides consulting, engineering, and technical services for numerous federal government agencies. They will discuss how MITRE keeps innovating — in everything from predictive analytics to mobile app development, plus Jacobs’ unique…

IDG Contributor Network: 7 steps to become an AI-enabled enterprise

After two decades, platform companies are still collecting tons of data, filling their databases with information of everyone’s knowledge, opinions, recommendations, locations, movements, buying behavior, relation status, lifestyle, etc. This is not a secret and nothing new. And speaking of artificial intelligence (AI), the platform companies are fully embracing and heavily investing into AI. However,…

Blockchain is poised for a big business breakout

For all the hype, blockchain has yet to go mainstream in the enterprise. That may well change in 2018 as the technology’s reputation for trusted transactions continues to grow among IT leaders. Blockchain is a shared digital ledger for recording transactions. Each transaction among participants in a network is tucked into a record known as a…