Precision transformation starts with a wide-angle lens

Chris Boyd co-authored this article. Companies today need to transform to develop new digital capabilities that will allow them to meet evolving customer preferences, grow recurring revenue, or become an AI-first organization. All these scenarios require coordinated efforts that traverse business units and functions, from product strategy to technology architecture and everything in between. Planning…

6 tips for managing your project budget

Budget overruns have always been a litmus test for project success or failure. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic made staying within budget became a bigger nightmare, with the most successful companies, and the best project managers, put to the ultimate test of prudently managing financial resources during massive uncertainty. Many stakeholders have had to reexamine…

7 reasons your AI strategy isn't working

Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to help enterprises boost productivity, business agility, and customer satisfaction while shortening the time required to bring new products and services to market. Yet as more IT leaders plunge their organizations deep into AI science, many are finding disappointment rather than success. A 2020 IDC study, for instance, found that 28%…

Balancing innovation and optimization

Robinhood is an online trading platform that is on a mission to democratize finance and make it possible for everyone to participate in the financial system. The company has experienced explosive growth in the past year, the growing pains that go with it, and some important lessons along the way. Adam Wolff spent two years…

Perfect strangers: How CIOs and CISOs can get along

A pandemic makes CIOs and CISOs strange bedfellows, and this year they have had to work together more closely than ever under unprecedented circumstances. The result? The state of the relationship has generally improved. Organizations across the board have accelerated their digital initiatives and migrations to the cloud to support remote workers and customers in…