Top African blockchain-based companies transforming business services today

A new generation of companies in sub-Saharan Africa has been working to leverage blockchain technology to offer innovative services for businesses in a variety of sectors including finance, supply chain, security, e-commerce and agriculture.  While wild fluctuations in the value of bitcoin may grab headlines, the blockchain programming architecture underlying cryptocurrency is being used to…

CIO Leadership Live with Miao Song of GLP

Miao Song, Global CIO of GLP, joins James Henderson for CIO Leadership Live ASEAN, produced by CIO.com and Foundry. Miao looks back on a stellar career spanning more than 25 years across multiple countries and industry sectors, advocating the power of determination and fearlessness when tacking new challenges. Watch this episode: #id6257333304e9e .jw-wrapper::before { content:…

Balanced Governance: When Failure is Not an Option

More than half of companies undergoing a transformation project fail in the initial phase. And with this failure, organizations only partially achieve the value that should come from transformation — and they can experience overwhelming frustration that transcends the organization. For a company to be successful, it should implement a governance program that is aligned with business goals…

Native Hard Pipe: Building a Reliable All-Optical Foundation for Industrial Digital Transformation

In the era of industrial digitalization, communication networks are becoming increasingly important. Within the power industry, the rise of automation control equipment/IoT calls for a more advanced network to support greater service access while ensuring bandwidth and latency. Meanwhile, for the railway industry, increased train speeds require network upgrades to guarantee the safety and consistency…

9 outsourcing myths debunked

The global IT services industry has emerged from two-plus years of a global pandemic to establish itself as even more vital to the success of enterprise IT organizations. As corporate IT looks to manage unrelenting demand for technology-enabled change in a challenging talent environment, outsourcing partnerships have proved pivotal.  “Companies are finding it exceedingly hard…