When Steve Pimblett joined The Very Group in October 2020 as chief data officer, reporting to the conglomerate’s CIO, his task was to help the enterprise uncover value in its rich data heritage. For a company that made its name in mail-order catalog sales, the idea of building an enterprise-wide data catalog seemed to be…
Business is business and IT is IT and never the twain shall meet. At least that’s the way it too often seems when a CIO attempts to show business management how a technology initiative can lead to tangible benefits. Helping enterprise business leaders, C-suite colleagues, and boards understand the value inherent in complex new technologies…
Many people associate high-performance computing (HPC), also known as supercomputing, with far-reaching government-funded research or consortia-led efforts to map the human genome or to pursue the latest cancer cure. But HPC can also be tapped to advance more traditional business outcomes — from fraud detection and intelligent operations to helping advance digital transformation. The challenge:…
It was only a few years ago when ‘digital transformation’ was on every CIO’s agenda, and businesses started to understand how cloud could deliver real value. They stopped asking whether they should move to the cloud and started asking what they needed to do to get there. This was the case for Murray & Roberts’…
Coforge, formerly known as NIIT Technologies, is a global digital services and solutions provider with a presence in 21 countries. The company has more than 20,000 employees, 250-plus customers, and 25 delivery centres spread across nine countries. However, as recently as three years back, these numbers didn’t look as good. “In 2018-19, the India-based company…
Xero Chief Technology Officer Mark Rees on being ‘Explainer-in-Chief’, the balancing act of knowing what can be done and what should be done, and building a culture of trust and open dialogue. Watch this episode: #id6314d39898e83 .jw-wrapper::before { content: “Mark Rees, Chief Technology Officer at Xero” !important; } CIO Leadership Live Read More from…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a hot topic for countries worldwide, and both public- and private-sector organizations have already started leveraging it as a response to continuous digital disruption. According to IDC’s 2022 Artificial Intelligence Spending Guide, global AI spending reached $88.6 billion in 2021, and it is forecast to grow at a compound annual…
A group of Google employees are yet again speaking out against Google’s defense contracts, this time asking the company to shelve its $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract for the Israeli government and military. Google partnered with Amazon to bid for the project. Under employee pressure, Google has previously dropped one US government defence contract (Project…
Many people may not be familiar with the Oshkosh brand, but the manufacturer’s specialty vehicles are hiding in plain sight. Fire trucks, mail delivery trucks, tow and refuse collection vehicles, access equipment, and military vehicles — Oshkosh’s products are everywhere. In fact, if you watch a network news program covering a skirmish somewhere in the…
A managed cloud services provider (MCSP) partially or totally manages the cloud platforms of their customers, including the migration, maintenance, and optimization of those platforms. Cloud environments include public, private, and hybrid clouds, each of which requires that providers have the skill sets to manage them depending on the goals of the platform. Customers work…