As the CIO of Oxford Said Business School, Mark Bramwell’s role was complex enough when the global pandemic moved thousands of students and staff to distance learning. Almost overnight there was a heightened need to drive innovation and reinvent business-as-usual. “It has felt that as a school, team, and personally, we have never worked harder…
In the early months of the pandemic, Lumentum SVP and CIO Ralph Loura, like many of his peers, found that IT’s annual planning wasn’t nimble enough to respond to the rapid project prioritization the business needed. The result was a new approach to optimizing IT planning that more closely mirrors the business. Loura sat down…
Asked to define innovation today, most IT leaders will agree: It’s all about digitization and finding new and better ways of thinking about processes and services to solve a problem. “Around here, we think of it as a stool with three legs: quality/safety, patient satisfaction, and cost efficiencies,’’ says Sam Amirfar, CIO and chief medical…
The contact center has traditionally operated through on-premises servers and software, but shifting it to the cloud can help CIOs improve the customer journey. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) options now give enterprises more confidence that they can better deliver high-quality customer experiences. However, there are potential challenges around moving…
CIOs continue to be pressured by business leaders to deliver value that goes beyond just making sure everyone’s computers and servers are running. Among their value objectives is to deliver better customer experiences, according to Foundry’s 2022 State of the CIO. Yet, CIOs must do so amid challenges such as an increasingly lean IT staff,…
By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax Web3 is now firmly established as the technology ecosystem that lets developers build decentralized applications. But its reliance on blockchain technology has also raised concerns about its ecological impact. The process of verifying transactions on blockchain requires a huge amount of processing power and consequently lots of electricity.…
IBM is six months into a massive ERP modernization, moving core on-premises systems to Power servers running in its own cloud as it upgrades them from SAP’s legacy ECC software to the cloud-ready S/4HANA. IBM’s ERP transformation will be one of the largest under the “Rise with SAP” umbrella — perhaps rivaling that of Microsoft, which announced…
In the final quarter of 2021, research by industry analyst firm Gartner suggested close to a third of IT workers in Australia were actively seeking new jobs. This proportion was substantially above that of the broader market, which stood at 23.4% just the previous quarter. Moreover, additional research by Gartner indicated that the rate of…
CIOs know they must be business leaders, but the business knowledge they must bring to the proverbial table is something of a moving target. There are, of course, the management fundamentals and the longstanding executive skills that remain constant must-haves. But there are, too, a list of topics that bubble up and dominate based on…
Customer data platform defined A customer data platform (CDP) is a prepackaged, unified customer database that pulls data from multiple sources to create customer profiles of structured data available to other marketing systems. Gartner defines a CDP as “a marketing technology that unifies a company’s customer data from marketing and other channels to enable customer…