With technology today’s fuel for business transformation, IT leaders are increasingly seen as key players in companies’ quests to bolster their bottom lines. But with so many new technologies and management approaches emerging, where should IT leaders put their focus? We asked a range of tech leads what they’re planning this year and how those…
In 2016, Dealer Tire executives posed a salient question to the 100-year-old company’s fledgling data science team: Can we predict when each consumer will need tires? The answer — critical for a company that must get to customers before they buy tires somewhere else — was a resounding yes. “It was the first ‘a-ha’ moment,”…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the economy will need as many as 100,000 new IT workers per year over the next decade. And, right now, only about 60,000 of these workers are entering the workforce every twelve months. Changes to the H-1B visa program aim to improve and streamline the H-1B visa allocation process…
Cloud technology and the increasing pace of globalization allow small and mid-size businesses to scale faster than ever, but also puts them in a bind. How do they take advantage of opportunities to grow when they have limited resources? At its annual SuiteWorld event, in Las Vegas this week, NetSuite is offering some answers. The…
Presenting quarterly to boards is a chore for CIOs, who typically spend the time discussing cybersecurity risks and operations matters. But with technology playing an outsized role in businesses, CIOs and board members should meet more frequently outside the boardroom to strategize for digital disruption, says Khalid Kark, managing director of Deloitte’s U.S. CIO practice.…
Let’s address the elephant in the room: innovation is a journey. The reality is that you will have your share of failures mixed in with some successes. Now, imagine these efforts as a cluster of small experiments, and learning opportunities that build a mindshare of improvement be it incremental or disruptive. These are not enterprise-wide…
Won over by the promise to drive business agility while reducing costs, CIOs are migrating to the cloud en masse. But renting cloud services creates new problems, including managing bills populated with thousands of line items generated by instances running across the globe. Increasingly, enterprises are turning to FinOps (financial operations), a business management discipline…
Your digital strategy is only as strong as your least digital employee. That is why Avery Dennison built “digital literacy” into its multi-pronged digital transformation strategy. Nick Colisto, who joined Avery Dennison as CIO in 2018, describes the operating model changes and strategic programs that are driving digital optimization and transformation at the $7 billion…
Data scientist is one of the hottest jobs in IT. What’s more, it’s the best job you can get, period, according to data from Glassdoor. If you’re looking to get into this field, or you want to stand out against the competition, look no further than data science certifications. Data science is important to nearly…
If your organization is like most, you probably have a large chunk of old code that continues to work perfectly well, at least according to its original specs. The problem is that the original specs imagined that your business users would enjoy spending their days clicking on the same boxes in the same pattern and…