Qu’est-ce qui est différent pour les DSI canadiens

Tout Canadien connaît la dualité : une grande partie du pays ressemble aux États-Unis, de la culture aux affaires. Une autre portion s’en distingue, ce qui n’est pas toujours évident de l’autre côté de la frontière. Les DSI canadiens vivent tellement dans un contexte nord-américain — des fournisseurs aux partenaires commerciaux en passant par les…

JLL CIO Edward Wagoner on leading change

Edward Wagoner is the CIO for Digital at JLL Technologies, one of the world’s leading real estate and investment management firms with annual revenue of $16.5 billion, operations in over 80 countries, and a global workforce of more than 90,000 people.  A 25-year technology veteran at JLL, Wagoner previously served as the company’s Global CIO…

8 keys to a successful BI strategy

Brian Jackson, CIO of Texas Tech Credit Union, wants to boost the amount of data being used by employees to make decisions. As such, Jackson continues to fine-tune the organization’s business intelligence (BI) strategy, which launched in 2014 with its initial implementation of BI tools. Over the interceding eight years, Jackson has worked with his…

Why edge computing is your new competitive advantage

Edge computing is fast becoming critical to modern stack design. The dangling financial carrots of reduced costs, higher ROI, and affordable market entry are complemented by performance; reduced latency and bandwidth demand, real-time reporting and advanced security. Limitless applicability and versatility are compelling – what’s not to like about life on the edge? Snapshot of…

An IoT solution built to avoid DDoS

Deploying dynamic defences from sensors to user apps DDoS attacks continue to dominate the cybersecurity agenda. 2021 saw the largest number of attacks ever launched, with Australia the third most targeted country in application DDoS attacks. Microsoft’s Azure platform alone stopped an average of almost 2,000 attacks per day and the notorious Apache log4j DOS…

7 questions CIOs must ask about the office of the future

Futurist Bob Johansen is a distinguished fellow with Silicon Valley-based think tank Institute for the Future (IFTF) and the author or co-author of 12 books, including Leaders Make the Future, The New Leadership Literacies: Thriving in a Future of Extreme Disruption and Distributed Everything and Full-Spectrum Thinking. His next book, Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for…

6 ways to restructure IT for maximum productivity

Maximizing organizational productivity is a goal every CIO desires. Sadly, relatively few IT leaders are capable of driving their departments to maximum production, or even to recognize success once it’s achieved. Building a highly productive IT organization requires a CIO with an array of attributes, including insight, perseverance, and creativity. It also demands a team…