Daily Archives: January 25, 2018

IDG Contributor Network: A process model for measuring relationships with COBIT

How do you measure the business-partner relationship with your provider organization? Apply COBIT 5. CIOs have recently reinvigorated the dull IT liaison role by coining it “the business-relationship manager.” This role is accountable for the relationship between information technology and the business partners. Before business-relationship managers skip off to schedule strategic road-mapping discussions, relationships need…

IDG Contributor Network: Leveraging business capabilities for strategic planning

[This article was co-written by Leila Chouai] If you’re not thinking like a software company, you’re already behind. Software companies focus on codifying and then scaling everything they do. To do that, business subject-matter expertise and technical expertise must become one in the same, converging once siloed disciplines. In a recent interview with Metis Strategy,…

IDG Contributor Network: 5 ways for public sector leaders to accelerate innovation in 2018

Leaders in public sector organizations are facing ever-increasing demands and expectations from their constituents to deliver services more effectively and efficiently, to streamline processes, improve productivity, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction all the while dealing with limited resources in terms of personnel and budgets.  In this environment, innovation – and, more specifically, accelerating the…

IDG Contributor Network: Who cares about your IT initiative?

Sure, we all want our IT initiatives to succeed. We regularly evaluate our projects, in-flight or upon completion, looking for tangible lessons to learn. We apply these strategic and tactical takeaways in hopes of increasing the chances of success for each subsequent initiative. We seek approaches that work for different industries, organizations, teams, and technologies.…

5 artificial intelligence trends that will dominate 2018

2017 saw an explosion of machine learning in production use, with even deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) being leveraged for practical applications. “Basic analytics are out; machine learning (and beyond) are in,” says Kenneth Sanford, U.S. lead analytics architect for collaborative data science platform Dataiku, as he looks back on 2017. Sanford says practical…

CIO Leadership Live: Watch live on Thursday, Feb. 1 at 2 pm ET

Join host Maryfran Johnson on Twitter (@CIOonline) for an in-depth interview with CIO Joel Jacobs of MITRE Corp., a private non-profit research organization that provides consulting, engineering, and technical services for numerous federal government agencies. They will discuss how MITRE keeps innovating — in everything from predictive analytics to mobile app development, plus Jacobs’ unique…