CIOs have many reactions to shadow IT. Some complain that IT is generally measured as a success only by delivering something the business wants. However, IT organizations can get caught up in just doing cost control, security and overarching governance. With this context, CIOs say, it’s important to realize that shadow IT is not the…
As corporate technology leaders pursue their digital transformation strategies, many are looking to IT service providers as potential partners in those change efforts. However, a one-size-fits-all approach to outsourcing providers is not likely to serve CIOs well in meeting innovation goals. In fact, bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better in the digital change era. “Traditionally, size…
Jessie Burgess has learned a valuable lesson over the past few years: You can only duck digital disruption for so long; eventually those legacy systems catch up with you. That’s why the CIO of G6 Hospitality, parent company to Motel 6 and Studio 6 hotel brands, is migrating critical business applications from creaky on-premises systems…
What makes a great leader? Although there’s no single set of personality traits, background experiences or talents that can predict who can lead effectively, there are certain leadership competencies that all good leaders and executives have mastered. An understanding of your organization’s products, market position and technology stack is fundamental. So too is a focus…
We’ve heard a lot about “draining the swamp” in U.S. politics, but this phrase has been around a long time, especially in management circles. I created a management model titled “Drain the Swamp” in 2002 when I wrote my book, IT Management Models, but I heard the phrase many years before that. Drain the swamp…
Intuit is aiming for the mid-market with an extension of its QuickBooks Online financial management tool that it hopes will let it take business away from the likes of Microsoft, Sage and Oracle. It’s designed to help QuickBooks customers delay the move to a full-fledged ERP system — and perhaps even to woo a few…
Robotic process automation (RPA) promises to deliver business benefits such as decreased costs, reduced errors, greater efficiencies, and the ability to free up workers from mundane and repetitive tasks such as data entry so they can focus on more challenging, strategic initiatives. Enterprises are increasingly embracing RPA in pursuit of these benefits, and industry research…
Tom Peck has been CIO at NBC Universal’s Entertainment Business Unit, MGM MIRAGE (now MGM Resorts), Levi Strauss, and AECOM. In March, he was named executive vice president and chief information and digital officer of Ingram Micro, the $46 billion global provider of technology and supply chain solutions. With a dual mandate to lead global…
The digital era has, perhaps irrevocably, altered C-suite dynamics. Once unlikely collaborators, IT and marketing are partnering closely on new customer-facing technologies, an acknowledgment that both parties must work together to help their companies — and careers — thrive. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story) Read More from This Article:…
What is enterprise architecture? Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. EA helps businesses structure IT projects and policies to achieve desired business results and to stay on top of industry trends and disruptions using architecture principles and practices, a process also…