This article was co-written by Chris Davis and Brandon Metzger. From detailed homework review to back office automation, progress in artificial intelligence will continue to explode in the year ahead. In 2018, Metis Strategy interviewed nearly 40 CIOs, CDOs and CTOs of companies with over $1 billion in revenue as part of our Technovation podcast…
IT internships provide students hands-on experience and a chance to demonstrate their skills, and they provide IT organizations the opportunity to identify and attract high-potential talent. But the benefits for enterprises and students alike don’t end there. In addition to honing their technical skills on real-world business problems, interns also learn the soft skills needed…
[ Register to view the CIO Winter 2019 digital magazine ] Welcome to the Winter 2019 digital issue of CIO featuring our annual State of the CIO research. In these pages, you’ll learn how (and why) the top IT leadership role is evolving as CIOs take on new responsibilities, how CIOs are successfully working with…
Facing disruption on several fronts, companies are under pressure to build new digital products and services that generate top-line growth. Who better to build these capabilities than CIOs, who have an array of emerging technologies at their disposal? Welcome to the age of the revenue-generating CIO. According to IDG’s 2019 State of the CIO survey,…
The University of California San Diego has a Cobol problem. Its three big applications for tracking finance, payroll and students have been running on mainframes since the 1990s. Their Cobol cores are getting old, and the accretion of bolt-on features is fragmenting data and processes and making them brittle and hard to maintain. Cobol developers…
Evaluating the cost efficiency and quality of care is a running challenge for health insurance companies — a challenge that is exacerbated by the myriad physicians, specialists, hospitals, and other providers a patient might visit regarding an issue. Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC), a not-for-profit health insurance company that serves nearly 15 million members in…
When CIO Jason James decided to automate his company’s software deployment process, he tasked his DevOps team with learning everything it could about the process itself. He says he wanted his DevOps engineers to act like anthropologists, watching how the developers deployed software to the company’s clients, how they scheduled and loaded software updates, and…
If you have any doubts that digital transformation is top of mind for IT executives, just take a look at what they’re buying. Spending on enterprise software, particularly cloud services and applications, is expected to grow faster than any other category of IT this year, fueling an overall increase in global spending on technology. That’s…
The Boston Red Sox have been among Major League Baseball’s most winning teams in recent years. The same couldn’t be said for the franchise’s technology systems when CIO Brian Shield joined the organization in 2013. Leaning on a new digital strategy that emphasizes improved operations and fan experiences, Shield has since overhauled everything from the…
IT leadership is changing nearly as rapidly as technology itself. Successful tech executives are shifting toward initiating strategic change rather than acting as trusted operators, as the CIO role sees greater emphasis on leadership skills related to digital transformation over keeping the lights on. While the spectrum for IT leadership success remains wide, the rules…