Digitization is a never-ending journey; in this age of the new normal, brands and organizations are embracing digital-first solutions as a must-have instead of a good-to-have. And when it comes to navigating this ever-changing digital landscape, the telecom industry is leading the way to the cloud. According to McKinsey, today’s ICT industry, represented by telcos,…
Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to data analytics for deeper, better insights and automation is a growing enterprise IT priority. But the data repository options that have been around for a while tend to fall short in their ability to serve as the foundation for big data analytics powered by AI. Traditional data warehouses, for example, support…
Matt Mehlbrech, Vice President of Information Technology at CoorsTek, Inc., joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss IT leadership, business strategy, the latest technologies and more. Watch this episode: Listen to this episode: Read More from This Article: CIO Leadership…
Supply chain management (SCM) software company Sourcemap is set to expand into Europe and, fueled with a $10 million venture capital infusion, further develop its suite of supplier benchmarking, traceability and transparency applications to meet growing demand from global businesses that increasingly face complex compliance regulations and logistics disruptions. In addition to recent worries that…
Return on investment (ROI) in the form of both cost and time savings is expected to boost the RPA (robotic process automation) software and services market from $13.9 billion to $22 billion by 2025, a new report from Forrester shows. “It is the very direct ROI that still attracts enterprises or C-suite executives,” said Leslie…
One of the missions of this year’s International Women’s Day is “to forge inclusive work cultures where women’s careers thrive and their achievements are celebrated.” Accenture research conducted during the pandemic shows just how far we have to go to meet that mission. Our research found that women feel significantly less support from their employers…
Over the past two years, every IT leader has had to up their change game. But a clear distinction remains between the ability to respond to disruption and the skills that enable the kind of proactive reinvention that defines IT-enabled digital transformation. The latter requires not simply a technology-enabled reaction to shifting circumstances, but a…
UK Parliament CDIO (chief digital and information officer) Tracey Jessup will be taking on the newly created CTO (chief transformation officer) role at DeMontfort University in Leicester. Digital, cybersecurity, HR, marketing and communications directors will report to Jessup, who will in turn report to the university’s vice-chancellor, Katie Normington. “In line with De Montfort University’s…
Balancing impact with agility Most large digital transformation projects don’t succeed as intended. Highly involved, complex, organisation-wide, cross-geographical projects that aim to transform multiple arms of the business simultaneously are more often than not likely to fall over at some point along the way. The project will become consolidated, redefined, or in the most unfortunate…