By Anand Ramanathan, Chief Product Officer, Skyhigh Security Pressure is mounting among CIOs worldwide. Just as leaders are being called to secure complex and changing infrastructures, it has also become imperative to operate under local and global compliance mandates with increasingly sharp teeth. Meanwhile, industries have transitioned to the cloud and data has proliferated, while…
Michael Stoeckert, Global CIO, Precision Medicine Group, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss servant leadership culture, employee experience focus, global diversity efforts, IT healthcare ecosystems and more. This episode is sponsored by the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority. Learn more…
Misalignment between procurement and supply chain operations is hurting businesses the most today These and other gaps in organizational and supply chain processes present significant risks and result in higher costs, longer cycle times and less resilience The need of the hour is to ‘converge’ critical processes, information flows and technologies across the organization, supply…
It’s a perfect confluence of events for zero trust to take center stage in the world of cyber security: the rise of hybrid and remote work, the ongoing shift to cloud services, the continuing growth of mobile devices in the workplace, and an onslaught of sophisticated attacks that can impact entire supply chains. Never have organizations faced…
The discovery of the Log4j vulnerability in December 2021 is one of the more recent and prominent reminders of why cybersecurity teams need to implement a zero-trust security architecture. Not that they should need reminders. Incidents are happening every day, and some of them — such as ransomware attacks that may impact virtually entire supply chains —…
Canada’s newest airline will head directly for the clouds on its maiden flight this summer, running the entirety of its IT system on cloud computing. “Everything here is cloud. We’re a cloud-first organization. I have absolutely nothing on-prem anywhere or anything co-located,” says Robert Pope, CIO of Canada Jetlines. Launching a new low-cost carrier in…
Vishal Gupta is CTO & CIO, SVP Connected Technology at Lexmark International, where he is responsible for all of IT corporate strategy, security operations, software, and analytics. Privately owned and headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, Lexmark is a global provider of cloud-enabled imaging tech that serves customers in more than 170 countries around the world. Gupta…
After serving as global CIO for GE, Chris Drumgoole became CIO of DXC Technology in March 2020. DXC is an $18 billion business formed in 2017 from the merger of CSC and HP Enterprise Services. As a customer to DXC while at GE, Drumgoole was impressed by the vision of Mike Salvino, who had been…
The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) is often criticized for forcing technology choices on business users or producing software analyses no one uses. But the practice of EA is booming today, and architects of any description are hard to find and “incredibly expensive,” says Gartner Research VP Marcus Blosch. Forrester Research has identified more…
Technology transformation is almost never centerpiece for most traditional or legacy organizations, but rather one of many considerations facing business leaders looking to modernize. In the absence of its inclusion in a business’s overall strategic intent, IT can become merely a back office or secluded department expected to simply keep the lights on. Being left…