Mention government agencies and most people think of organizations that are slow, plodding, and mired in miles of administrative red tape. That is not the case with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), formed by an act of Congress in 1790 and led by a commission that included then Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson.…
By Jeroen Kleen and Gerry Nolan If you recently integrated cloud technologies into your IT environment, chances are your team spent many months working behind the scenes, diligently setting up the implementation to generate quick gains for the business. They likely scoped out projects that can benefit from the newfound agility and migrated some early…
The use artificial intelligence (AI) is exploding across the planet as it evolves into an essential tool for a myriad of fields and industries. But to successfully implement the technology into business operations, IT leaders need to surround themselves with global experts while building a state-of-the-art ecosystem. The place to start looking for such experts…
L’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) explose partout sur la planète alors qu’elle devient un outil essentiel dans une myriade de secteurs et d’industries. Mais pour l’implanter avec succès dans les opérations commerciales, les responsables informatiques doivent s’entourer d’experts mondiaux tout en créant un écosystème de pointe. Au Canada, c’est au Québec qu’il faut chercher pareils…
Pre-COVID, agility became an aspiration and rallying cry for organizations seeking to embrace emerging technologies and pursue technology-enabled innovation, often to stave off digital disruption in their industries. Once the pandemic hit, that nice-to-have became an existential necessity. “As CIO, I’m constantly looking at ways to become more agile and using IT as a strategic…
Moving into the digital 2020s, enterprises are contemplating the adoption of a new generation of collaborative, composable, and cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) technologies, motivated by a stubborn pandemic, insecure supply chains, transient workforces, and other factors. An overwhelming 94% of organizations worldwide are embracing a next-generation ERP strategy that involves migrating to cloud platforms…
As EVP and CIO for American television provider DISH, Atilla Tinic leads IT strategy, delivery and operations for all of the company’s pay-TV and wireless brands—from the 25-year-old direct-broadcast satellite service DISH Network to the born-in-the-cloud IPTV service Sling TV and smart home service OnTech. Now several years into the cloud journey, each of DISH’s…
It’s an imperative today for both public and private sector organisations to invest in, implement and revolve company culture around technologies of the future. And Industry 4.0, otherwise known as the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), is at the core of this effort, which involves a synergised approach to production based on a groundswell of cutting-edge…
We may have made it through the global pandemic, but that doesn’t mean it’s business as usual for everyone. Many have lost loved ones or at the very least carry the mental scars of months of anxiety and isolation. It has become clear as COVID has worn on that we are never going to return…
The UK Central Data and Digital Office (CDDO) has unveiled the Transforming for a Digital Future strategy, which sets out a collective cross-government roadmap and vision for 2025. The strategy outlines six core missions with the ultimate goal of delivering better and simpler citizen experiences, more value to the taxpayer, and greater public sector efficiency…