Since the premier of the wildly popular 1993 dinosaur cloning film Jurassic Park, the sciences featured in the film, genetic engineering and genomics, have advanced at breathtaking rates. When the film was released, the Human Genome Project was already working on sequencing the entire human genome for the first time. They completed the project in…
As transformational IT has increasingly become a business imperative, implementation partners have been looking to strengthen their value proposition for their customers. To differentiate themselves from transactional service providers, the more proactive partners are evolving their offerings and approaches, thereby becoming more strategic than they had been in the past. While IT leaders can maximize…
Data-driven supply chains continues to be a hot topic, given what’s happened over the last couple of years with the pandemic, lockdowns, transportation woes, container ships held outside ports, war in Ukraine and other issues wreaking havoc. Problems caused by these events are ongoing, but if addressed from a proactive rather than reactive standpoint, there…
National Trust CIO Jon Townsend is laying down some home truths on sustainability. Five years ago, he notes that the message in the IT industry was not of reaching net zero, ESG commitments or being more sustainable, but rather of businesses becoming “bigger, better, faster.” “We need to change that conversation,” he says, “and get…
To Guy Hadari, CIO of Biogen, the most important, but often overlooked skill for a CIO is management. “Most people consider the CIO to be a technology person, and they want to put them in a technology box, but technology should be only 20% of a CIO’s job,” says Hadari, who has been leading IT…
New collaboration-enhancing technologies are transforming three-dimensional (3D) design and accelerating content creation. The film industry used to require years of work from hundreds if not thousands of visual effects (VFX) artists to create a single 3D movie. In the case of 2009’s Avatar, over 900 VFX artists on separate design teams spent three years creating…
Imagine being able to fly one of the world’s fastest airplanes in a digital environment. In that virtual world, you can test the plane’s viability by adding or removing environmental and man-made variables. Or simulate jet engine performance to reduce fuel consumption and wear. Planes tested in these environments are more efficient, safe and sustainable.…
The agile approach to project management has gained immense popularity across nearly every industry due to its flexibility and its emphasis on visualizing projects as discrete parts that can then be delivered quickly in sprints. Given the demand for speed in today’s digital business environment, agile stands out as a project management and software development…
These days, it’s great to be an IT professional looking for a job in Québec. But for companies looking for talent, it’s a different story. At the end of 2021, the TECHNOCompétences sector committee identified some 13,000 available IT positions – about 4,000 of which were waiting for “people who don’t exist” according to Stéphanie…
Par les temps qui courent, il fait bon être un professionnel des TI à la recherche d’un emploi au Québec. Pour les entreprises en quête de talents, c’est une tout autre histoire. Fin 2021, le comité sectoriel TECHNOCompétences recensait quelque 13 000 postes disponibles en TI. Dont environ 4 000 attendaient « des gens qui n’existent pas », dit…