Managing projects successfully comes down to skill, tacit knowledge, and having the right tools to collaborate with stakeholders and share information. Wrike, an online project management and collaboration tool, makes light work of these essential tasks. Wrike is available through the web to PCs, Macs, and Android and iOS devices. The company also offers a…
One of the biggest mistakes an IT organization can make when outsourcing is failing to consider the total cost of the relationship — including all the hidden costs that are likely to accrue. There has been little incentive to date for service providers to bring these looming financial risks out into the open, so customers…
The network is something that not enough CIOs pay attention to. It’s often the IT resource that’s last on the priority list with the majority of focus given to applications. That might have been fine 20 years ago when most applications and data lived on the user’s computers. Also, IT had extremely tight control of…
The drumbeat to raise the CIO’s role from functional expert to strategic partner has been a constant since at least 2014. But as Billy Crystal reminded us, “Change is such hard work.” Some organizations and CIOs get it right all the time, but if current surveys are to be believed, opportunities for improvement remain. For…
What is succession planning? Succession planning is a talent management process that builds a pool of trained workers who are ready to fill key roles when leaders and other key employees step down. Organizations with succession planning programs in place foster a talent-oriented culture by recruiting skilled workers and top talent. Once recruited, businesses focus…
One of the ways companies often run into trouble with data lakes is trying to use them as a data warehouse. It’s a “terrible idea, unless it works,” says Merv Adrian, research vice president at Gartner. It’s an issue that Mark Stange-Tregear, vice president of analytics at Ebates, knows all too well. When Stange-Tregear joined…
CIOs today are operating in a complex technology and political climate as they architect their IT infrastructures for a hybrid cloud environment of on-premises, private cloud and public cloud computing services used by both IT and end users. This complexity is reflected in a February, 2017 survey of more than 1,000 IT executives and practitioners by…
A recent report by Oxford Economics, commissioned by Samsung Electronics America, confirms what most employers and employees have known for some time now – that employers expect employees to be available remotely, but that the two groups are often at odds over what mobile devices to use and how to pay for them. The Oxford-Samsung’s…
Over the past two decades, no vendor has been more important to application performance than F5 Networks. The application delivery controller (ADC), F5’s core product, sits between the applications and the networks and ensures the right optimization and security services are applied. The net result is applications that perform better and data that is more…
In this episode, host Steve Ragan talks with Charles Henderson, global managing partner at IBM’s X-Force Red, about smart cities and the potential vulnerabilities in IoT, as well as Daniel Crowley, research director at X-Force Red.
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