5 perspectives on modern data analytics

Some things don’t change, even during a pandemic. Consistent with previous years, in CIO’s 2021 State of the CIO survey, a plurality of the 1,062 IT leaders surveyed chose “data/business analytics” as the No.1 tech initiative expected to drive IT investment. Unfortunately, analytics initiatives seldom do nearly as well when it comes to stakeholder satisfaction. Last…

Johnson Controls and Microsoft birth ‘digital twin’ for building management

Industrial companies have long struggled to put together the computational horsepower and modeling techniques required to derive meaningful insights from sensor data, giving rise to the so-called digital twin. Johnson Controls is building one such virtual version of physical assets, using Microsoft Azure cloud software to improve how buildings are designed, constructed, and managed. The…

API management: What CIOs should know

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are fast proving to be significant tools in creating business value for CIOs embarking on digital transformations or seeking to develop new revenue streams. APIs can translate text, label images, send text messages, check for fraud, retrieve open banking data, and handle an increasingly large variety of business transactions. An API…

CIOs battle product management pitfalls

Seeking to boost value to business stakeholders, Equinix is adopting a product model for building solutions. But the evolution from traditional project management practices is complex, and fraught with nuance that can trouble the transition and outcomes. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story) Read More from This Article: CIOs battle…

Why You Need an Execution Advantage

Modern businesses are made up of a complex interconnected fabric of processes, all dedicated to delivering business outcomes. Every company has a given execution capacity to perform these processes, based upon the level of resources that it has, multiplied by a factor of the time it can allocate to each process. But many of these…

Knowing where the line is in IT risk management

Every organization should have an agreed understanding of risk, what that means for the company, and where the line of acceptability is (threshold). Knowing where this line is, and using it as a driving force for decision making within IT, can dramatically maximize resources and decrease costs.  Decision making Risk Management sometimes has the unfortunate…

Get good at delivering software

What if I told you that Blockbuster had a 7-year head start on streaming video over Netflix?  What if I told you that before Prime Video, Prime Shipping, Google Docs, and Android phones, Amazon was a place to buy books and Google was just a search engine like Altavista.  Altavista? How were these companies able…