6 tips for ITIL implementation success

IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework ITIL was introduced in the late 1980s as a way to streamline governmental IT practices in the UK. The framework has since been acquired by Axelos, which has released updated versions of the framework aimed at modernizing how organizations align IT services with business objectives. The latest iteration,…

Summer 2019: Digital leaders level up

Welcome to the Summer 2019 digital issue of CIO featuring winners of our annual CIO 100 awards and hall of fame honorees. In these pages, you’ll learn how leading organizations are scaling innovation, what it takes to shift to revenue-driven IT, and why it may be time for a new IT operating model. Contents …

7 tips for leading remote IT teams successfully

To succeed in an increasingly talent-starved and competitive IT world, more enterprises are relying on geographically dispersed workforces. Such organizations build IT teams providing the best functional expertise, regardless of each individual’s physical location. While collocated teams (every member working at same physical site) may have advantages over dispersed teams in some respects, there’s a…

Eaton’s RPA center of excellence pays off at scale

CIOs seeking operational efficiency are embracing robotic process automation (RPA), an emerging category of software programmed to execute routine tasks. The technology enables anything from low-level activities such as sifting through and generating response to emails, to orchestrating entire process flows in financial, HR and other corporate IT systems. Unlike artificial intelligence (AI) and machine…

8 ways the cloud is more complex than you think

For a growing number of organizations, it’s not a question of whether they should move applications and development platforms to the cloud, but when. The cloud has become so well entrenched in corporate IT that it’s increasingly difficult to imagine business without it. Still, the move to cloud services is not without its share of…

Spotify this: How Zulily targets shoppers with hyper-personalized offers

Zulily has run surprise sales of clothing and merchandise since 2010, boldly operating in the shadow of Amazon.com. While most retailers fear the ecommerce kraken, whose tentacles seemingly know no bounds, Zulily consistently lures consumers with tailored offers generated by machine learning (ML) software.    Zulily CIO Luke Friang says the keys to successful hyper-personalization include…