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…
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.…
Parting may be a sweet sorrow, but it can be inevitable when a CIO detects a tell-tale sign that a quick and clean employment departure represents the best course of action. Most CIOs at one time or another have found themselves working at an enterprise that has seriously altered course, lost its focus, neglected competitiveness,…
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…
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…
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…
The end of the Great Resignation — the latest buzzword referring to a record number of people quitting their jobs since the pandemic — seems to be nowhere in sight. “New employee expectations, and the availability of hybrid arrangements, will continue to fuel the rise in attrition. An individual organization with a turnover rate of…
CIO Middle East is proud to unveil the expanded CIO50 Middle East Awards in 2022, recognizing the top 50 senior technology executives driving innovation, strengthening resiliency, and influencing rapid change across the Middle East. The CIO50 Middle East Awards are aligned to Foundry’s global awards program and viewed as a mark of excellence within the…
The CIO has a real ability to achieve a competitive advantage for its business through data. This is the underlying purpose of the digital transformation exercises that have been so significant to IT in recent years. For the CIO to be successful with this, there needs to be a comprehensive strategy that extends far beyond…