As cloud adoption has continued to rise in recent years in response to businesses’ need for agility, cost savings, innovation, and digital transformation, organizations are faced with new challenges and opportunities that impact business operations. Presenting at CIO’s recent Future of Cloud event, Dave McCarthy, research vice president, cloud infrastructure services at IDC, shared IDC’s…
If you can’t make sense of your business data, you’re effectively flying blind. Insights hidden in your data are essential for optimizing business operations, finetuning your customer experience, and developing new products — or new lines of business, like predictive maintenance. Analytics is the means for discovering those insights, and doing it well requires the…
Rates of change in all industries, coupled with enormous macroeconomic pressures, mean stagnation and complacency can be the death of any business. It is important that leaders think big and long term. An essential challenge in this is to use analytics at its best to truly understand what lies ahead. This means a careful approach…
The world has become far more complicated. For businesses, the need to balance employee safety, changed expectations about how and where we work and the changing threat landscape have changed the very nature of how we use our computers. While users have always wanted safe, reliable and high performing PCs and notebooks, delivering that in…
An innovative programme training prisoners to become web developers is helping them get a foot in the door at some of New Zealand’s biggest IT companies. Charity Take2 was established three years ago with the aim of breaking the cycle of crime by providing pathways to employment in tech. Founder and CEO Cameron Smith tells…
CIOs have a long list of tech initiatives, product deliveries, and IT projects planned for the year ahead. Each one is, of course, important in its own right. Taken all together, though, they’re collectively driving some greater good for the enterprise. With that in mind, we asked multiple CIOs to share their overarching objectives and…
Lotto New Zealand Chief Transformation Officer Sarah Thirlwall on creating a winning culture, staying curious, getting buy-in, and why it’s crucial to put deliverables against funding in any transformation journey. Watch this episode: #id62bb78c4af043 .jw-wrapper::before { content: “IDG” !important; } Careers, CIO, CIO Leadership Live Read More from This Article: CIO Leadership Live with…
Integrating modern data protection into the normal cycle of business is one of the best things you can do for your organization. But where do you start? That is the question. This article aims to provide you with a practical framework to improve your enterprise data protection. Start off by doing a data protection assessment…
Karl Sprules has seen firsthand how employee expectations have reshaped the already tight market for tech talent. As global head of technology and operations at AllianceBernstein, Sprules, along with his leadership colleagues, are going the extra mile to ensure the financial services company can compete in today’s seller’s market for vital tech skills. “I think…
Some call data the new oil. Others call it the new gold. Philosophers and economists may argue about the quality of the metaphor, but there’s no doubt that organizing and analyzing data is a vital endeavor for any enterprise looking to deliver on the promise of data-driven decision-making. And to do so, a solid data…