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…

10 common ERP mistakes to avoid

All indications are that 2021 will be a banner year for ERP. Enterprises are emerging from the pandemic, dusting off digital transformation plans that might have been sitting on the shelf for a while, and moving aggressively to rebuild, reinvent, and reimagine their organizations. “The COVID-19 pandemic has become the ERP market tipping point,” says…

3 analytics and AI trends that will dominate 2021

Data analytics is a domain in constant motion. Early in 2020, it seemed clear that organizations would continue to invest heavily in analytics to support their digital transformations. But the world of analytics and AI looks very different in March 2021 than it did in February 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced enterprises to adopt…