Sharon Ng, CIO of Ministry Family in Singapore, joins James Henderson for CIO Leadership Live ASEAN, produced by CIO.com and Foundry. Sharon shares a pragmatic approach to driving transformation from ideation to execution, highlighting the importance of communication and culture when instigating innovation agendas. Watch this episode: #id6254824f9af01 .jw-wrapper::before { content: “IDG” !important; } …
With the focus shifting to distributed data strategies, the traditional centralized approach can and should be reimagined and transformed to become a central pillar of the modern IT data estate. Decentralized data strategies are gaining traction, due to the rise of the edge, where data is being collected in droves to fuel real-time insights and…
CIO UK has announced that it is now taking entries for the 2022 CIO 100 UK Awards. The CIO Awards recognises the best and brightest CIOs and technology leaders in the UK, celebrating their digital transformation achievements, and reflecting on themes and ideas which emerged from submissions. The awards are open exclusively to IT leaders…
Being a CIO has never been more important. Major IT trends, including security and privacy protection, cloud computing, machine learning, and remote workforces, as well as complying with an avalanche of regulatory mandates, have elevated the CIO post to a level of importance equal to, or even exceeding, that of fellow C-level executives. Unfortunately, within…
The past decade has seen an increasing proliferation of digital transformations across nearly every industry, and with it, keen debate over the value and view of the traditional CIO role in light of the emergence of the chief digital officer. For Mike Giresi, who has done tours of duty as CIO at Godiva, Direct Brands,…
By Paul Gillin Cybersecurity strategies for years have been grounded in protecting the perimeter of the corporate network. Yet, as nearly every organization learned during the COVID-19 crisis, that perimeter no longer exists. Nearly all new software functionality is now deployed as a service (SaaS) that people access from a multitude of locations and devices.…
SAP has offered its customers in Russia the option to move their cloud data out of the country before its data centers there are shut down, according to Ukrainian news portal The Kyiv Independent. In a March 23 letter from SAP’s executive board, the Walldorf-based company gave its Russian clients three options to choose from.…
Now it its 35th year the US CIO 100 awards recognizes 100 organizations for innovative use of technology in projects that further their organizational goals. To win a CIO 100 award is to be acknowledged as a leader in enterprise IT. A world class panel of judges, including renowned former CIOs, selected this year’s winning…
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive diaspora from the office, at least for knowledge workers. According to a recent study, a quarter of all high-paying jobs will be remote in the next 12 months. This has the potential to create massive change not only to society, real estate markets, and urban centers but also…
Nearly a decade into his IT career, Brian Mariner started feeling a sense of isolation that many Black IT pros experience at work. He had built up a “reasonable set of professional network opportunities” but felt that he “didn’t have a lot of confidants in the industry either from school or professionally,” he says. “I…