Boards of directors everywhere are dealing with a new world of increasing risk, rampant uncertainty and business failures in the churning wake of the global pandemic. Never has the role of CIOs and the technologies they manage been more front-and-center in boardroom deliberations. “Everything we’re seeing and reading about (doing business) in the post-COVID world is about agility…
For a growing number of companies, the internet of things (IoT) has moved past the experimental phase and is now entrenched in vital business processes, providing a competitive edge across a variety of sectors. For example, there’s Sanmina, a producer of integrated manufacturing equipment, which has leveraged connected sensors and the cloud to improve the…
PCs, smartphones and cloud apps are that much more vital for collaboration thanks to workplace lockdowns across the globe, but the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic will see IT spending less on these technologies this year. Gartner and IDC have revised their forecasts for 2020 in the wake of the pandemic, and the outlook…
In early February, Deanna Wise, CIO of Banner Health, had just finished building her senior IT leadership team, when COVID-19 suddenly became a reality. “We were focused on normal things like replacing phone systems and data governance, when all of the sudden we needed to stand up an emergency command center,” says Wise, who became…
When times are good, the harvest is full, the granary bins are overflowing, and it’s easy for an enterprise to gorge freely. When times turn hard and revenue evaporates, well, it’s time to cut back by slicing out those wild expenditures and bold ideas that once made so much sense. It’s not an easy or…
With the need for efficient collaboration tools exploding in recent months, a variety of companies hope to refine how those tools work and what they can do. We look at six now pushing the envelope.(Insider Story)
Read More from This Article: Rethinking collaboration: 6 vendors offer new paths to remote work
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Some industries have seen increases in cloud-related threat events rise as much as 1,350% since the COVID-19 crisis began.
Read More from This Article: Use of cloud collaboration tools surges and so do attacks
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Anupam Khare, CIO at Oshkosh Corp., joins Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, which is jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. Listen now as they discuss service desk innovations, creating business trust and the work involved in developing a people-first culture. To read this article in full, please click here…
Working from home has been a success operationally, but it has strained people, processes and technology. CIOs discuss the opportunity to make each better in the days to come.
Read More from This Article: CIOs offer strategies for engaging an entirely mobile workforce
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A few months ago, the IT department at networking systems company Ciena had a virtual all-hands meeting. Although the meeting was led by the IT department and its roughly 350 employees, all of Ciena’s 6,500 employees were invited to join. The meeting was a company-wide rollout and test of the new video conferencing and collaboration…