Being the CIO of a cloud ERP provider is a unique balancing act. As the first customer of your company’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, you must help drive the company’s flagship forward, but you also must support the technical needs of the organization as a whole. That’s where Workday CIO Diana McKenzie found herself when joining…
Organizations are making the shift to delivering IT as a product — a multistep process, rife with challenges. First, there’s the need to lay the groundwork for change, and to extend a product mindset across the organization. Then governance must be implemented, product teams must be structured and implemented, and supporting IT capabilities must be created.…
On Nov. 1, approximately 1,500 Google employees collectively protested inadequate handling of sexual misconduct claims related to two executives. At 11:10 a.m. local time, at more than two dozen Google offices worldwide, employees walked away from their desks, leaving behind a flyer that read: “Hi. I’m not at my desk because I’m walking out in…
Companies can go to extreme lengths to lure and retain tech talent — from office puppies to on-site massages to catered meals. But which benefits actually matter to the talent they’re trying to recruit and hire? Textio, an augmented writing platform, scrutinized the performance of 75 benefits in more than 300 million job posts to…
Cloud computing has become the de facto platform for fueling digital transformations and modernizing IT portfolios. Companies are increasingly finding business agility or cost savings by renting software through vendors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google. In fact, most enterprises procure cloud services from two or more vendors, a trend that will…
One day you wake up with a pain in your side that persists. You want to be seen by a medical professional, but you don’t want to go through the hassle of making an appointment and schlepping to your doctor. Most large healthcare organizations now allow you to make an appointment with a physician and…
Aerospace and industrial giant United Technologies depends on innovation to meet the demanding needs of its corporate and government customers. To ensure a steady pipeline of profitable new ideas, the company created United Technologies Advanced Projects (UTAP), a startup-like organization that builds and pilots products and services with the potential to positively disrupt the company’s…
Amid a frenzy of innovation in robotic process automation and artificial intelligence, CIOs are scouring their enterprises for tasks that can be automated. In a recent survey of tech-sector business leaders, the Consumer Technology Association found that just 10 percent of respondents aren’t planning to automate any job functions over the next five years. That…
Did you know that in 1984, 37 percent of computer science degrees were held by women? Today, that figure is just 19 percent. Even when women do choose STEM careers, only 26 percent work in technical roles, compared to 40 percent of men. And in technology specifically, the women who enter the industry leave at…
Digital transformation in a necessary element in the success of any company today, but the cold, hard truth is that most organizations will fail in these efforts. A good part of the reason is that digital transformation can mean different things to different companies and is basically hard to define. Conflicting terms like digitization and…