The COVID-19 crisis has impacted all of us in different ways. But for technology organizations around the world, it has represented both their greatest challenge and their shining hour. “We went from a very small percentage of the world working virtually to practically everyone,” says Sam Ransbotham, a professor of information technology at Boston College’s…
Over the last several months, IDC has hosted several virtual roundtables with sourcing and IT executives on technology sourcing and COVID-19 recovery practices. One theme that emerged is that agile sourcing practices are driving their recovery strategies. For some, the shift to agile procurement happened out of necessity. “When COVID hit, I had to accommodate…
Welcome to the June/July digital issue of CIO. Delivering an exceptional customer experience has never been more important. For many organizations today, meeting customers’ digital needs means business survival. In this month’s cover story, IT leaders share their best advice for creating a frictionless customer experience. [ Register now to download this issue ] Contents GROWReaping revenue…
PagerDuty uses machine learning to anticipate issues and dramatically accelerate responses, so problems are addressed before they impact customers
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H-1B visa applicants hoping to enter the U.S. to work will have to be patient, as President Donald Trump has extended an earlier 60-day ban on skilled foreign workers entering the country until the end of the year, at least. The move is intended to protect the millions of U.S. workers who have lost their…
Transformation is the key to enterprise success. But for organizations pressed for budget to perform necessary replacements and upgrades, Big Bang transformation initiatives are out of reach. But advances can still be made, as there are many dynamic IT initiatives that can be launched at a relatively modest cost yet still deliver rapid, meaningful benefits.…
The excitement around AIops means that it’s sometimes being deployed for the wrong reasons. Here are a few situations where AIops is contraindicated
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Brad Clay, Chief Information and Compliance Officer at Lexmark, joins Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, which is jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. Listen as they discuss transformation as a service, the opportunities of IoT and more. To read this article in full, please click here Read More…
Companies are snapping up tech talent that can help put them in stronger positions on the other side of the coronavirus pandemic. The trend extends to CIOs as well. On that score, Ryan Smith will join Intermountain Healthcare as CIO on June 29, replacing long-time CIO Marc Probst, who is retiring in July after more…
When the COVID-19 crisis bore down in mid-March, Avery Dennison’s IT department did what most shops did to prepare for working during the pandemic — they fortified networks, amped up bandwidth, and rolled out a regular cavalry of collaborative tools to enable a near-instantaneous shift to remote work. Once resiliency of core systems was established,…