Tim Dickson is CIO of Wisconsin-based Generac Power Systems, a $2.5 billion public company best known for its home standby power generators and the widest range of portable power products on the market today. Dickson joined Generac in August, 2020, reporting directly to the CEO in the newly created CIO position that is at the…
Skill shortages are preventing Dutch companies from realising their business potential. With a thriving tech ecosystem and highly-skilled pool of professionals, Nigeria offers a solution to the Netherlands’ IT talent gap. On 17 February, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Netherlands-African Business Council, and Unioncamere Piemonte are hosting a Virtual Scoping Mission to Nigeria,…
Fostering innovation, providing deep insights, and creating new services and opportunities, data professionals today are highly valued by businesses. Data scientists and data architects can create automated systems for gathering data in real time, refining it into actionable findings, and putting information to work in new ways that ultimately serve customers better and allow your…
By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software If you asked me five years ago if I thought hybrid cloud was a cop out – a misinformed strategy for businesses that weren’t ready to transform hard enough – I probably would have said yes. I saw the allure of the cloud native narrative and didn’t understand why…
By Vinay Venkataraghavan, CTO – Technology Partnerships, Palo Alto Networks Cloud strategy is a top priority for nearly every organization today. The shift to the cloud has created tremendous opportunities, but also introduced new risks that must be managed. Many leaders who raced to adopt the cloud now want to know what it will take…
Scott Case, CIO at Truist, joins Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, which is jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss transforming digital business, best-of-breed IT, cyber resilience strategies, hybrid work lessons, the evolving CIO role and more. Watch this episode: Listen to this episode: Read More from This Article:…
Companies that want to take advantage of cloud technologies are often flummoxed by the technical debt they’ve accumulated. They need to modernize their application stacks to respond quickly to competitive disruption, changing industry regulations, and new business opportunities. But the economic and technical challenges of modernizing legacy apps can seem daunting. A group of IT…
The reasons an enterprise needs to move its data are varied. Organizations may need to consolidate mass data into a single repository for big-picture analysis and to improve the availability, security, and accessibility of their data. Enterprises often deploy a disaster recovery plan to enable business continuity in the event of primary data failure with…
We all know how much customer expectations have changed, especially since the pandemic hit. The expectation is that the experience will be frictionless and consistent with always-on service regardless of how, when, and where engagement happens. The same goes for employees. We have entered a new era of work defined by exceptional experiences that allow…
The best leaders don’t get things done. They build organizations that get things done. That has been the impetus behind my recent series of “Building effective IT 101” articles: To help outline what it takes to build a 21st century, digital-ready, effective IT organization. But if you’re looking for a high-gloss overview of the foundations…