AssuredPartners is a full-service insurance broker providing commercial insurance, risk management, and employee benefits. The company, which has more than 8,500 employees, plans to continue growing by acquisition, and consolidating the global insurance market. I recently spoke with CIO Sankha Ghosh about how he has made IT part of the acquisition machine at AssuredPartners and…
When Seymour Cray built what is generally considered to be the first supercomputer in 1964, it ran 1 megaflop, (a million floating point operations per second). Today, the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee performs one quintillion (a billion billion) operations per second. But the New York Times recently reported that Chinese researchers had broken the exascale computing barrier,…
As you conduct business and try to keep up with the rapid pace of the work week, your documentation can quickly grow outdated. We’ll explain the big problems inaccurate knowledge can cause, how to determine if your knowledge base is inaccurate, and discuss how you can solve this common challenge. What’s life like without knowledge…
For Australian CIOs, digital transformation is firmly embedded into their organisation’s formula for success, and the focus in their role is shifting to reflect this change. “With their extensive knowledge of how the business operates, they’re now seen as the agent of change management, the guardian of data excellence, head of business intelligence and the…
By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a fundamental means of communication for organizations that execute a high volume of transactions and communicate critical business information with trading partners, customers, and electronic marketplaces, ensuring greater accuracy and timely communications between partners. While it sounds straightforward, there are still some pitfalls for…
In an effort to appeal to a broader range of users, Oracle is reducing the entry price for its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Dedicated Region. OCI Dedicated region, which started off as a service to enable enterprises to take advantage of cloud technology inside their data centers while complying with data residency and other regulatory…
It’s common for employees to inquire about HR information such as their personal time off (PTO) balance, their sick-day balance, benefits, pay stubs, and tax withholding. (Heck, I do that all the time.) It’s also necessary for a company to perform background checks on prospective employees before extending an offer. When HR staff manages employee…
Gallagher CIO Neville Richardson on being part of a ‘83-year-old start-up’, creating psychologically safe spaces for his team to talk about failure, and why diversity is fundamental to high-performing teams. Watch this episode: #id62b30f18e919f .jw-wrapper::before { content: “IDG” !important; } CIO, CIO Leadership Live Read More from This Article: CIO Leadership Live with CIO…
Everybody makes mistakes, but when a CIO messes up, the consequences can be devastating to the instigator, as well as the entire IT department and enterprise. IT governance should be well-defined, clearly understood, and led by principles that reflect your organization’s mission, vision, and strategy, advises Donna Bales, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group.…
In healthcare, the movement of data can be critical to patient outcomes. Accurate, up-to-date patient information has to be accessible both within a healthcare organization and to partner organizations. For years, requesting medical records has been a cumbersome, manual process that can take weeks, even after the shift from paper documents to electronic medical records…