Many of the leaders in the software industry come up from the ranks of working developers. They often want to expand into management as their mastery of technology gives them the confidence, but they don’t want to abandon the practice that frankly brings them fulfillment. Enter the coding leader. This new kind of leader is…
With the Great Resignation showing no signs of letting up, recruiters are looking for all the help they can get to replenish their headcounts with qualified talent. The human resource management (HRM) market – including talent acquisition software and services – is currently valued at nearly $20 billion. It is expected to grow at a…
IT leaders are embracing multi-cloud to deliver on business demands for greater innovation, scalability, and transformational customer and employee experiences. Those who are already engaged in multi-cloud are maximizing flexibility but also providing insight into the challenges in executing those strategies. Foundry’s 2022 Cloud Computing Survey provides conclusive evidence that cloud is the default option…
The novelty of ecommerce and digital services has officially worn off. If the pandemic made us realize anything about the way our global marketplace works, it’s that online shopping and services are now an essential part of daily life. However, as web-based markets and platforms have grown, so have customer expectations. It’s not enough to…
In an organization’s pursuit of digital transformation and innovation, the onus largely falls on agile and development leaders, who must field requests from business leaders and manage expectations, all while speeding time to market. In performing this balancing act, leaders continue to be stifled by misalignment, which creates tremendous waste and inefficiency and leads to…
Real-time app analytics firm Amplitude has launched a new Customer Data Platform (CDP), betting on an aggressive pricing strategy to undercut competition from vendors including Twilio, Salesforce, Adobe and Oracle. The pricing strategy is similar to the game plan Amplitude used against analytics rival MixPanel back in 2014. The company had offered a freemium model…
When reimagining the IT estate for data-first business, the opportunity is ripe for companies to rearchitect for a more sustainable IT environment. The benefits? Drive cost efficiencies and make headway on meeting corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) targets, for starters. The corporate agenda has embraced sustainability, fueled by escalating environmental concerns, because it makes…
As executive vice president and chief transformation and digital officer at Novant Health, Angela Yochem is responsible for all digital health operations for the not-for-profit healthcare system, including 24/7 clinical services, a device company, data science, an innovation lab, a business growth function that explores new revenue streams for healthcare, and more. Yochem recently added to…
CIOs seeking to hire or retain skilled IT workers should continue to budget generously for payroll. Pay premiums for non-certified tech skills rose by the largest amount in 14 years in the first quarter of 2022, according to the latest edition of the IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index, compiled by Foote Partners. The quarterly…
When companies first start deploying artificial intelligence and building machine learning projects, the focus tends to be on theory. Is there a model that can provide the necessary results? How can it be built? How can it be trained? But the tools that data scientists use to create these proofs of concept often don’t translate…