Strong Business Continuity Management Brings Resilience

Business disruptions happen every day and can cause companies to lose millions of dollars and suffer reputational damage. But these losses can be minimized. When astute executives, including CIOs, cheat disruption by focusing on business continuity management (BCM) programs that build resilience, the enterprise transformation can prosper. CIOs should apply a business lens that informs how the business could be impacted (operationally, financially, legally, etc.) in the…

What telco mobile money licenses mean for Nigeria’s financial services sector

Over the last decade Africa has gained a reputation for global leadership in mobile money, with Kenya at the forefront, but up to now financial services via mobile phones have not taken deep root in the continent’s most populace country — Nigeria. That may change as telecommunications companies such as Airtel and MTN jump into…

What is Customer Identity and Access Management?

Customer identity and access management (CIAM) is a type of identity technology that allows organizations to manage customer identities, providing security and an enhanced experience. The primary purpose of CIAM is to help organizations deliver a great experience to customers and to protect their user data. Digital transformation is changing everything about the way companies operate,…

CIO Leadership Live with CIO/CTO Doug Talbot of Environment Canterbury

Redefining the CIO role post-pandemic

As the CIO of Oxford Said Business School, Mark Bramwell’s role was complex enough when the global pandemic moved thousands of students and staff to distance learning. Almost overnight there was a heightened need to drive innovation and reinvent business-as-usual. “It has felt that as a school, team, and personally, we have never worked harder…

Lumentum CIO Ralph Loura on adopting a challenger mindset

In the early months of the pandemic, Lumentum SVP and CIO Ralph Loura, like many of his peers, found that IT’s annual planning wasn’t nimble enough to respond to the rapid project prioritization the business needed. The result was a new approach to optimizing IT planning that more closely mirrors the business. Loura sat down…

CIOs look to foster innovative IT cultures, post-COVID

Asked to define innovation today, most IT leaders will agree: It’s all about digitization and finding new and better ways of thinking about processes and services to solve a problem. “Around here, we think of it as a stool with three legs: quality/safety, patient satisfaction, and cost efficiencies,’’ says Sam Amirfar, CIO and chief medical…

Mistakes to avoid when moving your contact center to the cloud

The contact center has traditionally operated through on-premises servers and software, but shifting it to the cloud can help CIOs improve the customer journey. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) options now give enterprises more confidence that they can better deliver high-quality customer experiences. However, there are potential challenges around moving…

The intelligent, cloud-based contact center: How CCaaS enriches the customer experience

CIOs continue to be pressured by business leaders to deliver value that goes beyond just making sure everyone’s computers and servers are running. Among their value objectives is to deliver better customer experiences, according to Foundry’s 2022 State of the CIO. Yet, CIOs must do so amid challenges such as an increasingly lean IT staff,…

3 Ways to Reduce the Climate Impact of Your Web3 Data

By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax Web3 is now firmly established as the technology ecosystem that lets developers build decentralized applications. But its reliance on blockchain technology has also raised concerns about its ecological impact. The process of verifying transactions on blockchain requires a huge amount of processing power and consequently lots of electricity.…