In the same way that marathons require rigorous preparation to reach the finish line, technological transformations will not yield lasting rewards without vision, planning, dedicated resources and unwavering determination. When organizations do not embrace digital transformation, failure ensures — enterprise value suffers, employee fatigue becomes rampant, customer experience is negatively impacted, and time is lost.…
Kordia Group CISO Hilary Walton on the importance of security governance, the benefits of career pivots and why more CIOs should pay attention to NFTs. Watch this episode: #id627911817a20f .jw-wrapper::before { content: “CISO Hilary Walton” !important; } Read More from This Article: CIO Leadership Live with CISO Hilary Walton of Kordia Group Source:…
Getting fired from her CIO job nearly 20 years ago wasn’t just a career turning point for Cathy Hotka. “It was the best thing that ever happened to me,” says the founder of Cathy Hotka & Associates, which today runs an influential networking community of retail industry CIOs and digital leaders across the U.S., Canada,…
There are few CIOs who haven’t been hit by attrition, as streams of highly talented IT professionals head out the door for bigger salaries, better opportunities, or both. The fact that today’s digital powerhouses are now hiring tens of thousands of employees — often without regard to geography — has only exacerbated the talent crunch…
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is set to release two new solutions targeted at the manufacturing sector and aiming to ease data engineering and analytics tasks, unifying data from diverse machine assets to offer business insights to factory managers. GCP’s new offerings come at a time when enterprises in the manufacturing sector are adopting systems to…
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Focus: That will be the new work week for SAP in Germany beginning May 20, 2022. Many companies encourage employees to set aside blocks of time each day for “deep work,” and some even automate that process using tools such as Microsoft Outlook’s focus time feature, part of Viva Insights. SAP,…
Root cause analysis definition Root cause analysis (RCA) is a problem-solving process that focuses on identifying the root cause of issues or errors with the goal of preventing them from reoccurring in the future. RCA is typically part of service management methodologies and frameworks, such as ITIL, TQM, and Kanban, that focus on continuous process…
Sometimes technology can feel like the enemy — a new way for vendors to pass the buck when their products or services malfunction. It’s the chatbot that pops up when you think your identity was stolen, the digitized voice at the other end of an emergency call, that text message informing you that your flight…
Businesses are investing substantial funds and efforts into migrating workloads from on-premises infrastructure to public clouds, in part motivated by the hypothesis that, once cloud-based, those workloads will be relatively easy to move from one cloud provider to another. Unfortunately, the reality is unlikely to be so simple. It’s been estimated that about half of…
Companies face various cyber risks, ranging from ransomware to data theft. Cyber threat actors gain access to an organization’s systems in various ways. However, cybercriminals commonly take the path of least resistance, and organizations’ reliance on password-based authentication provides numerous avenues of attack. Passwords are known to be a weak form of authentication, and the…