Paul Johnson wears two powerful, distinct hats at Poly, the new company formed as a result of the merger of Plantronics and Poly. As vice president and CIO, Johnson took charge of overseeing the integration of the companies in the post-merger period — not just the technology and IT systems, but the overall business program…
Shankar Arumugavelu is what you might call a Verizon lifer. He was a director at telecom GTE when Bell Atlantic acquired it in 2000 to form Verizon. Today he’s SVP and global CIO of Verizon, where he’s helping to drive the company’s adoption of emerging technologies like AI and machine learning in service of creating…
As a global printer and imaging products company, Lexmark generates a lot of data. To manage and gain insight from that data, Lexmark has created the Product Digital Thread, which has transformed business decision making in the company. It also transformed Director of Transformation Products Andy Kopp’s role, from delivering digital transformation projects to Lexmark…
5G holds enormous potential for change with the IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (artificial intelligence), but with every technology shift comes a need to re-evaluate priorities, strategies, and investments. When considering a future that includes 5G, forward-looking IT and networking leaders need to develop a clear strategy to prepare for capitalizing on 5G. Global…
Like many top financial firms, Wells Fargo is taking a slow and steady path to the public cloud. Its ambitious, 10-year transformation to the public cloud will begin in early 2022, a migration that will include a hybrid private and public multicloud architecture powered by Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, as well as third-party…
There is so much to learn from failed SAP implementations, but one of the most important involves system implementation provider (SI) selection. Indeed, I have seen a direct correlation between SAP SI failures and how companies approach the SI selection process. The traditional procurement approach is no longer appropriate for a number of reasons, including the…
As CarMax’s executive vice president and chief information and technology officer, Shamim Mohammad has led his company through significant digital transformation in recent years. But his story isn’t just about transforming a company; it’s about disrupting an entire industry. The recipient of MIT Sloan’s 2020 CIO Leadership Award and named a Forbes 2021 “CIO Next”…
The world of commercial real estate moves fast, with responsive buyers and tenants keen to grab first-mover advantage. To meet this challenge, real estate firms are embarking on a range of innovative initiatives, digitizing processes to make them more efficient and user friendly and to enable more data to be analyzed and accessible online in…
Security pros are used to uncertainty. They don’t like it, but it’s part of the job. But one thing is certain: They’re going to be asked: What are we doing to prevent a ransomware attack? That’s because ransomware attacks have increased by nearly 500 percent since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. “You know I think any security conversation that…
Not too long ago, no one needed cloud management software. Web applications were small and functionally very basic. They could run on a few servers, as long as you didn’t fret when loads peaked and responsiveness dropped. Everyone involved with the apps could fit in a small conference room and communicate well enough to ensure…