Abbott CIO Sabina Ewing on becoming an IT talent magnet

Sabina Ewing is Global CIO and Vice President of Business & Technology Services (BTS) at Abbott. With more than 20 years of technology experience and an exceptional record of business partnership with senior executives, Ewing is known for being passionate about IT’s role as a strategic partner and enabler of top-line and bottom-line results.  A consummate learner and teacher, Ewing leads with a focus on the human side of the technology equation, which isn’t surprising when you consider she…

In wake of pandemic, hybrid computing is key for African CIOs

The last two years have proven a challenge for CIOs. Facing pandemic-induced disruption, CIOs in Africa have had to get creative, enabling people to work remotely as well as in the office, adopting AI and other technology to tackle supply chain problems, and taking advantage of the increasing number of third-party data centres and public…

CIO Profile: Archie Jackson on how building teams is like parenting

Archie Jackson, senior director and head of special initiatives, corporate IT, and cybersecurity at Indian consulting and technology services firm Incedo, has had the good fortune to work with great mentors at key stages of his career. Over the years he has learned the importance of purpose — why he does what he does —…

Dubai smart campus taps IoT integration for efficiency, sustainability

Across the Middle East, smart cities and campuses are investing in the future by leveraging IoT at scale. The University of Birmingham’s Dubai and Edgbaston campuses are undergoing a transformation that demonstrates how integrating emerging technologies like IoT sensors and back-end data centres can drive cost optimisation, create a better user experience, and introduce new…

How Blackwoods handled its CIO’s health crisis in the midst of a digital transformation

As the tech team at workplace safety goods business Blackwoods steeled themselves against the initial onslaught of COVID-19 in early 2020, little did they know the additional curve ball about to be served to them. The long-established brand, a subsidiary of Wesfarmers, which also owns the Bunnings and Officeworks brands, has more than 50 stores…

Put STaaS at the Center of Your Multicloud

One of the ways in which enterprises can maintain better control over how they store, activate, manage, and monetize today’s surge in data is to deploy storage as a service (STaaS) as a central part of their multicloud. Multicloud combines services and resources from multiple cloud providers to increase the flexible use and availability of…

Mastering Relationships Leads to Cloud Success

By Hugues Treguier Pre-pandemic, remote work skeptics feared that their workforce would not be able to do all work securely and efficiently. Enterprise IT, security teams, and executives have since learned that – in most use cases – sensitive data can be entrusted to the cloud and that workers are able to function at full…

Why Companies Need Three-Level Innovation in Their Digital Infrastructure

As the ongoing digital transformation unlocks the potential of industries, the global digital infrastructure is also facing a higher demand. According to Huawei’s Global Industry Vision (GIV), by 2030, there will be 23 times more global data, 10 times more global general computing power, and 500 times the global AI computing power. We will also…

Pathways to the C-suite: CIO hopefuls look to level up

Andy Farella spent five years rising up the IT leadership ranks at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) — first as director of business applications and then associate CIO — when he started feeling restless. “I was dealing with multiple aspects of the organization and involved with big projects, issues, and challenges,” Farella says. At the…

2 CIO action items for 2022

There is a structure and discipline to the art of futuring. Every quarter I conduct a conversational walkabout in the CXO community seeking to understand the mindsets, projects, and priorities defining the IT landscape. In Q1, 2022, I am asking in situ CIOs two questions: What categorical bucket[s] does the organization place you in? How…