CIO Leadership Live with Douglas Blackwell, CIO at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Ep 12

In this episode, host Maryfran Johnson talks with Douglas Blackwell, senior vice president and CIO at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, about digital transformation in the healthcare industry, including voice enablement and cutting-edge digital tools. Read More from This Article: CIO Leadership Live with Douglas Blackwell, CIO at Horizon Blue Cross Blue…

Get ready for blockchain’s big business breakout

For all the hype, blockchain has yet to go mainstream in the enterprise. That may well change this year as the technology’s reputation for trusted transactions continues to grow among IT leaders. Blockchain is a shared digital ledger for recording transactions. Each transaction among participants in a network is tucked into a record known as a…

Technology at the helm in the Volvo Ocean Race

It was during the brutal seventh leg of the around-the-world Volvo Ocean Race in March 2018 when the unthinkable happened. The 65-foot ocean yacht Scallywag, Hong Kong’s first-ever entry into the grueling race held every three years, was 1,400 nautical miles west of Cape Horn and slicing through rough seas, high winds, and driving rain…

6 most-dreaded IT projects

The projects that most IT professionals dread are the thankless yet essential tasks that garner little acknowledgment or respect. Patch management isn’t glamorous, but fail to keep up and your organization could suffer a massive security breach. Cloud migration projects aren’t often sexy, but running email servers on premises in 2018 is a bit like…

Pilot Flying J digitally transforms the truck stop

From agriculture to industrial manufacturing, no business is impervious to digital disruption. So it should come as no surprise that even the truck stop is ripe for digital transformation. Pilot Flying J, owner and operator of 750 travel centers in 43 U.S. states and six Canadian provinces, is looking to the internet of things (IoT),…

CIO Spotlight: Chris Conry, Fuze

Name: Chris Conry Company: Fuze Job title: Chief Information Officer Time in current role: One year in April Location: Boston Conry heads Fuze’s global IT and information security functions. Prior to joining Fuze, Conry drove large-scale IT transformation efforts, led IT integration activities for several mergers and acquisitions, and was accountable for corporate security and…