Marianne McPeak-Johnson’s first opportunity to serve on a public company board was a great experience that (alas) ended in equally great disappointment. Recruited for an outside board position while she was head of a product innovation and technology division at First Data Corp. in 2017, McPeak-Johnson had the board offer in hand when a last-minute…
Welcome to this special digital issue of CIO featuring our CIO 100 winners and Hall of Fame inductees. In these pages, you’ll learn how award winning organizations are redefining the nature of work, how to find value in data, and how to exert influence when IT spending is decentralized. download September/October digital issue CIO [ Register…
No industry was disrupted more by the coronavirus outbreak than aviation travel, as traffic in airports nosedived worldwide. Undaunted by the pandemic, Ian Law is looking to weave together mobile software, sensors, cameras and biometrics to improve the passenger experience at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), where he has served as CIO since 2013. Like…
Oracle has updated its Fusion Cloud suite to help enterprises with the new demands placed on supply chains by the pandemic. The latest quarterly release also includes new tools for managing remote workers, and other features to help HR departments fit the existing workforce to the new reality of business. The suite covers enterprise resource…
For all the advances of the mobile revolution, a huge swath of the business has largely been left out: front-line workers — ironically, your organization’s most mobile employees. While knowledge workers have relied on iPhones, iPads, and Galaxys for years now to help ensure their productivity, hospital care staff, retail associates, warehouse staff, delivery people,…
Agile has been around for a long time by IT standards and has proven to be successful for many companies. As companies have evolved and progressed through the pioneering stage of agile, there has been a tendency to take on larger and larger efforts. There have even been inroads made in the application of agile…
Cultural and gender diversity in the technology sector is slowly improving but arguably nowhere near as fast as it should if Australia is to better deal with the ongoing IT skills crisis. But closing skills gaps is clearly not the only reason that a diverse workforce should be encouraged and implemented. Hiring more women and…
CIO Ed Giaquinto took to heart a lesson he learned on the job a decade ago. A former engineer at big-box retailer Toys R Us, he and his co-workers would spend weekends upgrading inventory management and logistic systems at distribution centers, working on servers that required the distribution centers to come offline. [ Learn the…
Much of the discussion about Shadow IT has focussed on the cyber and other risks associated with staff bringing in apps and accessing cloud platforms often without the knowledge – let alone permission – of CIOs and other tech leaders. But for many staff, especially those whose jobs demand higher levels of collaboration and communication,…
Two vulnerabilities in SAP ASE’s Cockpit component leaves some sensitive information available to anyone on the network and other data susceptible to brute-force attacks.
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