Perhaps more than any other sector, the technology industry suffers from jargon overload, with vendors and consultants constantly hyping solutions and strategies with phrasings meant to capture buzz. Such efforts do at times hit the mark, aptly describing a solution or an important current in the industry, but all too often the terms and phrases…
Just a few days after the November election, the Deloitte Center for Board Effectiveness held a private workshop for senior executives on the hottest topics on U.S. boardroom agendas today. The guest speakers were a trio of experienced female board members with collective business expertise ranging from engineering, insurance, and healthcare industries to financial institutions,…
Tyler Best has been developing IT leaders for decades. He has served as CIO for Vanguard Car Rental, YP (Yellow Pages), Hertz, and is now CIO of Adient, the $16 billion automotive parts company. Best can cite more than 25 up-and-comers who have worked for him and then moved into senior IT roles in other…
If you were to call Sherlock Holmes to help you discover why top tech talent who you’ve interviewed declined your reasonable offer, he might call your mystery common. But the killer is not — as you might believe — the mercurial nature of candidates, a failure of education, or anything outside the room where the…
Global logistics companies play an outsize role in ensuring that COVID-19 vaccines get to healthcare systems worldwide. For one of those shipping companies a decade-long effort to perfect package tracking is paying off, enabling stakeholders to pinpoint the exact whereabouts of coronavirus medications. FedEx is using a sophisticated technology network to keep tabs on the…
Every good science fiction story has at least one robot butler, an all-knowing, all-seeing genie that can make all our problems go away in a split second. The people who coined the buzzword “robotic process automation” were clearly trying to tap into this sentiment. Customers who buy into the platform expect to be able to…
Data is an enterprise’s most valuable and enduring asset, serving as the foundation for both digital strategy and transformation. Yet maintaining a strong grip on rapidly spiraling amounts of data scattered across public and private clouds, as well as in on-premises environments, requires a new and innovative management approach. Modernizing data management to keep pace…
Gartner research finds that a majority (69%) of boards of directors have accelerated digital business as a response to COVID-19. CEOs, too, are looking to prioritize digital investments going into 2021 as they plan for growth and recovery in a post-pandemic world. To keep up this pace, IT leaders must be aggressive in taking things…
Agile should be yesterday’s news. Really, yester-decade’s news. The Agile Manifesto appeared nearly twenty years ago, and unlike Athena, who sprang fully grown and armored from Zeus’s head, many of us had practiced or encouraged agile-ish techniques long before the manifesto made them official. And yet, some fearless holdouts have managed to keep agile, with…
Agero is a leading provider of driver assistance services and has been through a major digital transformation to SaaS in the past few years. If you’re broken down by the side of the road or you have been in an accident, they send help – and they do it more than 12 million times each…