The business climate is changing rapidly, as are the attitudes of the workforce. In the digital era, competitive advantage is based on an organization’s ability to make the best decision with the right people in as short of a time as possible. This requires effective collaboration, which can be scuttled by poor tools, lack of…
Bill Predmore, president and co-owner of professional women’s soccer team the Seattle Reign, has enough to worry about without managing PCs. “I don’t want to have to think about technology,” he told CIO.com. “I want it to be like a utility where I flip a switch and it just works.” So, in December 2017, the…
Charles Joseph Minard is arguably the world’s most famous data artist. By combining several data sets, including troop numbers, direction, temperature and terrain, he created in 1869 a visualization of Napoleon’s 1812 Russian campaign. Though that military exercise ended in disaster, Minard’s map remains “one of the best statistical drawings ever created.” Were he alive…
Augmented reality is frequently predicted to be a major game changer, more so than virtual reality in the evolution of technology. But aside from smartphone-based apps such as Pokemon Go, and Google Translate, which can instantly translate street signs in foreign countries, adoption of the technology — which overlays virtual content on the real world…
Throughout his extensive career in IT, including 16 years as CIO of University of Chicago Medicine, Eric Yablonka has seen healthcare technology evolve before his eyes. Recently, I spoke with Yablonka, now the CIO of Stanford Health, about the digital innovations his organization is working on and the challenges healthcare CIOs face today. —————————————————- How…
8 CIO archetypes: What kind of IT leader are you? Image by Getty Images Global business disruption is quickening the evolutionary timeline of the CIO role. Market dynamics are forcing IT leaders to extend beyond taking orders and delivering sustainable IT systems to massaging digital strategies and driving business outcomes. To read this article in…
Any industrial manufacturer knows that securing its future requires tackling digital disruption head-on. As more machines become connected via sensors, Bluetooth, WiFi, and other technologies, manufacturers who don’t get ahead of the internet of things (IoT) curve will swiftly fall behind. That’s the attitude Schneider Electric’s management is instilling in the French company’s 145,000 employees,…
Like many institutions of higher learning, Indiana University (IU) has been making use of business intelligence (BI) for years. But even with a wealth of data at its disposal, the university’s business units struggled to transform that data into insights that could drive meaningful decisions. It’s multi-year Decision Support Initiative (DSI) changed all that. “We…
The tech industry isn’t a bunch of scrappy underdogs anymore. In the wake of numerous data lapses and incidents of personal data being monetized in ways users never expected, consumer trust is dropping—according to a recent survey from Selligent, 75 percent of consumers are worried about brands tracking their browsing behavior. And it’s not just…
The importance of teams Image by Getty Images If science fiction is to be believed, humans in the future have learned to build highly effective teams. You can’t go into outer space – and survive – if your team is dysfunctional. The crews of the Enterprise(every iteration) on Star Trek, the Rocinante in the The Expanse,…