Smartphones are spoiling today’s sports fans, many of whom rely on an array mobile apps to make their lives easier. The National Basketball Association’s Miami Heat believes it has found the winning combination by enabling fans to breeze into AmericanAirlines Arena and make purchases with their mobile devices. Fan-facing technology is driving better customer experiences…
Learning is a life-long process, as many people in IT would agree. Because technology is rarely static, failure to keep up on the latest trends and skills can stifle a career. Technology professionals, including CIOs and other senior IT executives, are embracing today’s pace of change by going back to school — whether in the…
Oracle Co-CEO Mark V. Hurd has died at the age of 62. His death leaves the company in the hands of Co-CEO Safra Catz and the company’s founder, Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison. Hurd had served as co-CEO of Oracle for just over five years alongside Catz. The pair served as presidents of the…
A new and growing title in IT, an infrastructure software manager is becoming vital role for organizations, especially those embarking on digital transformation.
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When Doug Saunders joined Advanced Disposal as CIO in 2017 he quickly learned that technology consumption at the $1.6 billion waste management provider was fragmented across “digital fiefdoms,” including sales, marketing and other departments. “It was who screamed the loudest and had the most political clout,” Saunders recalls. “The CEO [Richard Burke] was frustrated by…
In four years as CTO at CVS, Claus Jensen sponsored no technical training for his 500-person team. None. “That’s not to say technical training wasn’t available,” he’s quick to note. “But I didn’t sponsor any of it.” Instead, he sponsored 45 soft skill initiatives — a dedicated, intentional program of building what we often undersell…
The following is excerpted from There’s No Such Thing as an IT Project: A Handbook for Intentional Business Change.
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Business intelligence definition Business intelligence (BI) leverages software and services to transform data into actionable insights that inform an organization’s strategic and tactical business decisions. BI tools access and analyze data sets and present analytical findings in reports, summaries, dashboards, graphs, charts and maps to provide users with detailed intelligence about the state of the…
To break into the upper echelons of IT, your resume has to be honed to emphasize leadership skills and experience. Even if your resume has a strong foundation, shifts in structure and subtle tweaks can significantly enhance your chances of landing a CIO role. Matthew Bond, whose name has been changed for this article, is…
Filling open IT positions has become difficult. Filling them with diverse and talented staff — the dream of everyone running an IT department — seems impossible. The hard truth is that there are currently 700,000 unfilled IT jobs in the U.S. and 87 percent of IT executives say it’s challenging to find people to fill…