Now it its 35th year the US CIO 100 awards recognizes 100 organizations for innovative use of technology in projects that further their organizational goals. To win a CIO 100 award is to be acknowledged as a leader in enterprise IT. A world class panel of judges, including renowned former CIOs, selected this year’s winning…
DetailsNearly a decade into his IT career, Brian Mariner started feeling a sense of isolation that many Black IT pros experience at work. He had built up a “reasonable set of professional network opportunities” but felt that he “didn’t have a lot of confidants in the industry either from school or professionally,” he says. “I…
DetailsThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive diaspora from the office, at least for knowledge workers. According to a recent study, a quarter of all high-paying jobs will be remote in the next 12 months. This has the potential to create massive change not only to society, real estate markets, and urban centers but also…
DetailsThe pandemic may be fanning headwinds against the global economy, but China’s economic resilience has allowed the country to sail into it. We see this in its post-pandemic recovery: with China’s economy projected to grow by 8.5% in 2021—a 73% increase from its GDP growth of 2.3% in 20201. This growth is no stroke of…
DetailsCIOs realize data is the new currency. But, if you can’t use your data as a differentiator to gain new insights, develop new products and services, enter new markets, and better meet the needs of existing ones, you’re not fully monetizing your data. That’s why building and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)…
DetailsWant to survive as CIO? You need the right priorities. And for most CIOs, at this precise moment, your average CIO’s top 5 priorities are: Security. Security. Security. Security. Not to mention security. Notice what’s missing? If your answer is “everything is missing,” go to the head of the class. Security is, for today’s CIO,…
DetailsEmployees are quitting jobs at record rates and companies are having a hard time luring them back. Exacerbating the problem is the fact that employees are now frequently working from home, making it harder for managers to identify employees who are unhappy. Plus, getting new hires up to speed is more challenging when they can’t…
DetailsThese days, the town of Walldorf is not really in the mood to celebrate — even though the managers of SAP, which is headquartered there, have every reason to do so. After all, the software giant can look back on 50 years of successful company history. On April 1, 1972, five former IBM employees — Claus…
DetailsIn early 2021, a wave of digital innovation in the African financial sector, born out of a response to the tight grip of the pandemic, fuelled services and applications that had the potential to really shake up the banking sector. Over the past year, that wave has continued to grow and swell, unleashing a flood…
DetailsPallavi Katiyar began her career as an IT consultant, and today is leading a much broader portfolio as the CIO of Cyient. Throughout her professional journey, she has had opportunities to play different roles: “There has never been a dull moment,” she says. Over the past 22 years, Katiyar has worked in different domains, technologies,…
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