If there’s one thing businesses have learned over the last 12-18 months, it’s that resilience, agility, and adaptability are more important than ever. Modern organizations must be able to rapidly respond to unexpected disruption, be that a global pandemic or a cyber-attack. At the same time, they must be able to pivot their operations and…
DetailsWhen Adrian Jones became the sole enterprise architect for fast growing diagnostics giant SYNLAB in 2018 he knew the traditional, bureaucratic approach to EA he had seen in the past wouldn’t work. Jones, SYNLAB’s group head of enterprise architecture, needed to quickly gather and analyze enough information to deploy new systems across hundreds of sites…
DetailsNumerous articles over the past six months have highlighted a powerful trend: Employees, shaken by the events of the last 18 months, are rethinking their priorities and their relationship to work. People are resigning and changing employers like never before. In this environment, according to Gartner’s 2022 Planning Guide for Collaboration and End-User Technologies, internal knowledge management…
DetailsTelehealth is a virtual healthcare delivery system, and it has become a permanent fixture in healthcare delivery accelerated by the pandemic. Now, healthcare leaders are looking to expand and improve their telehealth products. More than just telehealth The growth of telehealth has revolutionized the healthcare industry, allowing hospitals across the United States to take advantage…
DetailsIT organizations worldwide are still reeling from the discovery of a major security vulnerability in Apache Log4j, an open-source logging utility embedded in countless internal and commercial applications. By submitting a carefully constructed variable string to log4j, attackers can take control of any application that includes log4j. Suddenly, cybercriminals around the world have a blueprint…
DetailsVipin Gupta spent nearly eight years as CIO at Key Bank before joining Toyota Financial Services in 2018. While he leads all aspects of digital transformation and information technology, as chief innovation and digital officer of TFS he is building a more digitally savvy workforce. Recently I spoke with Gupta about the transformation he has…
DetailsRiding the digital transformation wave that accelerated during the pandemic, enterprises will continue their aggressive push to leverage technology both to fuel innovation and transform business operations in 2022. To do so requires tech investments. In acknowledgment of this, companies are increasing budgets for new and existing technologies. Overall digital spend is projected to be…
DetailsLike many companies today, GlaxoSmithKlein has spent the past several years striving to derive more value from its data, and it has big goals for using data as a business accelerator. CIO’s Thor Olavsrud sat down with Shobie Ramakrishnan, SVP and chief digital and technology officer of pharma commercial at the UK-based global healthcare company…
DetailsMany of today’s hottest technologies come at us as buzzwords. Artificial intelligence (AI). Machine learning (ML). Edge computing. Internet of Things (IoT). These and many other innovations promise business advancements. Business leaders have an idea what these technologies can offer—but not always why and how to deploy them to deliver maximum return on investment. This,…
DetailsIndian Energy Exchange (IEX) operates a platform where electricity generators, distribution utilities and large industrial buyers trade electricity before it is delivered to end users. It has been working with partners to modernise its infrastructure and respond to changes in the market. No electricity flows through the exchange, just data representing offers to produce, to…
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