Over her 25-year career, Deanna Steele has led IT and digital organizations at companies in various stages of startup, acceleration, and turnaround. Much of this experience has been in the retail sector, including VP roles in technology at Hot Topic, Express, and Ascena Retail, CIO at Ingram Content Group, and CI&DO at J.Jill. This past…
DetailsHow can IT leaders create the conditions for digital business innovation—from fostering effective collaboration with business partners to establishing the right processes, frameworks, and culture? That’s the central question CIO contributing editor Julia King posed to Avery Dennison CIO Nick Colisto in their conversation at the CIO 100 Symposium and Awards, where Colisto was inducted into…
DetailsEnterprises are deploying more low-code tools and processes, as they look to increase the efficiency of software development and to support digital business efforts. A key to success with the technology is learning to avoid common mistakes. Research firm Gartner has forecast that the worldwide low-code development market will total $13.8 billion in 2021, an…
DetailsWith more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. The increased demand for experienced IT leaders has made the space extremely dynamic. CIO India is here with a regularly updated list of the latest CIO movements across the country. Write to us if you have news…
DetailsThe need for API management platforms has escalated over the past decade. Leveraging the power of sharing information, much of the data swapping on the internet nowadays happens automatically through APIs, making the once obscure way for developers to organize their software a vital corporate tool for organizing any business dependent on data. A good…
DetailsPaul Fleming, strategic director of resources at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, topped the 2021 CIO UK 100 after an incredible year in which he led the council’s digital response to the COVID-19 pandemic, pioneered a contact tracing system which became a blueprint for the UK and drove significant advances in team culture, diversity and…
DetailsWe live in a changed world. Advances in technology that were supposed to take years happened in months. Along the way, assumptions and legacy thinking gave way to urgency and a can-do .. no, must-do attitude. But one person’s chaos is another person’s opportunity. Cyber attackers have taken advantage of the disruption, scaling up their…
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By Prashant Gupta, Christophe Boyer, and Arun Sivadas Global enterprises pivot to the cloud to address shifts in business and technology. This shift has been accelerated by disruption brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. Enterprises operating SAP systems need to adopt a holistic migration approach for SAP S/4HANA since technical support for SAP ERP Central…
DetailsToday’s retailers are competing in the age of an omnichannel world. The share of total retail sales through digital channels more than doubled during Covid-19 and fulfilment options diversified as well. On the flipside, retail organisations need to learn to adapt in a world in which supply chains are constrained, where 94% of Fortune 1000…
DetailsCross-functional teams that blend IT and business professionals are nothing new, but now they have become almost a mandate. At Sun Life, such teams are referred to as “agile teams,’’ and CIO Laura Money believes they are “much more productive and can make things happen faster.” Not only that, but because these teams include consumers…
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