Roles involving emerging technologies have accounted for an increasing percentage of all new hiring in IT in recent years. With this has come a raft of new titles aimed at cementing organizations’ interest in exploring the value these new technologies could bring to their businesses. The pandemic has added its own twist. For every new…
DetailsThe first half of 2021 saw some of the largest merger and acquisition (M&A) deals of the past five years in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector, according to PwC, although nothing quite rivaled AMD’s $35 billion bid last year for Xilinx, or Salesforce.com’s now-closed $27.7 billion acquisition of Slack. The number of deals this…
DetailsAs a prominent Bay Area California CIO, Ralph Loura has lost track of the number of tech startups that have asked him to join their fledgling boards of directors. “You have to be very selective, and also careful about your brand,” says Loura, who sticks largely to advisory board roles with several Silicon Valley startups.…
DetailsMarko Djakovic knew that getting a formal tech certification could help his career. He finished an AWS course and got the accompanying certification, but that was only going to be the first step. “I planned to pass more courses and become a cloud architect,” says Djakovic, who works as a digital project manager at Best…
DetailsGaming is not only about getting to the boss level or filling out the entire map in a digital sandbox — it’s also about how games can enhance or augment the way we live and engage with others. Those of us interested in game design want to know why and how people game and — perhaps…
DetailsAmong the biggest challenges IT leaders face right now is supporting shifting strategies around where the enterprise does its work. Prior to the pandemic, remote work was a facet of most organization’s workforce mixes — but hardly the universal business imperative it instantly became when COVID-19 hit. Now, workers are returning to offices, at least…
DetailsJim Swanson is EVP and enterprise chief information officer at Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest healthcare company. He leads approximately 5,000 IT professionals around the globe, but as he’ll tell you, technology isn’t just the domain of IT at Johnson & Johnson. Because technology plays a critical role in the company’s mission of transforming…
DetailsJP Saini, Chief Digital & Technology Officer at Sunbelt Rentals, joins Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, which is jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They will discuss omnichannel ecommerce, hybrid office strategies and more. To read this article in full, please click here Read More from This Article:…
DetailsCIO Paul Blowers describes the past 16 months at accounting firm Plante Moran as “a grand experiment” in getting work done. Throughout, Blowers has flexed, reconfigured, and stress-tested his mostly remote, 120-person IT team to determine how productivity, creativity, and culture would hold up through the pandemic. The experiment proved successful, and the company is…
DetailsCIOs have a significant role to play in helping enterprises report and reduce greenhouse gas emission — and it goes way beyond switching to energy-efficient cloud computing or turning off the office PCs at night. That’s the message coming out of recent customer events put on by software and IT services vendors including SAP, Salesforce,…
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