Technology teams played the parts of corporate superheroes during the COVID-19 pandemic, accelerating digital strategies to ensure that their enterprises remained operational. IT leaders get the credit for the exceptional execution, but CIOs know that success is fleeting and stability is tenuous. In fact, 68% of 500 CIOs surveyed say their departments are not completely…
DetailsThe year 2020 is seared into CIOs’ collective memory as one of the most cataclysmic, consequential years this century. But while the pandemic helped drive digital transformation far beyond anyone’s expectations, make no mistake: This was not the perfect storm we’ve all envisioned. If anything, the unprecedented wave of data-driven deployments last year shined a…
DetailsIn this fourth episode of our 5-episode podcast, The C-level Strategic Guide for CIAM Investment, we will explore phase 3 on the CIAM Maturity Curve: Intelligent. To move from phase 2 (automated) to phase 3 (intelligent) involves a number of important considerations around security and personalization, says Swaroop Sham, Group Product Marketing Manager at Okta.…
DetailsOver the past 14 months, organizations have had to navigate the abrupt discontinuity caused by COVID-19 and the ensuing regulations. Today, sports fans are returning to arenas and students are back in schools, but most office workers are still on work-from-home orders. Returning to the workplace will constitute a new normal, but what will that…
DetailsEven as COVID restrictions begin to lift, IT teams may still get little reprieve from the breakneck pace they’ve maintained throughout the pandemic to orchestrate technical change. That’s because, most IT executives don’t believe the dust has fully settled — instead viewing IT’s next phase as being primed for innovation. “We think there’s still a…
DetailsUS corporate boards are increasingly turning attention to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. ESG is an organization-wide endeavor for those companies rising to the challenge, and CIOs won’t be left out. “I think the CIOs are the dark horse of ESG,” says Nicola Acutt, vice president of ESG at VMware. “No one’s paying attention…
DetailsSince the beginning of the year, there has been a significant uptick across health plans, healthcare providers, and analytics firms utilizing AI to change how healthcare is delivered and how patients can be more engaged in their care. AI applications in healthcare are all over the map today. Data from my firm’s digital health intelligence database,…
DetailsWe have already talked about what Execution Management Systems can do for you and why you should be paying attention to your execution capacity. Now we will dig into how you can get started with an Execution Management System by giving your people the necessary tools and mindset to start to truly unlock their execution…
DetailsThe leap to leadership is a big one — especially in IT. That’s because the transition from IT expert to IT leader requires a significant shift in skills and a new mindset about the role technology plays in the business. In becoming an IT leader, your technical knowledge still matters, but you’ll also need to…
DetailsIndustrial organizations are sitting on a decades-old, massive double-edged sword: their data. Over the years, industrial organizations from plants to refineries have adopted new technologies as they’ve become available: smart sensors, Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices, the cloud and Industrial AI … layered on top of legacy, plumbed-together on-premise technologies. This resulted in a…
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