According to the State of the CIO, 2024 research “79% of heads of IT say that CIOs have a strong educational partnership with the CEO/board of directors “and “88% of CIOs say that their role is becoming more digital and innovation focused”. I moderated roundtables across Canada from Vancouver to Ottawa in the fall of…
The first leader of the fledgling Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office [CDAO] in the US Department of Defense is leaving his post, but the Pentagon already has a successor lined up. Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Craig Martell, the first head of the CDAO, was hired by the Pentagon in April 2022, just…
Too many enterprise businesses have been held back by their commerce technology. Increasing tech debt, disparate sales channels, costly innovation to improve customer experiences, and worst of all: a high total cost of ownership (TCO). It’s time to put an end to that era. Modern enterprises require a cost-effective, high-converting platform to outpace competitors. Shopify…
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Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate. Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub, and ServiceNow are but a few of the…
The UK government could improve productivity through widespread and systematized uptake of generative AI, but only if it takes steps to build its expertise and come up with an adoption strategy, a new study has found. Generative AI offers the possibility of “large-scale productivity gains” for UK government workers, but the government lacks an overarching…
Gone are the days of the rigid 9-5. Employees have been working flexibly for years now, and the stats show that they love it. To support a consistent experience between work and home, many employers are using Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) technology, but many companies could achieve even more by unlocking its full potential. While some CEOs…
Does it make sense for an IT leader to seek an MBA? Ben King, head of mobile app development firm Aviato Consulting, is convinced that it can provide a major career boost. He credits his decision to earn an MBA with transforming his career. While an individual contributor at Google, King spent several years working…
For IT leaders seeking a new position, condensing an extensive and storied employment history into a short, readable resume can be daunting. But by embracing modernized approaches to resume presentation, and eliminating outdated and redundant content from your CV, a streamlined resume that stands out can be readily achieved. To give an example of this…