Board directors like Jean Holley can be a CIO’s best friend or worst nightmare. A former CIO herself, Holley always reaches out to the CIO before board meetings to offer her advice on how to handle inevitable questions. “It’s amazing how many times they don’t take me up on it,” Holley says. These CIOs, especially…
For the past forty years CIOs have labored to retrofit, rearchitect, and ultimately replace underfunded and underappreciated legacy infrastructures in hopes of delivering the full benefits associated with periodically occurring waves of transformative emerging technologies. Debate now rages in IT and digital communities regarding what will be the seismic technological shift of the 2020s. Some…
How has banking evolved during the rapid digitisation of recent years? The answer lies in changing consumer habits, tech-driven disruptions, and cultural shifts—the very trends that are setting the stage for the industry’s future. Millions of customers are going online, while shaping their expectations for digital experiences. They now seek personalised and seamless online experiences,…
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Vice President for ICT Nicholas Fourie on building T-shaped teams that work cross functionally, the importance of sustainability in any transformation project, and how the company is growing its talent pipeline through internal promotions, graduate programmes and leadership development for its indigenious team members. Watch the episode: #id630b915a1587b .jw-wrapper::before { content:…
There may be no more widely anticipated technology than the delivery of 5G wireless networking to superpower enterprises and consumers. The breakthrough throughput and speed of 5G is expected to revolutionize mobile and edge computing and open the door to the next generation of analytics, automation, AI, and internet of things (IoT) applications, IT industry…
Having many hundreds of interconnected devices in what we now call edge environments is nothing new. In manufacturing and engineering facilities, PLCs (programmable logic controllers) have been attenuating and monitoring industrial devices since the invention of the microchip. What’s different now is that the concept of what will comprise a network node is changing rapidly,…
The adoption of hybrid cloud accelerated the development of new business models, experiences, and efficiencies across all industries. Indeed, the public cloud underpinned the first wave of digital transformation in the last decade, providing developers and IT operations with a differentiated cloud experience—as well as the speed and agility to build, learn, and scale new…
Quickly rolling out and extending solutions to allow employees to work remotely has been one of the biggest operational changes in recent history. But there’s one catch we often hear regarding productivity, and that is inconsistent Internet connections that downgrade the experience, particularly while conducting conference calls or sharing material from a home office. This…
As organizations shape the contours of a secure edge-to-cloud strategy, it’s important to align with partners that prioritize both cybersecurity and risk management, with clear boundaries of shared responsibility. The security-shared-responsibility model is essential when choosing as-a-service offerings, which make a third-party partner responsible for some element of the enterprise operational model. Outsourcing IT operations…
Digital geopolitics, emanating from cross-country politics, is rapidly becoming an issue that multinational CIOs must step up to lead, according to Gartner. Gartner predicts that by 2026 about 70% of multinational enterprises will adjust the countries in which they operate by hedging to reduce their geopolitical exposure. The research firm defines geopolitics as the geographic…