There’s no better type of job security than indispensability. Once an IT leader is regarded as essential by his or her employer, recognition rises, colleagues begin listening, project doors swing open, and salaries and benefits skyrocket. Achieving indispensability isn’t as challenging as it may sound. It can be easily acquired by embracing several common traits…
Making the leap from CTO to CEO and why NZ needs more data-driven innovation. Watch the episode In this episode of CIO Leadership Live New Zealand, Qrious’ Stephen Ponsford joins Cathy O’Sullivan, Editor for CIO New Zealand, to discuss data-driven innovation. Read More from This Article: Qrious boss Stephen Ponsford on why more CIOs…
Now that many organizations are welcoming some employees back to the office, “hybrid work” is officially upon us. But companies are still feeling their way around this dynamic landscape, and figuring out just how technology and people skills can work together to safely maintain productivity and employee well-being. According to a group of IDG/Foundry tech…
Où les données voyagent-elles sur internet ? Voilà une question que devrait se poser toute entreprise soucieuse de savoir dans quel pays pourraient aboutir des informations privées. Où transitent et sont stockées les informations est un problème lié au concept de souveraineté des données — qui suppose que ces dernières soient régies par les lois…
Keeping watch on where data travels over the internet is relevant to any business that cares what country might have access to its private information. Exactly where data moves and is stored is tied to the concept of data sovereignty, the idea that data is governed by the laws of the country where it’s located.…
Much has been made of the perilous future CIOs whose organizations rely on mainframes may soon have to navigate, but the reality of mainframe infrastructure’s long-term outlook is a little more nuanced than that, as two recent news announcements attest. Fujitsu recently divulged it will end sales of its mainframes by April 2031, discontinuing support…
When Dr. Curtis Carver, Ph.D., took over as CIO at University of Alabama-Birmingham in 2015, he confronted a “computer science museum,” as he calls it — instances of every operating system, storage device, and application on the market for the past 30 years. Carver’s first priority then was to clean up the outdated mess and…
IT gets lifecycle management wrong a lot. Search for a definition of lifecycle management and you’ll find something along the lines of: A strategic approach to managing the life cycle of an application or platform from conception to end of life — from provisioning, through operations, to retirement. Under this definition lifecycle management doesn’t seem…
It’s no secret that large-scale upheavals in the global aviation industry, including the catastrophic impact of the pandemic, have sent airline companies reeling over the past few years. Despite the worldwide chaos, UAE national airline Etihad has managed to generate productivity gains and cost savings from insights using data science. Based in Abu Dhabi and…
At the beginning of each year, technology industry leaders prognosticate about incredible things that new and emerging technologies are on the cusp of accomplishing. The reason for this forward-looking optimism is simple: The accelerating pace of innovation in the past 20 years has given us a constant stream of life-changing technologies that are always better,…