When a company properly prepares for successful cloud negotiations, beyond ensuring they have the proper pricing and they don’t leave any dollars on the table, they need to make sure all the terms and conditions they need to ask for from their cloud vendors are pushed through and make their way into the contract. Based…
Mental health is a critical component of every employee’s wellbeing and should be a top priority in all workplaces. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, 51% of workers have reported an increase in mental health symptoms at work, with 75% of 18- to 24-year-olds reporting one or more mental health symptom. Overall, anxiety levels…
John T. Marcante, Global CIO at Vanguard, joins Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, which is jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They will discuss new ways of working, hiring strategies and more. This episode is sponsored by Cisco. Discover more at https://newsroom.cisco.com/. To read this article in full, please…
Artificial intelligence was once a magical concept, the stuff of science fiction. Now, after decades of research and commercialization, it’s just another foundational tool to keep the enterprise stack running. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of DevOps, a data-rich, back-office practice that presents a perfect sandbox for exploring the power of…
Global printer and imaging products manufacturer, Lexmark International, generates a lot of data. Its Lexmark Managed Print Services alone consists of more than a million printers and multifunction devices that generate more than a terabyte of data per week. Lexmark has more than six million additional devices in the wild, and customers of those devices…
Just as a happy and motivated IT team tends to be efficient, innovative, and highly productive, a toxic staff is destined to bicker, miss goals, and experience the sort of disruption that has nothing to do with positive transformation. Toxic team behavior is an issue nearly all IT leaders will encounter at some point during…
What is IT asset management? IT asset management (ITAM) comprises practices and strategies for overseeing, managing, and optimizing company-owned IT systems, hardware, processes, and data. As part of an ITAM strategy, IT departments implement, track, and maintain IT assets, and assess whether those IT assets require optimization, can be replaced with a less expensive option,…
Employing more than 450,000 people in 25 countries, Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) operates 21,000 stores in several countries. While resilience is critical to any retail operation, it took on new meaning for WBA during the pandemic so the company could provide critical services to customers across access to prescription fulfillment and Covid-19 vaccinations. Join us…
Seventy-five percent of IoT projects are not fully successful due to a number of factors, including a mismatch in preparedness and the targeted time to market (TTM). As per Beecham Research, IoT projects deserve a more mature strategic roadmap to fill the gaps at various stages of their development life cycle. Although new entrants in…
When it comes to skills, the secret to future-proofing any IT career is diversification. In a recent Deloitte survey, a majority of CIOs said that one-third of their staff’s current skill sets will not be relevant in the next three years. In fact, 68% of executives surveyed by Deloitte said their organization’s skills gap is…