When you look at your IT team and the people who make up your C-suite, do you see a diverse mix of men, women, and people of color? If so, you are an exception. In most technology companies — and especially in leadership meetings at those companies — women are sparsely represented and women of…
Anne Margulies has managed some massive budgets in her career, both in her current role as CIO of Harvard University and as CIO for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts before that. Yet, as she prepared to join her first public company board in 2018, this CIO Hall of Fame member also signed up for a six-week,…
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Microsoft kicked off its 2021 Ignite customer conference on March 2 with some stunning demonstrations of Mesh, a mixed-reality working environment like Second Life on steroids, accessible to anyone with a $3,500 Hololens 2 headset and high-speed internet. Out of the spotlight, though, there were other innovations — in Microsoft Azure, Teams, and Power Platform…
Companies are looking to grab any technology-driven advantage they can as they adapt to new ways of working, managing employees, and serving customers. They are making bigger moves toward the cloud, e-commerce, digital supply chains, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), data analytics, and other areas that can deliver efficiency and innovation. At the…
Several leading health systems got together recently to announce the formation of Truveta, an independent company that will pool patient medical records from the participating health systems and analyze them for insights to drive healthcare outcomes. The announcement highlighted the benefits of sharing de-identified data for driving research, new therapies, and improved health outcomes. In…
The promotion of longtime Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy to Amazon.com CEO this summer suits the company’s customers and partners just fine — for now. “We expect little change to the innovative technologies Amazon has continued to provide its AWS user base,” says Mark Bilger, CIO of One Call, a workman’s compensation service provider…
The technology industry can be daunting for women, who may struggle to stand out, let alone be heard, in a sector largely controlled by men. With more than 30 years working in the tech, Cuban-born Ivonne Valdes isn’t easily cowed, a virtue to which she credits her father. “My dad said that I could be…
Business intelligence (BI) platforms are evolving. By adding artificial intelligence and machine learning, companies are transforming data dashboards and business analytics into more comprehensive decision support platforms. This movement toward “decision intelligence” sees its sophisticated mix of tools increasingly embedded into enterprise workflows, when and where decision-makers need them most. “Decision intelligence is the ability…
The traditional role of IT is to develop and deliver solutions. “Execution” is at the top of the CIO required skills list. But with the advent of cloud services and more sophisticated analytics tools—and the increasing demand on IT for new capabilities—many CIOs are asking their business users to take over some delivery responsibilities. Satya…