Tag: IT

June 12, 2019

Digital transformation marks a radical rethinking of how an organization uses technology, people, and processes to fundamentally change business performance. It’s also a rethinking that’s gone mainstream pretty quickly. According to IDC, 40% of all technology spending will go toward […]

June 11, 2019

If today’s mantra for innovation is to celebrate failure as a catalyst for success, how do legacy enterprises fine-tuned to reduce failure become innovative organizations? A new book from Deloitte and MIT Sloan Management Review, The Technology Fallacy: How People […]

June 10, 2019

The need for speed is rapidly transforming IT. Tasked with moving as fast as — or even faster than — the business, IT has adopted a host of new strategies for delivering tech capabilities quickly. Central to this shift has […]

June 5, 2019

“A seat at the table.” This overused phrase comes up in almost every conversation about the role of the CIO in an organization’s leadership. IT leaders have been saying for years that they need to be included in strategic planning, […]

June 3, 2019

Tech leaders who’ve been in business for a while will recognize this scenario: A new hire who looks great on paper (or LinkedIn) gets a desk, an ID card and an attitude. Your promising new IT staffer is turning into […]

May 29, 2019

Several years ago, I reviewed ITIL Version 3.0. When I got to the continual improvement volume, I asked the team whether the message was about continuous or continual improvement. I was told that continual improvement was chosen because improvement wouldn’t […]

May 28, 2019

In the war between machines and mankind, the machines have gained the upper hand. It’s bad enough that computers can now beat us at chess, Jeopardy, and Go. Artificial intelligence-driven algorithms are now tackling jobs once considered the exclusive province […]

May 9, 2019

As organizations venture into the brave new world of artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise, the first stop in the journey is in many cases the organization’s own IT operations department. This trend is underscored in recent industry research. A […]

April 29, 2019

As Novant Health ramps up its digital health agenda, its IT organization might look a little foreign to the average CIO. Rather than the traditional structure that aligns IT practitioners to specific functional areas like human resources or supply chain, […]

April 29, 2019

Many strategic CIOs focus on developing their IT personnel to be more business savvy and provide opportunities to develop their skills through experiential learning. One of the challenges in hiring new personnel who are recent graduates of information systems / […]