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January 16, 2020

Digital transformation. It’s a big buzz phrase right now, and rightly so. Gartner has found that nearly 90% of surveyed senior business leaders believe that digitization is a do-or-die undertaking for many companies. John Chambers, Cisco’s CEO for 20 years, […]

January 16, 2020

Earlier this year, I made a passing comment on LinkedIn that I had “finally figured out what it means to be a leader, not just a manager.” Afterwards, people followed up asking, “How do you become a leader and what […]

January 15, 2020

Employees are demanding that employers enable flexible workstyles. Apps are moving to the cloud. A company’s device and application mix are increasingly heterogeneous. All of these factors are breaking down the enterprise security perimeter, rendering traditional security approaches obsolete, and […]

January 14, 2020

Even in the high-touch field of healthcare, where human interactions remain core to the delivery of most services, IT exec Bill Fandrich feels the pressure to bring technology-fueled transformations to bear. Fandrich, senior vice president and CIO of Blue Cross […]

January 13, 2020

In many ways, the enterprise architect is one of the most pivotal IT positions at an organization, and especially for a company that is embarking on a digital transformation. Enterprise architects are involved in conducting analysis, design, planning and implementation […]

January 13, 2020

In software design and development, the key to moving faster is a collection of operating principles and practices known as CI/CD, which combines continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). CI/CD allows software development teams to deliver code changes more […]

January 9, 2020

Successful digital transformation isn’t just about leveraging new technology. It’s about meeting real business goals by pursuing innovative, agile, and sometimes disruptive operational models enabled by new technology. A key part of modernizing your company’s technology involves freeing up your […]

January 9, 2020

Few disruptive technologies have been accompanied by as much hype as analytics. For nearly a decade, data analytics and business intelligence (BI) have been top priorities for IT investment, and while many analytics investments have driven real value, it isn’t […]

January 8, 2020

Lack of skills in artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the biggest reasons holding business leaders back from deploying the technology, a new report has found. A roadblock to scale: the global sprint towards AI, a study of 4,514 senior […]

January 7, 2020

Why should the business and IT collaborate? Really, the question is why wouldn’t they collaborate? More and more, business units like sales, marketing, service, and operations have direct interactions with customers that are enabled or empowered by technology — technology […]