These Five Behaviors Can Create an Innovation Culture
Many companies want to establish a culture of innovation, one that will encourage employees to take risks that lead to breakthrough products. But how exactly to build this type of…
Putting Your (Charitable) Money Where Your Market Is
Bottom Line: Manufacturing and service firms differ in their approach to domestic and international philanthropy. In recent years, the spotlight has shined brightly on issues surrounding corporate social responsibility (CSR),…
The Way the Media Industry Works
Early in The Wright Stuff: From NBC to Autism Speaks, by Bob Wright (with Diane Mermigas; RosettaBooks, 2016), the author discusses NBC’s 2003 US$16 billion megadeal with Vivendi Universal’s entertainment…
Execs and Their Role in Digital Transformations
At this point, everybody’s talking about the need for a digital transformation. And, fortunately, words are translating to action, according to a recent survey from Pegasystems and The Economist Intelligence…
IoT: Food service industry meets technology in Arby’s deployment
The continuing expansion of the industrial internet has found a new home for IoT: food service companies. Arby’s Restaurant Group Inc. provides one example of how IoT, food safety and…
What Consumers Most Want from Health Insurers’ Technology
In the US$3 trillion United States healthcare industry, choice has swung decisively toward consumers in recent years. Empowered by technology, encouraged by employers, and incentivized by new regulations and products,…
Apple’s Project Titan Focuses On Autonomous Driving Software
Apple is bulking up its and sharpening the focus of its Project Titan team with the hiring of Dan Dodge, the former head of BlackBerry’s automotive software division. (Click image…
Microsoft Cutting 2,850 More Jobs In Smartphone Business, Sales
The Redmond giant reveals in a regulatory filing that it’s planning another round of job cuts in addition to the 1,850 cuts it announced in May. (Click image for larger…
Are CIOs Ready to Mine a API Gold Rush?
By Aaron Sandeen, Phil Manfredi and Kiran Chinnagangannagari, Zuggand co-founders APIs are a new bullion rush. And usually like a California bullion rush 166 years ago, there will be winners…
How An Agricultural Data Firm Puts The Cloud To Work
Integration — connecting computing services to one another — used to mean bringing in expensive consultants, investing in custom programming, and dealing with long timelines. But modern cloud-based options could…
Amazon’s Second Quarter Puts Competition In Rearview Mirror
Amazon’s cloud unit is disappointing competitors if they hoped it would slow down. In announcing its second quarter results, the company reported that its Amazon Web Services division grew at…
Oracle NetSuite Buy Creates Serious Cloud Contender
Oracle announced plans to buy cloud-based ERP provider NetSuite, a company backed by Oracle CTO Larry Ellison. But how will the two companies resolve the overlap in functionality between their…
When App Performance Draws Constant Complaints
IT departments are feeling increasingly overwhelmed due to ever-expanding corporate networks along with near-insatiable user demand for newer and better apps, according to a recent survey from InfoVista. The accompanying…
New EU-U.S. data transfer agreement debuts to high hopes, pot shots
Dissent from Europe On paper, the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield’s protections are stronger than Safe Harbor’s. There are clear safeguards on how U.S. government and law enforcement agencies can access European…
How does SAP sizing affect SAP HANA pricing?
On premises When sizing a HANA system for HANA on premises, companies will want to set up a system that is more than 100% larger than the sizing estimates recommended…
How to Balance Stakeholders’ Needs With Realities
Caught in a digital revolution, a stakeholders direct some-more from record than ever before. Often, it creates a stakeholders feel overwhelmed, and (at best) they design IT to figure it…
How Better Soft Skills Equal Better Pay
A poignant share of CIOs contend today’s tech pros need to urge on their communications interactions and other soothing skills, according to a new consult from Robert Half Technology. After…
Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse Update Storms Market
Snowflake Computing has added automated administration features to its built-for-the-cloud modern data warehouse that enables analysis of multiple data types, big and small. (Click image for larger view and slideshow.)…
10 Hiring Challenges Confronting CIOs
CIOs are seeing the highest level of skills shortage since the Great Recession of 2008-09 and other hiring issues, according to the 2016 Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey. Find out where…
Mailing It In
Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service by Devin Leonard, Grove Press, 2016 A massive, slow-moving government agency runs up growing deficits. The private sector,…