Tips for Getting Your Company Started with Analytics
If you’re just getting started with analytics, you can avoid a lot of headaches by learning from the experts. We’ve tapped a few who have great practical advice. In today’s…
A Common-Sense Approach to IoT
An Internet of Things strategy calls for small steps before you pick up the pace to stay ahead of competitors. The relative immaturity of IoT drives a conversation focused more…
Cloud Power, Fear of Lock-in Grows Among IT Managers
Mary Meeker’s Global Internet Trends: As the digital age expands, so does fear of technology lock-in by cloud vendors. Computer gaming is having a big impact on how well humans…
System Outages Can Stall Digital Transformations
The majority of organizations experience unplanned IT systems outages, which can stall their digital transformation efforts, according to a recent survey from Veeam Software. The resulting report, “Why Organizations Still…
Workplace changes called for to place more women in IT jobs
Wanted: Nontraditional candidates At Schneider Electric, 40% of IT executives reporting to the CIO are women, said Amy deCastro, vice president of human resources for IT at the France-based global…
Forging your digital path: Don’t discount the power of slogans
Aflac ups ante on paying claims, with IT’s help Julia Davis, CIO at Aflac and an MIT Sloan CIO leadership finalist, also talked about how improving customer service — within…
CASBs: Why the market and uses are growing
Policy enforcement CASBs give organizations a way to extend and enforce their activity and data security policies to the cloud, said John Krull, CIO at Seattle Public Schools. Organizations that…
Experian’s Tom King tackles role of CISO from the ground up
Tom King, the chief information security officer at Experian’s U.S. headquarters in Costa Mesa, Calif., has previously held the role of CISO at Barclays, Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers and Credit…
Report: Threat hunting is more SOC than intel
Threat hunting is found mainly at larger enterprises in a handful of industries. A 2017 threat hunting survey of 306 IT and security professionals by the SANS Institute indicated that,…
Wendy Nather: ‘We’re on a trajectory for profound change’
Wendy Nather jokingly describes herself as a recovering CISO. She started out as a director of IT security in financial services and CISO in state government. She then turned her…
How Future-Proof Are You?
The qualities that separate good performers from those who are future-proof — high-impact leaders who have long, successful careers — are not always evident. Although strong performers demonstrate some common…
Why Don’t We Anticipate Hockey Sticks?
No one ever sees the hockey stick coming. Just as burly ice-skating Canadians and Scandinavians can miss that curved piece of wood used to cross-check one another at high speeds,…
The Nine Traits of Highly Effective CMOs
Blame it on the pace of change: A new study cited by the Wall Street Journal shows the average tenure of a chief marketing officer of a major brand is…
Public Sector Innovation: moving innovation from the margins to mainstream
by Benjamin Kumpf Creating a New Norm “We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we make progress.” In the quote…
Why Great Innovators Do One Thing Differently
by Greg Satell I spent most of my adult life working in some of the world’s most challenging business environments. For 15 years, I managed and consulted for media businesses…
Talking Innovation and Digital Transformation on DisrupTV
by Innovation Excellence DisrupTV co-hosts R “Ray” Wang of Constellation Research and Vala Afshar of Salesforce.com in Episode 63 recently sat down with Innovation Excellence co-Founder Braden Kelley to chat…
What Makes a Good Innovation Leader?
by Mick Simonelli Editor’s note: Following are the results of original research that Mick Simonelli and Celent conducted. They asked current innovation leaders what criteria makes for good innovation leaders. Here are the highlights…
How Greg Satell Learned to Navigate a New Era of Innovation
by Greg Satell Greg Satell’s new book is Mapping Innovation: A playbook for navigating a disruptive age. In anticipation of the finished book, I sat down with Greg who has…
Cybercrime Is Going To Be Costing Companies $6 trillion by 2021
Companies have no option but to be prepared to respond to cybercrime threats as the annual cost of cyber attacks is set to escalate to an estimated $6 trillion by…
This Event Management Platform Is Fuelling Some Of The Biggest Events In MENA
The 2011 Egyptian revolution was a catalyst for many a thing in the Arab world. It brought about the thrust in the Arab Spring, along with protests in Tunisia. And…