Best Practices in Information Governance Enforcement
Technology is a necessary piece in an information governance program, but you also need to employ best practices that will help with enforcement. Most large companies today have implemented an…
5 Ways To Create A Marvellously Competitive Strategy
As we all know, your business’ long-term goals and mission are always linked to certain assumptions about the future and market trends. And over time, every strategy and assumption becomes obsolete. Hence,…
City CIOs debate the merits of the IoT-powered smart city platform
World’s largest smart city platform The platform San Diego will deploy this year uses Current, an energy savings company that describes itself as a “first-of-its kind startup within the walls…
Innovation, Digital Transformation and Security
Digital mutation and creation are forcing changes to organizations’ cyber-security strategies, according to new research. Respondents to a consult also indicated that financial and patron information, code reputation, egghead skill…
Inside the Rivalry: IBM vs Google
In the PC era, the big rivalry was between Microsoft and Apple. Apple’s products were considered to be better, but Microsoft’s ability to leverage its operating system across a number…
Wholesaler Advances Business With Data Analytics
CIOs rarely focus on supply chains, but the IT experts at HD Smith are key players in the wholesaler’s supply-chain-first effort. Over the past few years, IT has powered…
3 Keys to Developing a Sustainable Supply Chain
If you want your business to have long-term success, you have to create sustainable supply chains. It’s necessary in today’s world, where climate change, environmental disruptions and human rights issues are…
College Automates IT Management
Managing IT systems and help desks is an increasingly challenging proposition. The complexity of systems—and ensuring that everything works correctly on a 24×7 basis—is overwhelming. What’s more, there’s a need…
Is Amazon’s Growth Running A Little Out Of Control?
AWS operations explains that it was tougher to restart its S3 index system this time than the last time they tried to restart it. The Feb. 28 outage of Amazon’s…
10 New Make-or-Break Priorities for the CIO
As the move toward digital innovation continues, CIOs are increasingly challenged from all angles and with new responsibilities and new technologies. Most CIOs are staking their careers on…
8 Reasons Giving Your Employees a Raise Will Hurt Your Business
Employees expect the occasional pay raise. It’s a way to recognize and reward them for all of their hard work and can reduce employee turnover. At the same time, giving…
5 Areas to Automate to Drastically Increase Your Business Productivity
Every business faces fierce competition in terms of sales, efficiency and effectiveness. That’s why Automation is necessary for your business to survive. The reason: There is so much to do in…
Legacy Modernization: Look to the Cloud and Open Systems
If you are thinking about moving applications off a mainframe and over to open systems and the cloud, consider these guidelines to prioritize what to move and what to…
Here’s One Thing Every Business Can Learn From The Technology Industry
The idea of a communal society has always been suspect. From the nihilism of the nineteenth century Fourierists to the wide-eyed optimism of the hippie communes of the 1960s, they…
Workplace Revolution: Key Trends Changing How Work Is Getting Done in 2017
Whether the goal is to create transparency, improve accuracy or simply obtain data to make faster decisions, organizations today are rethinking the way work gets done. Now that we’re well into the…
This 5-Step Method Will Tell You If Your Product Solves A Real Human Need
Design has quickly evolved from an aesthetic choice to becoming a revolutionary way to differentiate companies. Design thinking is now a proven approach to solving problems and producing innovations with…
How Business Owners Can Maintain Profitability With Rising Labor Costs
At the start of 2017, the minimum wage increased in 19 states across the country, and two more states plus the District of Columbia are scheduled to see wage hikes…
Take Advantage of Marketplace Cultural Changes to Grow Your Business
The following excerpt is from Glenn Llopis’s book The Innovation Mentality. Recognizing the distinction between your different target audiences and what makes them special is what you need to understand to…
Innovation Metrics in Outcome-Based Culture
One of the key objectives of the corporate innovation function is to build and manage the innovation funnel of ideas that will eventually become Horizon 2 Horizon 3 products.…
B2B processes get smarter in the cloud
AI wars In the B2B processes arena, last year was very much the “year of the smart cloud.” From Microsoft Azure Cortana Intelligence Suite to Salesforce Einstein to IBM’s Watson…