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Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business Staff Management

Smart contracts still miles away from living up to their name

Smart contracts seemingly create automatically enforceable agreements but the reality is this blockchain technology still has a long way to go.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

E-commerce Software Financial Services Industry Internet

Redefine the future of your organization with a competency framework

Long before RACIs add value to organizational roles, skills and behaviors need to reflect the desired organizational state. Thereu2019s a framework for that.

By Peter B. Nichol

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

The best ERP systems: 10 enterprise resource planning tools compared

Picking a new enterprise resource planning system u2013 or renewing with your existing ERP vendor u2013 is a complex evaluation. To help you make the call, download this report based on 408 reviews submitted by ERP users.

By Dan Muse

ERP Systems Enterprise Applications

Why retail is the new data industry

Retailers can now take advantage of the massive product and inventory databases they already have, but in new ways that enhance the consumer experience and improve business results.

By Gladys Kong

Analytics Big Data Retail Industry

Do you have a compelling innovation story?

Three keys to achieving a successful transition to innovation.

By Braden Kelley

Digital Transformation Innovation Technology Industry

Policy challenges of artificial intelligence

Developments in artificial intelligence are a driver of new products and services that will improve the richness, variety and comfort of our lives, speed up productivity growth, and make consequential decisions fairer and more accurate.

By Mark MacCarthy

Government Regulation Technology Industry

Unveiling the ERP Pain-O-Meter

The experiences as an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software user and as an ERP software vendor have led to the formation of the ERP Pain-O-Meter.

By Jay Deakins

ERP Systems Enterprise Applications IT Leadership

7 things you should never, ever say when giving a presentation

Common expressions that instantly undermine all your efforts.

By Theodore May

IT Leadership IT Skills Technology Industry

Funko’s cloud-first future goes all in on CIO’s Microsoft past

The CIO of Funko, a pop culture company that makes collectible toys, is banking on Microsoft software to provide the foundation for digital services.

By Clint Boulton

Cloud Computing Digital Transformation IT Strategy

5 signs it’s time to upgrade your ERP system

Debating whether you should upgrade your ERP system? Here's a list of the key signs that your business is being held back by its current version.

By Ryan Warnock

ERP Systems Enterprise Applications Technology Industry

The 3 principles of modernization success

How GE Healthcare is dealing with modernization will be instructive as you chart your own modernization path forward.

By Charles Araujo

Digital Transformation Healthcare Industry IT Leadership

The truth about SaaS vendor management

CIOs discuss the maturity of their SaaS vendor management.

By Myles F. Suer

CIO IT Leadership SaaS

Board and management responsibilities for information security

Only 37% of corporate directors are confident with their organizationsu2019 cyber security plans. What responsibilities do corporate and public-sector boards have for oversight of cyber and information security and what resources are available for th

By Jeffrey Morgan

Data and Information Security IT Governance IT Leadership

How VR can improve anti-harassment training

Startup Vantage Point uses VR to improve anti-harassment training, allowing participants to experience a situation in which they're a bystander and practice responses.

By Sharon Florentine

Enterprise Applications IT Skills Startups

5 ways your recruiting process is broken and how to fix it

Effective recruiting practices are vital in a tight job market. Here's how to improve your hiring process and ensure you're attracting the right talent for the job.

By Terena Bell

Feb 9, 2018 7 mins

Careers IT Leadership Staff Management

7 reasons CIOs quit (or lose their jobs)

From false promises to role changes, CIOs exit when their ability to execute their strategy or grow their careers hits a road block u2014 a trend that may be accelerating, thanks to the rise of digital transformations.

By Clint Boulton

Feb 8, 2018 7 mins

CIO Careers Staff Management

Tony Robbins extracts the 3 secrets of digital success from the founders of Skype, Venmo and Airbnb

Although each digital pioneer had unique stories to tell, powerful themes were common to all of them.

By Howard Tiersky

Digital Transformation IT Leadership Technology Industry

IT entrepreneurship at MRE: The tough road from support to sales

How MRE Consulting's IT staff "jumped across the firewall," embraced entrepreneurship, and brought an internal tool to market.

By Brendan McGowan

Analytics CIO Marketing

User experience (UX) frameworks can drive productivity and product quality

Advice on implementing a UX framework within an IT organization.

By Eric Bloom

Graphic Design Tools Technology Industry

Does your IT roadmap include martech?

As a technology leader, if you donu2019t know the marketing team down the hall, now is the time to introduce yourself.

By P. Tracy Currie

IT Leadership Marketing

Fintech and credit cards: where are we heading?

Digital tools are expected in all fields, and certainly in banking and financial services.

By Philip Kushmaro

Financial Services Industry Technology Industry

The conveyor belt: the missing piece of your cloud puzzle

Why businesses must learn from manufacturing to stay competitive in the digital economy.

By Andrew Filev

Digital Transformation IT Leadership IT Strategy

Removing silos: When non-IT leaders join IT

To help Lexmark's IT department better understand the business, CIO Brad Clay added non-IT people to the team. To ensure their success, he created a formal training program.

By Martha Heller

CIO Relationship Building Staff Management

The future of work: How to thrive through IT’s latest revolution

A seismic shakeup of the workplace is under way, as emerging technologies and employment dynamics are reshaping workforces and organizations alike. Hereu2019s how to keep ahead of the changes.

By Minda Zetlin

IT Jobs IT Strategy Staff Management

What is quantum computing? A machine learning supercharger businesses can’t ignore

Quantum computing is gradually gaining ground as an enterprise solution for machine learning that could boost AI to new heights. Here's what it is, how it works and who is already testing its potential for business.

By Clint Boulton

Feb 7, 2018 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Computers and Peripherals Emerging Technology

15 risk areas for software development outsourcing

Watch for warning signs when your company is looking to successfully implement software outsourcing.

By Steve Mezak

IT Strategy Outsourcing Software Development

Companies embrace blockchain to modernize loyalty programs

Unlike the current standards for awarding miles and points to loyal customers that come with numerous restrictions attached, new blockchain-based services are demonstrating that the capability for building a model that serves all participants across

By Ralph Tkatchuk

E-commerce Software Retail Industry Technology Industry

Why CIOs must be VOCAL to drive digital transformation

With CIOs leading one of the most complex transformations of all time, how do you ensure digital transformation success?

By Vik Kasturi

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Wake-up call: today’s B2B software buyer has completely changed

To win tomorrow, itu2019s time for software companies to recognize how todayu2019s buyers have transformed.

By Cate Gutowski

Digital Transformation Technology Industry

Why enterprise architecture maximizes organizational value

Increase agility, reduce solution delivery time and create a shared vision using the patterns of enterprise architecture.

By Peter B. Nichol

CIO Enterprise Architecture Technology Industry

Don’t just push data – push an action

By pushing an action along with data, the information makes more of an impact on the people who can act upon it. And that drives productivity.

By David Levin

Data Visualization IT Leadership

Service management – more than just IT

The list of tasks that service management can address in every department in the enterprise is almost endless.

By Steve Stover

ITSM Technology Industry

Unnecessary and counterproductive regulations don’t make good competition policy

With increased criticism of tech companiesu2019 size and power, it is important to note that unnecessary regulations would be counterproductive, causing more harm than good.

By Mark MacCarthy

IT Leadership Regulation Technology Industry

Making technology more human

Each new year brings a clamoring to understand the next digital innovation, but it seems 2018 will be the year of the human.

By Blair Shiver

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation Technology Industry

CRM vs. ERP: What’s the difference and which do you need?

Both CRM and ERP systems handle contacts, companies, quotes, orders and forecastsu2026 and they may handle line-item configuration, bundles, delivery schedules and invoices. Where does one start and the other stop? Behold this guide for the bewildere

By David Taber

CRM Systems ERP Systems Enterprise Applications

Winning the war for AI talent

With tech giants soaking up all available talent, enterprises are scrambling to staff up for an AI-fueled future by partnering with universities and grooming talent from within.

By Esther Shein

Feb 6, 2018 12 mins

Analytics IT Strategy Staff Management

Why tech careers need a makeover, fast!

If weu2019re ever going to correct the confounding imbalance between tech jobs and tech job-seekers, we have to up our game.

By Steve Cooper

Careers IT Jobs IT Skills

The strategy journey

An interview with Julie Choo, lead author of the book u201cThe Strategy Journey: Transform your Business in the Digital Age,u201d to be published later this year.

By Daniel Lambert

Digital Transformation IT Strategy Technology Industry

Amazon in healthcare: disruption in motion or a nothing-burger?

Amazonu2019s announcement needs to be seen in the light of fundamental changes underway in how health care is purchased and delivered and the one thing it may have going for itself.

By Paddy Padmanabhan

Digital Transformation Healthcare Industry Technology Industry

Applying the 3-box solution to technology transformation

A framework for managing a businessu2019s responsibility to create an innovation strategy.

By Mark Edmead

Digital Transformation IT Leadership IT Strategy

5 infamous startup failures in 2017: pick your lessons

In reality, startups rise and startups fail. Like other business ventures, there are many factors to consider in starting a company and making it thrive.

By Irfan Jafrey

Startups Technology Industry

AI is hungry for fresh data…so why are you starving it?

Companies that fail to gather, secure, and deliver data to those that need are putting their business at risk.

By Arik Hesseldahl

Artificial Intelligence IT Strategy Technology Industry

A product management manifesto – what it is and why you need it, part 2

The 10-point product manager manifesto that will help you beat your competition to market and the next innovation.

By Patrick Tickle

Feb 5, 2018 7 mins

BPM Systems IT Leadership

8 early warning signs of IT disaster

The same systems keep breaking, shadow IT is on the rise, ideas are no longer flowing u2014 sure misfortune awaits those who ignore early indications of impending IT doom.

By Dan Tynan

CIO IT Leadership IT Strategy

Information governance in the federal government

Inexcusable mismanagement of classified data, secret e-mail accounts and wanton destruction of public information demonstrate that there isnu2019t any information governance happening in the federal government.

By Jeffrey Morgan

Government Government IT Technology Industry

Implement an agile monetization ecosystem or else

Digital transformation means building your enterprise's agile monetization ecosystem.

By Nathan Shinn

CRM Systems Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Mergers and acquisitions, digital transformation, the cloud and how to manage it all

Managing digital transformation, the cloud, and all the changes and expenses of the modern global economy.

By Craig Riegelhaupt

Digital Transformation IT Leadership Mergers and Acquisitions

‘You’re fired!’ – one CIO’s strategy for greater effectiveness

A very novel way for CIOs to increase their own effectiveness.

By David Cotgreave