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• What is the SIAM model and why do CIOs need it?

  Multisourcing can boost IT and business agility, but the approach can also spiral out of control. The SIAM model aims to ensure delivery is seamless and strategic. Continue Reading

• How to use artificial intelligence for business benefit

  AI expert Josh Sutton lays out the three main ways that companies can use artificial intelligence systems for business advantage. Continue Reading

• Selling the value of cloud computing to the C-suite

  Selling the value of cloud computing to business leaders requires more than the usual bromides about cost savings and speed-to-market. Continue Reading

• Principles to guide your DevOps adoption

  Adopting DevOps doesn't simply mean taking up a few practices. It also requires embracing the attitude, culture and philosophy. Learn seven pointers for your journey. Continue Reading

• Three cloud roles CIOs can't ignore

  Gartner: To fully realize cloud benefits, CIOs need to fill three cloud roles -- one for forming strategy, one for implementing strategy and one for budgeting. Continue Reading

• Leadership in IT: Are you a teller or an asker?

  There are many types of leadership styles out there. Joseph Flahiff explains how focusing on asking questions instead of telling employees what to do creates business value.Continue Reading

• How to empower employees in the workplace: Don't

  Wait, what? Did Joseph Flahiff just say to stop trying to empower your employees? More in this CIO Minute video.Continue Reading

• Digital transformation strategy is common language at Rosetta Stone

  IT helps guide the language-learning company's digital transformation strategy, partnering with users and nudging them in the right direction.Continue Reading

• Social movements offer CIOs a model for sustaining innovation

  How to sustain innovation is a challenge for startups and large companies alike. Studying the ties that bind social and political movements could help.Continue Reading

• Transitioning to a DevOps environment? Don't make these four mistakes

  Weak project management skills, missed timelines, thin-skinned staff -- any one of these could torpedo your fledgling DevOps environment.Continue Reading

• Key to driving DevOps projects: Build up staff skills and buy talent

  DevOps projects are becoming the rule rather than the exception at companies undergoing digital transformation. Here's how CIOs can get a jump on building a DevOps environment.Continue Reading

• The most popular IT advice columns for CIOs from 2016

  CIOs wanted practical advice on how to achieve digital transformation. Emerging tech and how to be a better boss also got mind share. Here are our top IT advice columns of 2016.Continue Reading

• Rosetta Stone IT chief deciphers digital transformation, challenges

  A company known for peddling language-learning CDs takes on digital transformation challenges -- and charges into the future.Continue Reading

• The commanding presence of quiet leaders

  The MIT CFO Summit explores the inverse of the stereotypical extroverted leader and the effect that quiet leaders can have in an organization.Continue Reading

• Digital labor: What forward-looking CIOs should know

  In this Q&A, ISG Insights analyst Stanton Jones describes the various types of digital labor and offers pointers for CIOs on how to start deploying it.Continue Reading