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• Remote and collocated teams: How to make them better

  Joseph Flahiff pinpoints problems associated with two more types of remote teams and explains why collocated teams may not be all they're cracked up to be. Continue Reading

• How to optimize the performance of remote teams: Three variations

  Remote teams may not be the ideal, but they are a fact of the modern workplace. Here are three types of remote teams and tips on how to help them work better. Continue Reading

• Eight best practices for optimizing a distributed team

  Having all your team members under one roof is the exception today rather than the rule. How can you ensure your distributed teams are successful? Continue Reading

• Six shifts that define enterprise digitization in 2020

  Before business leaders get dragged into conversations about how their company can be the "Uber of their industry," they need to agree on the IT and business trends driving enterprise digitization. Continue Reading

• Mendix CEO: Bimodal IT strategy is a means to an end

  A bimodal IT strategy should be seen for what it is: a way to transition from the old to the new world of business, according to Derek Roos. Continue Reading

• IoT could revolutionize food safety

  Sensor technology could have sped up the search for the culprit in the 2006 E. coli outbreak that was linked to contaminated spinach. In May's issue of CIO Decisions, we explore the ways food safety could be improved with the integration of IoT into...Continue Reading

• IoT applications in the food supply chain

  During the 2006 E. coli outbreak, it took the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention three weeks from the first report of the outbreak to announce that the culprit was spinach from a particular supplier....Continue Reading

• Hyper-convergence: Benefits, challenges and use cases

  SearchCIO's Hyper-converged infrastructure infographic provides an at-a-glance look at the technology's benefits, drawbacks and key enterprise applications.Continue Reading

• Mobile and cloud computing: Today's center of innovation?

  Consultant Bob Egan says that companies need to spend money on mobile cloud not just because it's beneficial to productivity but because it's required to keep up with competitors.Continue Reading

• A CTO's vetting process for hyper-converged architectures

  Hyper-converged architectures: CTO and SearchCIO columnist Niel Nickolaisen lays out the five critical questions he asked before taking the plunge.Continue Reading

• Without IT process documentation, companies risk being held 'hostage' by IT

  As cybersecurity breaches surge, it's important that company leadership know what IT is up to. Kevin McDonald explains why IT process documentation is a must-have best practice.Continue Reading

• Next-generation enterprise security architecture to combat cyber weaponry

  In the first part of this webcast, Nemertes Research CEO Johna Till Johnson encourages CIOs not to ignore new, sophisticated threats and to plan for next-generation security.Continue Reading

• Business risk portfolio management: Technology categories

  In part three of this webcast series with Nemertes Research CEO Johna Till Johnson, learn about the technologies needed for a next-generation security architecture.Continue Reading

• Ways to craft a better enterprise IT security roadmap

  In this SearchCIO webcast, Nemertes Research CEO Johna Till Johnson explains how CIOs should build a functional IT security roadmap.Continue Reading

• Evaluating hyper-converged architectures: Five key CIO considerations

  Simplicity and cost savings are among the benefits of hyper-converged architectures, but the biggest draw for CIOs may be how these systems make IT teams more business-ready.Continue Reading