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- June 28, 2017
28 Jun'17
Start at the 'dumb' end when implementing cognitive technologies
In this SearchCIO video, Tom Davenport encourages CIOs to take an incremental approach when rolling out cognitive or artificial intelligence technologies.
- June 27, 2017
27 Jun'17
Howard Dresner aims to separate BI myth from reality
BI is not dead, says Howard Dresner -- but machine learning? It's definitely overhyped. He explains why and talks about his upcoming Real BI Conference in this SearchCIO podcast.
- June 23, 2017
23 Jun'17
Uber CEO's exit puts spotlight on importance of company culture
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's resignation underscores the importance of company culture. Read about how CIOs can help. Also: AI in 2020; job search by Google.
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- June 23, 2017
23 Jun'17
Celebrating historic roots, State Street endorses cloud for business
The investment bank has a private cloud; now it's evaluating offerings in the public cloud for business aims: new technology to improve customer services.
- June 16, 2017
16 Jun'17
Will GE stay on digital path following CEO's departure?
GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt is stepping down after boldly paving the company's digital path. He stuck to his guns and CIOs should too. Also: Amazon to buy Whole Foods.
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Sponsored News
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Why the Citrix-Microsoft Relationship Will Enhance Digital Workspace Solutions for Customers
Sponsored by Citrix - One of the most important megatrends impacting IT organizations is the move to fewer, more comprehensive technology platforms for delivering critical components of IT infrastructure. This makes perfect sense, as it frees IT from having to work across multiple vendors and their unique technology silos simply to deploy a key platform or service―saving innumerable hours and resources. Some vendors have finally recognized this demand and are now working more closely together to enable greatly improved efficiency for the IT teams deploying, managing and enhancing these platforms. See More
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5 ways to accelerate time-to-value with data
Sponsored by DellEMC - Organizations that embrace IT Transformation are 18x more likely to make faster, data-driven decisions—while also being more innovative, competitive and cost-efficient. With fast, automated access to real-world data from current workloads, you can expedite development cycles, eliminate silos and accelerate access to innovation. Here’s how. See More
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End-User Service Delivery: Why IT Must Move Up the Stack to Deliver Real Value
Sponsored by Citrix - Within many IT organizations, system admins and managers have always focused fairly low in the software stack, dealing with the minutiae of delivering individual services or apps to each user. This low-level focus has been driven by the design of many legacy software products, which prioritize creating individual implementations of complex software over leveraging standardization and automation. In digital workspaces, however, the huge number of unique devices and employees makes working at low levels of the stack especially resource-intensive. Delivering high-value services or game-breaking and transformational apps becomes quite difficult, as IT resources are being overloaded with the details. See More
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4 steps to making better-informed IT investments
Sponsored by DellEMC - IT teams are under the gun to make data-based, future-oriented infrastructure investments to support IT transformation and cloud computing. Here’s how your organization can easily and efficiently collect, visualize, model and share real-world data from existing workloads to make faster and smarter decisions. See More
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- June 15, 2017
15 Jun'17
Measuring ROI for AI investments? Put on your venture capitalist hat
For all the intense interest in AI investments, the ROI for AI is not well-understood. Rather than make bad guesses, CIOs should treat AI projects like venture capital investments.
- June 09, 2017
09 Jun'17
Digital transformation projects cry out for a human touch
Don't do digital for digital's sake, CIOs and industry observers say -- solve a business problem. Also: SoftBank grabs Boston Dynamics; Apple launches Siri-powered HomePod.
- June 07, 2017
07 Jun'17
Wyndham, Omnicom CIOs improve business operations with tech finesse, people skills
IT chiefs discuss working to improve business operations -- one handed employees collaboration tools; another gave them control over their applications.
- June 02, 2017
02 Jun'17
MIT CIO Symposium: Future-proof your organization from a hack attack
When Andrew Stanley received the email from PayPal, he knew immediately that something was amiss. There in the PayPal domain name, "under one of the a's" was a Turkish accent mark called a cedilla. ...
- June 01, 2017
01 Jun'17
Data literacy in high demand; academia responds
Data literacy is at the heart of new computing programs at two of the country's premier private research universities. The Data Mill reports.
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- May 31, 2017
31 May'17
2017 MIT CIO Symposium in photos: A SearchCIO snapshot
SearchCIO's Instagram snapshot of the 2017 MIT CIO Symposium explores the major sessions and themes of the event.
- May 31, 2017
31 May'17
Forging your digital path: Don't discount the power of slogans
Two award-winning CIOs talk about how they helped forge a digital path for their companies and, in the process, became partners to the business.
- May 31, 2017
31 May'17
Workplace changes called for to place more women in IT jobs
CIOs and other executives discuss cracking the gender-diversity problem in IT at the recent MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.
- May 30, 2017
30 May'17
Scripps Networks goes for the gold with digital content strategy for Millennials
Scripps Lifestyle Studios invents a digital content strategy for the Millennial crowd -- with "crowd" being the operative word.
- May 30, 2017
30 May'17
Machine learning systems are a 'land rush' of opportunity for CIOs
Intelligent automation is more disruptive than predicted, and it's opening up a world of possibilities for CIOs. The Data Mill reports from the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.