Conference Notebook

IT spending and budgeting

• Driving digital transformation: Strategies from a CIO-turned-digital guru

  Isaac Sacolick explains how two practices -- aligning agile development with IT operations, and improving data quality -- can help CIOs in driving digital transformation.  Continue Reading

• Gartner redefines the bimodal IT organization

  In the bimodal IT model, Mode 1 protects the cash cows while Mode 2 funds the projects that respond to external threats or opportunities, says Gartner researcher George Spafford.  Continue Reading

• BPO/ITO expert: Robotic process automation offers 'tremendous value proposition'

  Andy Wasser of Carnegie Mellon says robotic process automation is not a big-bang technology, but its implications for BPO/ITO are huge.  Continue Reading

• Demand shaping vs. demand management: Making IT count in the digital era

  MIT Sloan CIO Symposium: CIOs from Staples and Charles Schwab explain why CIOs should forget about managing IT demand and think instead about demand shaping.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft, VMware, Cisco experts vet the cloud for CIOs

  What factors do CIOs weigh when choosing between public and private cloud? Is PaaS the future? Is it time to bring back that cloud deployment? Cloud experts offer insight to CIOs.  Continue Reading