Tips

Tips

IT applications, infrastructure and operations

• Bad data stops business process transformation in its tracks

  Dan Morris introduces his new eight-part series on exploring how bad data can sabotage business process transformation and what CIOs need to do to fix it.  Continue Reading

• How to overcome multi-cloud disaster recovery challenges

  As multi-cloud environments proliferate, data backup and recovery tech is essential. Here's how to assess enterprise multi-cloud disaster recovery capabilities -- and limitations.  Continue Reading

• Your digital transformation initiative is probably not future-proof

  A digital transformation initiative will fail if you simply dump new tech into an old tech black box, says expert Dan Morris. His readiness checklist points the way forward.  Continue Reading

• IT service automation: A global CIO learns from a millennial

  In this expert column on IT service automation, a global CIO's encounter with an IT intern makes him realize it's time to ready the enterprise for the self-service generation.  Continue Reading

• Why EA should take the lead on improving customer experience

  The business shift to digital goods and services gives IT a critical role in improving the customer experience. Here's why CIOs are assigning enterprise architecture the job.  Continue Reading

• Data asset curation: The guidelines to determine information usability

  Keeping track of existing data assets is increasingly difficult, but detailed curation of this vital company information can help streamline evolving digital governance processes.  Continue Reading

• A cloud implementation methodology for legacy apps

  Maximizing the benefits of cloud while minimizing risk requires a fine-tuned migration strategy. Here, Scott Lowe lays out a cloud implementation methodology for legacy apps.  Continue Reading

• Crushed by the pace of technology change? Do these two things

  Is complexity killing your ability to keep up with the pace of technology change? Niel Nickolaisen offers a path forward.  Continue Reading

• Mulling cloud email services? Ask two questions first

  Before moving productivity software to the cloud, think about what you might lose -- and what you might gain, says Gartner's Guy Creese.  Continue Reading

• Scaling a business doesn't mean just getting bigger

  Don't blow a fuse when scaling your business. Culture, leadership and organizational structure need to change as your startup grows.  Continue Reading

• Three questions for IBM blockchain expert Arvind Krishna

  How many nodes is enough for consensus? Who owns blockchain data? IBM blockchain expert Arvind Krishna addresses these and other burning blockchain issues in this SearchCIO tip.  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

• 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

• Tenets of value-sensitive design: Batya Friedman

  A lot of technology gets made without ever taking human values into account. That's what got Batya Friedman thinking about value-sensitive design.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise 3D Printing Guide: Great opportunity, tough challenges

  SearchCIO's Enterprise 3D Printing Guide infographic alerts CIOs to 3D printing's chief technical challenges and explains why this emerging technology also offers CIOs an extraordinary career opportunity.  Continue Reading