IT Innovation

IT strategy, leadership in digital organisations, and talent and capability management – curated from analysts, CIOs and technology leaders, with a link to every original source.

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  • Carpe Diem: Don’t Postpone Your Dreams

    You may have heard this story about a young fisherman who was enjoying himself on the bank of a beautiful river when a stressed-out businessman came along.

    Stopping in front of the fisherman, the businessman said, ”You aren’t going to catch many fish with that single rod.

  • The Future Of Work: Employee Privacy

    Privacy preserving technologies as well as software for privacy training top the list of new tools privacy decision makers are planning to adopt in the next future

  • Thinkers50: Declaration of Purpose

    We hoped that this could be a starting point for a conversation about the purpose and role of leadership and management in the modern world and were excited by those who expressed an interest in continuing this dialogue.

  • Five risks of moving your database to the cloud

    This article discusses some of the risks customers may unwittingly encounter when moving their database to a database as a service (DBaaS) in the cloud, especially when the DBaaS leverages open source database software such as Apache Cassandra, MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres, or Redis

  • McDonald’s Digital Transformation Special Sauce Is Curiosity

    In addition to driving sales, digital programs enable McDonald’s to elevate customer engagement, measure marketing effectiveness and forecast future performance.

    Specifically, Kempczinski credited strong cross-functional collaboration for the digital loyalty programs expedited success, noting that several company teams worked together to standardize infrastructure and align the system which paved the way for MyMcDonald’s Rewards — their first global digital offering.