Tag: IT leadership

CIOs are technology leaders, not lawyers — but increasingly, there is legal knowledge that CIOs should have under their hats. What are the legal fundamentals that every CIO should know? Here are seven areas worth understanding. 

Several years ago a Chief Data Officer asked me, “Is a dollar of cost savings the same as a dollar of revenue generated?” My response was a resounding “no.” Data and analytics initiatives must align with business objectives. If a company is in growth mode, hell-bent on capturing mind and market share, insights teams prioritize revenue generation over cost savings.

There are several critical steps to develop commercial software applications for your business. Building commercial software applications can be a time-consuming, complex, and expensive process. In fact, many tech businesses invest several thousand dollars and countless hours of time into programming IT products. After all, there are several technical obstacles, barriers, and unknows that will be encountered throughout the development process. As a business owner yourself, you should consider the best techniques, strategies, and methodologies to effectively build commercial information products. This way, you can configure your software solutions rapidly and affordably. To help you get started, read on to learn how to develop commercial software applications for your business.

“Space flight needs leaders who go beyond where they can’t see, into the unknown, pushing the envelope for what might be possible. They are not satisfied staying within the box or looking within their own horizon.” — Mark “Forger” Stucky (former Virgin Galactic lead test pilot) Look Beyond The Horizon To Be Future Fit There is much that tech executive leaders can learn from the trials and tribulations of the new commercial space race.

Only 20% of companies report having an ethical artificial intelligence framework in place and just 35% have plans to improve governance of AI systems and processes in 2021, according to PwC data

Rich Waldron is the CEO and co-founder of  Tray.io , a leader in low-code general workflow automation. The promise of software as a service (SaaS) led to an ever-expanding sea of point solutions — and the enterprise is drowning.

Last December, Brian Galovich joined Air Products as SVP & CIO after serving as VP, Digital and CIO at Collins Aerospace. I recently caught up with Galovich to learn about the business transformation underway at Air Products, how the IT organization is changing to help drive that transformation, lessons he’s learned along the way, and more.

Explaining that we have now moved into an era where tech foundations need to be thought of as dynamically orchestrated entities that need fine-grained engineering controls to bring them into life, Thakar has driven his firm to now provide Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) as a core capability in the Qualys CloudView application.

Businesses closely evaluate purchasing decisions to determine their worth, but the value of purchasing software or subscribing to a “as a Service” platform can be difficult to quantify.

Industrial leaders face a crossroads of opportunity. Digital transformation, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the emergence of Industrial AI, generational churns in the workforce that are leading to a loss of decades-old domain expertise, and data management strategies that have hinged around mass data accumulation for years.

Have you clearly defined what “coaching” and a “coaching culture” means so that everyone understands the behaviors you need them to demonstrate and the outcomes you’re looking to drive? It constantly surprises us how differently our customer organizations view the terms and manage to them.

In the 10 th anniversary edition of The Leader’s Checklist , world-renowned leadership expert and Wharton management professor Michael Useem gives leaders the tools to face any and every challenge. In his book, Useem offers leaders 16 mission-critical principles to help them develop their ability to make good and timely decisions in unpredictable and stressful environments — at those moments when leadership really matters.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are the backbone of modern businesses. The agility afforded by a modern ERP system backed by honed business processes can help any company compete in today’s business environment, which has been severely affected by supply chain disruptions as well as disruptions to traditional business operations due to employees working from home due to COVID.

CTO,  AtScale , empowering customers to democratize data, implement self-service BI and build more agile analytics for better decision making. Analytics teams are actively working to redefine their technology stacks to meet the demands of modern big data and stay competitive.