The Era Of The Strategic CIO
Once focused purely on internal systems, today’s information chiefs have an historic opportunity to impact a company’s relationships with its customers and help drive profitability.
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Once focused purely on internal systems, today’s information chiefs have an historic opportunity to impact a company’s relationships with its customers and help drive profitability.
If a project isn’t proceeding the way you hoped it would, try asking these three questions to get back on track.
Enterprises switched to remote work in a hurry when Covid hit. Now CIOs need to make sure their remote and hybrid approaches balance the need for cybersecurity.
OceanFirst closes branches, expands digitally to succeed in tough Eastern Seaboard bank markets.
Big Data offers great opportunities—and huge dangers. The key to success is ‘one part technology to nine parts vision and great management.’
The technologies, products and currencies of the virtual network known as the metaverse all fall squarely in the information chief’s domain, says Suzie Smibert, CIO of OvareGroup.
Enterprises are moving beyond the diversity, equity and inclusion activity that started after the murder of George Floyd and beginning to ‘institutionalize’ their efforts, from regular town halls to concrete goals to shifts in top executives’ personal perspectives: ‘Now it’s considered a must-have.’
Customers expect businesses to keep their personal information safe but too many companies still see consumer security as an afterthought, says Jameeka Green Aaron, CISO of Auth0. Start with up-to-date login boxes.
Most of the money spent on cybersecurity is focused on protecting IT systems, such as office networks that contain critical business information. But the more vulnerable assets are the OT networks that are the lifeblood of industrial operations.
It’s still very much an ‘ongoing experiment,’ but companies aren’t waiting around to see what the workplace of tomorrow will look like, as these dozen examples illustrate. One thing that’s already clear, post-Covid: ‘Work is no longer a place you go, but something you do.’
