IT Strategy

Inside Wells Fargo's multicloud strategy

The financial services provider plans to work with Microsoft and Google to support its public cloud infrastructure.

By Naomi Eide • Sept. 21, 2021

Enterprise app sprawl swells, with most apps outside of IT control

IT departments manage less than half of total enterprise applications used, according to data from Productiv.

By Roberto Torres • Sept. 20, 2021

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Technology leadership during an economic crisis

The key to success is creating a technology vision and strategy that is effective long-term and will resonate long after a crisis subsides.

By CIO Dive staff

Opinion

3 keys steps to facilitate robust, sustainable learning programs

It's vital companies cultivate an environment of learning and upskilling, enabling employees to develop their knowledge and skills.

By Michael Voegele • Sept. 17, 2021

Olay takes on computer algorithms to fight biased beauty standards

Olay is partnering with Black Girls Code to send at least 1,000 girls of color to the organization's code camp, and it's conducting an audit of its own skin analysis technology.

By Asa Hiken • Sept. 16, 2021

Deep Dive

What GitHub's Copilot tool reveals about AI's future in software development

AI can take repetitive tasks off a software developer's to-do list. But the transformative effect of these tools hinges on their maturity, which hasn't yet hit its peak.

By Roberto Torres • Sept. 16, 2021

IT projects trapped in backlog as demand rises

Companies deal with IT backlogs spanning three to 12 months as market trends push businesses to change quickly, an Appian survey found.

By Roberto Torres • Sept. 14, 2021

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For companies that don't have a Kubernetes-savvy team or are looking for an all-in-one SoFy hosting solution, there's HCL Now.

Ransomware capitalizes on holiday weekends. Feds urge vigilance over Labor Day

The FBI and CISA implored companies and agencies to backup data and use proactive threat-hunting measures to mitigate any potential attacks. 

By David Jones • Sept. 02, 2021

Target CIO to retire next year, making way for new IT era

Mike McNamara arrived at Target in 2015 and reshaped the IT organization through "ruthless prioritization."

By Roberto Torres • Sept. 02, 2021

CIOs vs. the supply chain: Laptop shortages threaten enterprise efficiency

IT is now maintaining a more diverse fleet of laptops in the wake of scarcity and rising costs in computing equipment.

By Roberto Torres • Sept. 01, 2021

Do tech investments really yield cost savings?

The link between technology investments and long-term cost savings isn't always linear. Not every technology gain will directly affect the budget.

By Katie Malone • Aug. 31, 2021

What's hurting automation? Slow — or no — adoption

Resistance to change hinders widespread acceptance of automation.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 30, 2021

Opinion

The CIO's role in maintaining a strong supply chain

Supply chains are no longer focused wholly on just-in-time delivery and logistics any more than CIOs are focused entirely on help desks and printers.

By Jason Dury, Jack O’Meara • Aug. 30, 2021

Collaboration tool adoption rises, paving way for IT complexity

Amid increased hybrid work, just one in four enterprise meetings will take place in person by 2024, Gartner predicts.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 27, 2021

Employers, employees butt heads over hybrid work

COVID-19 has shifted work-life balance in quite a literal way, but not all agree on how that will look moving forward.

By Caroline Colvin • Aug. 27, 2021

How to combat burnout among software developers

Added stress on digital systems. Pivotal changes to how companies operate. Here's why developers are burnt out — and what to do about it.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 26, 2021

Men more likely to engage in risky online behavior: report

Male employees are three times as likely to click on phishing emails, raising questions about gender-based behaviors that open companies to compromise.

By David Jones • Aug. 24, 2021

Overcoming legacy debt is a process problem, not a modernization one

Legacy technology is a compatibility issue. The solution, continuous modernization, keeps aging tech stacks integrated with more innovative options.

By Katie Malone • Aug. 24, 2021

Executives in tech say staff attrition is rising

Turnover cycles in tech are speeding up, as workers ride the wave of talent demand to find better salaries and career moves, according to PwC.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 23, 2021

10 years later, software really did eat the world

A decade after investor Marc Andreessen's op-ed, lines of code still shape how businesses operate, leading companies to invent revenue streams or supercharge product offerings.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 19, 2021

LinkedIn: Engineering roles have the longest time-to-hire

The slowest-to-hire jobs can take up to three months to fill. For the fastest hires, it only takes eight days between submitting an application and their first day.

By Emilie Shumway , Katie Malone • Aug. 18, 2021

RPA market to splinter, leaving CIOs with a complex vendor decision

By 2023, Forrester projects almost one-third of the market will be controlled by the leading pure-play providers: Automation Anywhere, UiPath and Blue Prism. 

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 18, 2021

Moving to Windows 11 won't be that bad, probably

The changes from Windows 10 to Microsoft's latest OS aren't as deep as previous migrations. Yet the shift gives CIOs an opportunity to ensure functionality and app compatibility.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 17, 2021

Opinion

Don't let pandemic-driven tech decisions impact future tech strategy

While the pandemic brought significant challenges, it also exacerbated several existing issues.

By Matthew Guarini • Aug. 16, 2021

Sweetgreen taps former Starbucks executive as new CTO

Wouleta Ayele comes to the salad chain after 16 years at Starbucks. She will help Sweetgreen scale its supply chain and develop its digital platform.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 16, 2021