IT Strategy: Page 56

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    6 stories on how tech has changed the office — for good

    Companies reimagined the value of the office by adding different workspaces and technology to facilitate collaboration between onsite and remote colleagues.

    By • Dec. 22, 2022
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    How Principal Financial tied customer experience to IT

    CIO Ryan Downing isn’t having “Cloud 101” discussions anymore — he’s talking about how modernization serves the customer.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 21, 2022
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    Top 5 stories from CIO Dive

    Shifts in compute infrastructure, ongoing AI adoption plans and talent challenges ruled CIO priorities in the first half of the year.

    By CIO Dive staff
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    Demand for IT talent takes the sting out of tech sector layoffs

    Tech workers had a “red-hot job market” to fall back on this year, even against a backdrop of attrition. 

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 20, 2022
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    Meeting data links employee attendance to retention

    Employees who would later depart were in 46% fewer one-on-one meetings than those who remained, according to Vyopta data.

    By • Dec. 20, 2022
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    IT to enter 2023 with splintered goals

    Innovation for competitive advantages is falling in the list of 2023 priorities. Cost-cutting, security and transformation contend for the top spot.

    By • Dec. 16, 2022
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    Emerging technology needs ethical guides. Does your company have one?

    Most businesses lack specific ethical principles to shape the use of emerging technologies, Deloitte research found.

    By • Dec. 16, 2022
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    Google, University of Texas team up on career training for students

    As companies look for workers with in-demand skills, many work with universities to train students and connect them to jobs.

    By Ginger Christ • Dec. 15, 2022
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    How tech companies make IT purchasing decisions

    Vendor expertise and reputation are important — so are outside sources.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 15, 2022
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    Remote work, quality of life lure tech workers away from traditional hubs

    Digital transformation means a more dispersed workforce, and the rise of burgeoning tech hubs.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 15, 2022
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    How retail leaned on technology in 2022

    Spinning up new technologies with consumers in mind, the retail world kept a close watch on the direction of its technology strategies.

    By • Dec. 14, 2022
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    Large language model hype has reached the enterprise

    OpenAI’s ChatGPT early fanfare has caused the public, experts and business owners to rethink what AI can do.

    By • Dec. 14, 2022
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    Tech sector layoffs barely dent demand for IT talent

    Companies in finance, banking and retail aggressively recruited technologists, fueling growth in non-traditional tech hubs.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 13, 2022
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    How Walmart enhances its inventory, supply chain through AI

    The largest company in the U.S. simulates its yearly peak event, Black Friday, with AI to anticipate hiccups — and customer demand.

    By • Dec. 13, 2022
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    Fear, panic and Log4j: One year later

    Fears of catastrophic cyberattacks have thus far failed to materialize. But federal authorities stress threat actors are playing the long game.

    By David Jones • Dec. 12, 2022
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    Bank of America wants a human bridge for its AI help

    The bank aims to let a human agent pick up from where a customer leaves a chat with digital assistant Erica, but allow the chatbot to finish the interaction.

    By Suman Bhattacharyya • Dec. 12, 2022
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    What’s the new normal for workplace technology?

    From hot-desking solutions to collaboration tools, there’s a new standard that today's employees now expect at work.

    By • Dec. 12, 2022
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    Can you slash your stack without slashing your culture?

    Leaders need to understand the role each of their technology platforms play in enabling relationships and execution before reducing budgets and slashing tools.

    Dec. 12, 2022
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    How to mitigate against inflation’s impact on your IT budget

    How CIOs can reduce and optimize SaaS spending amid soaring inflation rates.

    Dec. 12, 2022
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    Hybrid cloud emerges as winner of Pentagon cloud showdown

    The $9 billion pool in Pentagon contracts validates the wisdom of portfolio diversification, as AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle contend for DOD dollars.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 9, 2022
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    Pentagon greenlights $9B contract pool for military cloud spending

    After a 17-month evaluation process, AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle all won the battle for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 8, 2022
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    Employees are getting better at remote work

    Remote meetings have evolved since the start of the pandemic, upending conventional wisdom about working from home, according to new research.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 7, 2022
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    What does AI without bias look like?

    Inequitable framing, biased data and human prejudice can be augmented by tech. But can AI minimize bias?

    By Caroline Colvin • Dec. 7, 2022
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    Mainframe modernization meets multicloud chaos on the road to IT’s future

    Third-party vendors are creating metacloud capabilities that provide cross-platform observability and governance that sits above the cloud. 

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 7, 2022
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    Companies wade through 367 apps to get work done

    The app surplus is eating up time. Workers are spending more than two hours a day sorting through silos, an Airtable report found.

    By • Dec. 6, 2022
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    Are you more innovative in the office? Your boss thinks so.

    To many employees’ dismay, business leaders tie innovation to work location. But one Gartner analyst cautions, leaders need to be clear on what they're innovating for.

    By • Dec. 6, 2022