Enterprise cultural shifts required for successful cloud adoption

Many organizations underestimate the legacy-to-cloud cultural shift and the specific IT skill sets required for managing cloud infrastructure environments.

By Joy Sim and Michael Byrne • Sept. 17, 2018

Instacart hires first CTO, emphasizes growing tech team

E-commerce payments are a crucial part of Instacart's business model. Schaaf builds off years of experience working on digital payment schemes.

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 13, 2018

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Top 5 stories from CIO Dive

Shifts in enterprise software use, ongoing generative AI adoption plans and budget pressures ruled CIO priorities in the first half of the year.

By CIO Dive staff

As GDPR fades into memory, so does its allocation in IT budgets

While GDPR forced companies to rethink and revise how they collect, process and store data, in the months since May 25 the compliance space has been relatively quiet.

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 12, 2018

What tech execs need to know about the ERP market

Selecting the right ERP for a business is a task that takes time, resources and a gut check for a company about "what makes them unique." 

By Jen A. Miller • Sept. 10, 2018

Equifax breach, 1 year later: Unabating corporate cybersecurity negligence undercuts consumers

"Nobody went to jail," Kurtis Minder, CEO of GroupSense, a cyber reconnaissance firm, said following the lack of action taken by regulators.

By Naomi Eide • Sept. 7, 2018

Poll measures developers' impact on the GDP at $3 trillion

But the downside is developer inefficiency is estimated at a $300 billion hit to global GDP and $85 billion opportunity cost to companies. 

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 7, 2018

Executive buy-in and effective management imperative for digital transformation

The rapid pace of technology means organizations can no longer modernize using a reactive, "shoot from the hip" strategy. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 6, 2018

Gartner's Hype Cycle on workplace tech targets holy grail of 'digital dexterity'

Emerging technologies gain momentum rather quickly until hitting an inevitable plateau in productivity. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 4, 2018

Innovation: What's the measure of success?

Innovation is a mindset, but the impact of innovation can and should be measured and the results shared widely and consistently.

By Alex Goryachev • Sept. 4, 2018

As hyperscale capex hits records, a few operators solidify hold on market

Hyperscale capabilities have become critical to leading cloud infrastructure, software and platform providers.

By Alex Hickey • Aug. 29, 2018

Ignored data assets can derail innovation, Gartner analyst says

"Accountants haven't come around to recognizing information as an asset" and if information or data isn't used to its full extent, businesses will never see potential benefits, Doug Laney said. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 29, 2018

The fight to overcome the 'not sexy' perception of industrial internet

Companies slow to adopt the industrial internet may have missed an early mover advantage — even if they staved off burning their fingers like some initial adopters.

By Alex Hickey • Aug. 27, 2018

Big cloud providers heel to the demands of multicloud

Microservices undergirded the adoption of multicloud strategies but also added complexity by increasing components, hastening the rise of third-party tools.

By Alex Hickey • Aug. 24, 2018

IDC: Half of organizations cannot survive a disaster event

While short-term costs can reach the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, long-term impacts on business continuity and competitive advantage can take the real toll.

By Alex Hickey • Aug. 23, 2018

SaaS market can largely thank data analytics for its rapid growth

Businesses are entering the Golden Age of SaaS, driven by open, integrated, API-first cloud platforms and services.

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 23, 2018

To modernize from monolithic applications, the College Board followed its 'North Stars'

Simplification was a motivating factor in developing seven guiding principles.

By Naomi Eide • Aug. 22, 2018

Gartner serves up 2018 Hype Cycle with a heavy side of AI

The Hype Cycle can serve as an early warning system for executives, and jumping on technologies in the two to five year range could pay big dividends down the road.

By Alex Hickey • Aug. 20, 2018

3 ways that data visualization is supporting the CIO paradigm shift

The biggest consideration and conversation that your team should be having is what you're trying to have your data do for you, then you can determine the best solutions to drive to that goal.

By Ruhollah Farchtchi • Aug. 20, 2018

UPS unpacks big data to deliver insight

"Data must yield insight. If your data doesn't do that, then it's just trivia," said Jack Levis, senior director of Process Management at UPS.

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 17, 2018

Campbell's VP of digital acceleration races against quickly evolving consumers

In an interview with Marketing Dive, Matt Pritchard discussed his team's focus on infusing digital throughout the company's people, processes, partners and platforms at a time of "unprecedented" change.

By Chantal Tode • Aug. 10, 2018

Discrimination in tech will lead to a 'smaller spectrum of thought'

Although more than half of employees at tech companies responded "no" when asked about witnessing or experiencing discriminatory actions, almost 36% said "yes."

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 9, 2018

Privacy is dead, long live privacy

After GDPR, experts and companies are trying to understand how data should be treated while injecting more privacy along the way. One solution is to treat data as currency.

By Naomi Eide • Aug. 9, 2018

Why airlines are bad at digitization

Failure in management behavior was one of the main causes for one-third of unsuccessful digitization programs at airlines.

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 8, 2018

Hackett Group: Digital transformations can make or break IT organizations

On any day that ends in the letter Y, IT faces a crossroads. Of late, it is transformation that goes beyond a move to the cloud.

By Deborah Barrington • Aug. 8, 2018

Nordstrom poaches Tesco exec to fill CTO spot

After 18 months without a CTO, Nordstrom named Edmond Mesrobian to the position to help drive its technology ambitions.

By Dan Alaimo • Aug. 7, 2018