Distributed model for dev work to outlast pandemic, survey says

Company processes that could be translated to the digital realm quickly pivoted with help from IT teams. Now, business leaders are making remote work sustainable.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 31, 2020

Financial services CIOs focus spend on APIs, cloud, microservices, survey finds

Gartner found more than half of business leaders identify technology infrastructure as a "weakness," compared to 20% of IT leaders.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 28, 2020

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CIO Priorities

Companies task their CIOs with balancing the company’s economic and operational needs as they enable technology throughout the business.

By CIO Dive staff

The trust issues with efficiency-tracking software

Tracking software can create mistrust among employees when focused on granular tasks. But measuring outcomes is essential to optimize how businesses are run.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 27, 2020

Transformational leaders bet on communication to engage stakeholders

Divorcing process and people is a clear recipe for disaster; software rollouts will fail without guidance and commitment from leadership. 

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 26, 2020

Coronavirus tests Ohio State, Stanford CISOs as fall semester begins

CISOs lost visibility when students and staff went home. Since then, they've gained capacity to react faster to security challenges.

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 21, 2020

Study: 4 in 10 women keynote speakers cite sexual harassment at tech events

The pivot to virtual events amid the coronavirus pandemic could help level the playing field.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 20, 2020

Whiteboards supported teams to perfection ... until they couldn't

Rethinking the whiteboard is a lesson in organizational psychology. When and why they're needed comes down to how effective organizations are at collaboration and ideation. 

By Naomi Eide • Aug. 19, 2020

Amid remote work, CFOs expected to impart digital change

Fifty-eight percent of CFOs believe the finance chief is responsible for imparting digital change at his or her company, but half admit their organizations’ execution of change management is falling short.

By Jane Thier • Aug. 18, 2020

Tabletop exercises can exceed $50K, limited to annual testing

With fewer tabletop exercises, organizations cannot perform a variety of cyberattack scenarios and develop "muscle memory" for responses. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 17, 2020

Fall preview: Online conferences to attend in 2020

While companies are reconfiguring business technology priorities, now is the time to benchmark with peers how to execute on strategy. Here are conferences on CIO Dive's radar. 

By Naomi Eide • Aug. 14, 2020

Cigna taps former Hilton exec as global CIO

Effective Sept. 14, Noelle Eder will report to David Cordani, president and CEO at Cigna.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 14, 2020

Even post-pandemic, digital transformation will become more bullish

The pandemic is a pressure test for companies to sustain customer loyalty. Technology is the only way to ensure sustainability. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 14, 2020

'The virtual world has not been easy': How 2 companies keep employees connected

Tech executives are honing in on employee well-being in a virtual world, but it's an ongoing process.

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 13, 2020

'Living at work': CIO leadership tested under crisis

The next wave of modernization will balance technology modernization and employees' appetite for change, testing CIOs and other executive leaders on how to build sustainable operating models that don't alienate workers.

By Naomi Eide • Aug. 11, 2020

Pandemic expanded CIO role, but the influence could fade

CIOs will have to expand their scope of action beyond operational upgrades to deliver deeper, business-oriented IT strategies.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 11, 2020

Tech employment recovery cools off in June, shedding 130K jobs

Despite the cooling effects of the pandemic on the U.S. economy, net IT employment is up by 203,000 since the pandemic began.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 10, 2020

Is digital agility a post-pandemic savior? Half of execs say so

The pandemic caught companies off-guard, evidenced by the 39% of respondents who said "more informed strategic planning, beyond growth" is an opportunity for the future, according to a survey by The Economist.

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 10, 2020

Meetings are shorter, but there's more of them in the pandemic

Measuring time elapsed between users' first and last email of the day, researchers determined a 49-minute increase to the workday.

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 7, 2020

How confident are security leaders in their ROI?

Business-aligned leaders are nearly five-times more likely to collaborate with stakeholders on cost, performance and risk reductions than more reactive leaders, according to a Tenable report.

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 5, 2020

There's no going back

The pandemic created a path to fundamentally rethink how work, the office and technology intersect. To ignore the opportunity is to waste it.

By Naomi Eide • Aug. 4, 2020

A remote workforce, urban exodus and opportunities emerging from the pandemic

Pepperdine's Charla Griffy-Brown writes about opportunities for community building and employee arrangements with the potential for addressing problems the pandemic unveiled in stark reality.

By Charla Griffy-Brown • Aug. 3, 2020

The promise of pair programming: Fewer defects, faster dev cycles

A team of developers at Indeed tried pair programming, and it led to faster development cycles. But when adopting the technique, leaders must be mindful of how it's applied.

By Roberto Torres • July 31, 2020

IBM offers 1K paid internships to prepare diverse students for STEM careers

IBM's P-TECH program has a "heavy focus on students of color in educationally underserved areas in the United States," IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said.

By Sheryl Estrada • July 28, 2020

The Remote Playbook: Navigating the virtual job fair scene

The traditional job fair is in the past, at least for the time being. Companies can tap into a broader talent pool through their virtual equivalent, though biases can still carry over.

By Roberto Torres • July 28, 2020

How engineering leaders can enable high-performing, connected remote teams

Hector Aguilar, president of technology at Okta, offers insights about how he is keeping his team connected, engaged and empowered while working remotely. 

By Hector Aguilar • July 27, 2020