IT Executive news

• BrandPost: Hybrid IT: The Model of Choice for a Growing Set of Business Challenges

  26-02-2018 23:45
  By now nearly every organization has taken advantage of cloud computing in some form or other—Infrastructure as as Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Countless studies have shown that the business benefits of cloud are just too significant to pass up.That said, few organizations are prepared to adopt a “cloud only” approach. In many cases that’s because they continue to derive the maximum return from their systems already in pl
  
  Read more

• BrandPost: Accenture’s secret to innovating at warp speed and scale

  26-02-2018 23:12
  It’s not easy to change the way over 400,000 people across the globe work. But in just two years, Accenture is nearing completion of a project to move its entire workforce into the digital era.“The workforce has changed,” said Andrew Wilson, chief operating officer at the professional services company. “We are now 75 per cent millennial. I see in that workforce a completely different set of requirements and demands to deliver a different set of services.”
  
  Read more

• BrandPost: Accenture’s secret to exponential growth

  26-02-2018 23:12
  It’s not easy to change the way over 400,000 people across the globe work. But in just two years, Accenture is nearing completion of a project to move its entire workforce into the digital era.“The workforce has changed,” said Andrew Wilson, chief operating officer at the professional services company. “We are now 75 per cent millennial. I see in that workforce a completely different set of requirements and demands to deliver a different set of services.”
  
  Read more

• BrandPost: How walking the talk boosted productivity for this Vancouver tech firm

  26-02-2018 22:58
  Vancouver-based Softlanding provides next-generation technology solutions to help companies become more productive. As a specialist in Microsoft enterprise technologies, the company decided to practice what it preaches and became an early adopter of Microsoft Windows 10.To read this article in full, please click here
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• BrandPost: Why HPC Matters: Making Better Products

  26-02-2018 22:47
  In the industrial world, high performance computing (HPC) systems have long been indispensable. As demonstrated by the TOP500 list of supercomputing sites, all of the leading automotive, aerospace and heavy equipment manufacturers have used HPC for decades to design and test their products. But with the democratization of HPC, the use of HPC now extends far beyond the R&D units of large-product manufacturers.Today, HPC is delivering competitive advantage to consumer manufacturing — wh
  
  Read more

• IDG Contributor Network: What is competition policy for?

  26-02-2018 20:24
  Some antitrust advocates, such as Lina Khan, are concerned that the goals of antitrust policy are too narrow. But the future goal of antitrust policy should be what it has been for generations, namely, to make the market work better for consumers.The original goal of the antitrust movement was to curb the economic and political power of large corporations, a new organizational form that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was proving to be an extraordinarily efficient institut
  
  Read more

• IDG Contributor Network: Cloud, integration, automation – how to fix employee onboarding

  26-02-2018 19:55
  You know what they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Despite this, most organizations fail to put emphasis on the onboarding process.  Approximately 22% of organizations don’t even have a formalized onboarding program. Unsurprisingly, nearly ⅓ of new hires start to look for a new job within the first six months. With turnover costs often exceeding the cost of the employee’s salary, the price of neglect is quite high.In my experience, having wo
  
  Read more

• IDG Contributor Network: Is your CIO about to leave? Does it matter?

  26-02-2018 18:31
  In the era of digital disruption, the life of public corporations has been steadily but surely reducing. In the 1950s, it was greater than 50 years, according to Fortune Magazine. It went to 20 a few years ago and has been slipping from that number ever since.I personally was at a public corporation several years ago that reached 20 years, and in the span of a year, it went from a public company with sub-10% growth to a private company that has reversed direction in terms of growth. And honestl
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• IDG Contributor Network: The risk-taker CIO paradox

  26-02-2018 18:15
  CIOs are driving organizational strategies now more than ever. The more a CIO’s success is tied to business outcomes, the more risk they assume. Traditionally, CIOs have been responsible for KPIs like uptime and system availability to support internal productivity and operational efficiency. But suddenly—now that all industries are becoming digital—there is much more at stake.This shift from “playing for keeps” to “playing to win” means organizations ar
  
  Read more

• IDG Contributor Network: How to win the recruitment war for machine learning talent

  26-02-2018 18:01
  As the uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology expand into every industry, companies like yours might be looking to hire experienced AI and, more specifically, machine learning (ML) talent from a small pool of available candidates stateside. But how can you find, entice, and recruit ML talent when you’re competing with major tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft? The answer lies in getting creative with your recruitment and hiring strategies.Adjust recruitment strategies
  
  Read more

• IDG Contributor Network: Are tech conferences nothing but a big ol' boondoggle?

  26-02-2018 15:56
  A boondoggle is defined as a waste of money or time on unnecessary or questionable activities but giving the appearance of value.Some IT leaders are accused of pursuing boondoggles when they attend user conferences or educational sessions held at some destination location such as Las Vegas or Orlando. Others get accused of attending too many such meetings and not paying enough attention to their real jobs.The perception problem
  It’s easy to understand why bosses and peers construe such tr
  
  Read more

• What those developers really mean

  26-02-2018 12:00
  It’s been said that the only people who tell the truth are the children and the insane. Now, developers may seem insane at times and they are just as prone to childish tantrums as anyone, but that doesn’t mean they speak the truth. Indeed they often shade the truth just like the suits in the corner office when speaking to the developer team. They just use a different language.To help you navigate the subtle inflections and sneaky barbs of your developers, here is a translation guide
  
  Read more

Follow @ITExecutiveNews on Twitter!