• Privacy Shield review: Prepare for the worst

    CIOs should hope for the best but prepare for the worst when transferring personal information across the Atlantic. That’s the advice of experts watching the European Commission conduct its second annual review of the Privacy Shield data-sharing agreement.Privacy Shield allows businesses to export the personal information of their customers or employees to the U.S. while still complying with the EU’s strict privacy laws, and replaced the Safe Harbor Agreement, which was invalidated
  • BrandPost: Trends in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Data

    The major trend observed across industry and the public sector is artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) for automation. This, in turn, plays a major part in any digital transformation journey. The trend grew out of the Bay Area, providing a customer-centric view of data and often involved using data as part of the product or service. This consumer- or customer-centric model assumes data enrichment with data from multiple sources. However, fundamentally, it divides the data into two
  • BrandPost: Effective Digital Transformation; Trends in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Data

    Effective Digital Transformation; Trends in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Data
    The major trend observed across industry and the public sector is artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) for automation. This, in turn, plays a major part in any digital transformation journey. The trend grew out of the Bay Area, providing a customer-centric view of data and often involved using data as part of the product or service. This consumer- or customer-centric model assumes data enrichment
  • IDG Contributor Network: Shadow IT: the CIO’s perspective

    CIOs have many reactions to shadow IT. Some complain that IT is generally measured as a success only by delivering something the business wants. However, IT organizations can get caught up in just doing cost control, security and overarching governance.With this context, CIOs say, it’s important to realize that shadow IT is not the problem. Instead, it is a symptom, real or perceived, that IT is not delivering what the business needs. While some CIOs suggest that if you have shadow IT, it
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  • G6 Hospitality finds room to grow in AWS cloud

    Jessie Burgess has learned a valuable lesson over the past few years: You can only duck digital disruption for so long; eventually those legacy systems catch up with you. That's why the CIO of G6 Hospitality, parent company to Motel 6 and Studio 6 hotel brands, is migrating critical business applications from creaky on-premises systems to Amazon Web Services' cloud infrastructure services.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  • BrandPost: Setting the Stage: The New World of Data

    The path to digital transformation remains murky, but one thing is perfectly clear: Intelligent use of data has the power to transform companies’ business practices for the better. Yet figuring out what data is pivotal and how to best manage and analyze that data will be the ultimate key to enterprise success.Companies have bought into the strategic value of data for unlocking insights that lead to higher customer satisfaction, improved products, even business process change that could sa
  • 5 types of outsourcing providers — and how to get the most from them

    As corporate technology leaders pursue their digital transformation strategies, many are looking to IT service providers as potential partners in those change efforts. However, a one-size-fits-all approach to outsourcing providers is not likely to serve CIOs well in meeting innovation goals. In fact, bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better in the digital change era.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  • 6 essential competencies for digital executives

    What makes a great leader? Although there’s no single set of personality traits, background experiences or talents that can predict who can lead effectively, there are certain leadership competencies that all good leaders and executives have mastered.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
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