• BrandPost: The IT hero’s journey – embracing cloud change, challenges, and discovery

    No doubt about it, it’s an exciting time to be working in the IT industry. I’m not just talking about employees of one of the many tech companies, such as Facebook, Google, or Amazon. IT teams around the world are part of a transformation that is turning entire industries into technology-first businesses.Do you work in IT at an automotive company? Not anymore. You work at a technology company who sells a driving experience. What about healthcare? You guessed it – your company
  • BrandPost: Accelerate and Scale DevOps

    Note: This is the second in a series of three posts on the five stages of a DevOps evolution. If you’re just starting out, check out the first post, Building a Strong DevOps Foundation.Software teams have to be fast, especially when it comes to adapting to change. As performance expectations from the market and the business increase, DevOps has arisen as a prescription for improvement. However, teams need to know not just what success looks like but how to achieve it.
    A survey of more tha
  • IDG Contributor Network: Rochester NY CIO improves citizen services with a strategic governance process

    Every one of us interact digitally today with our banks, grocery stores, department stores, and even restaurants. In fact, when driving home from work your smart phone, when connected to your home security system, turns on your home’s interior lights. It’s in our daily culture. And this is how citizens want to interact with municipal services. And city governments are beginning to recognize that citizen services need a more strategic focus, especially since technology has evolved to
  • 4 fundamentals of data analytics for digital transformation

    Many organizations run data science teams as separate silos of activity. These teams focus on gathering, cleaning and querying unstructured or “big” data, but they rarely touch data from transaction processing systems and corporate business processes, and might not even be members of the IT group. These “siloed" data scientists and analysts in analytics labs could soon be a thing of the past thanks to digital transformation.To read this article in full, please click here(I
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  • Innovation reboot: Small, practical digital transformation initiatives preferred

    While corporate-wide innovation labs and blue-sky hack-a-thons were all the rage over the past few years, the coming trend for many companies might be innovation with intent and smaller, more pragmatic projects that have significantly less glitz and glamour but a better chance of success.Innovation plays a key role in driving digital transformation in business today. Everyone knows that, right?Nearly 90 percent of the IT leaders who took part in the 2018 State of the CIO Survey, released earlie

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