Balancing innovative projects with keeping the lights on responsibilities is the reality for most CIOs today. Our research suggests that tackling this challenge successfully requires adopting a two-step strategy that can apply to organisations across sectors and geographies.
Pointers from Vince Warnock of Cigna NZ, who was recently named one of the top ‘fearless marketers’ in the world
The first step is to remove any roadblocks standing between the status quo and new ideas, writes Dan Young of Xero.
Collaboration between like-minded teams with diversity of perspective and expertise, is critical in any business technology project, writes Kate Reid of Orion Health.
John Bell takes a ‘transform from within’ approach for his 400 staff at Fletcher Building.
While communicating with customers, vendors and end-users is certainly key to business success, your internal communication strategy is just as critical. Here's how to boost your signal.
A wearable device called the Sociometric Badge can be used to track people's social activity at work, with an eye to helping companies boost collaboration and communication.
At the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) last month in Orlando, we heard many of the same grumblings we've been hearing about Microsoft for years now: They don't care about on-premises servers. They're leaving IT administrators in the dust and hanging them out to dry while forcing Azure and Office 365 content on everyone. They're ignoring the small and medium business.
Making remote workers feel like part of the team is one of the trickiest parts of management. However, by focusing on the right technology and on effective communication and personal interaction you can create a productive remote work scenario.
While new attack techniques and complicated, insecure software provide enough strain on the CIO, seeing eye to eye with the CSO can be equally trying.
AV and IT departments used to be distinct functions within an organization but have since shifted towards a unified, IT-centric organization. CIO and IT departments around the world are being told that audio, video and control (AVC) are now under their care. IT's main concerns are to simply find and deploy a standardized enterprise-wide AVC solution that will solve their collaboration woes and deliver business outcomes. Read more
