Companies that capitalize on making more efficient use of people and their possessions are changing some traditional business models. The most familiar examples are mobile applications that facilitate ride-sharing – Uber, Lyft and Sidecar are prominent examples – or ways to rent other people’s homes,...
It's time to clear the clutter. Remove obstacles. Or weed the garden, as Rick Davidson, interim CIO of AAA and CEO of Cimphoni, put it at the Fusion 2015 CEO-CIO Symposium. The "weeds" are business rules, processes, and implementations that make it difficult for customers...
How do you know if a roof support in a mine in Norway is not sitting right? Monitor thousands of sensors from a control center across the globe in Australia, for starters. Then do it in real time so that the people on site know...
The responsibility of securing the enterprise has been pushed onto the CIO, Linda Ban, the Global C-suite study director at IBM, said at the Fusion 2015 Conference of CEOs and CIOs in Madison, Wisconsin. The trend was one of the findings of IBM’s recent Global...
Amid the increasing chaos of technology-enabled business disruption, stability has become a quaint notion, and the ability to adapt quickly has become the key to organizational success. Nowhere is that more true than in the role of the chief information officer because the relentless advance...
Some major restructuring is going on at Google+, and it looks like it's the end of the social network as we know it—if that label was ever appropriate in the first place. Long-time Google VP Bradley Horowitz has announced that he's taking the management reins...
Microsoft has a little problem and it’s time we all admitted it. We have to gather the family in the living room, sit down Microsoft in the comfy chair and have a little heart to heart. Everybody can see it, except Microsoft — and it...
On Feb. 19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took a huge step towards patient-centric medicine when it approved the marketing of genetics testing company 23andMe’s carrier test for Bloom Syndrome. This was a startling — and good — development because it affirmed the rights...
The role of IT is changing. Not that all of you CIOs, CTOs or other IT leaders haven’t already noticed. From industry surveys to thought leadership insights, it appears we’re all in agreement: IT is taking on a strategic leadership role, shifting focus from traditional...
2015 will be an extraordinary year; it's the first year that Gen Z, individuals born in 1995 and beyond will begin entering the workforce. At two billion strong globally Z is the single largest cohort to ever sweep through civilization. Hyperconnected, wielding extreme social influence, and...