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How to choose an emerging technology: 3 factors
Dun & Bradstreet is moving through a transformation effort to consolidate many of its products into fewer platforms. In the past, development teams marched down multiple paths, often creating products as silos. When we looked at the situation we saw a lot of synergies in bringing those products together under a single platform.
DevOps requires dumping old IT leadership ideas
Some IT leaders see DevOps and agile practices simply as a way to run their software projects. If you look at DevOps in this narrow way, you miss the deep implications for the way IT should be managed and led. Make no mistake: DevOps represents a different way of thinking about IT – and requires a different leadership model.
Hybrid cloud talent: How to find and keep it
The headline makes it sound like a cool summer breeze. But finding, attracting, and then keeping the IT pros necessary for effectively managing a mix of private and public clouds, often across multiple vendors, as well as legacy infrastructure? It’s no easy task for most CIOs and their teams. “Finding an individual who has a strong grasp over both private and public cloud environments is tough,” says Patrick Circelli, regional recruiting manager at the IT staffing firm Mondo.
DevOps lessons learned: Advice for IT leaders
DevOps is often described as a journey, a movement, or a culture. DevOps isn't just a set of tools that IT leaders can buy and put into practice the next day. It requires careful planning, continued attention, and a purposeful approach, such as creating a center of excellence or updating your DevOps team model. No matter where you are on your journey, it's always helpful to hear from those who have been there, done that, and learned along the way.
Automation's power: Streamlining for speed
Is automation poised to replace people? Politics and trade deals aside, I believe that technology innovation creates jobs in places you never thought there could be jobs before and enables people to take on more interesting, strategic work. [Automation and blockchain have huge potential to change business as we know it. Learn more in our related article, Blockchain: 3 big implications for your company.] Here’s an example.
Here's the single top indicator of a great hire
As a CTO with one of the largest technology teams in Los Angeles, I do a lot of hiring. I am asked all the time what I look for in hiring talent — especially given the highly competitive technical recruiting environment. In the past, my response to “what is the ideal candidate” has typically been: I look for engineers that have or want an understanding of business. It’s great to have developers understand the business needs of a technical solution.
Dun & Bradstreet CTO and CMO lean on each other to get results
Besides sharing the word “chief” in their title, CTOs and CMOs rarely have much in common. CTOs spend most of their time worrying about downtime and building infrastructure, while CMOs are lost in a sea of customer acquisition, campaign strategy, and branding best practices. For years, the former kept to themselves, while marketing did its own thing. The two seldom crossed paths, that is, until marketing became more dependent on technology.
Top 10 IT executive interviews in 2014
The Enterprisers Project thanks all of the CIOs, CTOs, and IT executives who have participated in our interviews in 2014. There is no better way to understand what IT executives are experiencing than to hear it straight from the experts. We've had an outstanding response to the interviews. Thank you to all of our community members, and we look forward to another enlightening year ahead. Here is a list the interviews you read the most in 2014. 1.
5 IT executives share real strategies for moving the business forward
What’s so special about organizations that are embracing technology to move their businesses forward? What are they doing that’s so different than everyone else? And what can you learn from them? It turns out that companies pursuing IT-enabled business innovation tend to have six things in common, ranging from having CEOs who are committed to technology-driven initiatives to investing in and rewarding innovation.
What is a CIO?
If you look up the definition of CIO, it says, "Chief Information Officer is a job title commonly given to the person in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and computer systems that support enterprise goals." However when we started asking CIOs if they thought there should be a new definition for CIO, not only did we receive a resounding 'yes', they gave us many suggestions for exactly how the acronym could change to reflect new role of the CIO.
How do CIOs deal with true Agile?
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The secret ingredient for successful DevOps
By Aaron Stibel What, more than anything else, eases the transition from the waterfall world of traditional enterprises to the agile, continuous integration world of today’s fastest-moving companies? Some feel that it is a combination of Product and Engineering teams–and they are right. But often overlooked is the need for a strong Project Management Office (PMO). A strong PMO? Some of you with a history in software development may think I’ve lost it. The PMO?
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