CIO Insight Staff

By Patrick K. Burke If you’re considering cyber-insurance, having a look at Target may sway your outlook on picking up a policy for your organization. Target had substantial cyber-policies in place, and while their reputation and management have suffered from their breach in 2014, a significant portion of their damages has been covered. Cyber-insurance provides […]

By Kurt Cagle What does your data look like? In the era of big data, information comes from an astonishing array of sources. Structured data from within relational databases. Semi-structured documents in various forms of markup. Lightweight data structures stored as JSON, data coming from Twitter and Facebook status messages, along with an explosion of […]

By Patrick K. Burke Data science and analytics are shaping how businesses approach customers while helping to separate the signal from the noise. Companies that invest in predictive and prescriptive analytics are more likely to achieve a competitive advantage in their marketplace, and Tim Girgenti, Chief Strategy Officer at PROS, a big data software company, […]

By Patrick K. Burke IT is undergoing a fundamental transformation, and during this change CIOs are expected to implement mobility, cloud and BYOD initiatives while shoring up their organization’s security. IT departments are now being driven by business needs as well, and the CIO’s seat at the executive round table has never been so critical […]

Challenges Abound in Unlocking Data’s Potential New Values 84% of surveyed CEOs globally (89% in the United States) said digital technologies create ‘quite high’ or ‘very high’ value through data and data analytics. Industry Matters Globally, CEOs from banking and capital markets, health care, hospitality and leisure, and insurance most see tech’s value in data […]

By Andrew Fingerman Think the imagery your company produces or licenses for use is relegated to those in the creative or marketing departments? Think again. Photos (and videos) are a corporate asset, just like any other document, app or piece of code. In fact, given the rise of visual storytelling as a means of communicating […]

By Patrick K. Burke These are unprecedented times for both developers and organizations looking to capitalize on applications that harness the power of the cloud to boost the bottom line. Tech leaders are often pulled in many directions at once, as business executives from different departments look to technology to fill a need and grow […]

By Patrick K. Burke You might be familiar with the term “bimodal IT.” Then again, you might not, because it had a different name not all that long ago. IT certainly likes its buzzwords, acronyms and services (backend as a service, anyone?) almost as much as it likes changing the names of these services and […]

By Patrick K. Burke Harry Kraemer Jr. recently shared his thoughts with CIO Insight on how to become the best leader possible by focusing on a set of core values that help in the boardroom as well as in daily life. The former CEO of Baxter International now devotes his time, among other worthy causes, […]

By Anju Kurian Reorg isn’t fun. It involves moving people, it’s politically sensitive, and it’s a process filled with ups and downs. It’s such an intimidating undertaking that we often don’t know where to start, and instead choose to digest all the little things that happen throughout the year without making any major adjustments. In […]

By Chris Lawn As multi-sourcing models continue to proliferate and become a de facto standard for service delivery, CIOs are paying increased attention to the specific task of orchestrating a myriad team of disparate providers.  The key objective of this function–defined as Service Integration and Management (SIAM)–is to ensure that multiple providers with discrete responsibilities […]

By Scott Sanders A company’s ability to understand its customers’ behavior and the nature and speed of how those behaviors change can make it or break it. For a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), nothing is more imperative to smart decision making and strategic planning.   To date, the most common kind of customer analytics that the […]