Samuel Greengard

The Evolving State of Cyber-Threats Under Pressure 50% of respondents said that preventing cyber-attacks is the most important or a top three IT issue for their organization. Damage Control 76% of respondents reported that their organization has experienced a damaging breach over the past year. Money Matters 44% increased the portion of their IT budget […]

Twitter has just announced that it will crack down on abusers and remove offensive posts. Threats of violence will no longer be tolerated on the popular social media site. “Our previous policy was unduly narrow and limited our ability to act on certain kinds of threatening behavior,” Twitter’s director of product management, Shreyas Doshi, wrote in […]

Once upon a time in an enterprise not so far away, CIOs were charged with overseeing systems that dictated the way work took place. The lifespans of these hardware and software solutions were measured in years or decades. That meant that change took place…ever…so…slowly. Today, IT is no longer master of the universe. CIOs are […]

Only a few years ago, the Internet of things was little more than a novelty for most CIOs. The idea of connecting people, machines and other objects through sensors, microchips, smartphones, industrial machines and more seemed somewhat abstract. However, times change quickly. Today, “Business leaders are examining the technology and attempting to understand how they […]

Over the last few years, smartphone adoption–and sophistication–has reached a tipping point. These devices are now leading to rapid and radical changes in behavior. For example, according to a just-released report from Jupiter Research, Ticketing Takes Off, global ticket purchases via mobile handsets will account for one-half of all digital tickets purchased by 2019. Overall, purchases from […]

Wave after wave of IT has introduced a level of disruption unparalleled in history. But these challenges present enormous opportunities. At the center of everything? Connected devices and the Internet of things. “Today, it’s possible to build smarter and better systems that deliver real benefits,” said John Calagaz, chief technology officer at CentralLite Systems, a […]

On a list of corporate buzzwords, “innovation” ranks near the top. It’s discussed and dissected in books and articles and pondered endlessly at conferences and in boardrooms. Nevertheless, the concept is at the center of enterprise and IT success. And, as Zafer Achi, a director emeritus of McKinsey’s Dubai office, and Jennifer Garvey Berger, a partner […]

An enormous challenge for large and global businesses is keeping a workforce in sync and managing tasks as efficiently as possible. Communication breakdowns, glitches and failures can quickly derail performance and profits. At FICO, a nearly 60-year-old software analytics firm–best known for creating the FICO score that’s used to gauge consumer credit risk–business as usual was […]

A basic law of IT is that every solution creates at least a dozen new problems. As CIOs know, tending to the all the questions, troubles and breakdowns is time consuming and expensive. In the past, most organizations have relied on dedicated staff to address these problems. But smarter and better computing technology is now reshaping […]

The enterprise mobile app landscape is changing rapidly. A few years ago, CIOs and others were questioning whether to create app stores and adopt BYOD. Today, most business and IT leaders have traveled into the way beyond. Apps are everywhere, mobility is mainstream and there’s no turning back. But there is a growing array of […]

How Generations Approach the Workplace Differently New Rules? 33% of surveyed Millennials think it is acceptable to text during a job interview. Moreover, 30% believe it’s acceptable to arrive for a job interview late by five minutes or more. Loyalty Matters? One-quarter of Millennials believe that working at a job for as little as seven […]

The news that the Apple Watch will hit the market in a few weeks may seem like a story best relegated to a consumer Website or a general interest magazine. But CIOs should take note and begin to prepare the enterprise for the latest in a long and continuing line of devices that are redefining business and […]