11 Challenges for Today’s CIO
The core was traditionally defined by infrastructure, apps, information and sourcing. But the modern paradigm includes public and private cloud deployment, information architecture creation, and mobile support.
With CMOs taking more ownership of tech decisions, will they threaten to marginalize CIOs into operational roles, not strategic ones?
You’re under pressure to reduce IT expenses but to increase innovation at the same time. How do you validate the future, long-term ROI of tech investments?
Everyone’s a tech expert these days, right? And every user comes with different device and app preferences and business-critical needs. It’s your job to manage it all.
Those differing speeds speak to the demands of conventional and nonlinear tech support. The latter is required to rapidly respond to new, disruptive business models and to scale up and down in real-time.
The traditional perimeter is dead. How do you protect the network in the age of BYOD?
It’s all about your analytics tools. Make sure they come with highly intuitive, self-service capabilities and actionable, ad-hoc reporting. Also, they need to be mobile-friendly.
Three in five CIOs say it’s difficult to recruit tech professionals with sufficient skills.
3D printing has proven useful for the testing of ideas, rapid prototyping, R&D and other functions. Yet, two-thirds of execs still don’t see a business need for it.
There will be 50 billion connected devices by 2020. So prepare for a potential Tower of Babel in terms of devices, apps, systems and standards.
The immense growth of big data requires a transition from traditional storage models to virtualized ones. But only one of five IT managers feels their department is ready to do so.