Leadership Suite
Digital Transformation Strains Traditional IT
It’s hard to believe, but it’s almost been 13 years since Nicholas G. Carr wrote his famous essay, "IT Doesn’t Matter." In that column Carr argued that IT had become so pervasive ...
Continuous Improvement: The Key DevOps Distinguisher
DevOps has become a well-accepted and growing component for delivery success, shown in the State of DevOps Report among other respected publications. But even as it becomes more ubiquitous, it's naive to ...
Developers Cite Startling Lack of Digital Leadership
Despite app backlogs, developers say their efforts are underfunded and undertrained, and lack a priority for security We’ve long written about the challenges enterprises face when developing the apps they need, digging ...
DevOps Connect at RSA: In Security, Choose Increments
Earlier this week the worlds of DevOps and information security collided at the DevOps Connect Rugged DevOps event, held in conjunction with RSA Conference 2016. The security-centric audience got to hear from ...
Putting People Before Software
Software development teams typically are focused on a single goal: delivering new, killer features that users love. Driving revenue and usage is core to Agile and DevOps. Yet without motivated, productive people, ...
It’s Time to Couple Security, Business Leadership
With the RSA Conference next week, the biggest conference of the year when it comes to enterprise security management, now is an ideal time to look at how IT and security leaders ...
Are You a Transformational CIO?
George V. Hulme discusses the state of CIO Relevancy and Transformational IT with Tim Crawford Facing increased consumerization of technology, more autonomy by business units in choosing and deploying IT, citizen developers ...
Make ‘Mobile First’ an Innovation Strategy
The call for organizations to be "mobile first" in application development has been so heavily embraced by enterprises that today mobile first has become table stakes. Being mobile first is no longer ...
4 Tech Imperatives in 2016 to Prepare for Tomorrow
Around the start of every new year come a bevy of predictions about what’s coming (or what someone, or some vendor, or some analyst hopes is coming) in the year ahead. Rather ...
DevOps Chat: Mustafa Kapadia, IBM DevOps Transformation Workshop
I always enjoy listening and speaking with Mustafa Kapadia of IBM. Mustafa is one of the leaders of the IBM DevOps services team. As such he gets to work with dozens of ...
Companies Failing to Innovate or Evolve Legacy IT Infrastructure
Biggest hurdles to innovation include lack of skills, no long term planning, poor funding and collaboration, survey finds. We’ve been writing a lot about what it takes for IT organizations to transform ...
CIOs Must Fight for Relevance in Face of Tech Storms
The past two decades have seen their share of technological disruption – retail, books, music, newspapers, and traditional data centers by – virtualization and cloud computing. With the impact of cloud computing ...

