IT Leadership

IT Resume Makeover: Highlighting business and technology leadership

In CIO.com’s latest installment in the Resume Makeover series, career expert Laura Smith-Proulx, helps a CIO tackle his extensive -- and impressive -- background to build an engaging three-page resume.

5 ways to reduce bias in your hiring practices

Unconscious bias impacts IT hiring in a major way, but there's a lot you can do to stop bias before it becomes a barrier to diversity and inclusion. Here are five bias-busting strategies you should use.

IT departments becoming ‘obsolete’

Cloud computing, smartphones and as-a-service software products are killing off the traditional, ‘dark days’ IT department, says printer manufacturer Brother

Coca-Cola headlines a fast-turning CIO carousel

The beverage company removed the interim tag from Barry Simpson, who had led IT since July. Simpson is one of several recent CIO moves as companies bolster their IT strategies heading into 2017.

SD-WAN: As Simple or as Complex as Needed

IT spending on ‘innovation’ is now a priority

CIO tenure rises, spending on hardware and software declines, cloud services spending increases, says SIM.

8 strategies for achieving IT goals

IT executives and project managers share their tips on how to create realistic goals and the steps you need to take to attain them (with minimal delays or disruptions).

Platforms in the cloud take heavy lifting out of architecture tasks

As tech giants battle for cloud dominance, businesses looking to offload heavy-duty infrastructure tasks are reaping hefty rewards from platform-as-a-service offerings. Here’s how three IT leaders mixed and matched their powerful yet flexible PaaS pa

Does Southwest’s new ‘password’ commercial need to get away?

Tech execs tackling childhood cancer

Network industry veteran turned VC aims to raise $100 million to fund pediatric cancer research