IT Governance & Leadership

The implications of a chief analytics officer for strategy and for long-term planning.

Research suggests that outsourcing IT helps reduce sales expenses and general and administrative costs.

Chief digital officer is an important new rung in the corporate ladder.

Executives and thought leaders discuss how companies can create and manage digital transformation.

Q&A with Caesars’ chief analytics officer on centralizing the company’s analytics functions.

How to hire the right talent to overcome big data project failures.

Data-savvy organizations are using analytics to innovate — and to gain competitive advantage.

The rapid growth of data creates business opportunities — but only if IT and management work together.

At too many large companies, corporate functions like HR and IT don’t get enough strategic direction from the CEO.

To gain leverage from ever-improving technologies, companies need new processes and business models.

It takes a special breed of project manager to execute business analytics projects.

Companies experienced in analytics use are increasingly gaining competitive advantage.

We should aim not for faster information but faster decision making — not the same things.

In theory, IT innovation is important — except it’s often not a priority in company budgets.

Leading innovators are using information systems to make their activities more efficient.

Information technology matters when a company works backward from the value it wants to create.

The rising data flood and emerging tools for analyzing it are changing the ways innovation gets done.