The InformationWeek Podcast

Enterprises can feel pressured to at least say they keep pace with the latest IT innovations, even if there is no immediate internal gain. The board of directors, customers, and members of the C-suite might like to hear that a company is modernizing, but how does that effort translate into real returns?

What litmus tests do CTOs, CIOs and other tech leaders use to assess results from modernization plans? How do they convey to other...

How tech leadership responds to mass outages can affect internal teams, as well as customer-facing operations.

Reliance on third-party hyperscalers can also mean C-suite tech leadership getting caught flatfooted when outages take down online resources. In late October, AWS and Microsoft Azure went dark temporarily, reminding many companies that they can be at the digital mercy of service providers.

In this week’s podcast, Sunil Pet...

What happens when companies have new releases on deck, and it is clear that the dev team is spread too thin?

Teams are always under pressure to deliver, but what if a project calls for overtime across the organization? What happens if those teams are pulled in competing directions?

When major projects are at stake, development teams may face a less-than-ideal circumstance: a race to meet deadlines with near-mandatory overtime.

Such...

Many organizations have at least explored the use of AI in coding, changing the game for professional developers and citizen developers alike. Not that long ago, the conversation focused on what no-code and low-code platforms meant for in-house development. Citizen developers, staffers with limited or no professional background in coding, could use these platforms to produce somewhat simplified apps.

That, in theory, left professio...

Allan Leinwand, CTO of Webflow, and Pierre DeBois, founder and CEO of Zimana, discuss how organizations can realign when IT goes awry.

Internal or external forces can turn an IT ecosystem upside-down, and how CTOs lead the recovery may shorten or prolong the pain.

Whether it is an in-house coding error, hardware failure, third-party software implosion, malicious bad actors, or a force of nature that shakes things up, how does tech ...

Businesses have been through transformative times, from the Industrial Revolution to the dawn of the Digital Age. As a flurry of AI agents and tools emerges, what should CIOs look for in this next period of transformation? How does this era of change differ from cloud transformation?

Saket Srivastava, CIO of Asana, and Pierre DeBois, founder and CEO of Zimana, spoke to these and more questions in the latest InformationWeek podcast.

Building up an AI-enhanced workforce calls for more than telling staffers to use new tools and then hope for the best. Job roles can change, C-suite leadership may need new strategies, and the organization could face a different set of security and oversight concerns.

In this episode of the InformationWeek podcast, Michael Fanning, CISO for Splunk; and Andie Dovgan, chief growth officer with Creatio, came together for a Breaking Br...

Laura Sellers tackles a series of scenarios, discussing how tech and operations can navigate surprises both may face.

How well do your software delivery cycles mesh with the logistics and operations of your organization? How do you deal with different rhythms of customer demand and logistics vs. the pace of software development and deployment? Who needs to be part of the conversation to get everything in line, especially when faced...

As IT leadership wrangles with data governance and policies, can operations glean useful information without stepping on a few toes?

In this Breaking Bread session, Craig Martell, chief AI officer for Cohesity; and Matt McVaney, chief revenue office for BombBomb, discussed finding common ground between operations and tech to make data useful, and better understand the demands on either side of this dilemma.

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The duties of C-suite tech leadership at enterprises are changing rapidly of late. AI shook up strategies at many companies and can lead to new demands on CIOs, CTOs, and others responsible for technology plans and use.

The core principles that guide CIOs and CTOs can be essential for navigating such times, especially when organizations look to them for direction.

In this episode, Matt Lyteson, CIO of IBM, and Phillip Goericke, CTO...

With more AI models emerging, how do CIOs and CISOs at enterprises go about establishing security guardrails to reduce risks as the technology gets deployed?

In the early months of the AI craze, the business world saw incidents where proprietary code got into the wild after being fed to AI. There have also been concerns about AI being tapped to launch cyberattacks, as well as AI used within organizations creating unintended access ...

Is putting a data center under the ocean or in orbit just a novelty or a future-forward idea?

Data centers have been installed put undersea and now in space -- do these exotic locations seem more like a novelty than a benefit to enterprise operations? One benefit is access to natural sources of cooling for data centers, either in the freezing temperatures in space or cold waters of the sea.

Dmitry Zakharchenko, chief software offic...