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Utilities, Strategic Investments, and the CIO

The Agile Manager

Fashion magazines are launching electronic retail sites. The proto-CIO is a strong technologist with vendor management and negotiating skills, with a steady-as-she-goes disposition. It is disingenuous to ascribe "value" to these: business don't measure value or return on their electricity or tap water.

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Sustainable product design in consumer products

Capgemini

Unfortunately, data generated from years of research is often stored in a siloed, fragmented, or inaccessible fashion, which reduces its potential efficacy, especially for teams working across functions. Data transfers are often conducted manually, a slow process that is prone to mistakes.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO

NetApp added some new functionality to its portfolio of cloud management tools in late February with the acquisition of Fylamynt, a young low-code cloud ops automation company. SaaS vendor management platform Vendr is buying SaaS management platform vendor Blissfully.