Macy’s hires new CIO from within

Next month Keith Credendino will take over the retailer's mission to simplify and modernize its technology stack.

By Daphne Howland • July 11, 2024

Guitar Center revamps tech leadership to tune the customer experience

Adolfo Rodriguez, incoming chief technology and information officer, most recently served as SVP of technology transformation at Advance Auto Parts.

By Roberto Torres • July 10, 2024

Capital One leans on its cloud maturity to support AI adoption

“It's difficult to imagine doing AI at scale without a solid foundation of experience using and scaling applications in cloud,” the bank’s SVP and Head of AI Product Aparna Sinha said.

By Matt Ashare • July 10, 2024

Tech unemployment rose to nearly 4-year high in June

A CompTIA analysis of official data shows IT unemployment reached 3.7% among technology professions, in line with a national upward trend.

By Roberto Torres • July 8, 2024

Kyndryl bolsters — and reshuffles — technology leadership team

Kim Basile succeeds CIO Michael Bradshaw, the executive who guided the company’s post-IBM transformation.

By Matt Ashare • July 2, 2024

The midyear tech executive shuffle is here

Businesses from Citi and Gap. Inc. to JPMorgan and PayPal named tech leaders in recent weeks capitalizing on fiscal year alignment and new technology aspirations.

By Roberto Torres • July 2, 2024

HR is often left out of AI plans, despite the need for upskilling and inclusion

Organizational leaders can play a role in aligning AI strategy with broader company goals.

By Carolyn Crist • June 28, 2024

Tech workplaces haven’t caught up to new work patterns, research shows

Return-to-office policies don’t appear to increase office utilization as much as previously thought.

By Carolyn Crist • June 24, 2024

PayPal fills CTO position with former Walmart exec

Former Walmart EVP Srini Venkatesan will replace Archie Deskus, who joined the payments firm in 2022.

By Roberto Torres • June 20, 2024

Gap taps former Mattel exec for CTO role

CEO Richard Dickson, who also joined the retailer from Mattel last year, announced Sven Gerjets' appointment in a memo to employees.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • June 18, 2024

Northwestern Mutual revamps senior tech leadership

CIO Jeff Sippel will become chief strategy officer, effective July. He'll be succeeded by Christian Mitchell, previously chief customer and digital officer.

By Roberto Torres • June 14, 2024

JPMorgan names firmwide CTO

Former PayPal technology chief Sri Shivananda brings with him an “exceptional track record in innovation and technology leadership,” JPMorgan Chase's CIO Lori Beer said in a memo.

By Gabrielle Saulsbery • Updated June 18, 2024

Citi’s new tech chief takes the helm

Tim Ryan will lead Citi's ongoing efforts to transform its technology operations, a goal the bank poured $12 billion into last year.

By Matt Ashare • June 10, 2024

AI raises CIO cyber anxieties

Using third-party generative AI products without the proper controls exposes existing security gaps, McKinsey and Company Partner Jan Shelly Brown said Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.

By Matt Ashare • May 16, 2024

4 CIO styles to boost business performance

Aligning leadership skills to an organization’s needs can accelerate results and build trust with key stakeholders.

By Fiona Mark • May 16, 2024

Technology executives extol the virtues of ‘old-school’ AI

“One of our jobs as CIOs is not to get so swept up in generative AI that we don’t make use of all the tools that are available to us,” Mathematica CIO Akira Bell said, speaking Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.

By Matt Ashare • May 15, 2024

Most Gen Z tech workers say they’d consider new career opportunities

With high dissatisfaction rates, young tech workers pointed to career development as a vital aspect of engagement and retention in a recent survey.

By Carolyn Crist • May 15, 2024

AWS CEO steps down, sales chief to take over

After a three-year stint helming the cloud titan, Adam Selipsky is passing the baton to AWS veteran Matt Garman.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 14, 2024

Financial industry alliance pushes for collective AI governance framework

Citi, Morgan Stanley, Databricks and Microsoft will help guide a FINOS initiative aimed at devising best practices for onboarding the technology.

By Matt Ashare • May 6, 2024

Tech skills gaps put pressure on existing IT staff

Technologists surveyed by Pluralsight said workloads have increased and projects have been abandoned as tech proficiency gaps mount.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 6, 2024

Tech jobs are bouncing back as IT unemployment rate falls again in April

The February spike in IT unemployment is steadily reversing, CompTIA said Friday.

By Roberto Torres • May 3, 2024

IT executives rethink data strategies as enterprises push AI adoption

Disruptive LLM technologies drove more than half of organizations to evolve analytics operating models, elevating the chief data officer role, according to Gartner research.

By Matt Ashare • April 29, 2024

United Airlines nears final mile of cloud migration

"You don’t save the cost of moving to the cloud until you shut the mainframe down,” CFO Mike Leskinen said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • April 18, 2024

CIOs are starting to act like product leaders

Modern IT leaders are thinking more and more like product leaders. Read about how the role of the CIO is constantly evolving.

By Markus Zirn, Chief Strategy Officer at Workato • April 15, 2024

JPMorgan Chase CEO wants more cloud to fuel AI, analytics

The banking giant aims to have 75% of its data and 70% of its applications in the cloud this year, Jamie Dimon said in a letter to shareholders.

By Matt Ashare • April 12, 2024