In this week's edition of news for CIOs and IT pros, we discuss the key to digital transformation, new data trends, and taking agile methodologies business-wide.
IBM Watson Trend App: Big Data Meets Holiday Shopping [InformationWeek]: With Black Friday only a week away, IBM is hoping that its new Watson Trend app will become part of the holiday shopping tradition. “The IBM Watson Trend app pulls in conversations and information about products from more than 10,000 sources, including social media, major e-commerce sites, blogs, product reviews, and rankings. The app focuses on the 100 hottest trending products in each of three categories: consumer electronics, toys, and health and fitness.”
Security key to digital transformation [ComputerWeekly]: New technologies, like those in the wave of the Internet of Things, bring new security challenges and the need for new approaches. For that reason, some believe that the success of digital transformation efforts will hinge on new security standards. “In the future, we will go to systems of systems, which means we will need a secure and trusted ecosystem from the sensor to the user, says security firm Exceet.”
7 keys to better risk assessment [InfoWorld]: Root-cause analysis is critical to strengthening your defenses against attackers. InfoWorld security columnist Roger A. Grimes provides seven steps to better root-cause analysis, including training, forensics, and sampling.
Guest View: Agile should be an organization-wide initiative [Software Development Times]: Software teams are seeing enormous success from incorporating more agile methodologies into their practices. In this op/ed, Kevin Dunne says that even more success can be achieved by moving agile from IT alone to the entire business. “Viewing agile as a business movement—not just a development movement—can influence improved alignment between development teams and key stakeholders such as sales, marketing and customer service. Adopting the agile mindset of team-based work and continual improvement in business functions could even improve basic processes such as customer service and support.”
How to create enterprise apps employees will actually use [CIO]: There is a groundswell of demand for enterprise apps, and companies are investing large amounts of money, time and manpower into fulfilling the increasing demand. In this article, Chad Langford, CIO and founder of Stepframe, shares four tips for organizations to ensure they are building apps that focus on engagement so that their employees will actually use them.
