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For women in IT, resiliency is a required skill, said Monica Caldas, Liberty Mutual Insurance CIO, global retail markets. Caldas immigrated to the United States from Portugal when she was eight years old. "Watching my parents have to have different creative ideas and solving problems without the resources that maybe others would have gave me that sense of nothing's impossible," Caldas said.  So, when Caldas took a coding class in college and her male group mates said, "you can do all the presentation and the documentation. Don't worry, we got the coding handled," Caldas corrected them. "Lean...

Dive Brief: Just 7% of large companies have digitally savvy executive teams, according to research published Wednesday by MIT Sloan Management Review. The authors of the study define digital savviness as "an understanding, developed through experience and education, of the impact that emerging technologies will have on a business's success over the next decade." A review of nearly 2,000 companies found that organizations with digitally savvy leaders outperformed peers on revenue growth and valuation by over 48%. CTOs and CIOs top the list of digital experts in the C-suite, with 47% of CTOs an...

Outages, natural disasters and other disruptions out of a business's control can shut down operations with little-to-no warning.  The COVID-19 pandemic has been a proof point for organizations about the importance of planning ahead. The most successful organizations during COVID-19 disruption balanced urgent needs while planning strategically for the future, according to Kyle McPhee, director of preparedness programs at Hagerty Consulting, speaking Wednesday at Laserfiche Empower 2021.  Storms and cold weather in Texas left communities without electricity and power for several days this mon...

Pixabay While all businesses are required to follow certain regulatory and legal requirements, what it means to be ethical varies from company to company — and even from person to person.  Aligning business values with vendor relationships is a "long-standing issue that companies have to grapple with when they decide who they're going to do business with," according to Kirsten Martin, professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame's William P. and Hazel B. White Center.  Ethics can come up in unusual ways, such as blowback fo...

Using Pragmatic Analytical Tools to Advance Performance in Pipeline Companies Lee Laviolette, Managing Director & Global Oil & Gas Leader, Navigant Consulting Lee Laviolette, Managing Director & Global Oil & Gas Leader, Navigant Consulting For decades, executives asked, “What is the value of automation?” in areas like remote tank farms and manifolds. To many, making those investments was a leap of faith, a belief in keeping up with best practice more than justifying the expenditures through an ROI calculation. Recently, similar questions have often been raised about investm...