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Mobile is the future of Indian commerce: Is your business ready?

Indian consumers are increasingly open to the idea of commerce on mobile devices, and this trend will only grow given the country's mobile-first nature.

Is Digital vs IT a generational leadership divide?

If you are a tail-end baby boomer - don't be the CIO who held on to his preferred old way of doing things for too long and ended up strategically limiting of even damaging his firm, as the last act of his career.

Private Cloud: Top 10 facts tech management leaders should know

Despite reported high private cloud adoption, Forrester Research said it continues to see enterprises struggle with their private cloud build-out.

Why no security analytics market?

There is no "security analytics market" or dedicated and purchasable "security analytics tools,"...

CIOs face choiceless choice for complicated CRM projects

What is the business owner, and the CIO, to do in order to get a project moving forward?

Is Sundar Pichai the Google CEO in waiting?

Post Google's I/O address, the focus is squarely on one man in the team: Android and Chrome's head and Senior VP at Google Sundar Pichai.

CIOs never fail at mobile CRM initiatives (because they don't do customer strategy)

Great companies are getting the mobile metrics in place, understanding the 'state of the mobile customer,' and establishing the baseline measures of success.

Rising CMO tech budgets: CIO opportunities vs. threats

Manish Bahl on the emerging marketing technology landscape as a result of rising CMO tech budgets that both provide opportunities for and pose threats to CIOs.

What SAP CTO Vishal Sikka's resignation means for SAP customers

As SAP's CTO, Vishal served as the outward and inward face of innovation within SAP. He was tasked with renewing not only the legacy software company's platforms, but also the internal culture of innovation.

In spite of similar business priorities, CIO-CMO collaboration is a long way off in India

While CMOs pursue business objectives using an outside-in perspective, CIOs use an inside-out approach - and this often leads to friction.

62% of Indian CMOs will increase their tech budget in 2014

Focussing on customers is not new for CMOs; what has changed is the pace at which customer expectations are rising.

Email is anti-social: Communication is not collaboration

In many organisations the highly prolific, if not addictive, use of e-mail is considered an impediment to the adoption of social collaboration or other collaboration methods.

All you need to know about the $2.5 bn IBM-Bharti deal

Touted to be a new agreement, the deal builds on the 10 year relationship between the two organisations - a deal that was signed for US$ 750 million in 2004 and eventually touched US$ 2.5 billion.