Changes in data regulation following the General Data Protection Regulation are transforming businesses in every industry, as well as shifting some responsibilities among data leaders. Executives like John Backhouse (pictured, left) chief information officer at CareEnroll, know well the challenges of fighting for resources and working to streamline processes in the ever-changing healthcare space. His insights, along with ...

As crucial as big data is proving to be for business, its incorporation into workplace and culture is a challenge that involves an often painstaking reinvention of processes. Today, processes for ensuring data quality and usefulness are far more valuable than quantity or storage capability, according to Seth Dobrin (pictured, right), vice president and chief data officer ...

Big data and new technologies are continuing to change the way companies in every industry do business, and no team can afford to self-select out of updating processes with so many new tools hitting the market. Christopher Penn (pictured), vice president of marketing technology at SHIFT Communications LLC, is vehement that all businesses accommodate data-crunching tech ...

Texas-based steel manufacturer and retailer Mueller, Inc. is no stranger to evolution. The family-owned company has come a long way since it was established in the 1930s, consistently working with the latest technologies to maintain a high level of efficiency among competitors. With the new frontier of tech focusing heavily on big data and automation, Mark ...

The process of reinvention at IBM has included a total overhaul of strategy, operations and culture for its 300,000 global employees. Joseph Selle (pictured), global advanced analytics and cognitive transformation lead at IBM, is enthusiastic about the positive changes — and those still to come — within the organization. “We’re transforming the company from the inside ...

As technology continues to expand and enable new levels of productivity and growth, the outdated tools and processes that once reigned supreme are naturally cast aside to make room for progress. John Willis, vice president of DevOps and digital practices at SJ Technologies Inc., is wary of this trend in light of developments towards serverless architecture. ...

The rapid growth of technology can often outpace human ability to take full advantage of all it has to offer. Without the appropriate processes in place, businesses both in and outside the tech industry might have trouble integrating new tools into their offerings, potentially hurting their service, functionality and safety in the process. That’s where ...

Initiatives at IBM Corp. to provide clean, workable data science for all types of business have driven internal pursuits for innovation at a company that’s been around more than 100 years. Vikram Murali (pictured), program director of the Watson data platform at IBM, and his team utilize new strategies, established procedures, and strong partnerships to provide the ...

To see Deborah Berebichez, Ph.D. (pictured) passionately address a room of tech industry leaders, you may be surprised to learn there was a time in her life when the scientist, educator and first Mexican woman to earn her Ph.D. in physics at Stanford University feared she may never have the opportunity to pursue her dream of working ...

Remaining competitive with new technologies always comes with challenges, but those involved with the pursuit of a data-driven strategy inspire a unique trepidation in many organizations striving for growth. As more of business moves toward automation and artificial intelligence, the fear that cognitive machines may ultimately replace human labor is an undercurrent of many conversations around ...