Every week, CIO Journal offers a glimpse into the mind of the CEO, whose view of technology is shaped by stories in management journals, general interest magazines and, of course, in-flight publications El Chapo’s IT guy. Imagine being the IT guy for Joaquin Guzmán, aka El Chapo. This week the IT specialist, Christian Rodriguez, was the center of attention at the Federal District Court in Brooklyn as prosecutors detailed how he provided the FBI with encryption keys to a communication system...

Every week, CIO Journal offers a glimpse into the mind of the CEO, whose view of technology is shaped by stories in management journals, general interest magazines and, of course, in-flight publications. Blockchain to get boring in 2019. One may ask how the online distributed ledger could possibly get more boring given the precious gigabytes dedicated to stories that begin, “Blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin, finally is attracting the attention of the … .” But in MIT Technology...

Photo: stephen lam/Reuters CEO activism. Chief executives recently have found themselves in the center of a number of sensitive political and social issues--from protests against 2017's immigration policy to the ongoing #MeToo movement. Increasingly employees are proving themselves powerful enough to force executive action. "At a time when the U.S. economy seems to be approaching full employment, employees have more influence over whether and how their leaders speak out," Alison Taylor writes...

Operationalizing ethics into data-age firms. There’s a reason why CIO Journal’s Morning Download daily roundup of technology news often reads like a docket for the Southern District of New York. Experts in computer science, data science and similar fields are not trained properly to think about ethical issues as it relates to their work and so “they don’t know how to have discussions about projects or technologies that may cause real-world harm,” write a trio of data experts—Mike Loukides,...

Good morning, CIOs. Nestlé SA is putting some of its Gerber baby food products on the blockchain, part of a wider food-industry exercise aimed at improving food recalls by using the technology behind bitcoin to trace ingredients worldwide. Chris Tyas, global head of supply chain at the Swiss company, tells CIO Journal’s Kim S. Nash, that the effort can generate consumer trust. “People want to know, quite rightly, where ingredients they give to their baby have come from,” he said. The food...