Features September 2018

Having completed the exceedingly rare Triple Crown on June 9 at Belmont Park, Justify didn’t make it to the Saratoga Race Course for the start of its 40-day summer season the following month. Seems the prize thoroughbred’s right front leg was swollen and his owners didn’t want to put him at further risk. Besides, Justify […]

When a seasoned chief information officer talks about building a department from the ground up, it’s fair to infer that the company in question is still in the startup phase—young, unproven, desperately in need of a foundation. Make no such judgements in the case of veteran CIO Marc Johnson, whose latest role finds him tasked […]

Should anyone still need convincing that a corporate info-tech department is more investment than cost, they’d be well-advised to consider the progress that U.S. Venture has made on Mark Duening’s watch. A heavyweight in the distribution and marketing of energy, automotive and lubricant products in the United States and Canada, the Wisconsin company was behind […]

He may be chief information officer, but Elvis Cernjul knows the real reason the Perfectly Posh personal-care products company brought him aboard in 2016. “It’s all about customer service,” the personable and to-the-point Cernjul tells Toggle in August from the company’s base in Salt Lake City, Utah. “It’s the differentiator in today’s market world. You’ve […]

Simita Mishra has a vision for what she says is the not-so-distant future of health care. It’s one in which patients will have the tools to monitor and manage their health and well-being—all while keeping their physicians informed and in the loop. Providers, in turn, will be able to access resources to not only keep […]

As LeBron James hits his fourth consecutive three-pointer, bringing the Los Angeles Lakers to within a bucket of your beloved Utah Jazz, your hands heave in disbelief. Within seconds, the right side of the screen flashes a fascinating stat: It’s the first time in three years that James has hit four straight treys. After the […]

Shopping online for groceries has been slow to catch on, the reasons being easy to understand. Most of us, after all, want to examine perishables before loading them into the cart. Especially if we’re heeding the doctor’s advice about eating more fruits, vegetables, fish and lean meats. But that doesn’t mean the grocery industry’s modus […]

It’s odd, muses Chris Hartley, how the housing industry seems a stride or more behind the rest of the business world when it comes to harnessing technology. A home, after all, is most everyone’s biggest investment. Smart would be the homebuilder who uses info-tech to attract and service buyers, especially those of a new generation. […]

It’s early June, and in hundreds of high-school classrooms throughout Georgia’s Bibb County School District (BCSD), students are rapidly tapping and scrolling on their laptops. An air of focus fills the room, so quiet you can practically hear the hands of the clock. To an observer, the attendant task seems like a standard class assignment—a […]

It’s the last week in July, and at Pickens Elementary in Pickens, South Carolina, dozens of students are filing off the bus and into the modest brick school. Over the next four hours, instructors will conduct a series of reading lessons via newly issued iPads. Once the day’s learning is done, the buses will return […]