Jim Love

I've been in IT and business for over 30 years. I worked my way up, literally from the mail room and I've done every job from mail clerk to CEO. Today I'm CIO and Chief Digital Officer of IT World Canada - Canada's leader in ICT publishing and digital marketing.

Articles by Jim Love

Canada’s cyber-cops – four stories about what they really do

For most Canadians, that’s what a cyber cop does. And nothing could be further from the truth. The reality is, it’s much more interesting than what we see on TV.

How strategic is your network?

It’s been almost four decades since Sun Microsystems’ employee John Gage announced in 1982 that the “network is the computer.” In a recent interview,...

Success at digital transformation? Make mistakes and think small

“Lessons learned and mistakes made in our digital journey” was the promised content of a panel at Gartner’s Symposium. The moderator of the panel...

A refreshingly realistic approach to digital transformation – Gartner’s first Canadian Symposium

The Gartner IT Symposium opened with an extremely optimistic view of Canada’s position in terms of digital transformation, and some practical steps to address...

New study shows government assistance is necessary to close cyber security gap

More than one in five Canadian companies say it was impacted by a cyber-attack last year according to a Statistics Canada survey from 2018. These...

Mendix – ‘A new and powerful maker movement aimed at enterprise application development?’

Low code and no code application development platforms have become a growing part of business user’s toolkits. For a few years now there have emerged...

The challenge of Cloud Security 2.0: Making that essential leap forward

In anticipation of the upcoming Cloud Security Summit set for Jan. 17  in Toronto,  ITWC CIO Jim Love sat down recently with Upa Campbell, Vice...

Five things I’m thinking about after a retreat with 30 CIOs

IT World Canada's own CIO reflects back on the five lessons he's taking away from the CanadianCIO Summit. From AI to ROI, he has a lot of data to process.

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