CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the role of the CIO has transcended simply managing IT infrastructure to becoming a pivotal player in enabling business strategy. Understanding the company’s competitive position allows IT leaders to mindfully act to implement technology for competitive advantage.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They understand that their strategies, capabilities, resources, and management systems should be configured to support the enterprise’s overarching purpose and goals. It allows businesses to be the best technologically enabled version of themselves,” Upchurch says. Here are 11 effective ways to reach that goal.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

Regardless of the driver of transformation, your companys culture, leadership, and operating practices must continuously improve to meet the demands of a globally competitive, faster-paced, and technology-enabled world with increasing security and other operational risks.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Why do people apply TDD? What Are the Real Reasons for Doing TDD? Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a controversial topic amongst developers. After many years of doing TDD daily, I think part of the reason is that some people do not fully grasp the reasons behind TDD. TDD and the Values of XP.

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Luis Goncalves

APRIL 11, 2025

While launching a startup is difficult, successfully scaling requires an entirely different skillset, strategy framework, and operational systems. This isn’t merely about hiring more salespeopleit’s about creating scalable systems efficiently converting prospects into customers. What Does Scaling a Startup Really Mean?

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Focused on digitization and innovation and closely aligned with lines of business, some 40% of IT leaders surveyed in CIO.com’s State of the CIO Study 2024 characterize themselves as transformational, while a quarter (23%) consider themselves functional: still optimizing, modernizing, and securing existing technology infrastructure.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Sameer Purao, who joined Celanese as CIO and CDO in 2021, is keeping the team and company focused by making change management a core competency of his team, and ensuring a focus on value, agility, and purpose. We’re also digitalizing the entire process so customers can see data specs and technical sheets, order intake and samples, and track.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Data architecture goals The goal of data architecture is to translate business needs into data and system requirements, and to manage data and its flow through the enterprise. Optimize data flows for agility. Limit the times data must be moved to reduce cost, increase data freshness, and optimize enterprise agility.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Standard maintenance for ECC is due to end on December 31, 2027, while the extended maintenance for on-premises SAP ERP systems is set to expire at the end of 2030. Systems that are relevant for the SAP ERP, private edition, transition option, need to be moved to SAP ERP, private edition prior to the end of 2030.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

From obscurity to ubiquity, the rise of large language models (LLMs) is a testament to rapid technological advancement. Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. In 2024, a new trend called agentic AI emerged. LLMs by themselves are not agents.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The status of digital transformation Digital transformation is a complex, multiyear journey that involves not only adopting innovative technologies but also rethinking business processes, customer interactions, and revenue models. Business is too dependent on technology as a key driver for both business value and differentiation.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

Cities like Samarkand, Constantinople and Alexandria became gravitational hubs, attracting merchants, culture and commerce due to their strategic locations. Merchants had to navigate complex toll systems imposed by regional rulers, much as cloud providers impose egress fees that make it costly to move data between platforms.

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CIO

APRIL 21, 2025

The new tariffs will not only drive up tech prices but also disrupt supply chains and weaken global IT spending this year, IDC warned in a blog post. As a result, CIOs and other tech leaders need to proactively analyze costs, diversify sourcing, optimize inventory, and prioritize the projects that dont sacrifice critical AI ambitions.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards. Moreover, undertaking digital transformation and technology modernization programs without an architect can lead to delays, technical debt , higher costs, and security vulnerabilities.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 7, 2025

Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) is a leading strategic data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry, empowering clients to strengthen operating efficiency, improve underwriting and claims outcomes, combat fraud, and make informed decisions about global risks.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Being ready means understanding why you need that technology and what it is. The time when Hardvard Business Review posted the Data Scientist to be the “Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” is more than a decade ago [1]. Dev ML teams work agile and experiment rapidly using PoC’s. Read along to learn more!

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The right tools and technologies can keep a project on track, avoiding any gap between expected and realized benefits. Clearing business strategy hurdles Choosing the right technologies to meet an organization’s unique AI goals is usually not straightforward. But this scenario is avoidable.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As cloud spending rises due to AI and other emerging technologies, Cloud FinOps has become essential for managing, forecasting, and optimising costs. Starting small, adopting agile practices, and balancing utility with cost can help you unlock these opportunities.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explained The Scaled Agile Framework encompasses a set of principles, processes, and best practices that helps larger organizations adopt agile methodologies , such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum , to deliver high-quality products and services faster.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The implications for cloud adoption are profound, as businesses increasingly rely on these technologies to drive digital transformation, optimize operations and gain competitive advantages. Capital One built Cloud Custodian initially to address the issue of dev/test systems left running with little utilization. Neglecting motivation.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

As Robert Blumofe, chief technology officer at Akamai Technologies, told The Wall Street Journal recently, “The goal is not to solve the business problem. These technologies often do not undergo a complete vetting process, are not inventoried, and stay under the radar. The goal is to adopt AI.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

. “We also connect to several social media platforms and for specific event types we use external data sources as for example USGS (United States Geological Survey) for earthquake data or GDACS (Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System) for weather information.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By ensuring that operational procedures and systems are efficiently implemented, the operations executive bridges the gap between strategic intent and practical execution. In many organizations, this role is instrumental in spearheading transformational initiatives, optimizing resource allocation, and enhancing overall organizational agility.

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CIO

JULY 2, 2024

Imagine navigating a rapidly changing landscape, where technology seems to evolve at the speed of light and the pressure to keep up is relentless — this is the reality for today’s CIO. Future proofing technology investments has become a critical imperative for organizations seeking to maintain their competitive edge.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

Agile project management definition Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In this era of digital transformation, companies face the challenge of quickly adapting to changing market requirements while implementing complex enterprise solutions like SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing). However, this agile transformation in SAP projects presents both opportunities and challenges.

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

As per the recent IDC InfoBrief “The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise”, open source software (OSS) is an important driver of enterprise digital innovation and provides greater agility, performance and security compared to proprietary software.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2022

From internal training materials to formal, technical communications to regulatory agencies, Lilly is translating information often,” says Timothy F. That married up well with an opportunity to explore and learn emerging technologies,” he says. “It The product was developed via a DevSecOps agile framework,” Coleman says.

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“We haven’t changed our forecast in three quarters,” he says, noting that the US gross domestic product (GDP) is, technically, already in recession territory and has been for the past six months. That’s certainly the case in the corporate technology group at Illinois Tool Works (ITW), a $14.5

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Today, as businesses grow increasingly complex and technological improvements develop at breakneck pace, portfolio company management must not only identify the most novel deployments of tech in their portfolio companies; they must start incorporating that tech into their own operations. Thats still a stretch for many firms.

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OverOps

JUNE 4, 2019

Some groups invest a lot in proactive quality management and planning, while others make do with patchwork systems and reactive programs aimed at solving problems after they occur. These are the costs associated with providing good-quality work products, systems or services. OSS) assessments Design and Code Reviews.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The advent of new technologies has accelerated the rate of innovation and disrupted the business landscape as we know it. As the pace of innovation speeds up, tomorrow’s front runners are those who readily embrace disruptive technologies to spearhead new business models and capture new avenues of growth.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Modern medical technology is restoring agility with artificial joints and minimally invasive procedures so we can all heal faster and live our best lives. On the purchasing side, employees struggled to work out which system to use resulting in purchasing workflows that were time consuming and error prone.

Technical Review 189

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This year, security and tech leaders have increased their focus on risks associated with third-party vendors and supply chain stakeholders, says Dave Stapleton, CISO at ProcessUnity. Key strategies for resilience A handful of emerging approaches and technologies are helping CIOs deliver better risk mitigation and resilience measures.

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CIO

JULY 24, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, agility is no longer just a buzzword — it’s a business imperative. This stark reality underscores a critical challenge facing CIOs: building and maintaining a technology portfolio that’s not just cutting-edge but also delivers tangible value.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

RMIT University is a center point of technology and design based in Melbourne, Australia. And this kind of environment enables a stronger tech workforce for the future. “My advice for aspiring CIOs, or any leader, is be open to growth,” he adds. What’s really important is the tech strategy has to be built with agility.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

You need tools that can grow as your data does while giving you visibility into your systems. The inability to make real-time, data-driven business decisions is due to underlying data challenges, with 98% of leaders struggling with some combination of data problems. Legacy systems can also play a part in tool sprawl.

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