TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Software consultant Andrew Drach’s two companies Callentis and Solwey demonstrate his entrepreneurial skills, but his clients also value his educational background, as we learned through TechCrunch’s survey to identify the best software consultants for startups. Why did you choose the boutique consultancy model?

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

As SVP and CTO for the Boston Red Sox, Brian Shield is responsible for the strategic direction of technology, fan engagement, day-to-day IT operations, and cybersecurity in support of the team, their fans, and Fenway Sports Management. You have your full-time lineup of veteran leaders. Your very best are your all-stars.

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CTOvision

JUNE 7, 2014

Here are the details: If you’re trying to stay ahead of advanced persistent threats getting inside your network while working with shrinking budgets that impact headcount and training, then you know that defending your enterprise isn’t easy. Manual remediation is costly and requires manpower and time you don’t have.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.”

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CTOvision

MAY 30, 2014

Here are the details: If you’re trying to stay ahead of advanced persistent threats getting inside your network while working with shrinking budgets that impact headcount and training, then you know that defending your enterprise isn’t easy. Manual remediation is costly and requires manpower and time you don’t have.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“Some organizations have been innovating, transforming, and growing so fast that they haven’t had time to clear up older cost structures that start getting in the way,” says Stewart Buchanan, research vice president on Gartner’s CIO team. Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. But it’s not the only one.

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CIO

MARCH 21, 2023

“A pragmatic and structured architectural approach when moving to the cloud is critical,” says William Peldzus, senior director and Center of Excellence head with enterprise consulting firm Capgemini Americas. You must ensure at the start of the project that you have a full, holistic cloud budget,” Matin advises.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

During the 2008–2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and subsequent recession, researchers noted that cybercrime rates increased dramatically. It attributed the rise to the proliferation of new technologies in regions around the world, with many more people than ever before possessing IT skills.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“Very often, IT teams don’t consider other, non-IT, activities that can affect their user base and their ability to collaborate,” says Seth Lively, US digital lead at IT consulting firm PA Consulting. Confusion results when the initiative inadvertently ruins departmental synchronization.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2022

Successful AI teams also include a range of people who understand the business and the problems it’s trying to solve, says Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst for AI platforms, analytics, and data management at consulting firm Omdia.

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CIO

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

Therefore, always-lurking tech debt gets put on the backburner, says Daniel Saroff, group vice president for consulting and research at IDC. Tech debt is boring Company boards and CEOs are putting pressure on CIOs to find innovative uses for AI, and the need for better cybersecurity never goes way. It’s not a sexy subject,” he says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. You might have the CIO rolled into a different role, or you might be able to merge the CIO and CTO,” he says.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Office of Management and Budget. Independent Consultant. Director of Research. Director, Emerging Technology Center. Chief Information Security Officer. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). Office of Naval Research. Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

“Many organizations still depend on legacy technologies that are costly to maintain, inflexible, and not compatible with modern, agile development practices,” says Christopher Gilchrist, principal analyst at Forrester Research. As former CTO and head of digital at Harley-Davidson Motor Co.,

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The value of addressing cybersecurity issues through ongoing discussions is getting corporate alignment on effective and robust strategies, says Roger Albrecht, co-lead of the cybersecurity unit at technology research and advisory firm ISG. Do we address cyber scenarios to the extent that we should? Planning is critical, Folk says.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs.

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

If that customer switches their $1M/year budget to Snowflake, then about $400k 7 goes back to AWS, making AWS about $200k in gross profits. Snowflake's projected 8 2022 research and development costs are 20% of revenue, and their sales and marketing costs are 48%! That seems kind of bad for AWS? I'm not so sure?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

To name a few — products and services that are delivered on time and on budget, and overall IT ROI.” Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. Metrics provide a means to monitor progress.” Here they are.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Delivering on time and on budget Completing software projects in a timely manner while staying within budget is a long-time challenge of software development. On time and on budget are much easier to judge with the finger on the pulse of expectations of both the users and the developers.” What we can’t measure we can’t improve.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

We are giving our budget and proposed projects more scrutiny to invest in areas that have clear attribution toward generated increased revenue, more efficiencies, lower costs, and improved workplace experiences,” Srivastava says. We believe that smart technology still holds the biggest promise to improve our client’s operations,” he says.

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

The State of the CIO research confirms that observation, with 70% of CIOs listing cybersecurity as an area of increasing involvement, coming in just after AI. And CIOs said the need for security improvements is the top driver of IT budget increases.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

To do so, we polled a half-dozen veteran CIOs and researchers to share what they’ve found to be the most common mistakes that rookie CIOs make — and how to avoid them. But rookie CIOs don’t often take that message to heart, according to both researchers and experienced CIOs. Overlooking process and the technology itself.

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

And if the initiative misses its goal, or runs over budget, the CIO’s job may be at stake. The goal isn’t to restructure with nothing remaining from what was valuable and meaningful,” says Andrew Sinclair, a managing director in consulting firm Accenture’s technology strategy and advisory practice.

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Such rivals can prevent you from receiving sufficient budget, successfully implementing vital business initiatives, and steering your organization in the right direction. Gold Associates, a business consulting and research firm. They must be dealt with but doing so can be tricky. Gold, president and principal analyst at J.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

Chris Bowers,CIO of Boston Consulting Group, puts it this way: “In 2024, we’re going to go after generative AI very aggressively. That’s the case for Yi Zhou, CTO and CIO with Adaptive Biotechnologies. Rob Waddell, EVP and CIO of Eliassen Group, provider of professional services, consulting, and talent solutions, is one of them.

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

Internet2® is a member-owned, advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions in 1996. research and education organizations to solve common technology challenges, and to develop innovative solutions in support of their educational, research, clinical and community service missions.

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2024

All OpenAI usage accretes to Microsoft because ChatGPT runs on Azure infrastructure, even when not branded as Microsoft OpenAI Services (although not all the LLMs Microsoft uses for AI services in its own products are from OpenAI; others are created by Microsoft Research). A data leakage plan helps here too. “As

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CIO

MARCH 16, 2023

Mike Bechtel, chief futurist for Deloitte Consulting, cautions that adoption of AI for enhancing IT operations and employee productivity will require a new level of trust in the technology. “An Virtual and hybrid work is here to stay,” Matin says, “and I think that’s a great thing for technologists.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But for Kapil Mehrotra, group CTO at National Collateral Management Services (NCMS), high turnover presented an opportunity to cut costs of the IT department, streamline its operations, and find a long-term solution to the perpetual skills scarcity problem. In addition, Mehrotra also got the freshers certified. IT Skills

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2023

As many CIOs prepare their 2024 budgets and digital transformation priorities, developing a strategy that seeks opportunities to evolve business models, targets near-term operational impacts, prioritizes where employees should experiment, and defines AI-related risk-mitigating plans is imperative.

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CTOvision

MAY 22, 2014

Management will study the need of information security policies and assign a budget to implement security policies. Ideally it should be the case that an analyst will research and write policies specific to the organization. Legal experts need to be consulted if you want to know what level of encryption is allowed in an area.

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