CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

And how can organizations thrive in an era of disruption? We asked Bryan Harris, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of analytics software company SAS, for his perspective. Q: What is your advice to technology leaders for improving organizational resiliency? What is the future of analytics and AI?

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CIO

MAY 16, 2024

With 43% of CTOs reporting up to another IT leader or LOB executive, according to the 2024 State of the CIO survey , and just 38% having a budget separate from IT, as change agents they can find themselves in a difficult spot. Where CTOs have execution responsibility and not just vision makes [the job] easier.”

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CIO

MARCH 22, 2023

That’s no small undertaking, and as CTO for the company, it’s Marc Hale’s core responsibility to help achieve that goal by providing a secure and stable platform on which the business can operate and innovate. “As So building a cohesive internal culture is integral to IT success, as well as achieving personal and professional goals.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Employee engagement is the feeling of connection, commitment, and dedication that an employee has toward their work, teammates, workplace, and organization at large. Those lucky few find meaning in their work, feel connected to their team and organization, and feel proud of what they do. The trick, of course, is doing this well.

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Modern CTO

AUGUST 26, 2024

Today, we’re talking to Zach Goldberg, CTO at Gruntwork and Executive Leadership Coach. We discuss the biggest takeaways from his book, “The Startup CTO’s Handbook,” what mistakes CTOs keep making, the ethics baked into AI, and much more. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Until recently, technology was often seen as a mere expense rather than a catalyst for innovation and business growth. While this perception persists in many organizations, a shift is underway. This makes us invaluable strategic partners, a resource that needs to be utilized to the detriment of organizations. IT’s image problem?

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CIO

AUGUST 16, 2024

Load a smart read onto your phone or e-reader or crack the spine of a new book and delve into some thought leadership on everything from leading an amazing team to building a productive company culture to reaching for a better mindset for guiding your organization forward. Timeless lessons indeed.”

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

They are a director of engineering at a midsize startup and just got their first headhunter inquiry for a CTO role. I realized that while there are some books on technology leadership careers, there aren’t many resources explaining the most senior levels. I’ve been a CTO for five and a half years.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Now that organizations have returned to a new (somewhat) normal, CIOs appear to be focused on getting back to basics — and untangling tech debt incurred in making it through the past few years. Recruiting, retainment, and yes, adoption of lead-edge technology, are back on the radar of IT leaders. How do we get the talent we need?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Technology moves so quickly, and cultures are going through so much transformation, that the company the IT director left is likely to be very different today,” Heller says. Previous relationships can help a boomerang leader get quickly up to speed, but unchecked assumptions about the culture can be a derailer.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Every IT leader wants to create a fast, efficient, and innovative IT organization. To establish a high-performing IT culture, IT leaders must be able to push their teams to the limit without crippling morale. This will show the team that leadership has put real consideration behind the approach and is willing to assist when needed.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Leading this mission is Chief Technology Officer, Rafael Sousa, whose dedication to leveraging innovative technology has earned him widespread recognition and respect in the healthcare community. See how your healthcare organization can innovate without disruption, and learn more about HNIPO’s story here.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

“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. Restructuring can create uncertainty and stress in an organization, and it shouldn’t be used lightly or regularly, Sinclair explains.

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Modern CTO

MAY 30, 2024

Today we’re talking to Abhimanyu Verma, CTO at SOPHiA GENETICS. We discuss how their innovative technology is making cancer less scary, the necessary considerations of data in healthcare, and how AI is playing a central role in paving these paths. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2023

Whether it’s a very strategic, top-down transformation initiative, a bottom-up effort to scale a successful pilot, or something in between – every organization is recognizing the need to change the way they operate in order to create and deliver customer value more effectively. VSM is very much driven by digital transformation.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As countless organizations race to investigate or adopt artificial intelligence technologies, many are building out an AI skilled workforce. That includes the decision to appoint or hire a chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). Ozzie Coto, chief AI officer and CTO at The Cult Branding Co.,

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Organizations must grapple with delivering an effective digital experience to employees.” The government organization found labor productivity, or output per hour, declining in six of 10 quarters between the fourth quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2023, with a flat number in a seventh quarter.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

We sought technology leaders who could advise on succeeding fast, along with creating a strong organization, developing team leaders, leveraging the support of peers, and specifically how to streamline day-to-day management of a technology group. One day, your employee should say, ‘Yes, my manager helped my career progress.’”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

One of the biggest mistakes organizations can make when implementing AI for customer experience is prioritizing efficiency over ethical, humane interactions,” says Nisreen Ameen, senior lecturer in digital marketing and director of the Digital Organisation and Society Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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CIO

MAY 18, 2023

For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Conscious of the recent history of disruption to financial services, the sector’s technology leaders are already looking for opportunities in AI. Generative AI is starting off a new age of exploration in IT,” says Frank Schmidt, CTO at insurance firm Gen Re. One such organization that’s taken this route is Genpact.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

An increasing number of organizations are adopting microservices, the loosely-coupled, independently-deployable services that together make up an app. According to the same O’Reilly survey, company culture and integrating with holdover systems have become major challenges in the microservices arena.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A survey of 415 CIOs and CTOs conducted by Transposit, a DevOps process orchestration platform provider, finds that as organizations continue to adopt DevOps processes more widely, friction between these types of senior IT leaders is rising within many organizations.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

CXOs even ask AIs about where they think their organizations are inefficient, and then compare those responses to what they get from management consulting firms, he says, which is very expensive. 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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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Mattias Goehler , CTO EMEA for Zendesk will share how some of the key customer experience trends play their role and what to consider when looking at future investment. By 2025, more than 50% of IT organizations will use digital employee experience to prioritize and measure digital initiative success.

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CIO

AUGUST 5, 2024

Sangeeta, co-founder of Gotara, an organization that helps women in STEM thrive. Creating a stronger belief in the organization’s vision can make a critical difference in terms of productivity and team unity. This resulted in greater trust in the organization as a whole.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

A virtual assistant may save employees time when searching for old documents or composing emails, but most organizations have no idea how much time those tasks have taken historically, having never tracked such metrics before, she says. There are a lot of cool AI solutions that are cheaper than generative AI,” Stephenson says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Hall of Fame CIO Barbara Cooper is known for navigating multiple cultures as CIO of Toyota North America, while also leading Toyota University and founding the first women’s network. In her last operational role, she held both the CTO and chief people officer roles.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

Call it survival instincts: Risks that can disrupt an organization from staying true to its mission and accomplishing its goals must constantly be surfaced, assessed, and either mitigated or managed. Is the organization transforming fast enough? Now, add data, ML, and AI to the areas driving stress across the organization.

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CIO

JULY 20, 2022

At Gusto, diversity and inclusion is baked into the corporate culture, which has helped create a cybersecurity team that is reasonably reflective of gender and racial diversity, according to Frederick “Flee” Lee, the company’s chief security officer. Grace Brosnon, chief technology officer, City of Tacoma.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

Despite that prescience, and the flexibility of information technology as a term, many today argue that calling the CIO’s organization “information technology” or “IT” has lived its course. Provide tangible steps to improve the organization, target at least one key pain point, and identify several quick wins.”

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

As organizations roll out AI applications and AI-enabled smartphones and devices, IT leaders may need to sell the benefits to employees or risk those investments falling short of business expectations. They need to have a culture of experimentation.” But 35% also said they felt cautious about AI, 26% skeptical, and 25% uncertain.

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CIO

JULY 3, 2024

Based on the company’s experience, and that of other CIOs elsewhere, four lessons can be distilled to help organizations develop their own approach to AI governance. In fact, according to Planview CTO Mik Kersten, because most AI policy is about data, it should be easy to leverage existing frameworks.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Christian Spannbauer, CTO for the Digital Hangar, spoke with CIO.com from Barcelona about the impact of this new initiative for the official flag carrier airline of Germany, which, as a founding member of the Star Alliance network, has become a truly global airline. “We It’s also about agile ways of working, and the need to be empowered.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Organizations are only capable of absorbing a certain amount of change. Brian Jackson, research director in the CIO practice at Info-Tech Research Group, has studied how CIOs tackle their first 100 days in the role and has found that many new IT chiefs think there’s no need to clean house. Failing to assess the culture early on.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Mitch Ashley talks with Ryan Kovar, distinguished tech security technologist and leader of SURGe with Splunk, and Cory Minton, field CTO for The Americas with Splunk, about building a dynamic and resilient organization.

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