CIO

AUGUST 15, 2023

But CIOs are cautiously evaluating how to safely deploy generative AI in the enterprise, and what guard-rails to put around it. To help IT leaders keep tabs on their exposure to generative AI, CIO.com offers this round-up of the latest generative AI announcements from some of the major enterprise software vendors.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Defining the position of the lead security person in an enterprise can be a challenging and sometimes confusing task. Below is a list of security initiatives that a security leader would either manage or have parallel impact upon within a business: Data security. Vendor management. Identity & Access Management (IAM).

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

But whether you’re on the management track or have your eye on an IT management career, any one of these 20 IT management certifications should help give you a leg up in the industry. This certification will show you’re capable of dealing with any security threats, and well-versed on the requirements for IT governance.

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is a technology leader hired on a temporary or part-time basis, explains Peter Kirkwood, corporate strategy leader at management consulting and strategy advisory firm Zinnov. It’s not uncommon for a middle-market enterprise to operate without a CIO, Hartman says. What services do fractional CIOs provide?

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

If the CrowdStrike outage underscored anything for CIOs, it’s that modern enterprises are dependent on a growing number of interconnected systems, any one of which can cripple business operations beyond CIOs’ control. Although not implemented yet, we will be making it part of our vendor management and selection processes.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Enterprises are better off being model agnostic. In the end, were likely headed for a hybrid future, says Sreekanth Menon, global head of AI at Genpact. Both open and closed-source models have their place, despite the popular sentiment of open source takeover, he says.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That means we need to draw off the car, and feed into the car, lots of data from our enterprise,” he says, so at the intersection of product engineering and enterprise IT, “you’ve got an acute level of synergy in terms of cloud, software engineering standards, integration, and APIs.”

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. Equally telling is another statistic from that research: Just 35% of these enterprises have achieved their digital goals or are on track to do so.

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2024

Vendor management Gen AI is more than just choosing between a free, insecure, public chatbot and a private, controlled one. For many companies, an employee’s main interaction with gen AI will come through the enterprise and productivity software they’re already using. Dana-Farber was no exception. “We

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2024

What happens when a supplier goes under The disappearance of a company that supplies technological assets to your enterprise can present huge challenges, especially if it has supplied a significant part of the infrastructure. So too are robust vendor management practices.

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CIO

JANUARY 3, 2024

An enterprise that bet its future on ChatGPT would be in serious trouble if the tool disappeared and all of OpenAI’s APIs suddenly stopped working. So enterprises looking for generative AI vendors have a lot of options to choose from. And it’s not just start-ups that can expose an enterprise to AI-related third-party risk.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. And the costs recur monthly or quarterly,” Upchurch says.

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

Prices are increasing, and negotiation is becoming more difficult,” agrees Melanie Alexander, senior director analyst on Gartner’s sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. Vendors are not granting the same concessions they have in the past.” CIO, IT Leadership, Outsourcing

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

In this quarter, 74% of large enterprises report having FinOps teams and processes in place, up from 61% in 2022,” he says. Those enterprises reported a 30 to 35% cost savings in the first year after implementing FinOps teams and tools. Jensen says many large organizations already have built these organizations. “In

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

According to IDC’s July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending (FERS) survey of 856 senior IT and business managers in large enterprises, the IT line items most affected, in addition to rising tech salaries, include SaaS and PaaS costs. And you have to partner with your vendors.”

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CIO

MAY 29, 2024

And from the point of view of my own enterprise, if one of the benefits of AI is it saves me from sending somebody on a flight from New York to London, I’ve offset the consumption.” Ultimately enterprises will have to measure energy consumption — and that might be on a per-query basis, where the smaller models do much better.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Cognitio leverages an extraordinary track record of protecting some of the nation’s greatest secrets and delivering actionable intelligence to the nation’s top leaders in order to help companies across disparate industries to effectively manage technology, maximize technology investments and reduce overall institutional risk.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2024

Overspend in cloud deployment Money wasted on an untargeted cloud strategy has serious consequences to the enterprise. According to IT managers, there are deficits in how these tools are handled, and as a result, complaints increase that the tools can’t sufficiently illuminate cause-and-effect mechanisms regarding cloud spend.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company chose a price disruption strategy to swiftly dethrone Samsung from its leadership position in the Indian smartphone market, making it one of the trailblazers in the first wave of cheap, sub-$200 smartphones. “Indian vendors were just not able to compete in any of these levers — product, marketing, channel, etc.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2018

The majority of people working in enterprise IT today, that's who. Enterprise tech labor is highly codified (bounded responsibilities) and stratified (seniority). Over-exposure to enterprise change programs - or more likely, over-exposure to failed enterprise change programs - won't inspire enthusiasm for yet another one.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 16, 2021

The roadmap that you’ll put together will be detailed with a targeted list of projects on a three-year timeline ; however, the strategy is a one pager: Youi will use it to explain your strategy to your team, your leadership and to your board. Governance. CIOs need to understand that they can’t do it all by themselves. Governance.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Those companies that ‘sweat’ their capabilities continuously improve them and sustainably capture the top-line growth in their industries and, ultimately, market leadership. What many people don’t realize is that CDS can be implemented at any level—function, business unit, subsidiary, enterprise.

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CIO

AUGUST 22, 2023

Others who believe the term digital transformation is watered down take a more cynical tack, viewing it as a phrase leaders use to garner support for technology investments and vendors use to sell their newest capabilities. When working with teams, they should simplify vendor management and reporting, including financial and other KPIs.

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CIO

JULY 24, 2024

And whether it does or not, that’s a question for ethicists and government regulators, not CIOs deploying enterprise AI solutions. For enterprises, this means understanding their interests perhaps compete with those of other firms in the market, vendors, and customers. Finetuning needs a data set the size of between 0.5%

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In other words, enterprises’ Y2K projects succeeded because of their urgency. If projects start to lag, or if enthusiasm wanes, it’s time for CIOs and project managers to check in. In the vendor area, management changes happen most often when companies merge or are acquired. Other IT projects aren’t like that.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In an era marked by heightened environmental, social and governance (ESG) scrutiny and rapid artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, the integration of actionable sustainable principles in enterprise architecture (EA) is indispensable. Is your IT sustainable? since 2007. Cost and resource optimization Cost efficiency. Resource utilization.

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2025

Copilot Studio allows enterprises to build autonomous agents, as well as other agents that connect CRM systems, HR systems, and other enterprise platforms to Copilot. Then in November, the company revealed its Azure AI Agent Service, a fully-managed service that lets enterprises build, deploy and scale agents quickly.

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CIO

JANUARY 16, 2025

On a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , we unpacked Hicks leadership playbook with a focus on many of the answer the call moments that have set him apart as an industry innovator. A lot of companies that did outsourcing have found themselves in a situation where they have a lot of vendor managers versus technologists.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But many enterprises stopped their agile transformations at this layer. Some did manage to scale agile and leverage frameworks to create process standards and improve IT practices. Product management addresses the complexities of market research and product strategy definition.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2025

FinOps finally became ubiquitous across the enterprise landscape last year with 75% of Forbes Global 2000 companies now all-in, according to IDC. Were moving FinOps practices into larger scopes of vendors, says Jennifer Hays, SVP and head of engineering excellence and accessibility at Fidelity Investments.

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2025

Large software vendors are used to solving the integration problems that enterprises deal with on a daily basis, says Lee McClendon, chief digital and technology officer at software testing company Tricentis. Test every vendors knowledge of AI The large enterprise application vendors are not AI companies, Helmer says.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Louis-based KnowledgeLake, a cloud-native enterprise content management (ECM) platform provider. Democratize — and take care of your users The transition to cloud offerings means yielding some control to external vendors, but security, of course, remains paramount, says Porter. This doesn’t mean IT can drop the ball.

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