CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When addressed properly , application and platform modernization drives immense value and positions organizations ahead of their competition, says Anindeep Kar, a consultant with technology research and advisory firm ISG. As a first step, Thorogood recommends identifying the most logical pathway to modernization.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As technologies evolve, CIOs still need to build mutual commitment and support for IT initiatives,” says tech consultant and author Gerald Leonard. For example, it’s easy to build the capability to answer questions related to HR policies. You can’t ignore what’s going on in the world,” he says.

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CIO

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Your communication strategy is lacking Leaders often overlook the importance of building strong communication links between management and team members, says Pavlo Tkhir, CTO at software development firm Euristiq. Providing employee support during changes is one of the key features of a good change management initiative, he states.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

Jim Chilton is an award-winning CIO who serves as the chief technology officer of Cengage Group, an innovative disruptor in the edtech space. As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2025

Im really keen to see how agentic AI is suited for driving sales conversions by enabling sales teams to strategically target clients offering the highest potential returns, adds Rebecca Fox, group CIO at NCC Group, a large cybersecurity consulting firm. One specific example is order processing.

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

For example, the previous best model, GPT-4o, could only solve 13% of the problems on the International Mathematics Olympiad, while the new reasoning model solved 83%. Its extremely good at reasoning through logic-types of problems, says Sheldon Monteiro, chief product officer at Publicis Sapient.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Baker says productivity is one of the main areas of gen AI deployment for the company, which is now available through Office 365, and allows employees to do such tasks as summarize emails, or help with PowerPoint and Excel documents. Registered investment advisors, for example, have to jump over a few hurdles when deploying new technologies.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Salesforce, for example, offers three pricing models: one that includes 1,000 Agentforce conversations free with its Salesforce Foundations CRM service; another included with its standard success plan; and $2 per conversation a la carte. Vendors could also charge a small price per audio input or output.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2025

An example of the new reality comes from Salesforce. One factor that is affecting demand for developers is a drop in the number of mobile apps being built, says Elin Thomasian, senior vice president for workforce strategy and consulting at TalentNeuron, a labor market intelligence firm. The job will evolve as most jobs have evolved.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

CIOs must take an active role in educating their C-suite counterparts about the strategic applications of technologies like, for example, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain, and cloud computing. Risk management is equally vital, particularly as organizations adopt modern technologies. federal agencies.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In September, for example, OpenAI released a new model that claims to have unprecedented reasoning abilities in math and science. Steve Ross, director of cybersecurity for the Americas at S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting, says gen AI can reduce a day’s worth of research to a single hour, but not without a catch. “It

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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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. In baseball, you start with a farm system of young, capable talent.

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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

JULY 15, 2022

We had five different forecast engines running in the company through various acquisitions,” says Lars Ewe, who inherited the thorny IT environment when he joined as CTO in February 2020. For example, Ewe didn’t want to lose the data those other engines worked with. So he had it all cleaned up and consolidated into a common store.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2025

Linting tools are purely mechanical processes which evaluate your code and flag instances where, for example, the code has too many if/then/else branches, or if a class or method body has grown too long, says Qwoted CTO Kevin Trowbridge. Enhanced linting.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For example, the database team we worked with in an organization new to the cloud launched all the AWS RDS database servers from dev through production, incurring a $600K a month cloud bill nine months before the scheduled production launch. This lack of engagement results in inertia and minimal progress.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. For example, organizations that build an AI solution using Open AI need to consider more than the AI service. Adding vaults is needed to secure secrets.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Consulting giant Deloitte says 70% of business leaders have moved 30% or fewer of their experiments into production. He’s also adding other emerging technologies, including using Freshworks’ generative tool, Freddy AI, to summarise service requests. These issues mean many gen AI projects remain stuck at the prototyping stage.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Angel investors in this round include HackerOne co-founder and CTO Alex Rice; Sounil Yu, the former chief security scientist at Bank of America; Omkhar Arasaratnam, the former head of Data Protection Technology at JPMorgan Chase and toDay Ventures.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

IT analyst Forrester listed gen AI for language and AI agents as two of its top 10 emerging technologies for 2024. European ridesharing and delivery service Bolt, for example, has deployed an intelligent chatbot to deal with most customer complaints, creating a huge cost savings.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They tested the prompts, modified them to give better examples, changed the wording of what was being asked from the LLM and kept testing. Even at fractions of a penny per token, this ends up being tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. And one million output records in each of the eight files.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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TechEmpower CTO

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? Who are the customers?

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Tillemann-Dick, who previously led Boston Consulting Group’s quantum practice, also noted that the team was able to design the unit from the ground up and in the process, it was able to bring a human-centric design philosophy to a business that traditionally never focused on making its machinery easy to use.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The wealth technology company was co-founded in 2019 by Taylor Matthews and Brad Genser, who say Farther is “a new kind of financial institution” catering to high-net-worth professionals building generational wealth but want the freedom of both an automated system and a professional. Advisors set the costs for using the platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Angel investors like Ham Serunjogi, co-founder and CEO of Chipper Cash; Josh Jones, former co-founder and CTO, Dreamhost; and Tayo Oviosu, co-founder and CEO of Paga also participated. A notable example is Kenya’s Africa Talking. “That got me to start thinking about multichannel messaging.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 6, 2022

I then spent six years as a CTO, although I managed the data team directly for a long time and would occasionally write some data code. I spent a lot of time as a CTO, and if I had to condense how to make engineers productive into one thing, it would be something like: make the feedback loops fast. Most of my career has been in data.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

For example, most say they love both technology and problem-solving — a combination that often got them interested in the IT profession in the first place. For example, he took on the CTO role at Rodan + Fields because he “liked the appeal of being part of the product.” Second, be intentional. Curiosity tops his list. “I

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

” The model was trained on more than 100,000 hours of audio, in consultation with journalists and audio editors. For example, here are the clips chosen from the three most recent episodes of the Original Content podcast — our reviews of “Soul,” “The White Tiger” and “Bridgerton.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

“We allow businesses to increase user acquisition, reduce onboarding dropoff, provide 360 customer support and even sell their services, with minimum tech requirements from their end,” said co-founder and Maite Muniz , who serves as the startup’s chief product officer and is a former McKinsey consultant.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 16, 2020

It plans to anonymize data such as abrupt slowdowns at specific locations, for example, and use it in two ways: The first is to warn riders of unexpected road hazards or poorly designed intersections. ”—Stephen Ridley, founder and chief technology officer, Senrio.

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CIO

JULY 31, 2024

In the US, for example, the three biggest mobile network providers are ahead of the curve, but they still have a lot to do. You need to have a good throughput so the data gets around really fast in a power plant, for example, where you could have million-dollar high pressure turbines and generators operating.”

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Based on my posts Startup CTO or Developer and Acting CTO , Chris O’Meara wrote an interesting post Startup CTO: Could It Work? They tend to have the programming background to lead competent people by example and dig in and prove it where necessary. It's about leading by example. I love blog conversations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

While the tranche is a fraction of the startup’s previous raise ($70 million), Mythic claims that the tranche will enable it to bring its “next-generation” product — an improved energy-efficient AI processor — to market.

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