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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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Additionally, the cost of cyber disruption will increase next year as businesses experience downtime due to cyberattacks and scramble to implement defenses fit for the AI-enabled attacker era. In 2025, attackers will begin developing and testing generative AI technologies to use over the next 3-5 years.

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. Unfortunately, the road to data strategy success is fraught with challenges, so CIOs and other technology leaders need to plan and execute carefully. Overlooking these data resources is a big mistake.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2024

The early bills for generative AI experimentation are coming in, and many CIOs are finding them more hefty than they’d like — some with only themselves to blame. CIOs are also turning to OEMs such as Dell Project Helix or HPE GreenLake for AI, IDC points out.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

AUGUST 6, 2024

I explored how Bedrock enables customers to build a secure, compliant foundation for generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock equips you with a powerful and comprehensive toolset to transform your generative AI from a one-size-fits-all solution into one that is finely tailored to your unique needs.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

Generative AI has been hyped so much over the past two years that observers see an inevitable course correction ahead — one that should prompt CIOs to rethink their gen AI strategies. Operating profit gains from AI doubled to nearly 5% between 2022 and 2023, with the figure expected to reach 10% by 2025, she adds.

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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

APRIL 25, 2024

Since IBM’s software business has been on the rise in recent times and its consulting business is not doing that great, this (HashiCorp’s acquisition) makes a right fit there,” said Techarc’s chief analyst and founder, Faisal Kawoosa.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

At Emburse, an expense reimbursement company, software developers use code generation tools like Github Copilot and Amazon Q Developer, which integrate directly into developer environments, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. Theyre used to automate code generation, improve code structure, and even identify potential defects.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

And online education company Pluralsight conducted a survey of IT professionals in the US and UK and found that 74% worried AI tools will make many of their daily skills obsolete. For the rest, gen AI will greatly augment the power and value of the role of the CIO, he says. But their role isn’t going away.

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CIO

APRIL 8, 2024

“Technology such as AI is redefining business models, requiring organizations to make the seismic shift from a novice technology organization to a mature and trusted leader,’’ says Raj Sharma, consulting vice chair at EY Americas. “As Increasingly, new C-suite roles with a tech bent are permeating companies.

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CIO

JULY 1, 2024

When Morgan Stanley announced its new generative AI support tools for financial advisors last week, it talked about gaining efficiencies from its notetaking abilities. Jonathan Murray, the chief strategy officer at marketing firm Mod Op, agreed that the Morgan Stanley AI move has significant analytics potential.

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CIO

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the rush to establish technical strategies for making good on the promise of generative AI, many CIOs find themselves running headlong into what may be their most challenging task yet: preparing their organization’s end-users — from knowledge workers and assembly line laborers to doctors, accountants, and lawyers — to co-exist with generative AI.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2023

With that in mind, we asked tech leaders in various roles and industries to list what technologies they think are overhyped and to put a more realistic spin on each one’s potential. Generative AI Perhaps not surprisingly, generative AI tops the list of today’s overhyped tech. Here’s what they say on the topic.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Caldas says that innovation today includes the adoption of promising new technologies, such as generative AI and open frameworks. Caldas has no doubt that technology is a key differentiator. “We We have aligned our technology strategy to be a business strategy,” she says. “We

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CIO

OCTOBER 9, 2024

So it’s no surprise that every respondent said that when it comes to gen AI, they’ll either be using it, testing it, or planning projects with it over the next 18 months. FOMO is absolutely real, especially when it looks like every organization has some sort of AI strategy,” says Alla Valente, an analyst at Forrester Research.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

Moreover, they agree that those characteristics as well as several career-related strategies they also share have helped them advance their careers. 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. Second, be intentional.

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CIO

MAY 14, 2024

Officials from the White House, the US Department of State, and the US Department of Commerce will meet Chinese representatives in Geneva for the talks, which are aimed at exchanging views on understanding and addressing the risks of advanced AI systems.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

His goal is to surface answers to those big questions and to “ensure all departments within our organization understand how AI assists with their day-to-day tasks and how to use it properly and safely.” Achieve aggressive AI goals That’s not to suggest CIOs are slowing down their AI work. We’re piloting, PoC-ing.

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CIO

MAY 5, 2023

Niki Allen, chief information technology and operations officer and vice president of infrastructure and operations, for Boeing Information Technology & Data Analytics, and Rona Bunn, CIO of NACD will offer practical strategies to lead the digital journey and avoid burnout, as well as answer audience questions in an open discussion.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

On the one hand, artificial intelligence has helped both technology departments and the business units to work better, faster, and cheaper. We had to drop some critical projects to all of a sudden deal with AI as it came to the forefront very quickly.” It hit us all and kept us from looking at the things we were working on,” he says.

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2024

I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. The uses of storytelling Storytelling can be used to persuade senior executives to release budget, plot a change in strategy, or share good and bad news.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AIs, a form of technology designed to run specific functions within an organization without human intervention, are gaining traction as enterprises look to automate business workflows, augment the output of human workers, and derive value from generative AI. Kumar adds.

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CIO

JULY 4, 2023

It’s not uncommon for CIOs, CISOs, and sometimes their direct reports to be called on to participate in board meetings or to present IT strategies and plans to their boards of directors. Make sure you work with this champion outside of the board setting to ensure alignment and adoption of your technology strategy.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The rate of companies that have either already deployed generative AI or are actively exploring it is accelerating to the point where, combined, there are very few holdouts. The use of gen AI in the enterprise was nearly nothing in November 2022, where the only tools commonly available were AI image or early text generators.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. We believe that smart technology still holds the biggest promise to improve our client’s operations,” he says.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2024

Using new CPUs, data centers can consolidate servers running tens of thousands of cores into less than 50 cores, says Robert Hormuth, corporate vice president of architecture and strategy in the Data Center Solutions Group at AMD. Many hardware users are prioritizing replacement.

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CIO

JUNE 12, 2024

To help alleviate the complexity and extract insights, the foundation, using different AI models, is building an analytics layer on top of this database, having partnered with DataBricks and DataRobot. Some of the models are traditional machine learning (ML), and some, LaRovere says, are gen AI, including the new multi-modal advances.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What they are finding is that the line between advancing technologically and ensuring AI doesn’t result in detrimental outcomes is thin. What’s the plan if customers are presented with false data, or if critical decisions are based on inaccurate AI responses? As McIntosh sees it, bias is fundamentally a data problem. “We

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

The CIO position has morphed since its inception 40 years ago, shifting from a nuts-and-bolts techie job to an increasingly business- and strategy-focused executive role. Although AI, machine learning, and generative AI — the more recent entrant in the space — are not new, they are becoming more mature, mainstream technologies.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Supply insightful, actionable data IT should supply sales team members with the timely, accurate data they need to become top performers, recommends Michael Tantrum, national sales director at IT consulting firm Resultant. An AI sales automation tool, for example, can be designed to analyze large datasets and make market predictions.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Their views follow: Question: Are any IT jobs in particular jeopardy in light of rapid advances in technology? Thomas Licciardello, CIO consultant, advisory firm NortheastCIOs : “I don’t think we run out and panic because of the AI revolution. Then build a strategy to help reduce that pain. We still need the fundamentals.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

CIO packages often include stock options, relocation expenses, and hiring bonuses, says Victor Janulaitis, CEO of consulting firm Janco. The strategic importance of technology leadership has never been greater, especially as organizations attempt to tackle information security, artificial intelligence, cloud transformations, etc.,”

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2024

Furthermore, of the companies that plan to use AI agents, the biggest use case was in software development, to generate, evaluate, and rewrite code, and 75% said they plan to use AI agents this way. It makes sense that development is the top agentic AI use case, says Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance.

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Perficient

MAY 15, 2023

IDC Market Perspective: Experience-Led Growth, Generative AI, and Content Supply Chains This year was the first time in three years that Adobe has been able to host not only Adobe Summit in-person again, but also the Analyst Day with its partners.

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