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. Is your organization overdue for an IT systems update?

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2024

Vendors and consultants are always eager to share insights into innovations and trends, but exchanging ideas and opinions with colleagues and fellow IT leaders can often be invaluable. By making connections, CIOs can continuously add value to their organization and their career by learning from colleagues and peers.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Effective OCM will not only enable the successful execution of a project or transformation, but it can also make the transition smoother and easier for the organization to absorb, he says, adding that this is particularly true when projects result in process changes, including operational, employee support, or end-user impacts.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Effective IT strategy requires not just technical expertise but a focus on adaptability and customer-centricity, enabling organizations to stay ahead in a fast-changing marketplace. CIOs and business executives must collaborate to develop and communicate a unified vision aligning technology investments with the organization’s broader goals.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

To help mitigate these risks, it’s necessary for IT leaders to increase their profile and visibility across the organization, and make sure they educate all potential users. “As As technologies evolve, CIOs still need to build mutual commitment and support for IT initiatives,” says tech consultant and author Gerald Leonard.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Many organizations have turned to FinOps practices to regain control over these escalating costs. 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.

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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

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. I strongly believe in situational leadership.

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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. They have a pipeline into colleges and universities, like baseball scouting organizations.

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

But agile is organized around human limitations not just limitations on how fast we can code, but in how teams are organized and managed, and how dependencies are scheduled. But the entire process will need to be reinvented in order to make full use of the technology, says Monteiro.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

According to a new IDC report , 98% of business leaders view AI as a priority for their organization and the research firm expects AI to add $20 trillion to the global economy through 2030. AI has moved out of the IT function and is being pushed out more widely in the organization,” says Ian Beston, director at Coleman Parkes Research.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2025

And for some organizations, annual cloud spend has increased dramatically. 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.

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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. He notes that IT organizations can usually work through almost any problem as long as the parties grow together.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

You can utilize these agents through Copilot Studio to help your organization build and deploy AI agents. Even at fractions of a penny per token, this ends up being tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Microsoft recently announced the release of Copilot agents. These are preprogrammed agents that can help with certain tasks.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

“I wanted to be on the side that could influence a better decision rather than on the side lobbying for a better decision,” Loura says of his drive toward leadership. 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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CIO

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Since my team and I spend all day every day helping companies define their technology leadership needs, I have a vested interest in creating some clarity around the CIO role. Last year, I was recruiting a CIO for a large global services business whose IT organization employed more than 600 people. Here’s what they had to say.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and Production”: Insist on doing everything through “channels” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

My favorite discussion of the topic is Robert Austins, who wrote Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations. The CEO, chief product officer, chief technical officer, and I met a month later. I said, If we had the best product engineering organization in the world, what would it look like?

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CIO

APRIL 8, 2024

Customer centricity is hardly a new organizational imperative, but some organizations have gone a step further, instituting new C-suite roles to help lead the charge. Interlace Health is one such entity, having named Maggie Peña as the electronic forms company’s first-ever chief experience officer.

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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. One thing that is clear is we will need to partner and work across industries to solve truly big problems that all organizations are facing.”

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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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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Another organization using Microsoft Copilot for productivity is Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Its accelerating the learning process, improving research, and helping students with assessments, says Mike Matthews, the universitys VP for innovation and technology. Youve got that down to a science, 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. But that becomes quite impersonal and doesn’t align with having leadership EQ.”

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2024

Some enterprises struggle with executing a critical step in their AI journeys: developing and establishing AI guardrails and ethical policies within their organization, according to the Texas-based non-profit, whose members include Amazon Web Services, Boston Consulting Group, ATB Financial, and Shell.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Every IT leader wants to create a fast, efficient, and innovative IT organization. Leadership is responsible for boosting morale and countering stressful times with periods of recovery, rest, and self-care, resulting in increased retention while reducing burnout.”

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The following is from: DISA CTO Retirement . Chief technology officer to retire after 31 years of government service. David Mihelcic, DISA’s chief technology officer (CTO), served 19 years at the agency and his legacy endures through the programs the Office of the CTO was responsible for.

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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. The trick for CIOs who have significant tech debt is to sell it to organization leadership , he says. It’s not a sexy subject,” he says.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Yet, with many organizations looking to innovate, deploy AI and automation, move to the cloud, and gain a competitive advantage, getting ERP system updates right can either be a feather in a CIO’s cap or what sinks them if a project doesn’t go well.

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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. Additionally, private equity-owned businesses now recognize that effective technology leadership extends beyond cost-cutting measures,” she says. Stephenson says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

What agile leadership looks like Redefining how architects collaborate with agile teams is one way to improve business-IT collaboration and outcomes. Many organizations create program charters for strategic initiatives in which they define the program’s leadership roles and accountabilities.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next?

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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. “We

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

The following is an excerpt: When it comes to cybersecurity, what you don’t know about the nature and sophistication of threats can hurt your organization badly. In this Q&A, Mr. There’s basically four partners: the first one is Bob Gourley, who was the former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Intelligence Community.

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