CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

At some point in your career, you’re likely to find yourself in transition, having left an IT leadership job without a new one lined up. While you may have planned or negotiated an exit, very often such departures are beyond your direct control, due to a leadership change, acquisition, or another strategic event.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.”

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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

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. It’s not a subject the board are pounding their fists over.”

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Hiring and retaining the best people with the right skills is always the best strategy to improve overall performance.” The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Foster adaptability and flexibility Adaptable work environments and agile methodologies form the bedrock of a thriving IT culture, says Charman Hayes, executive vice president of people and capability for the technology group at Mastercard. Caldas has no doubt that technology is a key differentiator. “We

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The survey should include questions directly related to organizational culture, including morale, personal recognition, compensation, promotion decisions, management leadership quality, and an employees’ likelihood to remain with the organization. Culture is a function of leadership execution. A clear vision guides team direction.

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. level talent while embracing the latest data mining, data analysis, and analytical tools.

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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. Companies need both a practical plan and a transparent communications strategy in their response.” My fear is people are going to buy and implement an AI tool and let it go and trust it. …

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Modern CTO

APRIL 25, 2024

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! I am a leadership advisor, best-selling author, podcast host, and speaker. I have been recognized by Thinkers360 as one of the Top Voices in Leadership and by LeadersHum as one of the Biggest Voices in Leadership. Have feedback about the show?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

IT leaders are drowning in metrics, with many finding themselves up to their KPIs in a seemingly bottomless pool of measurement tools. Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

Chris Bowers,CIO of Boston Consulting Group, puts it this way: “In 2024, we’re going to go after generative AI very aggressively. That’s the case for Yi Zhou, CTO and CIO with Adaptive Biotechnologies. Zhou and his company’s leadership team are setting up AI incubation labs and tiger teams. We’re piloting, PoC-ing.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

FinOps is part of the equation, but from a CIO perspective, you need a top-down view that starts with the strategy before you talk about the components of it,” McMasters says. But there are also vendor-specific metrics we define, and we build telemetry using tools based on usage and needs,” the CIO says. That helps me plan.”

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TechEmpower CTO

AUGUST 21, 2023

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. A technical review can help your development team adopt new processes and strategies to maximize their speed and efficiency. But is that the right strategy for your business? What does a business leader do in this situation?

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. Another main priority with EA is agility and ensuring that your EA strategy has a strong focus on agility and agile adoption.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

One way to ensure smooth service delivery is to deploy tools aimed at detecting and proactively resolving issues. Standardize processes and understand LOB needs Effective IT service delivery begins by creating and standardizing processes and documentation, says Patrick Cannon, field CTO at data center and cloud services firm US Signal.

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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

MARCH 2, 2023

Critical to the success of the migration was AWS premier consulting partner Lemongrass, which enabled Pick n Pay to migrate its mission-critical SAP (including SAP S/4HANA) and non-SAP workloads to AWS, and provide the ability to manage these workloads with the highest levels of automation and agility. CIO, Cloud Management, IT Leadership

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Gathering and processing data quickly enables organizations to assess options and take action faster, leading to a variety of benefits, said Elitsa Krumova ( @Eli_Krumova ), a digital consultant, thought leader and technology influencer. Nichol ( @PeterBNichol ), Chief Technology Officer at OROCA Innovations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

No matter how much irresponsibility on the part of leadership or others within the organization may have contributed to said demise, the majority of the company’s employees likely worked very hard to help it be successful and don’t deserve to be mocked or ridiculed, even if not directly. Now on to funding rounds.

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CIO

AUGUST 24, 2023

These rules require automated decision-making tools to undergo bias audits, and job candidates notified about their use. So here are some of the strategies organizations are using to deploy gen AI in the face of regulatory uncertainty. Even individual cities are getting in on the action.

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI. That’s risky.”

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

The biggest challenge is finding talented team members at the market rate,” says Patrick Isaac, CTO at Accuro Solutions, adding that the current environment demands more intensive recruiting efforts. Chan has also leaned on low-code/no-code tools to help meet his app development and automation needs. “We The net result?

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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. At the top of the pyramid is your leadership team and CIO. Your very best are your all-stars.

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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 They also redefine the CIO role by taking over various operational aspects of IT management.

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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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Mobilunity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Here’s how this strategy works. IT consulting firms that provide team extension services help you with these processes. The entire [team growth] process was highly professional and … the gentleman is still on our team,” says Jörg Schneider-Simon, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder.

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Mobilunity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Here’s how this strategy works. IT consulting firms that provide team extension services help you with these processes. The entire [team growth] process was highly professional and … the gentleman is still on our team,” says Jörg Schneider-Simon, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder.

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CIO

OCTOBER 19, 2022

“I am the future of our business” sounds a bit megalomaniacal, and “I manage the technology function” does not begin to do justice to the impact of your work. 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.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The value of addressing cybersecurity issues through ongoing discussions is getting corporate alignment on effective and robust strategies, says Roger Albrecht, co-lead of the cybersecurity unit at technology research and advisory firm ISG. Are our systems adequately modernized for security? What would be the next steps?

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CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2015

Bob is Co-Founder of Cognitio, Former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the first Director of Intelligence (J2) at DoD’s cyber defense organization JTF-CND and author of the Cyber Threat. Cybersecurity risk is clearly more than just an IT issue, and its mitigation requires more than just technology and tools.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

Given such a heightened threat, tools, technologies, and IT organizations have evolved accordingly. Modern SOCs are equipped with advanced tools and technologies such as security information and event management (SIEM) systems, threat intelligence platforms, and automated response solutions.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 20, 2016

My take: to be successful you need a collaborative team with multiple skills, effective leadership, good communication -- and a plan. In my consulting and research I help people plan and manage effective and sustainable data and IT management programs. How much analytical expertise is needed? Marketers Must Now Be Both.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Defective leadership Leadership is a key component in the successful timing of any major transformation project, ahead of strategy and technology, says Suneet Dua, chief revenue and growth officer for products and technology at business advisory firm PwC.

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