CIO

MAY 22, 2024

Finding the return on investment for AI remains elusive for many organizations, even as they rush to adopt the technology. The concern about calculating the ROI also rings true to Stuart King, CTO of cybersecurity consulting firm AnzenSage and developer of an AI-powered risk assessment tool for industrial facilities.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

According to an IDC Survey, “Ransomware attackers are getting more effective at finding valuable data; half of North American ransomware attacks where data was exfiltrated included the loss of valuable, sensitive, or security data ( Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 11 , IDC 2023).

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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. Hopefully, the AI is taking some of those routine tasks,” says Henry Svendblad, CTO at Company Nurse, which helps companies handle workplace injuries. “I

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

Artificial intelligence and machine learning Unsurprisingly, AI and machine learning top the list of initiatives CIOs expect their involvement to increase in the coming year, with 80% of respondents to the State of the CIO survey saying so. Other surveys offer similar findings. 1 priority among its respondents as well. For Rev.io

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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. Other top challenges included budgetary constraints, compliance with laws and regulations, and responding to inquiries from other leaders within the organization. 1 challenge listed.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Rising prices have imposed tough challenges on IT budgets, operations and staffing, especially for global organizations with operations in countries where inflation has been running high, such as Poland (10%), India (8%) or Turkey (50%). They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.” Here’s how.

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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. Falling behind in the AI adoption race can pose significant challenges for organizations.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Two thirds of the CX practitioners, service leaders, analysts, and consultants from around the world who took part in CX Network’s Global State of CX 2024 agreed or strongly agreed they’re increasingly concerned about the ethical use of AI and its future development.

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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

MARCH 21, 2023

“A pragmatic and structured architectural approach when moving to the cloud is critical,” says William Peldzus, senior director and Center of Excellence head with enterprise consulting firm Capgemini Americas. Even small steps will position an organization for cloud success, Peldzus states.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But by May 2023, according to an IDC survey, 65% of companies were using gen AI, and in September, that number rose to 71%, with another 22% planning to implement it in the next 12 months. It makes it challenging for organizations to operationalize generative AI,” says Anand Rao, AI professor at Carnegie Mellon University. in December.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 22, 2022

Last year, our report on cloud adoption concluded that adoption was proceeding rapidly; almost all organizations are using cloud services. Survey respondents earn an average salary of $182,000. Another 162 respondents filled out part of the survey but didn’t complete it; we chose to include only complete responses.

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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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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Some organizations have been innovating, transforming, and growing so fast that they haven’t had time to clear up older cost structures that start getting in the way,” says Stewart Buchanan, research vice president on Gartner’s CIO team. Ensuring all IT spend is directly tied to business demand acts as an automatic cost optimizer.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Winning IT organizations aren’t built in a day. Employees want to work for leaders who inspire them, engage them, challenge them, and give them opportunities to grow and be effective, says Ola Chowning, a partner with technology research and advisory firm ISG. Caldas has no doubt that technology is a key differentiator. “We

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

There is a need and realization by the business world to be more environmentally sustainable since organizations are seeing an impact on the bottom line as a direct result of climate change. 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

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Anything that falls into the category of IT management tools is often cast aside, but these are the workhorses of IT,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas. What does that really mean and what does it take?

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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 19, 2022

Organizations are only capable of absorbing a certain amount of change. Brian Jackson, research director in the CIO practice at Info-Tech Research Group, has studied how CIOs tackle their first 100 days in the role and has found that many new IT chiefs think there’s no need to clean house. Keeping everyone on the payroll.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As organizations of all stripes continue their migration to the cloud, they are coming face to face with sometimes perplexing cost issues, forcing them to think hard about how best to optimize workloads, what to migrate, and who exactly is responsible for what. It’s an issue that’s coming to the fore with the steady migration to the cloud.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2023

Consider some recent survey findings. The anticipation and fear of the impact of generative AI in particular, and its relationship to artificial general intelligence (AGI), makes it overhyped,” says Daryl Cromer, vice president and CTO for the PCs and smart devices division at Lenovo.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. For example, organizations may commit to containers that are too large, or reserve too much disk space.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2024

“You can have the best solution but if you don’t have adoption, it will fail,” says Wayne Tung, managing director of Sendero Consulting. There’s always change,” says Jim Moore, CTO at HR Acuity. “A Paulo Gardini Miguel, director of technology at The CTO Club, agrees. A healthy team is used to it.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

EA helps organizations structure IT projects and policies to achieve desired business results, to stay agile and resilient in the face of rapid change, and to stay on top of industry trends and disruptions using architecture principles and practices, a process also known as enterprise architectural planning (EAP).

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CIO

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The need to manage risk, adhere to regulations, and establish processes to govern those tasks has been part of running an organization as long as there have been businesses to run. Best practices, framework and technology have been developed to support this work. What is GRC? Why is GRC important?

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

To guide an organization through uncertainty, IT leaders must help ensure everyone in the company is on the same page, Srivastava says. It starts with establishing a clear set of agreed upon initiatives and outcomes for the organization,” he says. Miller says his organization is making the choice to invest in growth. “We

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CIO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to an Ernst & Young survey of 1,200 global CEOs released in late October, a staggering 99% are either planning or are already making significant investments in generative AI. The first, says Eliot Andres, co-founder and CTO, is to add the latest AI features to the app itself to keep it competitive.

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CIO

JULY 28, 2022

That is backed up by a 2021 survey by industry analysts at Forrester, which showed that, of 2,329 data and analytics decision-makers worldwide, 55% want to hire data scientists. They won’t be true data scientists but they will be proficient in using and organizing data.”. Focusing on team building. We’ll look to train people in-house.

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2024

Ahead in a broad market In Morgan Stanley’s quarterly CIO survey, 38% of CIOs expected to adopt Microsoft Copilot tools over the next 12 months. Organizations typically start with the most capable model for their workload, then optimize for speed and cost. It’s the contextual information supporting the use of these tools,” Curran says.

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Tenable

JANUARY 31, 2024

These are the findings from a commissioned survey including 262 IT and security professionals who have the final decision-making authority for their organization’s cloud infrastructure. Which of the following cloud infrastructural technologies does your organization currently use?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

To his point, a 2022 survey found that — among banks and credit unions who believe they’re at least three-quarters through a transition to digital — less than 25% have seen a meaningful increase in revenue. “ It will be essential for banks to upgrade their technology infrastructure to meet … evolving expectations.

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Modern CTO

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We discuss Tori’s idea of the Digital Employee Bill of Rights, the surprising survey question that 90% of respondents agreed on, and how their biggest research finding is shedding new light on traditional organizational hierarchy. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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Honeycomb

MAY 5, 2020

Findings reveal that 80 percent of teams within organizations are practicing, or intend to practice, observability within two years. A quarter of the survey respondents exhibit advanced observability practices . To learn more about production excellence & survey read blog. San Francisco, Calif., Contact: Deirdre Mahon.

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Honeycomb

MAY 5, 2020

Findings reveal that 80 percent of teams within organizations are practicing, or intend to practice, observability within two years. A quarter of the survey respondents exhibit advanced observability practices . To learn more about production excellence & survey read blog. San Francisco, Calif., Contact: Deirdre Mahon.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2022

An individual organization with a turnover rate of 20% before the pandemic could face a turnover rate as high as 24% in 2022 and the years to come,” says Piers Hudson, senior director in the Gartner HR practice. “New employee expectations, and the availability of hybrid arrangements, will continue to fuel the rise in attrition. IT Skills

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