CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In today’s organizational landscape, where technology wields increasing influence, the role of the CIO has been elevated, particularly catalyzed by the exigencies of the pandemic. The State of the CIO 2024 survey published by CIO, states that 85% of CIOs are becoming a changemaker, increasingly leading business and technology initiatives.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Under pressure to deploy AI within their organizations, most CIOs fear they don’t have the knowledge they need about the fast-changing technology. More than three in five CIOs surveyed by Salesforce say they’re expected to know more about AI than they do, potentially leading to massive and costly deployment mistakes.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

That’s because employees have decidedly mixed feelings about AI coming to their workplaces, according to the recent survey by IT solutions integrator Insight , even as many enterprises are already adopting or experimenting with AI and as AI-enabled phones begin hitting the market.

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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. The bad news, however, is that IT system modernization requires significant financial and time investments.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

When asked which challenges most often force IT to redirect time and focus away from strategy and innovation tasks, CIOs most commonly cited staff and skills shortages, changing business conditions, and addressing security threats. Other executives haven’t gotten the memo, says Mikhail Papovsky, CEO and founder of Massaro Consulting.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 22, 2022

This year’s survey asked questions about compensation for “cloud professionals”: the software developers, operations staff, and others who build cloud-based applications, manage a cloud platform, and use cloud services. Survey respondents earn an average salary of $182,000. Executive Summary. That left us with 778 responses.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

Delayed decision-making Bhadresh Patel, chief digital officer at global consulting firm RGP, sees organization’s showing more caution than usual. The role of the CIO has recently seen a massive convergence with cybersecurity,” says McCormick. “The Waiting is a losing strategy.”

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CIO

MAY 22, 2024

Difficulties estimating or demonstrating the value of AI technologies to the business have been or will be a top barrier to their implementation, according to a recent Gartner survey of more than 700 IT leaders at organizations that have adopted or plan to adopt AI. Most companies are simply playing with the novelty of AI still.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Cybersecurity risks This one is no surprise, given the scary statistics on the growing number of cyberattacks, the rate of successful attacks, and the increasingly high consequences of being breached. The September Monthly Threat Intelligence Report from cybersecurity firm NCC Group delivers plenty of reasons to worry. “It

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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

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. Inadequate security Lax security can turn a promising cloud initiative into an IT nightmare.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

“If you bring the right portfolio of experience,” including data knowledge, business acumen, and information security, “I think any industry will pay relative to their market for their selection of a CIO,” Stephenson says. CIO and CTO positions have become much more important as leadership is starting to look at AI, Janulaitis says.

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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. Yet according to the IBM survey, data complexity was the second biggest barrier to adoption after lack of expertise, while the cnvrg.io

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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. Security — ensure that models do not produce unintended outcomes.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

According to the company’s latest global survey of desk workers, employees spend 37% more time on routine administrative tasks instead. 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 5, 2023

While it’s critical to control costs continuously, it becomes even more imperative during times of economic pressure,” says Jon Pratt, CIO at security managed services provider 11:11 Systems. Following are some actions IT leaders can take now to secure those funds for the future.

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2024

GitHub released data on its copilot’s impact, with 88% of surveyed developers stating improved productivity, 74% focusing on more satisfying work, and over 87% saying they complete tasks faster. CIOs may also want to consider each application’s usage, security, and risks to decide which devops teams should experiment with AI copilots.

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CIO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Beechey, Social Security and the Politics of Deservingness.) Employees need proof IT is meeting their needs Brian Shield, SVP and CTO of the Boston Red Sox, is very proactive asking his stakeholders, “Are we meeting your needs? Every year the Red Sox IT organization conducts an Annual Quality of Service Survey.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Secure funding, design a program for a small group of individuals, and run a pilot,” he advises. For a qualitative view, employee surveys that measure engagement or information from front-line managers can be used. Rodenbostel suggests starting small. Organization guidelines should be both comprehensive and fair.

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CIO

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It sets the tone and the strategy; it defines the policies and the procedures and what the expectations are,” explains Lisa McKee, director of governance, risk, compliance, and privacy at American Security and Privacy, as well as a member of the Emerging Trends Working Group with the governance association ISACA.

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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. Others have made similar observations.

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CIO

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s no surprise, then, that according to a June KPMG survey, uncertainty about the regulatory environment was the top barrier to implementing gen AI. If I’m an energy company, I want to make it possible for folks to leverage geologic surveys and reports that are miserable to go through.” AI is a black box.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A 2022 survey of 850 IT leaders by Foundry found more than two-thirds were accelerating their cloud migration and nearly three-quarters (72%) were defaulting to cloud-based services for upgrades or new IT purchases. Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Organizations that scored in the top quartile for EA maturity in a recent Bizzdesign survey were three times more likely to report having organizational agility, which has been crucial during the past few years with the COVID-19 pandemic. Enterprise architects often go on to work as a CTO, software engineering or development director, or CIO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

That same source, who preferred not to be named, pointed out that “SECURE 2.0’s The report found that 70% of financial institutions surveyed lost over half a million to fraud last year and that 27% of respondents lost over $1 million to fraud in the last 12 months. Pagaya Technologies announces acquisition of Darwin Homes.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The world has flipped since 2022,” says David McCurdy, chief enterprise architect and CTO at Insight. You now have the ability to jump over processes that have existed for years, sometimes decades, because of generative technology.” He’s already seeing this in the cybersecurity space. “At Then gen AI came out.

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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

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

JULY 18, 2023

“As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, the demand for qualified individuals has soared,” Chan says. CIO.com’s 2023 State of the CIO survey recently zeroed in on the technology roles that IT leaders find the most difficult to fill, with cybersecurity, data science and analytics, and AI topping the list.

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CIO

JANUARY 3, 2024

According to an O’Reilly survey released late last month, 23% of companies are using one of OpenAI’s models. According to an Ernst & Young survey of 1,200 global CEOs released in late October, 99% are either planning or are already making “significant” investments in generative AI. He’s not the only one.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2024

Our goal is to analyze logs and metrics, connecting them with the source code to gain insights into code fixes, vulnerabilities, performance issues, and security concerns,” he says. It makes sense that development is the top agentic AI use case, says Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant. We do lose sleep on this,” he 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. And, managing who has access to these systems poses a significant challenge.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey , conducted by PwC, predicts that one in five workers worldwide may quit their jobs in 2022 with 71% of respondents citing salary as the major driver for changing jobs. From an IT infrastructure standpoint, NCMS is 100% on the cloud. We must nurture good resources inhouse to bridge the skills gap.”

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Tenable

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Get the latest on worrisome phishing stats; businesses’ embrace of the metaverse, come what may; a (small) improvement in CISO job stability; the compensation cost of security leaders; and more! Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed distressing stats about the prevalence and success of phishing attacks.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 12, 2014

Among the many considerations he helped us think through were the fact that we all need to recognize that you cant just build higher walls for Internet security. This panel addressed the challenges with data in national security. We had analysts at the event capturing content that we will summarize here over the next few weeks.

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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. It’s embedded in the applications we use every day and the security model overall is pretty airtight. CIOs would rather have employees using a sanctioned tool than bring your own AI.

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