CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. But the CIO had several key objectives to meet before launching the transformation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

In a comprehensive article that weighs development costs and technical debt against time to market , Chopra encourages readers to consider factors like product defensibility and risk before deciding whether to build or buy. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Thanks very much for reading TC+ this week!

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Here’s a quick rundown of seven major trends that will likely reshape your organization’s current data strategy in the days and months ahead.

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is a technology leader hired on a temporary or part-time basis, explains Peter Kirkwood, corporate strategy leader at management consulting and strategy advisory firm Zinnov. A fractional CIO develops and leads the execution of a company’s IT strategy,” he states. What does a fractional CIO do?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Having a solid roadmap, real-world use cases and a war chest are only a small part of a blockchain startup’s survival strategy. Founders also need to be aware that while non-crypto startups can offer useful and transferrable launch strategies, the road to achieving success in the blockchain industry is paved differently.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

The best cybersecurity leaders are not only intensely aware of this reality; they’re also intentionally focused on developing and implementing strategies for thriving in a VUCA world and creating a pipeline of future-ready cyber leaders to stay ahead of ongoing disruption. All they want to know is how to solve the problem.”

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2024

Interestingly, despite the significance of technical debt as a cost concern and an inhibitor to improving security and implementing innovation (like AI), it ranks much lower on the list of immediate priorities for many organizations (20%). For CIOs, balancing technical debt with other strategic priorities is a constant challenge.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

“Most of the technical content published misses the mark with developers. When we interviewed him last July , Hughes explained that he would refer leads to EveryDeveloper when they needed to sort out their content strategy. The book title is a call to these marketers to treat their technical audience differently.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When I started at Novanta about five years ago, my first mission was to bring scalability to our Enterprise solutions, as well as developing a digital roadmap to modernize the technology footprint, reduce technical debt, and explore strategies to ensure that we’re growing at scale. They’re there to advise and help, which is huge.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. Encourage technical decisions based on wildly optimistic expectations of scale. Kickstart a vacuous “AI strategy” that seems plausible at the surface.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In this post, we explore how to integrate Amazon Bedrock FMs into your code base, enabling you to build powerful AI-driven applications with ease. You can find instructions on how to do this in the AWS documentation for your chosen SDK. In the following sections, we demonstrate how to implement the solution in a Jupyter notebook.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

As technical people move up the ranks, going from coders and admins to managers to CIOs, they need to learn how to do a lot more than build great software, connect backend systems, or build firewalls. Maybe they leveled up because their technical skills were excellent and they did a great job in their last role.

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. Here’s how IT leaders, analysts, and other experts view the skills critical to digital success and how they factor into ongoing digital progress.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Plus, learn why GenAI and data security have become top drivers of cyber strategies. 1 - CSA: How to prevent “shadow AI” As organizations scale up their AI adoption, they must closely track their AI assets to secure them and mitigate their cyber risk. Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending Oct.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Generally lacking visibility beyond their enterprise, CIOs seldom focus on personal career strategies and opportunities. They need to become more creative in their delegation of responsibilities so that more time can be devoted to pushing experimentation,” Mains advises. Shifting blame down the ladder is a cop-out.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Middle managers need strong mentors and a network of colleagues who understand their problems and can offer advice based on their own experience when things get tough, so the manager can learn how to cope, get back on track, and thrive. But it starts with identifying a middle manager who needs an assist and then stepping in to intervene.

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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. What the AI can do is advise the human on what decision to make, but even still, there are some significant limitations.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Advise and collaborate. Then collaborate to develop an action plan,” advises Suneet Dua, products and technology chief growth officer at business advisory firm PwC. Before initiating a technical discussion, it’s important to consider the recipient’s perspective. Support the current business strategy.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

There are situations when this rule might need to be broken, such as when a critical security patch or an urgent business need demands immediate system changes, says product strategy consultant Michael Hyzy. “In Therefore, it’s vital to conduct a rigorous impact analysis and have rollback plans in place before proceeding,” Hyzy advises.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

“To meet digital transformation goals, companies must build structural ambidexterity, focus on short-term efficiency opportunities that fit the current structure and model, but also pursue medium- to long-term discontinuous expansion opportunities in business that potentially would require structural and cultural changes,” Senan advises.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

This includes developing a data-driven culture where data and analytics are integrated into all functions and all employees understand the value of data, how to use it, and how to protect it. A strong CDO who can communicate and drive the strategy is essential for getting value out of these AI investments. What are we missing?

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CIO

MARCH 29, 2023

But for some “without a concrete strategy, it has led to some obvious challenges with respect to measuring the real value from their cloud investments,” says Ricky Sundrani, a partner in the pricing assurance practice at Everest Group. But migrating to the cloud without a well-thought-out business case is not an optimal strategy.

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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. Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps. 1 challenge listed.

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CIO

MARCH 21, 2023

Poor planning Enterprises risk running into trouble if they lack a detailed cloud strategy. “A You must ensure at the start of the project that you have a full, holistic cloud budget,” Matin advises. In either case, Schwartz advises pushing forward and evolving along with the cloud. Cloud costs appear in various forms.

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CIO

JULY 29, 2024

Now modern IT leaders are expected to have breadth and depth of experience across the broad spectrum of technology domains along with an innate sensibility to craft and lead business strategy. “Up IT has to face out towards the rest of the business and understand the strategy that underpins the rest of the business,” Dossetter explains. “We

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Figuring out how to solve the problem efficiently is what really matters. Recently, I helped advise an IDC client whose security team was struggling to close thousands of vulnerabilities. Christopher Tozzi , an adjunct research advisor for IDC, is senior lecturer in IT and society at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

Beware the fact free-for-all that is the world today Daniel Patrick Moynihan, four-term Senator of New York, United Nations ambassador, and adviser to three Presidents is remembered for popularizing the aphorism, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” This makes sense to me. Facts exist in an agenda-rich context.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

But, notes Lobo, “in all geographies, finding well-rounded leadership and experienced technical talent in areas such as legacy technologies, cybersecurity, and data science remains a challenge.” At Ensono, Lobo has created academies for technical domains such as mainframe computing and cloud, enrolling students based on forecasted needs.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

Rethinking talent strategies To address its AI crunch, TE Connectivity just launched a four-tier training program that will range from basic education about AI and how to use it in office jobs to ways engineers can use AI to help design specific products. Reskilling employees is a crucial step, he adds. “In

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CIO

JULY 20, 2022

The 2022 State of the CIO research confirmed talent acquisition and retention strategies are a key issue for CIOs, cited by 38% of respondents, with cybersecurity skills, data science/analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in top demand.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He believes he can demystify digital transformation and put corporate leaders on the right path as they rethink their business strategy for the digital era. The process of greenlighting would involve how to allocate the initial small investment and human resources to test the idea. Very often, such a person is the CIO.

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CIO

JANUARY 18, 2024

To assure potential employers that they can meet those diverse challenges, CIO candidates must demonstrate that they excel at a wide range of leadership skills and activities, Wald says, including the following: Communications: Today’s CIO candidates much demonstration an ability to engage and gain consensus from business and technical stakeholders.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

Yet, as any IT leader knows, when technical infrastructure fails to meet enterprise needs, hampering productivity and innovation, it’s often time to rebuild from scratch. The same can be said for how IT operations, workflows, and teams are structured. “The Everyone will need time to adjust,” she advises. “Be

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Recognized as a pioneer in the field of classified information protection, Mr. Bigman developed technical measures and procedures to manage the nation’s most sensitive secrets. As the Agency CISO, Mr. Bigman managed a large organization of technical and program officers responsible for the protection of all Agency information.

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CIO

JULY 8, 2024

We call this the outsourcing paradox because the buying organization outsources to the expert and then tells the supplier how to do the work with the product spec or a detailed statement of work for services. For example, the selection criteria are based on factors such as technical capability, price, and capacity.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

And the truth is that top-tier performers and ceiling-shattering disruptors who are technically, academically, and culturally additive to an organization aren’t going to walk in the front door. How do executive search firms work? How to Choose a Leading Executive Search Firm for You. Provides Board Advisory Solutions.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Business analyst job description BAs are responsible for creating new models that support business decisions by working closely with finance and IT teams to establish initiatives and strategies aimed at improving revenue and/or optimizing costs. Business analyst skills The business analyst position requires both hard skills and soft skills.

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