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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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But the challenge many executives face is that they tend to focus on how their particular area aligns with overall goals, to the exclusion of other facets of the organization. A key way to facilitate alignment is to become agile enough to stay ahead of the curve, and be adaptive to change, Bragg advises.

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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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Altexsoft

JANUARY 6, 2022

The authorities admitted that the previous 2024 deadline for human landing “ was not grounded on technical feasibility.”. Technical feasibility inspects whether software can be built at all with available tools and experts. In this article, we’ll concentrate on the technical side of feasibility that is our immediate area of expertise.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Therefore, it’s vital to conduct a rigorous impact analysis and have rollback plans in place before proceeding,” Hyzy advises. Potential risks to consider include system downtime, workflow disruptions, or even security vulnerabilities if the cancellation isn’t managed intelligently.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps. Meanwhile, The Global CTO Survey 2023 released last November by IT consulting company STX Next found that 35% of responding tech leaders listed technical debt/refactoring as their biggest challenge — making it the No. 1 challenge listed.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In this blogpost, we have gathered four practical tips on how to best record the contact reasons of your customers. This could be because they want to order a product, ask a question, file a complaint, get technical support, or receive information. What are contact reasons? Eventually, this led to a lack of accuracy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Whether your new hire needs to have a technical background. How to time your first hire and avoid overhiring. Ken Norton, former director of product at Figma who recently left to solo advise and coach product managers, says companies can start by defining what PMs are not: The CEO of the product. Let’s start by working backward.

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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. What are their department’s goals? What do they care about?

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

It’s no secret that having the right capabilities is essential to digital success, but given the dynamic nature of digital business, these capabilities go beyond technical know-how. 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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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

But freelancing is also a business, and skilled IT freelancers know what it takes to find and keep great clients, as well as how to drop organizations that make unreasonable demands or fail to pay on time. There are so many opportunities out there, so choose what you want to do and dedicate yourself 100% to it,” Zilberman advises.

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CIO

MARCH 29, 2023

During a migration frenzy, companies can take shortcuts that result in technical debt that dilutes the impact cloud transformation can have. Think of cloud as a modernization journey and not just a migration,” Ranjan advises. Challenge your IT department to pull all levers for efficient cloud usage,” advises Sealock.

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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

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.

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CIO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It’s the CIO’s responsibility to help those managers succeed,” says Ken Piddington, vice president and CIO of US Silica and a CIO adviser with an admitted “passion for talent development.” As such, they generally have little to no training on how to manage workers — a topic that has been a longstanding issue in the IT profession.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2022

They need to become more creative in their delegation of responsibilities so that more time can be devoted to pushing experimentation,” Mains advises. By being aware of the risks and taking responsibility for your actions, you can minimize the damage and learn from your mistakes,” he advises.

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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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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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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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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Max Schireson , the former CEO of MongoDB, is an executive-in-residence at Battery Ventures, where he helps advise the firm’s cloud and data portfolio companies on a variety of strategic and tactical business issues. Was I willing to engage with a young technical founder on business issues? Max Schireson. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In addition, analyze the market situation from a technical standpoint: The bear market is an attractive time to launch, but it’s also a time to go heads-down and focus on building your product. In so doing, they give their team, investors and advisers the right to certain assets such as retirement and stock options.

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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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CIO

JULY 29, 2024

Nafde was tapped at the onset to lead the technical integration of the two entities — an assignment he says served as a proof point that he was more than capable of executing larger responsibilities. Now is the time to stop being the best technologist in the room — leave that role to someone else,” Dossetter advises.

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CIO

MARCH 21, 2023

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. Carter advises IT leaders to look deep within their organizations to understand how software resources are being used.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In a conversation with CIO.com, Rogers explains common reasons digital transformation strategy efforts fail and throws light on how to create and implement a successful digital transformation roadmap to ensure speed and resilience in the face of continual disruption. Very often, such a person is the CIO. This all is one critical pillar.

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CIO

APRIL 14, 2023

They are tools used by someone who knows how to do this themselves, who may be using them to supplement their knowledge about a technology, library, or framework they haven’t worked with before, or to avoid looking up a few lines of code on Stack Overflow.” Generally speaking, it’s not expensive to get started,” she adds.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Sonnet model to provide suggestions on how to improve the speech by identifying incorrect grammar, repetitions of words or content, use of filler words, and other recommendations. Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services. Sonnet model, the system prompt, maximum tokens, and the transcribed speech text as inputs to the API.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, an operational and IT service arm that works for the SEC, is not only a cloud customer but also a technical partner to Amazon whose expertise has enabled the advancement of the cloud infrastructure at AWS. But FINRA’s CIO remains skeptical about so-called multicloud infrastructure.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Next CIO cohort sat with Natalie Whittlesey and James Lawson from InX to discuss how to transition into a first time C-suite role. With CIOs now often reporting directly to the CEO instead of the CFO, the emphasis has shifted from technical proficiency to business acumen.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ultimately, the contributions of these trusted technical advisers help close sales. Today’s high-growth technology companies rely on millions of presales professionals, also known as sales engineers and solution consultants, to explain the value of technologies to buyers and customers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

To aid on that front, Whatnot is making two key hires, one of which involves the acquisition of Pastel Labs, a company founded in 2020 by Jeff Chang , previously the technical lead for Pinterest’s growth team and a well-known growth advisor.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It requires a deep understanding of systems, how they function, who will need to be involved, and the necessary steps to get everyone on board. It requires a deep understanding of systems, how they function, who will need to be involved, and the necessary steps to get everyone on board.

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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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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Code assessment platforms: The new virtual hiring process of assessing technical skills. Several code assessment platforms have emerged as the cornerstone of virtual hiring processes for the assessment of the technical skills of a candidate and offer an advanced coding environment allowing employers to find their perfect match, efficiently.

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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. Make big talk about strategies, features, or technical complexity. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

Following is an in-depth look at what these storied CIOs shared as part of the discussion, including their thoughts on the fundamentals of the CIO role, how to pave a path to executive leadership, and advice they have for anyone with an eye on the C-suite. Maximus’ Pledger advised CIO aspirants “to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.”

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