CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

The demand for project managers has grown, with salaries for this role increasing by 15.6% Key skills for the role include resource allocation, risk and change management, quality assurance, communication, and leadership and team building. percent since 2021, according to Dice.

Systems Administration 210

Systems Administration Hardware Project Management DevOps 210

CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Management changes unfold at your vendor or company If a key company or vendor manager leaves who initially was highly supportive of your project, it’s time to see whether that project support will stay intact. In the vendor area, management changes happen most often when companies merge or are acquired.

Budget 179

Budget Technical Review Vendor Management Project Management 179

CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO may be tapped to head a specific initiative requiring senior IT leadership guidance, allowing the busy, full-time CIO to focus attention on other critical issues. In some cases, an enterprise may turn to a fractional CIO to serve as an interim executive, assuming the leadership role for a fixed period of time.

Technical Advisors 182

Technical Advisors How To Leadership Enterprise 182

CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either. Weve also seen the emergence of agentic AI, multi-modal AI, reasoning AI, and open-source AI projects that rival those of the biggest commercial vendors.

Fractional CTO 212

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2024

Vendor management Gen AI is more than just choosing between a free, insecure, public chatbot and a private, controlled one. We can’t lose rights to our IP, or allow these vendors to use our content to learn for other tools or products,” she says. Do we understand what they’re doing with our data?”

Technical Review 196

Technical Review Software Review Government Systems Review 196

CIO

JULY 26, 2024

At the same time, it’s been possible to avoid excessive dependencies by building up or strengthening internal vendor management capacities. More than ever, their expertise and resources are being consulted when developing a roadmap, as well as planning and implementing a transformation process.

Cloud 215

Cloud Technical Review Study Survey 215

CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below.

Technical Advisors 216

Technical Advisors Recruiting Change Management Analytics 216

CIO

AUGUST 22, 2023

To help close this digital maturity gap and drive digital transformation as a core competency, CIOs and their leadership colleagues must establish and enlist digital transformation leaders across the enterprise. When working with teams, they should simplify vendor management and reporting, including financial and other KPIs.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Agile Leadership Artificial Inteligence 148

CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

Relevant skills include Java, JavaScript, organizational and leadership skills, technical knowledge, project management, and architecture design. It’s a role that not only requires technical skills, but also leadership and communication skills as well to work across departments and to manage teams of engineers.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review Software Engineering 174

CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Travel and expense management company Emburse saw multiple opportunities where it could benefit from gen AI. It could be used to improve the experience for individual users, for example, with smarter analysis of receipts, or help corporate clients by spotting instances of fraud.

Open Source 172

Open Source Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review 172

CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Although not implemented yet, we will be making it part of our vendor management and selection processes. We also plan on expanding our ERM [enterprise risk management] evaluations to include a more comprehensive SaaS vendor’s DR to determine which platforms we need to ensure have a mitigation strategy.”

Backup 195

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Turning a vendor into a partner, he says, takes an understanding of business outcomes and anticipating change in the sector that need a pivot or reaction, and then help you understand that. He was very resourceful and organized in his approach to infrastructure management. I actually don’t have a formal STEM education,” he says.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Software Review Weak Development Team Leadership 148

CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The importance of good planning This work prior to any debacle is essential when it comes to managing it with greater success. So too are robust vendor management practices. “There’s always the possibility of entering into discussions directly with the main provider of the contracted technological services,” says del Poyo.

Technical Review 183

Technical Review Disaster Recovery Systems Review Data Center 183

CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Artificial Intelligence, Automotive Industry, Chief Data Officer, CIO, Data Management, Emerging Technology, Generative AI, Innovation, IT Leadership, Vendor Management It’s an incredible proposition for any tech professional.”

Artificial Inteligence 192

Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Artificial Intelligence Business Transformation 192

CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

Prices are increasing, and negotiation is becoming more difficult,” agrees Melanie Alexander, senior director analyst on Gartner’s sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. Vendors are not granting the same concessions they have in the past.” CIO, IT Leadership, Outsourcing

Technical Advisors 174

Technical Advisors Vendor Management Groups Agile 174

CIO

JULY 1, 2024

“That vendor is looking after the long-term interests of the organization, and not just looking to get the next contract.” Anthony Moisant, CIO and chief security officer at Indeed, a job matching and hiring platform, brings that perspective to his vendor management practices. “In

Technical Advisors 193

Technical Advisors Technical Review Vendor Management Network 193

CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Leadership, IT Skills, IT Strategy, Predictive Analytics, Supply Chain, Vendor Management It’ll help consolidate, optimize, and integrate industries, which will result in new industry performance benchmarks that raise the bar and create greater shareholder value.

Artificial Inteligence 196

Artificial Inteligence Enterprise Generative AI Artificial Intelligence 196

CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

These steps are: Leadership and Culture – where embracing the entrepreneurial mindset across IT motivates individuals and brings transformation initiatives to fruition. Lenovo research shows that 92 per cent of CIOs believe that their vendors play a valuable role in their company’s overall success.

Innovation 147

Innovation Agile Budget Vendor Management 147

CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While I expected this exercise to confirm that consolidation is real, I was pleasantly surprised with the degree to which the CIO Tech Talk Community confirmed it – and how they are taking steps to realign their procurement and vendor management strategies. IT Leadership, IT Management

Technical Review 192

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Sustainability Survey 192

CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Those teams should measure the efficiency of cloud spend, optimize costs, analyze spend, and issue reports to leadership, says Vunvulea. CIO, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Management, IT Leadership, Relationship Building, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers

Cloud 187

Cloud Technical Review Fractional CTO CTO Coach 187

CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. IT leaders may need fewer people managing servers and more people performing higher-level network engineering, systems integration, vendor management, data science, cloud security, or business analysis work.

Strategy 217

Strategy Cloud Weak Development Team Technical Review 217

CIO

AUGUST 15, 2023

Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Generative AI, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers Watson isn’t itself a generative AI tool, but SAP sees its natural language processing capabilities as a first step on the way to use generative AI more widely.

Generative AI 148

Generative AI Enterprise Software ChatGPT 148

CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

And you have to partner with your vendors.” Budgeting, CIO, Digital Transformation, IT Leadership, IT Skills, Outsourcing, SaaS, Salaries, Software Development, Vendor Management “Decide if you’re willing to take on risk to adapt to price spikes,” he says.

Technical Review 200

Technical Review Software Review Budget Fractional CTO 200

CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Self-service Can the platform and data be used on-prem and is self-service, avoiding vendor-managed services and costs? Can it readily adapt to constantly changing regulations? Does it allow you to quickly revisit models as needed? Can it enable a genuinely end-to-end, DIY data and analytics solution?

Analytics 172

Analytics Development Team Review Technical Review Systems Review 172

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2018

Aside from the fact that this serves the interests of a multitude of non-tech corporate functions such as human resources, vendor management and finance, it also provides a great deal of comfort to the individual. This brings us to the leadership challenge that creating an organization of autonomous teams poses.

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Organization Leadership Innovation Enterprise 40

TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company chose a price disruption strategy to swiftly dethrone Samsung from its leadership position in the Indian smartphone market, making it one of the trailblazers in the first wave of cheap, sub-$200 smartphones. “Indian vendors were just not able to compete in any of these levers — product, marketing, channel, etc.

Mobile 237

Mobile Technical Review Retail Marketing 237

CIO

MARCH 14, 2024

Banking, Business IT Alignment, CIO, Digital Transformation, Financial Services Industry, IT Leadership, IT Management, IT Strategy, Transportation and Logistics Industry, Vendor Management Not to replace people, but assign more interesting tasks for them, which becomes more strategic for the company,” he says.

Disaster Recovery 138

Disaster Recovery Banking Analytics Training 138

CIO

APRIL 19, 2024

CIO, Data Management, Data Quality, ICT Partners, IT Leadership, Travel and Hospitality Industry, Vendor Management “From the data, we see these messages have made a tremendous impact,” he says. “So So much so that we’re now extending the project to other territories.”

Cloud 78

Cloud Data Weak Development Team Travel 78

CIO

JANUARY 3, 2024

CIO, Data Privacy, Generative AI, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers “Something like LangChain, which is portable across all three cloud platforms, but if the majority of your needs can be fulfilled by one hyperscaler, then you don’t need that.”

Technical Review 197

Technical Review Generative AI Systems Review Software Review 197

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

They miss a wide array of other issues that are important from a leadership perspective, such as cyber intelligence and the business process around cyber risk remediation. If you go into some enterprises, they will spend an inordinate amount of money on identity management or a PKI certificate or data loss protection.

Fractional CTO 105

Fractional CTO CTO Security Metrics 105

Modern CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

AMN total talent solutions include managed services programs, clinical and interim healthcare leaders, temporary staffing, executive search solutions, vendor management systems, recruitment process outsourcing, predictive modeling, language interpretation services, revenue cycle solutions, credentialing and other services.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Recruiting Vendor Management Digital Marketing 52

CIO

JUNE 12, 2023

Artificial Intelligence, CIO, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers One way to distinguish the more serious players, he adds, could be that instead of speaking broadly about AI, to be more specific and talk about image analysis, natural language, or deep learning. It’s the simplest trick,” he says.

Artificial Inteligence 78

Artificial Inteligence Machine Learning Generative AI Analysis 78

CIO

JULY 11, 2024

Effective cost management in the cloud is, therefore, becoming increasingly important. The complexity within IT infrastructures is increasing, as is the pressure on IT budgets to use available funds as smartly and efficiently as possible.

Cloud 197

Cloud Budget Survey Architecture 197

CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Gartner describes AI as a ‘beacon of innovation’ that companies across all industries are leveraging to save money and increase productivity. But this doesn’t mean AI can do everything, cautions Rudy Wolfs, CTO at Anywhere Real Estate.

Real Estate 173

Real Estate Energy Engineering Architecture 173

CIO

MAY 29, 2024

Last year, as many CIOs ramped up for their first round of Scope 3 reporting, gen AI found its way into virtually every office. Sometimes it came in through the front door, but in most cases, it seeped in quietly, as knowledge workers experimented with it to write documents and email without necessarily admitting they were doing so.

Sustainability 163

Sustainability Artificial Inteligence Energy Guidelines 163

CIO

JUNE 28, 2024

The STA recently came out and declared that with new technological solutions, it will save SEK600 million (about $57 million) in annual internal operations, and apply it to road and railway works. And in those cost-saving measures, IT has a vital role, according to IT director Niclas Lamberg.

Development Team Review 158

Development Team Review Technical Review Analysis Transportation 158

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

What they all missed is the change that is already taking place in corporate technology leadership today. This came to an abrupt end with the ensuing recession, and with it went the luster of business leadership for the CIO. As the FT articles make clear, that debate rages on.

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eCommerce Retail Airlines Leadership 45