TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Success is impossible to come by without substantial investment, time, and technical expertise. Here are five strategies that could help your biotech startup navigate a cooling fundraising environment: To ensure survival, it’s essential to explore alternative funding methods rather than relying solely on classic fundraising.

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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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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 22, 2025

They might highlight market dynamics, technical feasibility, or lessons theyve learned from similar ventures, which can be invaluable for shaping your strategy. Their enthusiasm strengthened my resolve and offered insights into how the product could meet their needs, and what I might need to modify about the product.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2024

That spectrum of budget adjustments is being met by a range of strategies by IT leaders seeking to make the most of their 2025 IT spend. Given the modest increases or flat budgets expected by many IT leaders, Forrester advises them to clean up their data and put guardrails in place before investing heavily in AI.

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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. Be clear, unambiguous, and direct,” Noaman advises. “If

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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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CIO

JULY 22, 2024

It also felt the provider couldn’t adequately help the bank meet the requirements of the Kenya Data Protection Act and the Central Bank of Kenya’s own regulations. Moreover, these repatriations show how CIOs have a shrewder, more fluid cloud strategy today to ensure they don’t settle for less than what they want.

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Form a strong partnership Forming an effective IT-sales partnership requires embracing a startup mentality, even at large, long-established organizations, advises Amit Vashisht, assistant vice president at retirement services firm Jackson Enterprise Technology.

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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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CIO

JUNE 6, 2024

It will struggle to act autonomously, meet evolving priorities, and innovate. Perkins advises IT leaders to adopt three principles to strike the right balance between cost, productivity, digital maturity, and the means to build long-term capabilities. Reserve the three-letter technical acronyms for your IT colleagues.”

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CIO

MAY 30, 2024

Less than half of CIOs say they possess the required technical skills, only 4 in 10 believe they have the required security infrastructure, and just one-third think their organizations possess the right computing infrastructure. Finally, CIOs are concerned about how their organizations will meet the challenge of responsible AI use.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Business is business and IT is IT and never the twain shall meet. We lack a water cooler in this remote world, but setting up biweekly meetings with my peers helps me understand their priorities and gives me an opportunity to communicate key knowledge,” Busse says. Advise and collaborate. Support the current business strategy.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Plus, learn why GenAI and data security have become top drivers of cyber strategies. Understanding these drivers is essential for organizations to develop proactive and adaptive cybersecurity strategies that address the evolving threat landscape and safeguard their digital assets,” reads a CompTIA blog about the report.

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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

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

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.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2024

I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. In that one meeting, I got the green light to invest and I always tried to explain technology in words and narratives that the non-techie board could absorb,” he said. “I

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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

JANUARY 15, 2024

As workers at all levels put together their development plans for 2024, IT leaders, recruiters, researchers, and advisors share here what actions CIOs can take to advance their careers if they want to embrace a growth mindset. It’s not just talk or a label. It will come down to navigating all the human elements,” he says.

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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

JUNE 3, 2024

Although some colleges already offer AI classes, many haven’t had time to create new programs to meet the increased demand from the new AI boom, which started with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. Over a third plan to launch AI fluency programs, and another third want to reassess their talent acquisition strategies.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Microsoft is committed to ensuring we offer robust and innovative solutions to meet these needs. We have extended support annually for the last six years, and will continue to do so until Oracle’s strategy and support for PeopleSoft changes,” the company said in a blog post in March. Resistance, as they say in the movies, is futile.

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CIO

JULY 2, 2024

Identify potential issues By analyzing vast amounts of data, AI can identify potential technical and security issues long before they can escalate into system outages. “Many AI systems use machine learning, constantly learning and adapting to become even more effective over time,” he says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The manufacturing industry is experiencing its “fourth industrial revolution,” with manufacturers focused on leveraging IT to stay competitive and meet the demand for digital services that can enhance their physical wares. It’s a technical role that also requires a level of soft skills such as leadership, communication, and analytical skills.

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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

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

JULY 8, 2024

First things first The purpose of any competitive bid process is to help a buying organization find a supplier that best meets its needs. The bid process concludes with potential suppliers providing a proposal that outlines their approach to best meet the buyer’s needs. The result?

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2024

“The bottom line is that in today’s era of rapid technological innovation, IT teams are critical partners that teams all across the organization must rely on in order to meet and exceed their business goals,” says Mindy Lieberman, CIO of tech firm MongoDB. “A But now we’re integral to the strategy as it’s being created.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance.

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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. Everyone will need time to adjust,” she advises. “Be Meetings may be held to discuss critical issues, but end without resolution.

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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. CIOs think a lot about technical skills, but they also need to think about having non-technical skills. Very often, such a person is the CIO. The third pillar is culture.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2007

My role is to work as part of the team to (1) understand related technologies and technical opportunities, (2) understand and help drive alignment around a vision of where the business should go, and (3) mesh those together to help make disciplined, proactive technical decisions. Many people ask how the acting-CTO gig can work out.

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2022

As the remote workforce expanded during and post-COVID, so did the attack surface for cybercriminals—forcing security teams to pivot their strategy to effectively protect company resources. Zero Trust isn’t a software in itself, but a strategy. Meeting the mandate will mean using a number of approaches, techniques and software types.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The ready availability of this data in Tenable products can help agencies meet the SLCGP performance measures. How Tenable can help agencies meet Objective 2 of the program Tenable is uniquely positioned to help SLTs meet Objective 2 through the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform. Sub-objective How Tenable helps 2.1.1:

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