CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Is it a lack of the right technology for enabling security operations? Most problems stem from a complex mix of people, process, and technology deficiencies, but pinpointing their sources can be a real challenge. Recently, I helped advise an IDC client whose security team was struggling to close thousands of vulnerabilities.

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Martin Fowler

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. -- Melvin Conway. If an architecture is designed at odds with the development organization's structure, then tensions appear in the software structure. Responses to Conway's Law.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Innovation, however, is not easy, as CIOs, their IT teams, and their organizations face plenty of obstacles that can slow or stop progress. Legacy tech and all that goes with it Legacy systems and technical debt top the list of common innovation roadblocks. Those, though, aren’t the only ways legacy tech can hurt innovation.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and Production”: Insist on doing everything through “channels” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems.

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CIO

JULY 15, 2024

Environment, social, and governance (ESG) concerns have become increasingly important for all organizations. As many organizations shift services from in-house datacenters to external cloud services, the potential for reduced power consumption and reduced carbon emissions presents an opportunity to report improvements in ESG.

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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 21, 2019

During my time at Gorilla Logic, I have had the opportunity to work as a Senior Consultant and as a Technical Lead on a very demanding set of services/products for companies that want to skyrocket their efficiency and revenue while maintaining quality, performance, and low technical debt. Be a Servant Technical Lead .

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Now, the CIO is more likely to be known as the chief innovation officer, responsible for driving digital transformation within the organization.” Inflexibility In today’s rapidly changing world, organizations need a leader who’s both agile and comfortable with change. “If Walker, a business consultant and coach.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

And when it comes to business and management IT jobs, 63% were classified as “high transformation” due to AI. 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.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

IT leaders at organizations considering AI are under major pressure — from boards, other executives, and the market itself — to roll out major AI initiatives. US regulatory agencies are watching for exaggerated AI claims, with the US Securities and Exchange Commission announcing a settlement in March with two investment advisors.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. D ue diligence pays off.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 25, 2024

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. These three key factors, along with others like the scale of attacks, play a critical role in how organizations currently outline their cybersecurity game plans.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

Tech companies have laid off over 250 thousand employees since 2022, and 93% of CEOs report preparing for a US recession over the next 12 to 18 months. Some IT organizations elected to lift and shift apps to the cloud and get out of the data center faster, hoping that a second phase of funding for modernization would come.

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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. Restructuring can create uncertainty and stress in an organization, and it shouldn’t be used lightly or regularly, Sinclair explains.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A major reason so many digital transformation programs fail is that enterprises view them as technology problems rather than the organizational challenges they truly are. A given approach may or may not work but as the data comes back, an organization learns, adjusts, and pivots, based on what it finds. How can a CIO help develop this?

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

CIOs and HR managers are changing their equations on hiring and training, with a bigger focus on reskilling current employees to make good on the promise of AI technologies. That shift is in no small part due to an AI talent market increasingly stacked against them. times faster than for all jobs, according to a recent PwC report. “I

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CIO

MARCH 30, 2023

With digital technology increasingly vital to business, the CIO role is quickly evolving, placing IT leaders under threat from business executives who offer the blend of business and technical savvy necessary to lead transformational strategies in the future. As a result, CIOs find their roles being challenged by LOB counterparts.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“IT middle managers play a critical role, and companies often neglect and underinvest in them,” says Dan Roberts, host of the Tech Whisperers Podcast and author of Confessions of a Successful CIO. Tech leaders say relationship building is the key. That suggests why they’re struggling.” What can be done to help?

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“We haven’t changed our forecast in three quarters,” he says, noting that the US gross domestic product (GDP) is, technically, already in recession territory and has been for the past six months. That’s certainly the case in the corporate technology group at Illinois Tool Works (ITW), a $14.5

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

When I last dedicated an episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast to the state of tech talent, we were just coming out of a multi-year “sellers” market, and we could sense that we were hitting an inflection point. I don’t have a broader ambition of moving up in the organization or whatever that career trajectory may be.’

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We’ve entered another year where current economic conditions are pressuring organizations to do more with less, all while still executing against digital transformation imperatives to keep the business running and competitive. The growth of Kubernetes, and the benefits it brings to organizations, is not something that is going away.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 23, 2020

Nowadays, when tech companies are among the largest businesses in the world, CTOs are some of the most influential and innovative people that shape how we live and work. With the technological outlook for the years ahead, these people manage to drive the striking change both within the company and beyond. The role of CTO.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2023

Every IT organization has hidden experts. Spotting promising talent requires keeping a close pulse on both the enterprise and its people, says Carter Busse, CIO at business automation technology provider Workato. Schwarz points to generative AI as a technology that’s suddenly leaped into the IT spotlight.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Yet, organizations still struggle with getting it right. According to TEKsystems’ 2023 State of Digital Transformation , 41% of organizations’ digital transformation (DX) initiatives have failed to achieve their desired outcomes. They should be asking, ‘Is this the right thing to do for my organization or my company?’

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CIO

MARCH 22, 2023

“I wish I’d have told myself to buy myself more time, setting out a three-year, step-by-step plan, and not try and get everything right on day one and solve everything in the first year,” says David Henderson, chief technology and product officer at music and entertainment group Global. It’s not all about the tech.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Just 28% of IT leadership roles are filled by women, according to DDI’s 2023 Global Leadership Forecast , and many women end up leaving IT careers due to workplace culture, pay equity, microaggressions, and a lack of forward growth and promotion, among other uphill challenges.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2024

Acceleration plans also included fast-tracking the evaluation and implementation of new technologies, such as AI to enhance robotic process automation (RPA) and optical character recognition (OCR), as well as delivering new cloud-based data storage and analytics systems. “We Technology can scale, but people can’t, he adds.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. For example, organizations may commit to containers that are too large, or reserve too much disk space.

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

Internet2® is a member-owned, advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions in 1996. research and education organizations to solve common technology challenges, and to develop innovative solutions in support of their educational, research, clinical and community service missions.

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CIO

AUGUST 18, 2022

To find out, he queried Walgreens’ data lakehouse, implemented with Databricks technology on Microsoft Azure. “We For Guadagno, the need to match vaccine availability with patient demand came at the right moment, technologically speaking. We leveraged the lakehouse to understand the moment,” the CIO says. Enter the data lakehouse.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

To help Black CIO aspirants better understand the path to IT leadership, Howard University’s Center for Digital Business brought together six “trailblazing” CIOs for a Tech Titans Talk panel to share their experiences and insights working their way up in the tech industry.

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CIO

AUGUST 17, 2023

On a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , Dr. Lisa Palmer and Anna Ransley, two leaders who have been living and breathing all things generative AI, joined me to unpack this story and help us separate the hype from what’s real. Your organization needs someone to champion this. We need that kind of leadership.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

ERP systems are critical applications for most organizations because they integrate all the processes necessary to run their business into a single system that also facilitates resource planning. Tyler Technologies and UNIT4 fall in this category. Depending on how vendors are categorized there are 25 to 45 vendors in this tier.

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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

MARCH 23, 2023

Not seeing yourself clearly Spending 20 years or longer at the same company isn’t necessarily viewed as favorably as it used to be, says Shawn Bannerji, managing partner for the data, digital, and technology leaders practice at Caldwell. The role is evolving to have more substantive technical dimensions,” Bannerji explains.

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Kaseya

AUGUST 14, 2020

Every organization must adhere to industry standards and regulations relevant to their industry. As organizations grow, so does their volume of data, bringing with it the constant effort to comply with the regulations. It’s more likely to increase the risk of a regulation breach due to human error or bad data.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As such, customers should prepare their organizations to undertake an extensive, holistic evaluation of RISE from a technical, operational, financial, and commercial perspective. In addition, SAP customers should understand the benefits, protections, and limitations that SAP will provide in exchange for access to data.

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