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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

APRIL 26, 2023

What’s not often discussed, however, are the mistakes IT leaders make when establishing and supervising training programs, particularly when training is viewed as little more than an obligatory task. Is your organization giving its teams the training they need to keep pace with the latest industry developments?

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CIO

MARCH 22, 2022

Such issues have played a large role in the rise of organizations focused on empowering and supporting women in tech roles. Today’s networking and advocacy landscape finds a growing array of programs and organizations for girls, women, and anyone who identifies as a woman — and plenty are also open to male allies. Black Girls Code.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2024

Strike a balance between innovation and operational excellence In an era of creative disruption, Orla Daly, CIO at business and technical skills training firm Skillsoft, believes that IT leaders in 2024 should concentrate on achieving balance among their myriad initiatives, favoring innovation and “keep the lights on” work in turn.

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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

MARCH 26, 2025

With emerging technologies like Gen-AI keeping organizations in a flurry of new implementations, a rapidly shifting CIO role, new innovations testing budgets and adaptability of organizations and increasing competition, a competent CIO is the ace that can change the game.

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CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The group includes prominent figures like AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, former UK government adviser Nitarshan Rajkumar, and Stanford University fellow Marietje Schaake. Representatives from leading firms like Google and Microsoft will join the groups, alongside nonprofit organizations and academic experts, according to Reuters.

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CIO

MAY 30, 2024

However, though AI deployment is an urgent issue, most CIOs don’t believe their organizations are ready. 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.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

Todays CDO is focused on helping the organization leverage data as a business asset to drive outcomes. When your value is not felt or understood, you are subject to changes in financial and political winds, and your ability to contribute to a high-performing organization will be limited, Voorhees says.

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CIO

MARCH 29, 2023

Over the past few years, more organizations have gone all in with migrations to the public cloud. More than two-thirds of organizations are not realizing the full value of their cloud investments, according to an Everest Group survey of CIOs. Think of cloud as a modernization journey and not just a migration,” Ranjan advises.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Without revenue from sales of products or services, a business becomes little more than a hobby or a charitable organization. Is your IT organization doing all it can to help sales team members build and retain customers? To find the answer, consider the following ways IT can help ensure the sales organization is primed for success.

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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

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

JUNE 5, 2023

This underlines the need for organizations to embrace change and adopt a more agile and forward-thinking approach to digital transformation skills in order to overcome challenges and achieve digital transformation,” says Monika Sinha, research vice president in Gartner’s CIO Research group. And that is the rub.

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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

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. They’re also managing people who used to be peers, and they need to organize and motivate their team members to take on major new projects.

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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. As a result, organizations such as TE Connectivity are launching internal training programs to reskill IT and other employees about AI.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Over the past few years, CIOs have focused on enabling hybrid work, driving efficiencies through automation, modernizing applications, enabling machine learning predictions, and maturing the data-driven organization. In addition, business stakeholders often demand fast results.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Tech Scaleup Tunisia 2025 Report , produced by my organization, Mind the Bridge , with the support of ICC Tunisia and Terna Innovation Zone, presents full data and was unveiled in Tunis on Feb. Onetti has a column on Sifted ( Financial Times ) and several other tech blogs. Photo by James Wiseman on Unsplash.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

But on the other hand, AI and generative AI in particular, as well as the speed at which intelligence barreled its way into organizations, have disrupted many IT plans, says Taglienti, chief data officer and distinguished engineer at tech firm Insight. “It Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps.

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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 will come down to navigating all the human elements,” he says.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

The tranche values the company at $250 million post-money, and cofounder and CEO Sid Upadhyay says that it’ll be put toward growing WizeHire’s over-100-person headcount, expanding the company’s hiring resources and “further establish[ing]” relationships with technical partners.

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CIO

JULY 20, 2022

The problem: She had no formal training and experience in computer science. The company has forged partnerships with a wide variety of organizations that promote women in tech and serves as a sponsor to groups like She Secures , a community for women cybersecurity professionals and enthusiasts. Frederick “Flee” Lee, CSO, Gusto.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a nonprofit professional association, considers the business analyst “an agent of change,” writing that business analysis “is a disciplined approach for introducing and managing change to organizations, whether they are for-profit businesses, governments, or non-profits.”

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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. You have to be able to affect change, not just in your own organization, but throughout the enterprise.

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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. They can also standardize and automate manufacturing and supporting processes, and unify procurement across an organization’s business units.

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CIO

AUGUST 22, 2024

Despite those complications, a huge majority of IT leaders expect their organizations’ IT budgets to increase — at least moderately — in the next fiscal year, with IT talent and software spending leading the way. Percentage increases at most organizations will be in the single digits, however. through 2027.

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2023

Amanda Merola had zero technical background when she came to The Hartford in 2015, despite a natural interest in computers and a proclivity for problem-solving. Merola was accepted into the HartCode Academy’s inaugural class, spending months in bootcamps and self-directed training before landing a position as a junior coder.

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CIO

APRIL 14, 2023

Faced with a long-running shortage of experienced professional developers, enterprise IT leaders have been exploring fresh ways of unlocking software development talent by training up non-IT staff and deploying tools that enable even business users to build or customize applications to suit their needs. What’s expensive is scale.”

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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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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

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. Ensures that the organization’s IT infrastructure is secured based on the assessed risk to the organization and the community it serves.

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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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CIO

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the rush to establish technical strategies for making good on the promise of generative AI, many CIOs find themselves running headlong into what may be their most challenging task yet: preparing their organization’s end-users — from knowledge workers and assembly line laborers to doctors, accountants, and lawyers — to co-exist with generative AI.

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CIO

APRIL 8, 2025

Is your organization doing all it can to protect itself from both internal and external threats? Risks often emerge when an organization neglects rigorous application portfolio management, particularly with the rapid adoption of new AI-driven tools which, if unchecked, can inadvertently expose corporate intellectual property.

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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.” CIOs must up their talent game across the board, including talent management, engagement, training, and retention, in addition to hiring.

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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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