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. Gen AI is quite different because the models are pre-trained,” Beswick explains.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

The 2024 State of the Tech Workforce from IT training and certification association CompTIA noted a similar gender gap in the field, finding that women make up just 27% of tech occupations. Worse, a significant percentage of women in tech want to leave.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The recipient of a Harvard MBA and an undergraduate degree from Vienna’s prestigious Technical University, Platzer received his early training at CERN and the Planck Institute before turning to a consulting career at BCG.

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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

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

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. This could force companies to share sensitive information, raising concerns over intellectual property and competitive advantage.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

Implementing robust security measures such as encryption, regular security audits, and employee training, and partnerships with legal experts can help ensure adherence. Its gospel truth the CIO role has seen an evolution from just the technical expert and is now central to business decisions.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

These powerful models, trained on vast amounts of data, can generate human-like text, answer questions, and even engage in creative writing tasks. However, training and deploying such models from scratch is a complex and resource-intensive process, often requiring specialized expertise and significant computational resources.

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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. Yet he also advises proceeding with caution.

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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. The market is tight, but we are not short of people with technical skills; people who can develop, build infrastructure, and understand the cloud,” says Fox.

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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. A trusted advisor like Lenovo can help organizations make sense of AI.

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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

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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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 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

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

There are so many opportunities out there, so choose what you want to do and dedicate yourself 100% to it,” Zilberman advises. Think about companies and environments in which you thrive — and those you don’t — and share that information with your network, whether that’s past co-workers, recruiters, or clients,” she advises.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

He is recognized among the leading international experts in open innovation and has wide experience in setting up and managing open innovation projects venture clients, venture builders, intrapreneurship, CVCs with large multinational companies, as well as advising and training on this subject. Photo by James Wiseman on Unsplash.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2025

Developing and expanding data literacy These CDOs are also leveraging training programs and university-style frameworks to increase data acumen across the enterprise, upskill internal talent, minimize resistance to AI, capture more insights about how AI can be used to drive business outcomes, and more.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

And while CIOs are working to train internal candidates within IT and the business units for tough-to-fill tech jobs or are using contractors to fill in staffing gaps , Sengupta says those practices create talent challenges, too. Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps. 1 challenge listed.

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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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Tenable

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The rise of AI has accelerated the need for robust data practices in order to properly train AI algorithms, and the demand for data science continues to be strong as businesses seek competitive differentiation,” the report reads. Aim to provide a holistic view, and avoid using technical jargon. Aim to advise instead of to educate.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Legacy tech and all that goes with it Legacy systems and technical debt top the list of common innovation roadblocks. To overcome those multitude of issues, Gilcrest advises CIOs to “ champion a cultural shift towards innovation , emphasizing that innovation is not synonymous with job loss.”

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

But it isn’t always easy for some teams, especially those in the highly technical roles, such as developers. In instances like this, however, it is advised that employees put their milestones as their key results. OKRs become vague when you cannot associate them with a numerical value. Take The Test.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As part of the investment, Lydia Jett, founding partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, will join Andela’s board. Andela evaluates technical and soft skills of engineers and matches them with the teams that most closely fit. Its last valuation of $700 million came when the company raised a $100 million Series D in 2019.

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2024

I used figures of speech and financial terms they understood, and I kept well away from technical jargon because that wasn’t my audience. She adds that storytelling is also being used increasingly in M&A, and she’s advised on Accenture’s recent acquisition of UK creative change management consultancy, The Storytellers.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Although FMs offer impressive out-of-the-box capabilities, achieving a true competitive edge often requires deep model customization through pre-training or fine-tuning. We discuss how these powerful tools enable organizations to optimize compute resources and reduce the complexity of model training and fine-tuning.

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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

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

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

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The role of a business analyst is constantly evolving and changing — especially as companies rely more on data to advise business operations. Unlike certifications, which are designed to prove the skills you already have, boot camps are designed to teach you new skills or improve your current skillset.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

ERP systems can also provide a standardized HR platform for time reporting, expense tracking, training, and skills matching, and greatly enhance an organization’s ability to file the necessary compliance reporting across finance, HR, and the supply chain. ERP systems provide a consistent user interface, thereby reducing training costs.

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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

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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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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