CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. Here’s how.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Ozzie Coto, chief AI officer and CTO at The Cult Branding Co., Coto co-founded the company, served as its initial chief technology officer, and was later tasked with overseeing AI investments as well. Some will state that they go by the CEO/CFO-set budget, and still seek sign-off at the board level.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

CIOs and their IT teams have enjoyed a bump in power and prestige in recent years, as the C-suite has embraced continuous transformation, digital everything, and a host of emerging technologies — all enabled by IT. Yet many IT departments are struggling to reshape themselves to better meet the mandates of today.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

Those working in IT management, including the roles of CIO, CTO, VP, and IT Director, hold high-level positions that oversee an entire company’s technology infrastructure. Meanwhile, the CTO focuses on technology research and development efforts, often working closely with the CIO to develop a strong IT strategy.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

By Deepak Kumar Editor’s note: This guest post is by Deepak Kumar, Founder and CTO of Adaptiva. Over the last year, IT budgets saw modest growth as departments embraced mobile, cloud and virtualization in record numbers. CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC Mobile' – bg.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Delivering on time and on budget Completing software projects in a timely manner while staying within budget is a long-time challenge of software development. On time and on budget are much easier to judge with the finger on the pulse of expectations of both the users and the developers.” What we can’t measure we can’t improve.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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 one, he mocked up a cover of the Financial Times , showing the company’s stock soaring and praising its technologically enabled innovations.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

based startup aims to replace a traditionally manual evaluation process with spreadsheets, meetings, and word docs. Olive co-founders Chris Heard (CEO) and Dan Harrison (CTO). Olive announced a $1 million seed round to fuel growth of its software that helps companies streamline IT procurement. The Vancouver, B.C.-based Olive Photos).

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Boards should meet with the CISO. Provide opportunity for CISO to identify any key roadblocks (budget, political agendas, ignorance, apathy, arrogance). Understand what percentage of total revenue is in the IT budget and what percentage is for security. The board should meet with the chief risk officer and review all risks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. The challenge is finding ways to achieve these goals in an era of constricted budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2022

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software. The Office of Management and Budget published a Federal Zero Trust architecture strategy , outlining specific cybersecurity standards and objectives that federal agencies must meet by the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2022

Being efficient means producing high-quality, sustainable, and expected outcomes on time and on budget, says Christopher Kowalsky, an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. They plan meetings for maximum effectiveness. They create an operations playbook. IT Leadership

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

As companies vie for talented tech workers to meet skills gaps in their organizations, the demand for certain tech roles has increased. Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget. Average salary: US$132,094 Increase since 2021: 10.8%

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Christian Spannbauer, CTO for the Digital Hangar, spoke with CIO.com from Barcelona about the impact of this new initiative for the official flag carrier airline of Germany, which, as a founding member of the Star Alliance network, has become a truly global airline. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

As federal budgets face tighter scrutiny, government agencies at all levels have been seeking innovative ways to operate more efficiently at lower cost without compromising security. Consolidating and optimizing government data centers is an important way to shift more IT resources from back-office activities to value-added services.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Everyone is budgeting 50% longer to raise their rounds,” said Canestaro. In Washington, Absci , Zymeworks , TwinStrand Biosciences , NanoString Technologies and Sana Biotechnology all shed employees in 2022. Sonoma chief technology officer Heidi Hagen. Google screenshot). Sonoma Photo). Phase Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

Resource Constraints Smaller healthcare organizations often operate under tight budgets and limited resources, which can hinder their ability to allocate sufficient time, personnel, and financial resources to compliance initiatives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

When the pandemic hit and candidates and potential employers were unable to meet in person, Year Up’s IT organization scrambled to replicate training, enrollment, and matching processes in a virtual world to keep its talent match-making business going. Technical debt lessons learned.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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A CIO's Voice

JULY 9, 2014

ECQ #1 – LEADING CHANGE : This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. ECQ #2 – LEADING PEOPLE : This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization’s vision, mission, and goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2023

Arthur Hu ranks among the few IT leaders who wear the hats of both CIO and CTO. According to Lenovo’s Global Study of CIOs 2023 , the biggest challenges CIOs are facing include insufficient budgets for digital transformation, concerns about organizational resilience, and expanding responsibilities beyond their traditional roles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2023

That’s no small undertaking, and as CTO for the company, it’s Marc Hale’s core responsibility to help achieve that goal by providing a secure and stable platform on which the business can operate and innovate. “As Budget constraints, of course, are ever present and need to be worked through very closely.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2022

The meeting followed the Chatham House Rule, so not all participants can be identified. And a participant in financial services spoke of applying a technology-first approach to CX, although he warned that’s not always popular. They would struggle to agree on what department was responsible and which budget line was appropriate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

With a clear outcome and understanding of your ‘why,’ you can make a set of choices that meet and solve your business need,” she says. This approach seldom meets objectives and can easily get abandoned due to budget cuts, overspending, or loss of interest, he notes. Varerkar also advises against rebuilding an app from scratch.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 20, 2023

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Part of that increased shareholder value will be to ensure the business is able to meet the evolving regulations surrounding environmental sustainability.

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CTOvision

MARCH 31, 2015

In a recent AIIM survey of more than 400 organizations, we found that nearly two-thirds described their SharePoint projects as either stalled (26%) or just not meeting expectations (37%). CTO Microsoft SharePoint' And don’t forget to create an information governance (IG) framework.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2023

And if the initiative misses its goal, or runs over budget, the CIO’s job may be at stake. 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. A complete rebuild can be disruptive, time-consuming, and risky.

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A CIO's Voice

JULY 1, 2014

I get a first phone screen followed by a request to develop a one-year project plan with associated budgets and milestones. After running the gambit of multiple interviews and face-to-face meetings, with project plans and the Kobayashi Maru addressed I was eliminated because “I was unable to make a decision.” I doubt it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Failing to meet these needs means getting left behind and missing out on the many opportunities made possible by advances in data analytics.” IT leaders are contending with soaring complexity and unfathomable volumes of data spread across the technology stack, observes Gregg Ostrowski, executive CTO of Cisco AppDynamics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But for Kapil Mehrotra, group CTO at National Collateral Management Services (NCMS), high turnover presented an opportunity to cut costs of the IT department, streamline its operations, and find a long-term solution to the perpetual skills scarcity problem. I make sure that I participate even in normal meetings to avoid any conflicts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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. When working with advancing technologies such as AI, screening potential partners can take more effort. “It

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Panelists: Don Cotter, CTO, Department of Homeland Security. Michele Weslander Quaid , Chief Technology Officer and Innovation Evangelist, Google Federal. Description: Cloud computing, a new approach in the provisioning and consumption of IT, has been described as a means to cut federal IT budgets. Dr. Robert C.

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CTOvision

JUNE 9, 2015

meet those responsibilities and help the Internet remain a safe place for its users around the world. Because HTTPS requires the purchase of an SSL certificate from a signing authority, such as GlobalSign , Symantec , or Comodo , and because some program changes are needed, budget has to be found to cover the additional cost.

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