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

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

JANUARY 9, 2023

The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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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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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

AUGUST 2, 2023

Modernize with purpose Before you begin, it’s essential to tie any app modernization project to the business need that is being addressed, says Aparna Sharma, a managing partner for hybrid cloud services at IBM Consulting. Sharma says she often sees modernization initiatives driven purely by the desire to get in on the latest innovation.

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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. Book a free consult today.

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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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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

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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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rebellion has also won several million dollars of military contracts from the Pentagon, the start of what some observers think will be a gusher of government dollars. Now some industry experts say Rebellion has failed to meet its own mission, and some former employees allege the company has been stymied by problematic internal politics.

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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. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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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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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. We then got into a task-based contract with the outgoing team members.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. Companies often approach this as contract-to-hire strategy,” explains Rowley. “Or CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

By far the fastest approach is to lift and shift the whole environment, says Matthew Hon, CTO for public sector at technology services company Fujitsu Americas, as rewriting applications for the cloud could take more than two years to complete. Cloud-native is much more than just technology,” Rubina says.

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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. But CIOs are also working with niche consultancies and startups for skills in areas such as cybersecurity, AI, cloud, analytics, and DevOps.

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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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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. This was followed by more phone interviews with junior IT staff and a technology consultant. I sit through 4 hours of meetings discussing my background and why I want the job. I doubt it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

Signs of inflation, labor market instability, and geopolitical strife are among the many reasons CIOs may be feeling some anxiety about the future, says Steve Shoemake, managing partner and global technology practice leader at consulting and staffing firm Vaco. Budgets may need adjusting,” he says. Embrace data, and share it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Seth Dobbs, CTO at IT services and consulting firm Bounteous, gives a pretty good thumbnail sketch of what an ideal product manager would look like. This is so that they can attend client meetings and sell the user experience, as an extension to the sales and propositions teams.”. Emphasize measurable outcomes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It found that 53% of the organizations it surveyed reported that their directors are among the main decision-makers for emerging technology investments, coming in just behind their CIOs and chief technology officers. Overlooking process and the technology itself. That’s all understandable. Flying solo.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Lesson #1: Cybersecurity needs a larger portion of your IT budget (and focus). In 2017, the number of cyber-incidents DOUBLED,” says Robert Douglas, President of PlanetMagpie IT Consulting. Dedicate more of your IT budget to cybersecurity. They’re struggling to meet the growing demand. Prepare for the worst.

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 13, 2012

Cost savings must also consider the entire IT lifecycle, not periodic budget cycles. About NJVC ® With a focus on information technology automation, NJVC ® specializes in supporting highly secure, complex IT enterprises in mission-critical environments, particularly for the intelligence and defense communities. Kevin Jackson.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Such conversations … should conclude with clear actions, benefits, timelines, and the budget and resources required to close gaps.” Venables recommends that modernization conversations should be held in boardrooms, executive leadership meetings, and business unit–specific strategy sessions. Planning is critical, Folk says.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“If we considered the corporate workflow as a symphony orchestra and the business processes within it as the musicians, BPM would be the conductor coordinating them,” explains Ivan Kot, Solution Consultant at Itransition. Contracting tasks like this out to other suppliers is far less expensive in terms of direct expenses and resources.”.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

JUNE 28, 2009

I am writing about my biggest failure as CTO, hoping there is a lesson here for others. In 2005-2006 we tried to partially consolidate information technology in the City of Seattle. Yet in “good” budget times, when jobs can be preserved, the support from elected and appointed officials is less compelling.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 10, 2009

In our practice for development on Business Exchange, the technologists meet with the senior business managers no less than three hours per week for iterations that are three weeks in length. This is followed up by many small meetings to help capture requirements with individual stakeholders. startup cto. (19). about me. (33).

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“Very often, IT teams don’t consider other, non-IT, activities that can affect their user base and their ability to collaborate,” says Seth Lively, US digital lead at IT consulting firm PA Consulting. It’s about not drowning first, then using whatever additional time and resources IT has to meet other requirements,” he explains.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Organizations don’t want fractional allocation — people rolling on to a project and rolling off,” he explains. Establishing technology and business owners also drives collaboration. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Such rivals can prevent you from receiving sufficient budget, successfully implementing vital business initiatives, and steering your organization in the right direction. Meet with the critic one-on-one to discuss the exact places where you disagree with each other. Gold Associates, a business consulting and research firm.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Such rivals can prevent you from receiving sufficient budget, successfully implementing vital business initiatives, and steering your organization in the right direction. Meet with the critic one-on-one to discuss the exact places where you disagree with each other. Gold Associates, a business consulting and research firm.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In the digital transformation era, IT success is no longer defined by meeting a go-live date or keeping within a budget. Change management is not something that can be haphazardly addressed toward the end of a transformation-type initiative,” says Matt Mead, CTO at technology modernization firm SPR.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Readiness is determined by the ability to experiment, and the ability to scale what works — building this capacity is critical to be future-ready,” says Siim Sikkut, former government CIO of Estonia, who’s now managing partner at IT consultancy Digital Nation. And then mainstreaming into your business the stuff that proves valuable.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

As many CIOs prepare their 2024 budgets and digital transformation priorities, developing a strategy that seeks opportunities to evolve business models, targets near-term operational impacts, prioritizes where employees should experiment, and defines AI-related risk-mitigating plans is imperative.

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