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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. For example, she says that an iOS developer could learn eCommerce, or a web developer could study back-end infrastructure.

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The rise of the chief transformation officer

CIO Business Intelligence

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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Misled by metrics: 7 KPI mistakes IT leaders make

CIO Business Intelligence

Too often, technology companies pay consulting or analyst firms to create metrics based on the best characteristics of their offerings,” says Judith Hurwitz, CEO of Hurwitz Strategies, an emerging technology consulting firm. When studying a metric, it’s important to know who created it and the data source.

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Broadcom Software: Taming IT Complexity through Effective Strategies and Partnerships

CIO Business Intelligence

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world.

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Survey: Why CIOs and CTOs want a new model for IT support and services

CIO Business Intelligence

That study focused on CIO and CTO satisfaction with their existing IT support and services models for enterprise software. CIOs and CTOs are frustrated at the many inconveniences of managing multiple vendors. In April of 2023, Censuswide conducted a survey of 608 US respondents from companies with $250m+ revenue.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

In fact, CIOs listed numerous roadblocks to IT strategic success in the 2024 State of the CIO Study from Foundry, publisher of CIO.com. As these executives try to capitalize on technologies fueled by data, they’re having to stop their progress on those deployments to deal with the state of their data instead. 1 challenge listed.

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10 projects top of mind for IT leaders today

CIO Business Intelligence

The CIO position has morphed since its inception 40 years ago, shifting from a nuts-and-bolts techie job to an increasingly business- and strategy-focused executive role. Research from PwC had similar findings, with 47% of CIOs saying they’re “prioritizing the transformation of their data platforms to drive business growth.”

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