The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2022

CIOs need to identify where in their business AI can be used Image Credit: deepak pal. All CIOs know by now that artificial intelligence (AI) is coming. We’ve seen this new technology develop step-by-step over the past few years. CIOs Get Ready For The Arrival Of AI.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

What CIOs are being asked to do is starting to change Image Credit: Georgie Pauwels I think that we can all agree that things change. As CIOs a key part of our job is both adapting to change and helping our company adapt to change. The role of CIO is in flux right now.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

CIOs have to change in order to prepare for the future Image Credit: chintermeyer Being a CIO today is definitely a real challenge. The world seems to be moving faster than it ever has before and between pandemics and hiring challenges, it seems as though a CIO’s work is never done.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 18, 2024

By all accounts, 2024 will be a good year on the CIO hiring front. The result of all this tech activity is that organizations are putting great stock in their CIOs to be true strategic leaders — not just a member of the C-Suite, but one of its loudest voices. 2024 seems to be trending higher for CIO demand,” Licciardello says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

These are testing times for CIOs. The bad news from early 2023 Forrester research suggests that many CIOs aren’t ready to meet these fresh demands. The bad news from early 2023 Forrester research suggests that many CIOs aren’t ready to meet these fresh demands. Today, ‘information’ is only a piece of the role.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO. I’ve been writing about how life is different for software company CIOs for years — more specifically, on how they must make clearer distinctions between IT and product engineering than it is now for CIOs in other industries.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 8, 2023

Image Credit: Alan Levine Just about every CIO has heard about artificial intelligence (AI) and the wonderful things that it can do. However, should CIOs really believe this? CIOs have to face the fact that words have power. billion has been invested in AI startups in the past year. Globally, US$37.9

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 5, 2022

As the person with the CIO job, one of your many tasks is to find ways to make sure that the people that your company has hired choose to stick around. CIOs need to find ways to use technology to determine if the company’s employees are happy or not. How Can A CIO Help To Find Out How Employees Feel? At Workday Inc.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. To hit both marks, Wiedenbeck is intentional about separating the roles. I don’t think of it as an extension of the CIO job, but rather as a separate role to ensure we achieve transformation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Next CIO cohort sat with Natalie Whittlesey and James Lawson from InX to discuss how to transition into a first time C-suite role. Next CIO workshops are designed to support the Next CIO cohort into their first CIO role. These are held throughout the year as part of the initiative.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2024

this year to a hair under $5 trillion. That growth more than doubles what the firm pegs as 2023’s growth rate (3.3%), doldrums Gartner attributes not to macroeconomic forces but largely to what it calls “change fatigue among CIOs” — that is, IT leaders’ hesitance to sign new contracts or commit to long-term initiatives.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 16, 2022

Robots are key to how China wants CIOs to modernize their factories Image Credit: Eric Martin. All CIOs understand that if they are going to help their companies become more successful, then they are going to have to find ways to introduce new technology into how the company performs its processes. Say Hello To Robots.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

Three years ago, Essen-based Eon’s IT function was in the dumps, according to CIO Sebastian Webers’ colleagues when he took on his new role. In his keynote speech at the Hamburg IT Strategy Days in February, Weber looked back on those first three years and the journey he and his team took during that time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“Innovate or die,” Peter Drucker’s 1985 exhortation on the importance of constant reinvention, was great business advice for the last 40 or so years. Achieving that seamlessness between business functions and across geographies requires a new approach by CIOs. This is a challenge for many CIOs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

When I last dedicated an episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast to the state of tech talent, we were just coming out of a multi-year “sellers” market, and we could sense that we were hitting an inflection point. Fast-forward a year and things have changed significantly.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

CIOs are readying for another demanding year, anticipating that artificial intelligence, economic uncertainty, business demands, and expectations for ever-increasing levels of speed will all be in play for 2024. Yet, CIOs remain both undaunted by that list and expectant about what they can achieve. Claffey Jr.,

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Even if you don’t want to become famous, you can still build a personal presence online Image Credit: Jennifer Let’s face it, not all people with the CIO job are the type that are constantly seeking to be in the spotlight. In fact, there are a number of CIOs who prefer to go unnoticed and unrecognized.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

With the merging of operational efficiency and embracing new technologies, today’s CIOs are under increasing pressure to do more with less and become both technologists and business leaders, says Sunny Azadeh, CIO at digital services company GlobalLogic. “In

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

On average, hospitals would save $3,084,000 per year by eliminating the need for traveling nurses, according to NSI. Adoption of AI in healthcare is on the rise Generative AI is a subset of artificial intelligence that learns from large volumes of data to create new content, such as text and images. In the U.S.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 4, 2023

CIOs today find themselves in a unique position to survey everything taking place across their organization, find opportunities, resolve conflicts, set priorities, and help shape strategy. It’s really only the CIO and the CEO who have this perspective,” says Irving Tyler, distinguished research vice president with Gartner’s CIO Research team.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When Matt Postulka left Arbella Insurance Group as deputy CIO at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he didn’t intend to look back. Postulka aspired to become a CIO — and he achieved it, landing a job as CIO and senior vice president of technology and operations at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When IT leaders gather next month at FutureIT New York, the conversation will center around AI and other emerging technologies, data strategies, and practical use cases – all with an eye toward using IT to create business value. Here are three questions we’re excited to explore at FutureIT New York: 1. Don’t miss out! Register now.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Get ready for the IDC Middle East CIO Summit 2024. Expert speakers will dissect the reality of an ‘AI Everywhere’ world and empower IT leaders to understand their new roles in today’s AI-infused landscape. So, what CIOs can expect from the two-day event?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. I would say, right now, I’m a technologist last.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

He has previously taught for many years at Michigan State University and the University of Arkansas in the US. He feels “in these present contexts, CIOs must reflect on their role deeply because, going forward, they may have to provide vision, guidance, strategies, foresight, and entrepreneurial energy to the enterprise.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It’s evolved over my 25 years as a CIO, but in general my approach has been a “listen-plan-act” model. That’s been my typical game plan, probably not much different from most CIOs. But I also needed to focus on strategy to make sure we had capacity in the budget for new initiatives. I had to jump right in.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

When a civil engineering company went through layoffs during tough economic times, its 28-year-old project manager suddenly found himself promoted to the company’s top IT role. He learned how to become an executive who helps propel the business with technology — a vital skill for succeeding in the role of CIO today.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2024

Indian enterprises are more likely to see Chief Digital Officers CDOs) and data science heads fill the upcoming position of Chief AI Officer (CAIOs), analysts and experts have said. “The role of a Chief AI Officer might be combined with other existing roles, such as a Chief Digital Officer or a head of data science.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2024

CIOs, too, are expanding their executive capabilities — as they should be — given the everchanging list of challenges they face. CIO of Central Connecticut State University. Di Maria says having a group of trusted advisors can help CIOs — or any professional — identify and correct deficits as well as hone and build up strengths.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

CIOs are under increasing pressure to deliver AI across their enterprises – a new reality that, despite the hype, requires pragmatic approaches to testing, deploying, and managing the technologies responsibly to help their organizations work faster and smarter. The top brass is paying close attention.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 26, 2023

Meyercord parlayed an engineering degree into a two-decade consulting track at Accenture, where a focus on large-scale transformation projects opened the door to the global CIO role at Salesforce during its critical revenue growth period.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The analyst reports tell CIOs that generative AI should occupy the top slot on their digital transformation priorities in the coming year. Moreover, the CEOs and boards that CIOs report to don’t want to be left behind by generative AI, and many employees want to experiment with the latest generative AI capabilities in their workflows.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. These external factors can have a dramatic impact on business operations and strategic planning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Generac Power Systems’ Tim Dickson is an award-winning CIO who drives transformative change through technology and talent. And he does it by fulfilling four “CEO” roles: chief enablement officer, chief elevation officer, chief enrichment officer, and chief energy officer. What’s your take on the changing role of the CIO?

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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. In a wide-ranging interview with CIO.com, Hu talks about crucial areas such as what it takes for an IT leader to elevate customer experience , open a new revenue stream , and make the enterprise nimble. How do you do it? I’ve not done it alone, however.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

After all, 41% of employees acquire, modify, or create technology outside of IT’s visibility , and 52% of respondents to EY’s Global Third-Party Risk Management Survey had an outage — and 38% reported a data breach — caused by third parties over the past two years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

CIOs are hardly Luddites, but even some technologists fret about artificial intelligence, the rapid pace of tech evolution, and their ability to keep up. That’s not to say they’re looking to ditch their roles or smash machines, as the real Luddites had. Yet CIOs do admit that they’re worried about multiple issues these days.

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