CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2023

Organizations are rushing to figure out how to extract business value from generative AI — without falling prey to the myriad pitfalls arising. Those results align with Foundry’s more recent July 2023 CIO Tech Talk survey that found 60% of IT leaders are actively using gen AI in their enterprise, with 28% more in the exploratory phase.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 5, 2023

It’s kind of like the Dickens classic, A Tale of Two Cities : “It was the best of times. It’s kind of like the Dickens classic, A Tale of Two Cities : “It was the best of times. The market for technology talent has been white hot over the past year. What will the next twelve to eighteen months bring? It was the worst of times.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

com In order to be an effective CIO you need to have a good understanding of how your employees are currently feeling. Traditionally what most CIOs have done is to create a survey and then send it out to have their employees fill it out. Most CIOs don’t do anything with the results anyway. This remains as important as ever.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

What you don’t do may be the most important thing Image Credit: Cigac Semiárido CIOs send a great deal of our time trying to secure the company’s networks. We invest in firewalls, two-factor authentication systems, and lots and lots of training for everyone in the company. What should a CIO do after the worst has happened?

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and generative AI, questions have arisen regarding the continued relevance of the CIO title and whether it accurately reflects the evolving nature of the job. Whether you call it CIO or not is immaterial. I think we are too focused on titles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2024

Judy Balaban, former CIO at Covanta Judy Balaban “People say with hard work you’ll be recognized. But for true recognition, you have to have a presence beyond your company,” says Balaban, who has had multiple senior-level IT positions and was most recently a director in the Office of the CIO at waste management company Covanta.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

CIOs have a new challenge that they have to deal with. Nobody ever said that being the person in the CIO position is an easy job for anyone to have. What are CIOs to do now? The health care industry is one area where the person with the CIO job is facing ransom demands in increasing levels.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

Rona Bunn is CIO for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), where she facilitates digital orchestration and leads information technology, data, and digital experience. After the show, we spent some more time talking about the mission of NACD and her advice to CIOs and CISOs who aspire to join a board.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2022

Board directors like Jean Holley can be a CIO’s best friend or worst nightmare. A former CIO herself, Holley always reaches out to the CIO before board meetings to offer her advice on how to handle inevitable questions. Don’t be that CIO. CIOs hold more influence than ever in the boardroom.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Not too long ago, many CIOs might have had to wrestle with a chief financial officer who viewed enterprise IT as a utility. Now technology has become such an indispensable tool to drive revenue or remove costs that CIOs are just as likely to be asked to do more in the face of a downturn rather than less.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2024

As CIO you need to anticipate, not only actual AI risks, but perceived ones as well. As CIO you’ll have to help communicate the company’s intentions, whether AI is used for employee augmentation or replacement. Here’s how to go about it. Risks perceived by an average schmo 1. Will AI make humans obsolete? AI can do the same.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2022

Two years after a global pandemic first shut down the world — and IT departments took a leading role in maintaining businesses’ survival — the IT function has been changed forever. The early days of the pandemic taught organizations like Avery Dennison the power of agility and experimentation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 18, 2023

CIOs supporting a hybrid mix of in-office and remote workers, and those who float between, need to implement new tools and strategies to get it right. But they will also need to change how they think about hybrid work, which analyst firm Forrester characterizes as “messy” even as it says 51% of organizations are moving in this direction.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 19, 2023

If CIOs lose women from their team, then effectiveness will suffer Image Credit: Steve wilson CIOs work very hard to build an IT department that can meet the company’s technology needs. Now CIOs are facing a new challenge: they may end up losing many of the women who are working in their departments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

IT industry researchers believe the biggest impact of gen AI this year will be in customer experience (CX), with organizations using vast amounts of data to communicate with consumers and resolve problems faster. The tech researcher says companies will increase their use of AI-enabled tools to augment customer service agents’ capabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 27, 2023

As we closed out 2022 and began 2023, VMware’s Research and Insights organization interviewed more than 450 technology executives to get their candid views on the topics that present enterprises with the greatest opportunities and challenges. That fact was immediately apparent in a survey with the same executives two months earlier.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Translating the CEO’s strategy Another legacy organization, 105-year-old The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), has “a specific focus on elevating data and digital fluency” across the organization, says Sastry Durvasula, CIO and client services officer. At his company, anyway.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 24, 2021

Walmart is in the process of making changes, what will their CIO have to do? There are a lot of high profile CIO jobs out there. However, one of the ones that has the most attention being directed towards it is being the CIO at the gigantic retailer Walmart. The Challenges Facing The Walmart CIO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Pablo Del Giudice, cloudops and cybersecurity studio partner at professional services firm Globant, adds that migration is possible if you position your organization correctly. Jamie Holcombe, CIO, USPTO USPTO Del Giudice breaks down cloud vendor lock-in into three forms. And he and his team have done so successfully.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

Rather than tackle organizational change management with an end in mind, IT leaders and their organizations must now exist in an environment of persistent flux. . “In In this era of continuous disruption, the goal should not be to build an organization that reacts quickly to change. Low-performance organizations are up to 3.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

CIOs and CTOs have a crucial role in avoiding those pitfalls when it comes to gen AI. With AI increasingly viewed as a business accelerator and disruptor, this complex equation is a challenge CIOs must get right. Hardly a day goes by without some new business-busting development on generative AI surfacing in the media.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As organizations of all stripes continue their migration to the cloud, they are coming face to face with sometimes perplexing cost issues, forcing them to think hard about how best to optimize workloads, what to migrate, and who exactly is responsible for what. Ensure your legal team has read ‘Cloud 3.0:

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 24, 2022

CIOs need to understand that there is something wrong with the process Image Credit: Todd Van Hoosear. One of the biggest challenges that is facing the person with the CIO job these days is finding ways to attract the best talent to join their company. Why You Are The Problem When It Comes To Finding Good Employees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

CIOs are taking deliberate action by proactively matching workloads and applications with the ideal cloud, and companies are also seeing a proliferation of multi-cloud architectures created by mergers and acquisitions, data sovereignty needs, support for remote work, and shadow IT. The era of the multi-cloud landscape is here.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax One of the most painful – and pained – statements I’ve heard in the last two years was from an IT leader who said, “my team is struggling to find ways that our company’s data could be valuable to the business.” The latter case is as it should be.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 5, 2024

With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel. We made everything new from scratch.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Great IT organizations must establish dual career paths providing opportunities for technologists to advance their craft and careers without having to involve themselves with management and personnel issues. Many professions are faced with this same issue. Many professions are faced with this same issue.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change. The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. And software code is a language.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2023

Every organization is on an AI journey. Today’s AI narrative At the “ The Two Faces of AI ” Digital Solutions Gallery hosted by the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University, I asked the 100-plus executives in attendance, “Is your organization ‘normal’ with regards to its treatment of AI?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In 2023, CIOs are guided to focus on enhancing workforce engagement, customer experience, and data and AI. The importance of customer experience as a competitive advantage Customer service is overdue for its makeover, shifting its role in the organization from a cost-center to a growth engine.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

IT organizations have worked hard to get away from the problems that had plagued their past project delivery processes. Instead, failure today means an IT project doesn’t deliver some or all its expected benefits, according to CIOs, project leaders, researchers, and IT consultants. Some studies bear that out. So what’s going on?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2023

But as software vendors like ServiceNow, Salesforce, or SAP offer new ways to take advantage of generative AI capabilities, such as summarizing text or generating new text or images from a simple prompt, there are risks CIOs need to consider before giving the technology free rein with their data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

Like other CIOs, Katrina Redmond has been inundated with opportunities to deploy AI that promise to speed business and operations processes, and optimize workflows. To be successful, an AI proof of concept (PoC) project also needs to make good business sense, says CIO Vikram Nafde, CIO at Connecticut-based Webster Bank.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 30, 2022

Shaun Guthrie, Peavey Mart Senior VP of Information Technology and VP of the CIO Association of Canada Peavey Mart. As a result, “only two stores were directly impacted where they had no internet connectivity,” says Shaun Guthrie, the company’s Senior VP of Information Technology and VP of the CIO Association of Canada.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2023

Whether it’s text, images, video or, more likely, a combination of multiple models and services, taking advantage of generative AI is a ‘when, not if’ question for organizations. But many organizations are limiting use of public tools while they set policies to source and use generative AI models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But if there are any stop signs ahead regarding risks and regulations around generative AI, most enterprise CIOs are blowing past them, with plans to deploy an abundance of gen AI applications within the next two years if not already. A recent survey of nearly 1,000 IT decision-makers conducted by Foundry underscores this.

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