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8 top priorities for CIOs in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Welcome to 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. This is no longer true. “As How well teams execute will be key.”

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The skills and traits of elite CTOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

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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The new CIO mandate: Selling AI to employees

CIO Business Intelligence

As organizations roll out AI applications and AI-enabled smartphones and devices, IT leaders may need to sell the benefits to employees or risk those investments falling short of business expectations. Employee training on AI is essential, says Sam Ferrise, CTO at Trinetix, a tech consulting firm.

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

The five finalists for CEO of the Year in the 2023 GeekWire Awards are taking on a broad and important range of challenges: workplace equity; machine learning and AI creation; identification and tracking; immigration application processes; and fending off bots. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024. The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June.

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