CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

in September, 2023, the price pressures facing IT have persisted. The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. While inflation challenges have moderated in the US from a high of 9.1%

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.” Meanwhile, 86% are what Accenture deemed “transformers,” meaning they’re “transforming parts of their business rather than the whole.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In April of 2023, Censuswide conducted a survey of 608 US respondents from companies with $250m+ revenue. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. The year 2023 seems to be no different. on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5%

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

An overwhelming 94% of organizations worldwide are embracing a next-generation ERP strategy that involves migrating to cloud platforms and adopting high-end analytics such as artificial intelligence to overcome the limitations of legacy applications and modernize their businesses, according to a survey of 1,675 IT executives by Boomi. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Employee training on AI is essential, says Sam Ferrise, CTO at Trinetix, a tech consulting firm. CIOs and CTOs must also set the rules of the road for using AI and navigate or mitigate potential risk and ethics issues, he says. Gartner analyst John-David Lovelock suggested that timeline was ambitious for most companies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. “Any

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If anything, 2023 has proved to be a year of reckoning for businesses, and IT leaders in particular, as they attempt to come to grips with the disruptive potential of this technology — just as debates over the best path forward for AI have accelerated and regulatory uncertainty has cast a longer shadow over its outlook in the wake of these events.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

And while CIOs are working to train internal candidates within IT and the business units for tough-to-fill tech jobs or are using contractors to fill in staffing gaps , Sengupta says those practices create talent challenges, too. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2023

No one denies its transformative potential, but digital leaders say a majority of people seem to think generative AI, which Gartner recently placed at the peak of inflated expectations in its 2023 hype cycle , has more capabilities than it does — at least at this time. Consider some recent survey findings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

Long before the advent of customer data platforms (CDPs) , Kohl’s business model centered on collecting and cultivating customer data. We’ve had a homegrown customer data environment for decades,” says Paul Gaffney, CTO and supply chain officer at the $19.4 billion American department store chain. The Milwaukee, Wis.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. decline year over year in worldwide spending on fixed voice services in 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

CIOs had to navigate a labyrinth of challenges in 2023: generative AI rewrote the rulebook of technological possibility, governments started to draft new regulatory frameworks for the tech sector, and global conflicts disrupted business operations. So businesses must be ready to adapt in a smart way.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

We do a lot of paperwork in leasing and contracts, pages and pages of legal documents in multiple languages,” which has thus far been challenging to incorporate, the CTO says. According to JLL’s own research, so far in 2023, the range for physical occupancy compared to pre-COVID levels is between 45% to 65% in the US, for example.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The changes will take effect with the 2023 release of software, which is now generally available. The biggest remaining difference in capabilities between the two platforms is around service management, enabling companies to track and bill for things like subscriptions or contracts for service or maintenance. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

With the accelerated pace of digital transformation, coupled with the unprecedented arrival of the pandemic pushing enterprises towards a hybrid work culture, IT leaders have played a key part in keeping business afloat these last two years. One of the biggest changes has been to bring them closer to business units. “We

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The September Monthly Threat Intelligence Report from cybersecurity firm NCC Group delivers plenty of reasons to worry. For example, it highlighted a 153% rise in global ransomware attacks from September 2022 to September 2023. Additionally, they don’t know all the places where their organization’s data lives, who touches it, and why.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 20, 2023

A question of time Thomas Kiessling, CTO with Siemens Smart Infrastructure, part of the German engineering and technology conglomerate that makes trains, electrical equipment, traffic control systems, and more, understands that time is running out. As with most business challenges, data is instrumental.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 26, 2023

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Neal Sample A transferable skill set Meyercord would certainly make that case.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Generative AI and, more specifically, ChatGPT captivated the corporate world in 2023, with board directors, CEOs, and other executives fawning (and sometimes fearing) the technology. Some clues are found in the 2023 Cloud Business Survey from professional services firm PwC.

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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. He attributes the cautious attitude of tech leaders to elevated inflationary pressures and higher interest rates.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But by May 2023, according to an IDC survey, 65% of companies were using gen AI, and in September, that number rose to 71%, with another 22% planning to implement it in the next 12 months. It quickly adds up in complexity,” says Sheldon Monteiro, EVP at Publicis Sapient, a global digital consultancy. It’s rapidly increasing.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

With AI being the talk of 2023, [there were questions on] how do we, as a company, handle its adoption, governance, and education about it to our employees,” he says. Chris Bowers,CIO of Boston Consulting Group, puts it this way: “In 2024, we’re going to go after generative AI very aggressively. We’re piloting, PoC-ing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Companies in Europe are required to start scope 3 reporting in 2024 with data from 2023, so collecting that data starts now. But once the kinks are ironed out, third-party consultants will be able to put together an accurate picture that traces carbon emissions across supply chains. That could be the right decision.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The first, says Eliot Andres, co-founder and CTO, is to add the latest AI features to the app itself to keep it competitive. As soon as Stable Diffusion, the first open-source diffusion model, came out in mid-2023, the company immediately pivoted. “We We have consultants who are industry and domain-specific,” he says. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

Koinig studied user experience and user interface design at the Vienna University of Technology, earning a doctorate. Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I She retired from that position in 2020.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

We expect to add another six regions in fiscal 2023 in addition to the 38 cloud regions across 20 countries that we have already serving our customers,” Catz said, according to a transcript from Seeking Alpha.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

All central government departments will confirm an adoption strategy and roadmap for the new One Login programme by April 2023, and their services will have begun onboarding by 2025, according to Natalie Jones, director of digital identity at the Government Digital Service (GDS). One Login for government.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The world has flipped since 2022,” says David McCurdy, chief enterprise architect and CTO at Insight. You now have the ability to jump over processes that have existed for years, sometimes decades, because of generative technology.” Then gen AI came out. It’s transforming some of our workflows.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

Por su parte, la encuesta Global CTO Survey 2023 , publicada el pasado mes de noviembre por la empresa de consultoría de TI STX Next, reveló que el 35% de los responsables de tecnología que respondieron a la encuesta mencionaron la deuda técnica/refactorización como su mayor reto, lo que lo convierte en el reto número 1 de la lista.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Businesses are accountable for the consequences of their choices, and that includes deploying AI in inappropriate areas, says Andi Mann, global CTO and founder of Colorado-based consultancy Sageable. The customer will not let you off the hook for a data breach just because, ‘It was our AI’s fault.’”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 1, 2023

They also expect to benefit from the expertise of cloud providers—expertise that isn’t easy for companies to develop and maintain in house, unless your company happens to be a technology provider. Similarly, large data aggregators feel the need for control because they don’t want to leave their core business in the hands of a cloud provider.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A 2023 survey of more than 1,300 respondents from around the globe who either influence or manage their organization’s risk and compliance programs found that only 53% rated their programs as mature. Governance is who does what, how, and based on what data,” says Tilcia Toledo, senior managing director with FTI Consulting.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

That sense of purpose and yearning to do meaningful work is the ace in the hole for Optum Enterprise CTO Francois Charette, who has hired a number of Silicon Valley technologists in recent months.

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