CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

The meteoric rise of generative AI is only one example of the incidents and issues that can hinder or outright halt an IT department’s delivery on strategic objectives. The increasing pace of technology advances AI is just the latest, and perhaps most prominent example of emerging technologies that have disrupted organizational roadmaps.

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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.” One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. They did not plan for scalability.

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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. CarMax CITO Shamim Mohammed confirms his company was using OpenAI’s GPT-3.x

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Thomas Phelps, CIO and SVP of corporate strategy at Laserfiche, says cloud contracts typically include several “gotchas” that IT leaders and procurement chiefs should be aware of, and he stresses the importance of studying terms of use before signing. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2022

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. Today, many CIOs feel the same way about metrics. Metrics are only as good as their source.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO. Martin-Flickinger, who, before Adobe, was CIO of McAfee and VeriSign, became CTO of Starbucks for many years. So congratulations!

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

It can also expose companies to future legislation. These complaints, filed by a variety of different copyright holders, allege the companies of training their AIs on copyrighted data—images, code, and text. In July, for example, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

Reducing technical debt Lowering technical debt by decommissioning legacy applications ranks among the most important and toughest aspects of digital transformation as it involves mindset changes. When the company was acquired by international brewer Heineken, UB had to be digitally transformed to bring it on par with the Dutch company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

The recent layoffs and hiring freezes by the big tech companies have leveled the playing field somewhat,” Hoemeke says. The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Telecommunications companies’ transformation initiatives are bearing fruit. an annual gathering of network and communications service providers, technology suppliers, consultancies, and systems integrators hosted by TM Forum. Verizon’s leaders are laser focused on getting connectivity right, for example.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2022

The list is growing and growing,” says Gordon Barnett, principal analyst at Forrester, “moving away from EA that just looks at applications and infrastructure to be truly enterprise. That may require, for example, an analysis of ERP systems to understand all the dependencies and functions that reference a bill of materials, he says.

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The European Court of Justice ruled that the EU-US Data Protection Shield, which allowed companies to transfer data between the US and the EU in compliance with. “The set-up and management of the Sovereign Cloud will be familiar to our cloud customers, with T-Systems remaining the contract partner,” according to the spokesperson.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2022

“Scope 3 reporting will come as a shock to a lot of technology leaders,” says Niklas Sundberg, CIO of global solutions at Swedish conglomerate Assa Abloy. “I Companies will be required to publish real numbers about sustainability across the supply chain—and much of the data will come from IT procurement.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI is now a board-level priority Last year, AI consisted of point solutions and niche applications that used ML to predict behaviors, find patterns, and spot anomalies in carefully curated data sets. But there’s also the downside: the possibility gen AI will take companies down. billion to the global economy. Then gen AI came out.

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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. That could be LinkedIn content or articles you post on your company site.” We’re creating things that don’t exist yet.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. Then came the decision to launch Crafty CTO and suddenly I had a burning need for art, starting with a logo. It turned out to be a perfect starting place for the serious application of “art AI.” With words!

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For example, it highlighted a 153% rise in global ransomware attacks from September 2022 to September 2023. The tech company surveyed 750 IT executives and found that only five respondents did not list tech debt on their risk registers. Recent figures do nothing to ease anxiety. And CIOs are feeling the effects of that.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Gathering and processing data quickly enables organizations to assess options and take action faster, leading to a variety of benefits, said Elitsa Krumova ( @Eli_Krumova ), a digital consultant, thought leader and technology influencer. Few companies have the luxury of waiting days or weeks to analyze data before reacting.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What they are finding is that the line between advancing technologically and ensuring AI doesn’t result in detrimental outcomes is thin. The real ethical concern lies in how companies safeguard against misinformation. Companies need both a practical plan and a transparent communications strategy in their response.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2024

Never pass up the opportunity to have a conversation with someone, regardless of their level or area of expertise,” suggests Kevin Miller, CTO of IFS North America. “If While those are examples, there are other networking practices IT leaders can engage in more consistently through online communities and social media.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 2, 2023

This move to the cloud lays the foundation for further expansion into other cloud-based applications to deliver deeper insights and better digital services, as well as drive cost savings for the company and the consumer. year-to-date, with on-demand year-to-date growth in excess of 100%. That’s how I’d approach it.”

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CTOvision

MAY 26, 2015

No law firm, consultancy, proprietary software solution, or cyber-insurance policy has a magic solution that will ensure compliance. The 7012 regulations are a “flowthrough” to the smallest businesses holding Defense contracts, as well as academia. First of all, what is UCTI? What is it not?

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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2014

There are countless examples of “great” new products or services that were unsuccessful because nobody would pay for them. This innovation requires a working knowledge of the new technology, but more importantly, it requires domain knowledge of the target opportunity. At Overture we are going through a company transformation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. S&P Global, for example, is entering its AI 2.0 Chan says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Supply insightful, actionable data IT should supply sales team members with the timely, accurate data they need to become top performers, recommends Michael Tantrum, national sales director at IT consulting firm Resultant. An AI sales automation tool, for example, can be designed to analyze large datasets and make market predictions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For example, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, which has a network of hospitals and about 2,600 beds, is deploying over 150 AI and VR/AR projects this year across all clinical specialties. “I’d The company is embedding AI into each level of the tech stack it sells to customers, he says. “We

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CTOvision

MAY 22, 2014

Security policies of all companies are not same, but the key motive behind them is to protect assets. We also need to consider all the regulations that are applicable to the industry, like (GLBA,ISO 27001,SOX,HIPAA). Targeted Audience – Tells to whom the policy is applicable. Purpose – Why the policy is created.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations often get services and applications up and running without having put stewardship in place,” says Marc Johnson, CISO and senior advisor at Impact Advisors, a healthcare management consulting firm. Generative AI, in fact, is a great example of this,” he says. Overlooking these data resources is a big mistake.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2022

Gone are the days of the CIO being a back-office IT cost manager,” declares Chris Scheefer, vice president of intelligent industry at technology services and consulting firm Capgemini Americas. Don’t hide in the basement,” advises John Abel, CIO at network equipment company Extreme Networks. Are you up to the task?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

For Giridhar Yasa, chief technology officer at Indian online financing company Lendingkart, it starts with reading. “We This happens through reports like those published by the Reserve Bank of India, industry consulting majors, and technology papers among others,” he told CIO.com.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Know what you're getting in the cloud: "One of the biggest challenges with cloud vendors is that very often someone is signing up for cloud services without bothering to go through a contract review. Shadow IT in the cloud: "The guy from finance, for example, just goes on the internet in search of whichever application he wants.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

It is my contention that when the total cost of using all your data exceeds what you are able to spend using purpose-built technologies, it is time to consider using a general purpose solution like Hadoop for process offloading. For example, there is a 50 PB MPP cluster at eBay [3]. What is Big Data?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Product managers aren’t a new job category by any means, but this shift means that they’re newly prominent and important to many companies’ strategies. Seth Dobbs, CTO at IT services and consulting firm Bounteous, gives a pretty good thumbnail sketch of what an ideal product manager would look like.

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CTOvision

JUNE 15, 2015

You know Spark, the free and open source complement to Apache Hadoop that gives enterprises better ability to field fast, unified applications that combine multiple workloads, including streaming over all your data. Apache Spark is quickly maturing into a power tool for development of machine-learning analytic applications.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies. One wireless company for example has an international plan that will charge you $25 per month for 50MB after which they will charge you $20 per MB. CTO - Amazon.com. Theyre not even an AWS customer :-).

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