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. IBM, for one, found that the average ROI on enterprise-wide AI initiatives at 5.9% with best-in-class companies “reaping an enviable 13% ROI.”

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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2021

Seattle enterprise software startup Ally won last year’s award for a category that has honored companies such as Crowd Cow, Convoy, Arivale, Rover, and others in the past. Ozette co-founders Dr. Ali Ansary, CEO (left), and Greg Finak, CTO. Common Room; Ozette; SeekOut; Shelf Engine; and Strike Graph are on the brink of stardom.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

While AI has steadily worked its way into the enterprise and business vernacular over many years, gen AI has not only become an abrupt and immediate force unto itself, but also an overarching AI accelerant. With AI, their users can get extremely smart research assistants. Not without warning signs, however. AI is a black box.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2023

Recent research from IDC report Enterprise Automation to Mitigate the Digital Skills Shortage found that up to 80% of organizations in the APAC region, excluding Japan, find it difficult or extremely difficult to fill vacancies in IT roles. Some of the hardest roles to fill include security, and development and data professionals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

More companies in every industry are adopting artificial intelligence to transform business processes. But the success of their AI initiatives depends on more than just data and technology — it’s also about having the right people on board. Data scientist. Data scientists are the core of any AI team.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2024

The company recently released a generative AI platform that enables legal editors using its Westlaw service to produce document summarization of legal research in minutes that used to take days or weeks to complete, says Shawn Malhotra, head of engineering at Thomson Reuters. For CIOs and CTOs, it’s a balancing act of cost vs ROI.

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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. That’s the case for Yi Zhou, CTO and CIO with Adaptive Biotechnologies. We’re piloting, PoC-ing.

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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. It’s not knowing what you don’t know,” says Laura Hemenway, president, founder, and principle of Paradigm Solutions, which supports large enterprise-wide transformations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2023

Here’s a look at how IT workforces will operate and collaborate in the near-future enterprise. Mike Bechtel, chief futurist for Deloitte Consulting, cautions that adoption of AI for enhancing IT operations and employee productivity will require a new level of trust in the technology. “An

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Over the past 15 years, its stock price grew from a low of $20 in 2008 to $170 today as it diversified into new areas of business, research, and workflow products for legal, accounting, and tax professionals. The goal is to shift the company from simply providing information to enterprises, says Mary-Alice Vuicic, chief people officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The use of gen AI in the enterprise was nearly nothing in November 2022, where the only tools commonly available were AI image or early text generators. Building enterprise-grade gen AI platforms is like shooting at a moving target, and AI progress is developing at a much faster rate than they can adapt. “It in December.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

A related concept, CloudOps, for “cloud operations,” has emerged as enterprises increasingly move application development and workloads to the cloud, and those cloud outlays become more complex. Where CloudOps fits in the enterprise. CloudOps “helps drive further adoption and usage of cloud within enterprises. What is CloudOps?

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Founders: Mandhir Singh was director of business development at digital consultancy company Content Bloom. AI’s impact on the personal chef industry: “The whole industry is moving toward a personalized nutritionist consultant through AI,” Singh said. Founders: Robert Gens was a research scientist at Google.

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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. You may also want to include generative AI usage in audits and eDiscovery the same way you do with enterprise chat systems.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

photo credit: geralt via pixabay cc What is the biggest enterprise technology trend right now? Is it artificial intelligence? The research firm, Forrester, found that while 75% of businesses have a digital strategy, only 16% claim to have the skills to deliver it. What challenges can we expect in 2020?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Readiness is determined by the ability to experiment, and the ability to scale what works — building this capacity is critical to be future-ready,” says Siim Sikkut, former government CIO of Estonia, who’s now managing partner at IT consultancy Digital Nation. I think for small and medium enterprises, it’s going to be pretty tough.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2023

According to a recent poll of senior executives conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Insight Enterprises, 39% of companies have already established policies or strategies around generative AI and 42% are in the process of developing them. That’s the approach that Insight Enterprises is taking. His company isn’t alone.

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