The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Which software development methodology is best? As a CIO I suspect that you are well aware that there are a number of different ways that your IT teams can go about developing software (and doing a lot of other things). It all begins with the waterfall approach to developing software. Next comes design.

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The Verge

JUNE 6, 2021

On Monday, the company will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference ( WWDC 2021 ) during one of the most fraught moments for developer relations in Apple history. Developers have known or suspected these things for years, and at first, online reactions seemed muted. We treat every developer the same.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Demand has increased so much that IT job postings in manufacturing doubled between May 2021 and 2022, according to Dice.com, with increased demand for skills such as agile development, Python, software development, automation, C++, SQL, and Java, among others.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. As a CTO, a fractional CTO is responsible for overseeing the technological aspects of a company and ensuring that they align with the business's overall goals and objectives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2023

Independently developing, testing, deploying, and scaling your infrastructure requires expertise, agility, and a shift in team responsibilities. Platform development includes design, coding, testing, securing, and deploying. Developing a custom platform requires the expertise of top talent. Here’s why. To build or not to build?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Project management professionals drive, guide, and execute company-identified value-added goals by applying processes and methodologies to plan, initiate, execute, monitor, and close all activities related to a given business project in alignment with the organization’s overall strategic objectives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. Does your organization have the culture to support software development? billion in stock buybacks between 2017 and 2019.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. The Scrum master not only addresses all facets of the agile development process but also serves the business, product owner, team, and individuals and facilitates communication and collaboration between all these elements.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2023

One common resolution to this challenge is for companies to seek outside support to ensure success. Rapid talent aggregation One of the most challenging aspects of software engineering in today’s environment is assembling quality talent. The study revealed those with higher developer velocity outperform competitors by up to five times.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week: keeping software developers and big corporate customers engaged with the long-term potential of its cloud platform, while grappling with the more immediate realities of an economic downturn. billion, rather than the loss nearly $2.9

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GeekWire

AUGUST 18, 2021

“We’re seeing more scenarios move to the edge, and that is changing how developers think about writing applications, and how they think about bandwidth and the scarcity of bandwidth,” said Tom?Keane,? The companies announced Wednesday that they’ve completed their first experiments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2023

Being able to identify which of many loans have been made to the same person or company is also important for banks to manage their risk exposure. The problem is not unique to banks, as a wide range of companies can benefit from better understanding their exposure to individual suppliers or customers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

The ongoing tight IT job market has companies doing whatever they can to attract top tech talent. But 86% of technology managers also said that it’s challenging to find skilled professionals in software and applications development, technology process automation, and cloud architecture and operations. 25th percentile.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

The past year was rough for the tech industry, with several companies reporting layoffs and the looming threat of a recession. Companies can’t ignore digital transformation as technology continues to dominate nearly every aspect of business and daily-life. as of January. increase from 2021.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Companies like AWS, Microsoft, and Google invest heavily in securing their cloud products. This enables you to do more with less—a huge benefit for educational institutions—which typically do not have access to the same resources and budgets as large enterprises. Cyber wellness Cyber wellness comes down to common sense.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 26, 2023

They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project. To succeed in their role, project managers must be adept at coordinating resources, managing budgets, measuring and tracking project progress, and communicating with team members and stakeholders.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

Rocket Software recently conducted a survey of U.S.-based based IT directors and vice presidents in companies with more than 1,000 employees and found that due to the economic landscape, 62% of IT leaders have a much greater focus on efficiency today than ever before. DevOps and automation are tools to get there.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 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. The challenge is finding ways to achieve these goals in an era of constricted budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 12, 2022

Companies typically face three big problems in managing their skills base: Normal learning approaches require too much time to scale up relevant knowledge. Other companies try to jump-start knowledge by bringing in consultants, but this risks only temporarily plugging the gaps. A handful of companies have found a solution.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2021

We want retailers and brands to be on equal footing with [large companies] who can throw huge budgets at software and employees to make wholesale work for them,” Bloom said in an email. “It As the company grew, wholesale became an issue. Avery Bloom, co-founder and CEO of Candid (Candid Photo). “We Candid Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

To name a few — products and services that are delivered on time and on budget, and overall IT ROI.” Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. Metrics provide a means to monitor progress.”

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

Riedner interviewed for the role and has been working at the company without yet meeting Paoli or other members of the team in person. Jean Paoli, the company’s CEO and co-founder, has met almost none of the new employees in person, neither during the interview process nor since they’ve started in their new roles.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

MARCH 28, 2019

Summary: A growing trend, low-code development claims to address many of the common challenges facing businesses today. photo credit: ppokta via pixabay cc According to Forrester Research , the low-code development platform market is growing by 50% year-over-year. But, how accurate are these claims? Pro: Low-code helps fight Shadow IT.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Low-code development usage is growing fast. For instance, I see low-code articles comparing website builders with enterprise application development tools. For sake of this article, we’ll focus on enterprise low-code application development software. According to Gartner , the low-code market will grow 20% this year.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

He added that this automated exchange helps the rep glean insights into the customer’s budget, decision-making authority and pain points. Outreach is not releasing pricing information for Smart Email Assist until its debut at the company’s Explore+ event in March. Total funding to-date is nearly $500 million.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The frenzy created by the public release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has triggered an arms race among hyperscalers to differentiate themselves by developing their own large language models (LLMs), building platforms that enable enterprises to create generative AI applications, and integrating generative AI throughout their portfolios of service offerings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. There are other risks, too.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But many of them were surprised Wednesday to get an email notifying them that today would be their last at the company. Today’s is just infuriating,” said Benjamin Normoyle, a longtime engineer at the company who received the message, speaking with GeekWire on Wednesday. Department of Labor.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Business analysts need a “strong understanding of regulatory and reporting requirements as well as plenty of experience in forecasting, budgeting, and financial analysis combined with understanding of key performance indicators,” according to Robert Half Technology.

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Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Effective budgeting management, can flex to changing business needs. However, from a recently released IW survey report, IT budgeting process in many organizations still stuck in the past, half think their company’s budget process isn’t consistently flexible enough for changing business needs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The US financial services industry has fully embraced a move to the cloud, driving a demand for tech skills such as AWS and automation, as well as Python for data analytics, Java for developing consumer-facing apps, and SQL for database work. Back-end software engineer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 31, 2022

The US financial services industry has fully embraced a move to the cloud, driving a demand for tech skills such as AWS and automation, as well as Python for data analytics, Java for developing consumer-facing apps, and SQL for database work. Back-end software engineer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 26, 2023

Whether in cybersecurity, software development, networking, or any other IT specialty, certifications can raise your career profile and help employers identify your areas of expertise and confirm that you have the right skills for the job. Certifications are a great way for IT pros to pave a path to a specific career in tech.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

JUNE 13, 2018

Summary: Depending on the survey you read, anywhere from 25% – 68% of development projects fail. Over the past 37 years in the application development software industry, we’ve seen it all. We’ve seen app dev projects of all shapes and sizes, across all industries and company sizes. photo credit: geralt via pixabay cc.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In this post we'll explore how Mayhem works and the benefits it offers to smaller companies looking to secure their apps. Fuzzing increases developer productivity because it works differently than other AppSec solutions, producing no false positives that waste development time. Development Speed or Code Security.

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Galido

JULY 2, 2018

You are almost out of sync with the scientific developments if you’ve not studied a STEM-related course. Here are the five top career options for computer science students: Software Developer. In this field, software developers come up with new programs for user-specific tasks. Web Developer.

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