CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 10, 2023

CIOs have been sued for allegedly accepting kickbacks from companies that their home companies had contracted with, and for failing to secure data that resulted in a major data breach. But does your company have liability insurance for its executives? No, it does not. “D&O Needless to say, the CIO was fired.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2024

Promote these initiatives to your execs with polished PowerPoints that make it clear they’re in line with the company’s risk-taking culture. And if by some chance your preventive measures are completely successful you’ll be blamed for wasting budget and effort on unnecessary mitigations. Insurance: You know how this plays out.

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Insurance Architecture Artificial Intelligence Applications 112

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In a recent revelation, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler uncovered a significant data leak affecting one of the United States' largest health insurance companies, Cigna Health. The exposed database offered a unique glimpse into the operations of Cigna Health, one of the nation's largest health insurance providers.

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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. 31 for these employees, according to the memo.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 14, 2021

These are the CIOs who can have an influence throughout the company. The real measure of the person in the CIO position’s importance is their influence, not their budget or their team size. They are comfortable with their budgets being owned elsewhere and are advocates of open sharing over centralized control.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2023

Keep tabs on the keep the lights on (KTLO) budget If you fall on hard times in your personal life, you pay for your mortgage, health insurance, and groceries first to cover the necessities: shelter, security, and food, respectively. What are the necessities in your IT budget to keep the lights on (KTLO)?

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The company is in the process of expanding its engineering and sales team, aiming to reach a workforce of 12 by the end of the first quarter of 2023. This lets companies spot bugs or other issues raised by customers and quickly rectify them. ” Spiral raised $2.4

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Not only are traditional financial services companies using data and technology to change the game, a plethora of “FinTech” startups are using digital products to dislodge traditional players. Perhaps the most visible of these efforts is in personal auto insurance. This podcast features Peter Ku.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

This piece of legislation in the European Union (EU) requires companies to be compliant by January 2025, meaning businesses have just under one year to ensure they’re prepared. Any business that works with EU-based banks, insurers, or financial organizations will also need to maintain compliance, even if they are not actually based in the EU.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Digitization has transformed traditional companies into data-centric operations with core business applications and systems requiring 100% availability and zero downtime. One company that needs to keep data on a tight leash is Petco, which is a market leader in pet care and wellness products. Infinidat rose to the challenge.

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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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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Software 130

The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2020

The bank accounts will exist entirely within Google Pay, with customers able to access checking accounts handled digitally on the front end by Google while partner banks handle the infrastructure, FDIC insurance, and other backend technology. We are excited that six new banks have signed up to offer digital checking and savings.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there. Battling cybersecurity threats can often feel like an uphill struggle.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Directors should ensure management implements an effective cyber-risk framework for the company. The board and management should assess cyber-risk just like other enterprise-level risks: ensuring a specific determination is made of which aspects of cyber-risk to accept, avoid, mitigate or insure against.

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The Verge

MAY 5, 2021

In a Facebook post on May 4th, she says she was contacted by Kinetic Content (the company producing Love Is Blind for Netflix) about working with them on the show, but was told in a follow-up email that, instead of money, the company was offering the opportunity for her work to appear in promotional materials and magazines ( via PetaPixel ).

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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. “A

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

To maximize the value of these investments, it will be critical for CIOs to take a page from digital native companies like Netflix, Uber, and Airbnb by linking technology development directly to customer experience and working together seamlessly between teams to prioritize technologies that have the biggest impacts. Artificial Intelligence

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The cost of security tools and services is rising, and organizations may not have the budget to keep up. Additionally, cybercriminals may be able to use inflation to their advantage, such as by sending phishing emails that appear to be from legitimate companies offering discounts or assistance. According to Forbes , the U.K.’s

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Insurance coverage When using a car shipping company, it’s essential to consider insurance coverage for damage during transit. Reputable car shipping companies offer insurance that protects vehicles such as traditional vehicles or self-driing cars against risks such as accidents or theft while in their possession.

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Transportation Insurance Budget Company 41

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

At his company, anyway. in business administration and wrote his dissertation on digital acuity and intelligence in “incumbent companies.” Hussman, which manufactures and services commercial refrigeration equipment for food retailers globally, is a 117-year-old company. The payoff can be significant. “We

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

He was most recently CRO at Zume, a sustainable packaging company. The company launched its service in the Seattle area two years ago and tested a consumer version earlier this year after Washington state legislators approved a law authorizing mobile fueling. In October, the company announced a multi-year deal and $8.5

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Energy Engineering Hotels Groups 122

GeekWire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Three of the ten startups in the accelerator that year (Remitly, Outreach, Zipline) went on to become billion-dollar companies — a 30% unicorn rate. This year’s cohort, under the direction of managing director Marius Ciocirlan , doubled in size to 24 companies. But the 2024 group may have a chance.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Zulily made more job cuts Wednesday, GeekWire has learned, the company’s second round of layoffs in the past two weeks and the latest move toward an apparent shutdown. It also submitted filings with state employment officials, stating the company would lay off more than 800 people and close three offices beginning Feb.

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Insurance Company Banking Budget 112

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Now named Archway, the company on Tuesday announced its $15 million Series A round co-led by WaFd and Madrona. Archway plans to include integration with budgeting and forecasting applications such as Quicken or Microsoft Dynamics to provide financial product recommendations for customers. “It just doesn’t work very well.”

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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

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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Fractional CTO Budget Enterprise Enterprise 145

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2023

Multinational insurance and finance corporation AIA New Zealand’s dream is to help make the country one of the healthiest and best protected nations in the world. As New Zealand’s largest life insurer and leading health insurer, our purpose is to help New Zealanders live longer, healthier lives,” he says.

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Insurance Change Management CTO Agile 96

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Talking to others can help you see how your accomplishments can transfer across industries and how you can add value to other companies. It’s also a great way to hear about other opportunities, including at companies that may be laying off in some technology areas but staffing up in others, she adds.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The goal is to use AI to make progressively more accurate predications while simultaneously finding ways to get more out of their company’s R&D budget. They have had some successes using AI to forecast both the company’s financial results and enrollments in their clinical trials. What All Of This Means For You.

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Artificial Intelligence Data Industry Company 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2022

It’s also necessary for a company to perform background checks on prospective employees before extending an offer. a South African global financial services and insurance provider with 12,000 employees, was facing all the above issues. Heck, I do that all the time.) Challenges faced. Discovery Ltd.,

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SAP Insurance Budget Financial 79

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We’ve all seen the insurance commercials: Mayhem is everywhere. When it strikes in the consumer world of insurance, you want the right people on your side and the right plan to navigate a way forward. Ultimately, organizations who are doing it right benefit from 2x the budget and time for innovation initiatives. Hybrid Cloud

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Strategy Change Management Insurance System 96

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It’s designed to strengthen the security of EU financial firms, such as banks, insurance companies, investment firms and more, by imposing resilience requirements and regulating the supply chain. Now, if ICT companies are servicing financial institutions in the EU, they most likely will be subject to DORA as well.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

Healthcare companies must adhere to a myriad of regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and other industry-specific guidelines. This blog will explore the challenges faced by healthcare companies in achieving regulatory compliance.

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Healthcare Industry Fractional CTO Guidelines 52

SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2023

The 'it could never happen here' mentality disappears when data breaches, usually from phishing attacks, are literally happening everywhere, in every industry, to companies of all sizes. Organizations need a plan which outlines their strategy for securing the company's most important assets that is line with their business objectives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Budget planning during uncertain economic times is never CIOs’ favorite activity. For the most part, budgets are holding steady or growing in the single digits, with continued investments in security, analytics, and the cloud, among other areas. explains that cloud has been a major focus for her company in the past several years.

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