CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In times of economic downturn, for example, cybercrime may increase as people turn to illegal activities to make money. This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings. Cyber budgets must be spent wisely, often without increasing costs or targeting the most likely risks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The CAIO role and responsibilities Parminder Bhatia is a prime example of the CAIO today. As chief AI officer at GE HealthCare, Bhatia focuses on AI strategy and execution, which includes utilizing AI to help streamline radiology workflows, reduce scan times, automate measurement, and enhance diagnosis, among other activities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. Then there’s housekeeping.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

It gets costly very quick,” says Jim Ducharme, CTO of ClearData, a cloud security posture management (CSPM) and managed detection and response (MDR) SaaS provider for the healthcare industry. Garcia gives the example of the AWS cURL file, written three times daily. Here are a few notable examples. Budgeting, Cloud Computing

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives. We get consistent investment year over year,’’ says Yao Morin, CTO of global commercial estate company JLL. The payoff can be significant. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As an example, he points to a partnership TIAA has undertaken with New York University, in which employees can upskill through cyber programs that help them gain specialized knowledge and new skills. Technology staff, he argues, need to be empowered to advance and refine their skills to succeed with emerging technology.

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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.” Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. Zero-based budgeting can be a good approach for discretionary spending.

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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

MARCH 25, 2022

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software. A specific example of this was a new form of disk-wiping malware (Trojan.Killdisk) being used to attack organizations in Ukraine shortly before the launch of a Russian invasion on February 24. First up, Zero Trust.

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GeekWire

APRIL 28, 2023

NetEase calls Anchor Point a studio that will produce “AAA” games, which is industry slang for a big-budget production. We really want to push the graphics technology quite a bit and take advantage of some of the newest advancements that Unreal has been rolling out.”

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A CIO's Voice

JULY 22, 2013

Describe your experience in the development, implementation and administration of operating and capital budgets. Include dollar amounts of budget(s). Provide an example of your involvement in negotiation or mediation between such groups. What do you see in the arena of technology in the next 3 – 5 years?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Such conversations … should conclude with clear actions, benefits, timelines, and the budget and resources required to close gaps.” What would happen, for example, if a key client’s business was shut down by a cyberattack? What would be the next steps? Planning is critical, Folk says.

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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. For example, Antonio Taylor, vice president of infrastructure, services, and security at Transnetyx and marketing chair for SIM’s Memphis chapter, says he’s dealing with the impact of inflation. That’s what really concerns me.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Everyone is budgeting 50% longer to raise their rounds,” said Canestaro. In Washington, Absci , Zymeworks , TwinStrand Biosciences , NanoString Technologies and Sana Biotechnology all shed employees in 2022. Neoleukin Therapeutics recently shed staff in the wake of disappointing clinical data for its lead program, for example.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Generative AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are emerging as the ultimate no-code content-generation tools, with the capability to empower virtually any employee to produce drafts of budgets and customer proposals – even advertising jingles and presentation art – in just seconds. It’s just that simple.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2023

Information technology is an obvious example; so are business process optimization initiatives — and with too much emphasis on leadership, managers can spend so much effort being inspiring that they lose track of what they’re paid for. Leadership is a useful tool for making that happen (see “dog,” above). Give it up.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 2, 2022

Most chief technology officers believe that microservices are crucial in efforts to build new applications on top of a bank’s core, legacy systems, Forrester noted. Currently, autonomic systems are mostly software-based in the banking context and examples include humanoid robots in smart branches.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

For example, Software AG’s 2022 Situation report found that 78% of companies said they took on more technical debt over the past year; more than half (56%) said they accepted the burden of technical debt because they were required to act quickly. Gary Flowers. Steen Hambric. City of Phoenix.

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GeekWire

JUNE 2, 2020

PREVIOUSLY: Chef names new CTO to succeed its co-founder, eyes broader market for enterprise automation. The product, an adaptation of the existing Chef Infra technology, is designed to help companies deploy, manage and secure desktop and laptop PCs and workstations. and world economies.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

AUGUST 29, 2008

Which is the National CTO? Barack Obama states he will appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO). its own CTO ( see CIO-dot-com ). Blogger Robert Scoble recently listed (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) the “A list” of names for the National CTO job. Chief Geek comment: Yes!

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SecureWorld News

MAY 22, 2023

Fischer said: "The USPS matter is an example of how challenging it is to remove the human from cybersecurity. And this is, sadly, an example of why both of those are so critical." Randy Watkins, CTO at Critical Start, said: "This attack is an unfortunate example of exploitation of lacking foundational security controls.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2023

Arthur Hu ranks among the few IT leaders who wear the hats of both CIO and CTO. If you haven’t already done so, adopt a methodology that elevates customer experience as a top-level metric, on par with technical and functional requirements that technology teams have traditionally been responsible for.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2024

I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. The uses of storytelling Storytelling can be used to persuade senior executives to release budget, plot a change in strategy, or share good and bad news.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

CIOs and their IT teams have enjoyed a bump in power and prestige in recent years, as the C-suite has embraced continuous transformation, digital everything, and a host of emerging technologies — all enabled by IT. Yet many IT departments are struggling to reshape themselves to better meet the mandates of today.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2023

For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2015

For example, see our post titled Cyber Security and Corporate Governance: The five principles every corporate director should embody. Boards should assess the corporation''s cybersecurity measures including corporate policies and annual budgets for privacy and IT security programs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In the digital transformation era, IT success is no longer defined by meeting a go-live date or keeping within a budget. Change management is not something that can be haphazardly addressed toward the end of a transformation-type initiative,” says Matt Mead, CTO at technology modernization firm SPR.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

One is a governance layer that includes activities such as financial operations — also known as FinOps — to control costs and manage budgeting for the cloud. We continue to hear from customers that they are exceeding their cloud budgets and they either don’t know why or are unable to implement the controls to manage that,” Hatch says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But as I aged, had project successes, earned budget and decision-making authority, and gained more confidence, power, etc., Soon after founding Netwatch Solutions as CTO, Beasley realized he would face even more barriers when acquiring funding. Purdy, for example, completed his Professional Scrum Master certification through BUiLT.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Leadership worked to identify process owners within the business to become product owners within product families that are essentially owned by IT, according to Gary Jeter, Trust One’s executive vice president and chief technology officer. Establishing technology and business owners also drives collaboration.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Knowing where to focus your negotiation energy on getting the lowest price is key to staying within budget and making sure you don’t have to make trade-offs later, which will mistime the initiative.” It occurs as a combination of things, such as hardware, software, and labor pricing.

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CTOvision

JUNE 11, 2016

His experience as a CTO and IT professional and his knowledge of the business impact of security is absolutely second to none. These failures are seen in organizations with large security teams, multi-million dollar budgets and well defined processes: even organizations implementing a “by the book” security strategy cannot escape this fate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

And CIOs said the need for security improvements is the top driver of IT budget increases. Basu, too, is readying his company’s infrastructure to meet current and future needs, citing as an example a current modernization project featuring the move to a new cloud-based ERP platform as well as ongoing digitalization initiatives. “We

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Balanced Budgets in Seattle - click for more. Seattle – like most cities and counties – is now deep in the middle of its 2009 budget process. A looming recession, the housing crisis, decreasing revenues and increasing demands for City services are all colliding to strain a $878 million general fund budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

As many CIOs prepare their 2024 budgets and digital transformation priorities, developing a strategy that seeks opportunities to evolve business models, targets near-term operational impacts, prioritizes where employees should experiment, and defines AI-related risk-mitigating plans is imperative.

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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

“If you’re just automating the existing process to improve it, you’re using an approach that drags the old process forward,” says George Glass, CTO, TM Forum. Examples of processes defined by the Business Process Framework include: Customer order handling. “There’s a logic and a sequence to follow.”

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