CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO. These priorities must fundamentally tie back to the business’ priorities and goals,” she says.

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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

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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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

Resource Constraints Smaller healthcare organizations often operate under tight budgets and limited resources, which can hinder their ability to allocate sufficient time, personnel, and financial resources to compliance initiatives. Book a free consult today. This allows them to pinpoint areas that need improvement.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud. Develop a cloud center of excellence.

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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

MARCH 15, 2023

And if the initiative misses its goal, or runs over budget, the CIO’s job may be at stake. Yet, as any IT leader knows, when technical infrastructure fails to meet enterprise needs, hampering productivity and innovation, it’s often time to rebuild from scratch. A complete rebuild can be disruptive, time-consuming, and risky.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But for Kapil Mehrotra, group CTO at National Collateral Management Services (NCMS), high turnover presented an opportunity to cut costs of the IT department, streamline its operations, and find a long-term solution to the perpetual skills scarcity problem. We then got into a task-based contract with the outgoing team members.

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A CIO's Voice

JULY 9, 2014

ECQ #1 – LEADING CHANGE : This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. ECQ #2 – LEADING PEOPLE : This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization’s vision, mission, and goals.

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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. So even though they might be new in development, they bring a maturity level that you don’t always find in a fresh out of college person.”

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A CIO's Voice

JULY 1, 2014

I get a first phone screen followed by a request to develop a one-year project plan with associated budgets and milestones. Not being one to let things go I spend several days researching what I could and developing a project plan. This was followed by more phone interviews with junior IT staff and a technology consultant.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. The people who can articulate themselves well can translate business and technology wording and phrasing in a way my team will respond well to. Emphasize measurable outcomes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It found that 53% of the organizations it surveyed reported that their directors are among the main decision-makers for emerging technology investments, coming in just behind their CIOs and chief technology officers. Overlooking process and the technology itself. That’s all understandable. Flying solo.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 10, 2009

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 This is followed up by many small meetings to help capture requirements with individual stakeholders.

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 13, 2012

Cost savings must also consider the entire IT lifecycle, not periodic budget cycles. ” “The expertise of Kevin Jackson and NJVC in the IC market was hugely beneficial to the INSA white paper development team,” Gourley said. I thank everyone involved for their individual contributions in support of the whole.”

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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.” Venables recommends that modernization conversations should be held in boardrooms, executive leadership meetings, and business unit–specific strategy sessions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“Very often, IT teams don’t consider other, non-IT, activities that can affect their user base and their ability to collaborate,” says Seth Lively, US digital lead at IT consulting firm PA Consulting. If dependencies and initiatives are properly planned, business stakeholders are engaged during the key parts of solution development.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Such rivals can prevent you from receiving sufficient budget, successfully implementing vital business initiatives, and steering your organization in the right direction. Respond strategically CIOs who find themselves at odds with a C-level rival need to step back and dedicate time to developing a strategic response. “In

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Such rivals can prevent you from receiving sufficient budget, successfully implementing vital business initiatives, and steering your organization in the right direction. Respond strategically CIOs who find themselves at odds with a C-level rival need to step back and dedicate time to developing a strategic response. “In

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

Develop team trust. Signs of inflation, labor market instability, and geopolitical strife are among the many reasons CIOs may be feeling some anxiety about the future, says Steve Shoemake, managing partner and global technology practice leader at consulting and staffing firm Vaco. Budgets may need adjusting,” he says.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Lesson #1: Cybersecurity needs a larger portion of your IT budget (and focus). In 2017, the number of cyber-incidents DOUBLED,” says Robert Douglas, President of PlanetMagpie IT Consulting. Dedicate more of your IT budget to cybersecurity. They’re struggling to meet the growing demand. Prepare for the worst.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“If we considered the corporate workflow as a symphony orchestra and the business processes within it as the musicians, BPM would be the conductor coordinating them,” explains Ivan Kot, Solution Consultant at Itransition. Contracting tasks like this out to other suppliers is far less expensive in terms of direct expenses and resources.”.

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2020

White House chief technology officer Michael Kratsios speaks at the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Tech Prom in 2018. White House chief technology officer Michael Kratsios ?— has himself been enlisted for another role as the Defense Department’s top official for technology.

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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

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. And then mainstreaming into your business the stuff that proves valuable.”

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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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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rebellion has also won several million dollars of military contracts from the Pentagon, the start of what some observers think will be a gusher of government dollars. Now some industry experts say Rebellion has failed to meet its own mission, and some former employees allege the company has been stymied by problematic internal politics.

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