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Uncommon Thinkers: MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation

GeekWire

MagniX’s chief technology officer, Riona Armesmith, works on electric propulsion systems like the one in the background at the company’s headquarters in Everett, Wash. “It was a big program with a big budget, with a big partnership with Airbus and Siemens and various other suppliers,” she recalls.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. 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.”

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Transforming IT for digital success

CIO Business Intelligence

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. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Building digital fluency in the C-suite and beyond

CIO Business Intelligence

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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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

CIO Business Intelligence

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Neal Sample A transferable skill set Meyercord would certainly make that case. That has served me incredibly well.”

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DTN’s CTO on combining IT systems after a merger

CIO Business Intelligence

We had five different forecast engines running in the company through various acquisitions,” says Lars Ewe, who inherited the thorny IT environment when he joined as CTO in February 2020. Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”. Forecasting merger success.