CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. The IT skills shortage is critical, with CIOs losing talented employees faster than they can hire them,” said Mbula Schoen, senior director analyst at Gartner, in a recent Q&A. “IT CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

The report for Q3 of fiscal 2024, released yesterday, said that Oracle had signed multiple large-scale cloud infrastructure contracts in the previous three months, with no end in sight, as CEO Safra Catz touted the company’s bright prospects in cloud. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The challenge for IT leaders is clear : With employees quitting faster than they can be replaced, the rush to hire the right talent is on — so too is the need to retain existing IT talent. As the company had legacy systems, it became tough to hire resources that could manage them. This gave us the time to groom the freshers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

With a significant push toward infrastructure modernization, many organizations have hired Chief Modernization Officers (CMOs) to help navigate the complexities of this undertaking. But many still question the need for a CMO when they already have a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in house.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

“After some time, people have understood the storage needs better based on usage and preventing data extract fees.” I strike this language from all my contracts.” Opting for a managed cloud offering allows organizations to focus on delivering business value and driving adoption,” he says. “A

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2022

For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

But for Rob Clark, president and CTO of AI developer Seekr, such questions are business-critical. Seekr’s main business is building and training AIs that are transparent to enterprise and other users. He recommends enterprises conduct an incident test, or “a little chaos engineering,” before signing a contract. “As

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

These boomerang CIOs have every reason to be as successful as a more traditional external new hire, but not more so, according to Martha Hello, CEO of Heller Search Associates. Kevin Miller, CTO of the Americas, IFS IFS A little over a year later, however, Miller returned to IFS as an associate vice president and is now CTO of the Americas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

And while CIOs are working to train internal candidates within IT and the business units for tough-to-fill tech jobs or are using contractors to fill in staffing gaps , Sengupta says those practices create talent challenges, too. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

McKee, tech founder and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies, acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe. One client cut staff earlier this year, only to discover that another part of the business needed their institutional knowledge for a strategic project.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

“Leadership is responsible for boosting morale and countering stressful times with periods of recovery, rest, and self-care, resulting in increased retention while reducing burnout.” By emphasizing the importance of the work they do, and how it impacts the business, you can help the team feel more engaged and motivated. “Our

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

And, on the flip side, it’s just as important to be mindful of team chemistry and take action when there’s a problem, says Srini Kadiyala, CTO of OvalEdge. Bad hires happen, and sometimes, promotions don’t work out. One day, your employee should say, ‘Yes, my manager helped my career progress.’”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Sun’s team will include two VPs of AI technology, Sebastian Wieczorek and Ulf Brackmann; a CTO, Johannes Hoffart, and a global AI product manager, Nadine Hoffmann. The company is hiring engineers in Berlin and Shanghai. Enterprise Applications, SAP

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2024

There’s always change,” says Jim Moore, CTO at HR Acuity. “A Paulo Gardini Miguel, director of technology at The CTO Club, agrees. Emphasize collaboration by involving team members in the decision-making process whenever possible,” says CTO Club’s Miguel. You hired smart people, after all. A healthy team is used to it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. Gaurav Sharma becomes group CTO of Poonawalla Fincorp. February 2022. January 2022.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Consider consumption-based contracts One of the best ways to align IT costs with value-generating outcomes is with consumption-based pricing, although it may seem like a higher-cost option. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

For Neeraj Kumar, CTO of Arkreach, the speed with which AI technologies are being developed itself poses a threat. It is time to shift away from the launch first, think later, mentality and concentrate on creating the future by not repeating yesterday’s mistakes, even if it leads to a delay.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

Two of the top executive recruiters in the CIO retained search space, Shawn Banerji and Martha Heller, joined me for the first episode of 2024 to share their insights on a range of talent-related issues, including hiring trends, hybrid work questions, and the critical skills companies are looking for at the executive level.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

Healthcare seemed like a better place to put his expertise to use “than the slightly ephemeral stuff I was working on at Microsoft,” says Jones, who spent a decade at Microsoft prior to his time at Meta. At the same time, he says the level of interest in working in more traditional companies is “much more than I’ve seen in previous years.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

We do a lot of paperwork in leasing and contracts, pages and pages of legal documents in multiple languages,” which has thus far been challenging to incorporate, the CTO says. Generative AI and LLMs are changing all that. They can directly process different languages in a very natural way.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

“As the new solution would cut down the time taken from several days to less than one day, I showed them how it could increase their efficiency, enable them to go home early, and make the entire process transparent.” To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring. He also leveraged Heineken’s global contracts. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2024

Abrahamson also changed some of his hiring criteria, bringing on people with product management and human-centered design experience. Dundas felt it was important to establish the IT organization’s specific DNA and culture before the hiring surge. That became part of the interviewing process as we hired dozens of people.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Making ethical AI a team sport Plexus Worldwide is one organization using AI to identify fraudulent account creation and transactions, says Alan McIntosh, CIO and CTO of the $500 million global health and wellness company. Here is a look at how CIOs are addressing ethical AI in their organizations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2022

At least that has been the experience of Backcountry CTO Sridhar Nallani, who was hired in 2020 specifically to overhaul the online retailer’s digital presence. Backcountry’s Personalization At Scale program, which is already under way, will take time to pay off, the CTO says. But tech was in the total doldrums.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

At the same time, we have to allow for citizen development, which will only grow as we hire young tech-savvy people who will work with RPA [robotic process automation] and ML [machine learning] on their own. At that point, my role in capabilities management recedes, and the CTO position becomes more important.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. Geographical nuances are also arising. The net result?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

Chief digital officer vs. CIO vs. CTO. Since that time, the line that separates the CDO from the CIO from the CTO has been blurry at best. According to Gartner, the CIO oversees the people, processes, and technologies within IT to ensure the IT function delivers outcomes that support the goals of the business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2024

A reverse flow from startups to large enterprises Some Indian enterprises may have to hire new people from outside to fill the CAIO position, triggering a reverse flow of talent from startups to large enterprises, according to technology evangelist and former Group CIO of Lupin, Sreeji Gopinathan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Never forget the power of people Despite trendy talk about current and future use cases, as with any technology artificial intelligence is only as powerful as the people developing and working with it, says Satish Jayanthi, co-founder and CTO at Coalesce. Hiring in tech has always been a rollercoaster,” Hruby says. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The WiPro exec cited an example of a recent POC that a life sciences firm conducted using Google’s Gen App Builder to reduce contract management costs and improve agreement adherence to company policies. Meanwhile, established AI vendors are also moving quickly to offer advanced gen AI platforms to keep their customers close.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Martin-Flickinger, who, before Adobe, was CIO of McAfee and VeriSign, became CTO of Starbucks for many years. Clearly, the leadership team at Starbucks had the foresight to hire a software company CIO. We rarely hire a full-stack engineer off the street.” We put IT offered services right into the product.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. For the freight transportation company, business intelligence (BI) is one area where IT can have a top-line impact. “We

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