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

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

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 1, 2023

A 2022 survey of 850 IT leaders by Foundry found more than two-thirds were accelerating their cloud migration and nearly three-quarters (72%) were defaulting to cloud-based services for upgrades or new IT purchases. It’s not like enterprise architects and infrastructure engineers were great at capacity planning from the data center days.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%).

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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

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

AUGUST 21, 2023

No one denies its transformative potential, but digital leaders say a majority of people seem to think generative AI, which Gartner recently placed at the peak of inflated expectations in its 2023 hype cycle , has more capabilities than it does — at least at this time. Consider some recent survey findings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

With the accelerated pace of digital transformation, coupled with the unprecedented arrival of the pandemic pushing enterprises towards a hybrid work culture, IT leaders have played a key part in keeping business afloat these last two years. Her colleague, CTO Rajaneesh R Kini, agrees. CIO’s top concern: cybersecurity.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2023

What really drives uncertainty One of the smartest guys on this planet, Ed Gough, formerly chief scientist and CTO at NATO Undersea Research Center (NURC) and former technical director at the US Navy’s Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, explained to me that ignorance is at the root of uncertainty. I am certain of that.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

While AI has steadily worked its way into the enterprise and business vernacular over many years, gen AI has not only become an abrupt and immediate force unto itself, but also an overarching AI accelerant. In July, for example, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Spotting promising talent requires keeping a close pulse on both the enterprise and its people, says Carter Busse, CIO at business automation technology provider Workato. When searching for top talent it’s important to spread a wide net and share your team’s brand internally throughout the enterprise, Bishop says.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In April of 2023, Censuswide conducted a survey of 608 US respondents from companies with $250m+ revenue. That study focused on CIO and CTO satisfaction with their existing IT support and services models for enterprise software. CIOs and CTOs are frustrated at the many inconveniences of managing multiple vendors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

Entire businesses have been built on top of OpenAI and its APIs. According to an O’Reilly survey released late last month, 23% of companies are using one of OpenAI’s models. An enterprise that bet its future on ChatGPT would be in serious trouble if the tool disappeared and all of OpenAI’s APIs suddenly stopped working.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Forrester estimates about a third of organizations have either made or are in the process of orchestrating the shift to product-centric structures with more to follow as cloud migration gives IT a platform to retool for greater business agility, according to Charles Betz, vice president and research director for enterprise architecture at Forrester.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Take for instance processes and workflows where algorithmic bias could become a factor such as in HR and hiring. Businesses are accountable for the consequences of their choices, and that includes deploying AI in inappropriate areas, says Andi Mann, global CTO and founder of Colorado-based consultancy Sageable.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2023

Then, when that didn’t work, it hired it’s own team to build the proprietary models it needed. According to a recent poll of senior executives conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Insight Enterprises, 39% of companies have already established policies or strategies around generative AI and 42% are in the process of developing them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2022

At Vault Health, CTO Steve Shi begins enterprise architecture (EA) work with a site survey of the entire IT, application, system, and data infrastructure but restricts it to two weeks with one-hour interviews about each function. At Carrier Global Corp., Trim the red tape.

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