CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

For research institutions, a solid IT foundation can prove to be the difference in delivering meaningful results for scientific endeavors — and thereby in securing valuable funding for further research. We identified Google as being well aligned with us strategically,” says Gunkel. They have an agile infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2022

Too often, technology companies pay consulting or analyst firms to create metrics based on the best characteristics of their offerings,” says Judith Hurwitz, CEO of Hurwitz Strategies, an emerging technology consulting firm. It’s important to understand the research and data behind the metrics,” Hurwitz says.

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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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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Engaging the Hadoop Developer — Deep-dive with industry experts into the key projects, technology, and emerging trends driving the enterprise adoption of Hadoop. Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Enabling Business Results with Big Data. Engaging the Hadoop Developer. 9:30 – 10:00 AM. Networking Break.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 22, 2024

The AI market is still developing, and some companies are adopting the technology without a specific use case in mind, he adds. The concern about calculating the ROI also rings true to Stuart King, CTO of cybersecurity consulting firm AnzenSage and developer of an AI-powered risk assessment tool for industrial facilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

PE investors have begun to realize they can achieve better returns with strong and empowered CIOs at portfolio companies, says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, a managed services provider focused on the private equity market. Every aspect of the business is dependent on some type of technology.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Those include AI, data-centric design, systems that can be used off the shelf, functions that augment decisions, developer enablement, and customer-facing technology. On-premises ERP is seen as “not as scalable as people thought,” says Sharon Bhalaru, partner at accounting and technology consulting firm Armanino LLP.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Employees want to work for leaders who inspire them, engage them, challenge them, and give them opportunities to grow and be effective, says Ola Chowning, a partner with technology research and advisory firm ISG. Engagement and trust hinge on clear values and transparency,” she adds.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Engaging the Hadoop Developer — Deep-dive with industry experts into the key projects, technology, and emerging trends driving the enterprise adoption of Hadoop. Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Enabling Business Results with Big Data. Engaging the Hadoop Developer. 9:30 – 10:00 AM. Networking Break.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. Satisfaction metric results should be shared with both IT and business leaders, and action plans should be developed by C-level executives and IT service leads.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

For example, he took on the CTO role at Rodan + Fields because he “liked the appeal of being part of the product.” Srini Koushik, EVP and CTO, Rackspace Technology Rackspace Technology Koushik credits all his past positions for preparing him for where he is now and the AI role specifically. Second, be intentional.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

City skyscrapers and office parks may remain scarcely occupied in the post-pandemic work era, but commercial real estate player JLL’s business is not slowing down, thanks to the company’s embrace of technology and high-growth opportunities to adapt and prosper. Generative AI and LLMs are changing all that.

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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. on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5% I invest in those areas in the business that bring revenue to the table.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Thomas Phelps, CIO and SVP of corporate strategy at Laserfiche, says cloud contracts typically include several “gotchas” that IT leaders and procurement chiefs should be aware of, and he stresses the importance of studying terms of use before signing. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2023

“The anticipation and fear of the impact of generative AI in particular, and its relationship to artificial general intelligence (AGI), makes it overhyped,” says Daryl Cromer, vice president and CTO for the PCs and smart devices division at Lenovo. Hopkins says researchers do, indeed, see areas where the technology has taken off.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Foundry / CIO.com “Talent — or the lack of it — is a huge, huge issue, and when we look at the demographics, we don’t see that changing in the future,” says Chirajeet (CJ) Sengupta, managing partner at Everest Group, a global research firm. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

Travelers Senior Vice President and Chief Data and Analytics Officer Mano Mannoochahr will discuss creating a data-first culture. Finally, we will introduce the winners of IDC’s Best in Future of Intelligence North America Awards. More immediately, data leaders can explore using citizen data scientists.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

IDC research finds roughly half of worldwide genAI expenditures in 2024 will go toward digital infrastructure. You will spend on clusters with high-bandwidth networks to build almost HPC [high-performance computing]-like environments,” warns Peter Rutten, research vice president for performance-intensive computing at IDC.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That’s unfortunate given how much of smooth business operations depends on the efficient delivery of IT services today. IT service delivery enables an organization to give end users access to essential IT services by designing, developing, and deploying key technology resources, including applications and data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

So it is imperative the C-suite have digital literacy” not only to protect and enhance the customer value proposition but to understand new technologies and how they can be applied in their business. We get consistent investment year over year,’’ says Yao Morin, CTO of global commercial estate company JLL.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Of the 92% of IT executives expressing interest in gen AI, 57% are busy identifying use cases, 45% are launching pilot programs, 41% are training employees on gen AI, and 40% are establishing policies and guidelines. CarMax CITO Shamim Mohammed confirms his company was using OpenAI’s GPT-3.x John Spottiswood, COO of Jerry, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

Successful AI teams also include a range of people who understand the business and the problems it’s trying to solve, says Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst for AI platforms, analytics, and data management at consulting firm Omdia. An AI designer works with developers to ensure they understand the needs of human users.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What they are finding is that the line between advancing technologically and ensuring AI doesn’t result in detrimental outcomes is thin. Research is under way to correct biases, using synthetic data to address attributes such as gender, race, and ethnicity, he says, “but there will always be a need for a human-centric lens to be applied.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2024

What are key activities to focus on and skills to develop that can help you land a new, exciting role faster? They manage networking with other professional development activities such as attending conferences, reading leadership books, and participating in social media.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

During the 2008–2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and subsequent recession, researchers noted that cybercrime rates increased dramatically. It attributed the rise to the proliferation of new technologies in regions around the world, with many more people than ever before possessing IT skills.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Given how we think the market will develop, generative AI will get embedded into every application we use,” says Nick Patience, research director specializing in AI at S&P Global Market Intelligence. The world has flipped since 2022,” says David McCurdy, chief enterprise architect and CTO at Insight.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2023

Recent research from IDC report Enterprise Automation to Mitigate the Digital Skills Shortage found that up to 80% of organizations in the APAC region, excluding Japan, find it difficult or extremely difficult to fill vacancies in IT roles. Some of the hardest roles to fill include security, and development and data professionals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The need for efficient software development has taken on greater importance as enterprises introduce more and more digital services and add automation capabilities to enhance business processes. One possible solution is to embrace the agile methodology of software development.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

Nor should it only be to build an organization that is almost impervious to disruption,” says Kevin Martin, chief research officer at the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp). In fact, i4cp’s research reveals a correlation between change-ready organizations and performance. Speed matters. Metrics are mandatory. “If

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

For Giridhar Yasa, chief technology officer at Indian online financing company Lendingkart, it starts with reading. “We We follow industry developments quite closely and do our own research. Rohit Kaila, vice president of Walmart Global Tech India, develops IT systems for the US supermarket chain.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Plan for cost savings up front Cost optimization starts with defining desired business outcomes and architecting a cost-effective solution right from the start, says Jevin Jensen, research VP, Intelligent CloudOps Market at IDC. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI.

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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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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 we prepare, learn, research, network, create connections, and build trust in every country where we are hiring,” she says.

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