The Accidental Successful CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

CIOs need to understand what people are feeling Image Credit: foam CIOs are responsible for equipping the company with the technology that is required to make things run smoothly. When the pandemic hit, we sprang into action and made sure that everyone had what they needed in order to work remotely. – Dr.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

What is the business transformation currently underway at Informatica? When we were taken private in 2015, we were a traditional software vendor, but the market was starting to embrace the cloud. What has IT’s role been in the transformation to a SaaS model? What has IT’s role been in the transformation to a SaaS model?

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“Sure, digital transformation is a buzzword that’s been bouncing around for a long time,” he says, “but digitizing your processes remains important because no modern business can afford to run an old, unpatched, and unsupported version of something. This conundrum is what motivated Tomago to migrate its ERP system to the cloud back in 2015.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The optimistic outlook posits that AI is our virtual assistant, taking care of mundane, task-oriented activities so we have time to conjure up new business ideas. How do you foresee the relationship between AI, robotics, and human interaction evolving in the coming years, and what are the implications for businesses?

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Computerworld Vertical IT

JANUARY 5, 2024

When you consider the resources required to train, run, and oversee generative AI tools, you have to ask whether the rewards justify the consequences. While in theory it is possible to use smart machinery to get things done , at what point is doing so actually profitable — and when do the drawbacks outweigh the benefits?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2024

After the show, we spent some more time talking about Chilton’s experience as a P&L leader and how that has contributed to his success as a CTO. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity. What have some of those experiences been like? How do you do more training and certification?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We had a 24-month transition services agreement,” he says. With that deadline came a dilemma: “Do we just focus on transition, then start thinking about what transformation looks like,” he says, “or do we use this as an opportunity and compress the cycle to drive transition and transformation, using the platforms as the driver for that.”

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GeekWire

APRIL 1, 2024

“With the combination of our map, which we make some money on, and their services, which we’ll take a little slice of, it’s an exceptional opportunity for a lot of local folks to add to their current business, and we don’t have to build a service channel,” Frei said. ”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

“I do believe that what we’re doing in robotics inside of Amazon, mastering these core fundamentals of robotics, actually will help society in general, at large, because these technologies and these techniques, this collaboration mentality, will actually influence other industries and other sectors,” he says. .

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Vox

MARCH 29, 2024

They can do a lot (including claim that they’re conscious , not that we should believe them), but there’s one important respect in which AI models are unlike people: They are processes that are run only when a human triggers them and only to accomplish a specific result. Today’s AI agents do not live up to that dream — yet.

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GeekWire

APRIL 24, 2024

“So we know and love the super geeky people, and we know how to create an environment where they thrive.” “Most countries do not have anywhere near the kind of transparency for consumers and professionals alike that we have in the U.S.” “Home run. Another scary time? The pandemic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2024

Before I get to why, what even is a “cloud native platform”? Platforms support the software you’ve built to run your business. A platform not only runs that software, but it manages the services your apps need. All apps need a platform to run. And you need to run it and manage it.

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GeekWire

MARCH 4, 2024

I really believed from the beginning that we should share everything that we did,” said IPD director and UW professor David Baker , speaking at an event on campus in Seattle last week. And it was basically what everybody used,” said Baker. “Tech companies are really good at what they do.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Martha Heller: What is the transformation currently underway at Perdue Farms? Mark Booth: We have a growth strategy to improve our business, and to support that, we’re driving a transformation in technology and business processes. In addition to business process change, what else are you facing to getting value out of data?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Ever since SAP CEO Christian Klein (pictured) told financial analysts in July that the company would only offer its latest AI and “green ledger” innovations to customers running its flagship S/4HANA ERP platform through its subscription-only, cloud-based Rise with SAP offering, the company has been on the back foot.

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2024

Author, journalist, and University of Washington professor Rob Salkowitz moderated a discussion that featured Megan Kelso , a Seattle-based artist; Kelly Froh , cartoonist and co-creator of the Short Run Comix Festival ; and Eric Reynolds , co-publisher at the indie comics label Fantagraphics in Georgetown. That’s how I made my first comic.”

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 28, 2023

After chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov was first beaten by a computer he introduced what is often called “ centaur chess “, in which humans and machines collaborate, historically often beating either humans or computers on their own. It will do chores for you, allowing you to ignore the minutiae.

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GeekWire

MARCH 13, 2024

After being tapped by Sergey Brin to run special projects at Google, Varun Puri found himself at Google X playing de facto speech coach for many of his colleagues. There’d be these engineers who would do all of the hard work. “And I think that’s what AI is going to enable.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Afterwards, we spent some time discussing how today’s digital leaders can build multidimensional resiliency to set themselves, their teams, and the business up for success. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity. What is the interplay of these attributes and how does it show up among resilient leaders?

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GeekWire

JUNE 6, 2023

“What they hired me to do was to grow the business,” Kienberger told GeekWire. “We really want to focus on helping customers deliver a capability, and that’s what that constellation size does,” Kienberger said. What will those new hires be doing? We basically sold them the bus.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

We went from accessing 1mbps to 250mbps in some locations. But they also run a small fleet of seaplanes, maritime vessels, ferries, pontoons, coaches, and more to deliver the best in experiential tourism. Overnight, we acquired six solutions all doing the same thing.” Mazumdar says. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO. But what we’re learning from public announcements like these might just scratch the surface of gen AI use cases for the enterprise.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

We caught up with Torruella — now splitting his time between Washington state and Washington D.C. — in a recent interview to get his take on the new job, his technical roadmap for KEXP, the role of AI in music and ambitions for a new social community at KEXP. Of course, we also had to ask him what he’s listening to these days, too.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , we unpacked those four roles as well as Dickson’s career journey, lessons learned, and leadership superpowers — in particular, his focus on building community around the technology, not just on building the technology itself. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In the blog post, titled “What went wrong at Techstars,” DeVore called out strategic decisions such as leaning on corporate sponsors “at the expense of founders” and altering the incentive system for local managing directors. . I love a good debate as long as they’re fact based.”

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 10, 2023

As Autor emphasizes and I have been saying for many years, the issue is in the design of work and the economy, and the mental models we apply to how we do that. … We do see reduced hiring at firms adopting AI in some of the tasks that AI is good for — information processing, some software coding, decision-making tasks.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

While iOS apps are still available in the Mac App Store, many apps, such as Dark Sky and Netflix, don’t have their developer’s approval to be run on macOS. When we tried to install an unsupported app on an M1 Mac running macOS 11.1, we got an error message saying that we couldn’t install it and should “try again later”.

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Vox

APRIL 12, 2024

He — along with a number of other accounts — was apparently part of a campaign to compromise nearly every Linux-running computer in the world. Linux is an open source operating system — as opposed to closed systems from companies like Apple — that runs on tens of millions of devices.) Can we do better than getting lucky?

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GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2024

“We’re on track to launch our first production satellites in 2024,” he wrote in his letter. “We’ve still got a long way to go, but are encouraged by our progress.” “We have a couple of options to start off with, but we’ve narrowed it for our first year, what we want to do.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. It depends on what business model you’re in. We’re constantly looking at the economics of both.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2024

Andy Mead Photo / Sportzpics for MLC) When Sanjay Parthasarathy left his last tech job in February 2023, he figured he’d do what he could to help get the first season of Major League Cricket up and running in the Seattle area and at the national level. Running a team — that was something else.”

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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. Organizations must also consider what values guide them, and what obligations they have in terms of retraining, upskilling, and job protection. We intend to implement it in Q1 2024.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2022

On a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , we delved into Jensen’s leadership playbook, mindset, and philosophies and how they help him foster innovation and build a learning culture. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity. That’s the technology behind the products that we sell. It’s a slogan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What helps Mate and his team achieve the push-and-pull of digitizing while maintaining quality service is Elara’s culture, which encourages employees to experiment — but make decisions quickly and fail fast when projects are not panning out — as well as investing in people who can bring new ideas and perspectives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

While there are still a substantial number of organizations running GroupWise, many have opted to move away from the platform and migrate to newer technologies. The move to do everything internally was important to secure the SIU’s operational continuity and to guarantee the sustainability of the organization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2023

The question is intentionally vague, and putting aside for a moment whether seeking to be “normal” is an appropriate strategic goal, it’s worth unpacking the elephant in the room: At this moment, our industry does not know what “normal” is regarding the driving technology of the age. At the top there is what is the board being told.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

“We determined that we just pushed it a little bit too far,” Starfish co-founder Austin Link told GeekWire. But a few weeks ago, the thruster didn’t fire when commanded to do so. “There is still xenon that remains, so we know that propellant is not the issue.”

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