CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. Unfortunately, the road to data strategy success is fraught with challenges, so CIOs and other technology leaders need to plan and execute carefully. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Here’s a quick rundown of seven major trends that will likely reshape your organization’s current data strategy in the days and months ahead.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

Webster Bank is following a similar strategy. Leveraging expertise at software developer Palantir Technologies, Redmond’s team developed a model that consolidated and cleansed the data from those systems, then analyzed it to provide insights — and fairly sophisticated recommendations — to decision makers.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping our world. The key is to make data actionable for AI by implementing a comprehensive data management strategy. And companies need the right data management strategy and tool chain to discover, ingest and process that data at high performance.

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CIO

APRIL 8, 2024

The first thing is having a data strategy, having a foundation of data, and then asking questions of it.” The BJK Cup is the largest annual international team competition in women’s sports, with 16 national teams qualifying to compete for the prestigious title each year. During each week of games, the platform captures and processes 6.8

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Aqute Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

Competitive intelligence analysis helps businesses maintain or gain a strategic market advantage. LinkedIn, with its network of over 750 million users worldwide, is an indispensable competitive intelligence tool, and no competitive intelligence research is complete without it.

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CIO

DECEMBER 15, 2023

“We’re at the bottom of the cycle right now and this isn’t a time where capital is free flowing,” says Companieh, who notes that Cushman & Wakefield’s key advantage to remaining competitive today was its early embrace of the cloud. Our strategy is very solid,” she says. The ideal is to penetrate AI in every piece of our workflow.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In a career spanning such companies as IBM, KeyCorp, M&T Bank, and BMO, she has “answered the call” many times, most recently as CIO of The Hartford, where she is responsible for the overall strategy, vision, and execution of business technology, cyber, data analytics, and data science. We are focused on being agile, not ‘doing Agile.’

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

How can technology leaders leverage these shifts to enhance online and virtual experiences and strengthen competitiveness by developing people, talent, and skills? asked Dr. Salim Al-Shuaili, Director, Artificial Intelligence & Advanced Technology Projects Unit, Oman’s Ministry of Transportation & Information Technology.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

Every business in some form or another is looking to adopt and integrate emerging technologies—whether that’s artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud architectures, or advanced data analytics—to help achieve a competitive edge and reach key operational goals. We’re at a critical time for digital transformation. What is DORA?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Proactive strategies Proactive measures should be taken to address concerns about job insecurity and displacement. This enables workers to adapt to the changing landscape and remain competitive in the job market. How we work and what we do may shift, but removing people to make way for productivity would prove to be a huge mistake.

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CIO

MARCH 27, 2024

The integration of ICT into manufacturing technology is transforming the industry to meet these demands and sustain competitiveness in the long term. Going Digital to accelerate Innovation and R&D Today’s customer demands digitally integrated and intelligent products. One such automaker is China’s First Automobile Works (FAW).

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CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

After all, in today’s rapid-paced business world, a creative, productive IT team is vital for staying ahead of the competition, increasing revenue, and becoming a market leader. This strategy is advantageous because it links individual development to overall team performance, thereby fostering a sense of purpose.”

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. These external factors can have a dramatic impact on business operations and strategic planning.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

This strategy alone — achieved with the DIY approach — was responsible for saving $300,000 when his team dug into expenses surrounding Google Cloud Platform log storage, resulting in his team moving the logs to a lower tier of cloud storage and rightsizing the data they retain to adhere to retention requirements.

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

Consumer product goods manufacturers (CPGs) and physical and online retail stores need to increase investments in strategic real-time pricing, supply chain resiliency, and customer experience management to keep pace with the competition. Small changes can have a big impact on performance.

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CIO

OCTOBER 12, 2023

You require a strategy for efficient, productive, and responsible corporate use. The companies that harness GenAI are the companies that we believe are going to disrupt their industries,” said Mindy Cancila, vice president of corporate strategy at Dell Technologies, on a recent CXO Spice webcast. These tips will help you get started.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Business drivers for the first wave of digital transformation through 2020 targeted growth, data capabilities, cloud migration, and delivering competitive technology capabilities. But transformation initiatives require business leaders to rethink customer priorities, operations, and where technology can be a competitive game-changer. “To

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Aqute Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2024

Competitive intelligence (CI) services offer businesses valuable insights into their market and competition. Competitive intelligence services: What is it, and why do you need it? Competitive intelligence (CI) involves gathering and analyzing information about your competitors and the market.

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CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

Once a vanguard business strategy, digital transformation has become a perennial objective for business survival. And it continues at a rapid clip post-pandemic as artificial intelligence and immersive web technologies bring promises of new opportunities and disruptions.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

Awestruck and intrigued by the power of generative AI, companies and businesses are in exploration of this emerging technology and how it can help them scale, grow and outperform the competition while providing solid customer experience and digital experience to boot. We may just have a time machine, for we are in the future!

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CIO

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As more businesses push forward with digital transformation projects, cloud computing has stood out as a powerful tool capable of fueling the analytics that drive new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)—two capabilities that are quickly becoming a must-have in nearly every organization.

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CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2023

How AI helps balance speed and quality in the Contact Center A winning customer experience requires information, insight, and right-time action, and AI infuses all three into your service strategy. Here are three ways companies can use the power of AI to scale service while gaining deeper insights that drive CX and efficiency.

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CIO

MARCH 8, 2023

In fact, 95% of CEOs globally already see the need to adopt a digital-first strategy. Firstly, digital businesses embrace a digital-first enterprise strategy led by the CEO and other C-suite executives. They use technology to stay competitive, shifting their priorities from just driving efficiency. Maria Beatriz A.

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CIO

JULY 20, 2023

Quick loan approvals, online applications, personalized lending options, and massive data breaches create pressure for banks to focus on customer experience and security to compete with more technically mature and agile competition. Conducted by Quadrant Strategies for Iron Mountain. Source: “Innovation Digital Listening Research.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This is why executing a persistent data and analytics strategy is so important. It allows you to create a baseline of the past, identify when change happens, adapt your strategy, and make new, informed decisions. This process is your organization’s learning rate and competitive advantage. Customer buying habits have changed.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

Training on synthetic data As companies seek a competitive advantage through deploying AI systems, the rewards may go to those with access to sufficient and relevant proprietary data to train their models. Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Data Management, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2024

I’ve recently been on the road meeting with customers to explain our strategy and the virtues of VCF. For more details, including an update on innovations we’re working on and how our pricing strategy will benefit customers and partners, check out this recent post from VMware’s Prashanth Shenoy. Please stay tuned.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As companies start to adapt data-first strategies, the role of chief data officer is becoming increasingly important, especially as businesses seek to capitalize on data to gain a competitive advantage. According to the survey, 80% of the top KPIs that CDOs report focusing on are business oriented. Focus on transformation.

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Crayon

DECEMBER 18, 2020

For the competitive intelligence (CI) professionals out there, how are you adjusting your CI program plans? How are you prioritizing the many ways you can support competitive strategies across the company? How are you aligning your CI initiatives with the business’s key goals for the coming year?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

API-first strategies on the rise APIs are ubiquitous within modern software architectures, working behind the scenes to facilitate myriad connected capabilities. “As APIs remain central to tech strategy and are more vital than ever due their use by LLMs, including OpenAI plugins,” says O’Neill.

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CIO

JUNE 19, 2023

Finance is poised to undergo a transformation, as Artificial Intelligence (AI) steps in to make real-time decisions using vast data sets. This vision was outlined by Jason Cao, CEO of Global Digital Finance at Huawei, during Huawei Intelligent Finance Summit 2023. Huawei’s new Data Intelligence Solution 3.0

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Crayon

DECEMBER 9, 2020

You sift through big and small changes alike and analyze the data to identify trends and strategies. One of the biggest challenges with making use of competitive intelligence (CI) is distributing that intel to the relevant stakeholders within your organization so that your team can take action on your competitive insights.

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CIO

JUNE 21, 2023

Integrating artificial intelligence into business has spawned enterprise-wide automation. Generative AI is already starting to power the day-to-day tools we use, inspire a new wave of intelligent applications, and even reimagine the world of enterprise software and the world of IT. Then ChatGPT came along and changed everything again.

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2024

Ask your average schmo what the biggest risks of artificial intelligence are, and their answers will likely include: (1) AI will make us humans obsolete; (2) Skynet will become real, making us humans extinct; and maybe (3) deepfake authoring tools will be used by bad people to do bad things. Answer: This isn’t a risk; it’s a choice.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

That’s where an IT strategy that frames shadow IT as an opportunity for improved collaboration can have a profound impact. Following are seven steps to guide this transformation for competitive advantage.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2022

CIO Steve Zerby not only has a seat at the table, but he’s driving business strategy at the manufacturing company thanks to his panoptic view of the centralized yet global organization. They’re able to see the technologies, processes, and people “moving in different directions, the strategies involved, and how they fit together.

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