Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 22, 2022

One of the professions most affected has been marketing. The bedrock of today’s advertising methods and a requirement for delivering personalized experiences is data-driven marketing. This article will discuss some key advantages and why every business needs to implement them. It is marketing’s future.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan , Mexico , and the Middle East. These qualities are making it easier for CIOs to adopt OCI as a second or third provider in their environment.”

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CIO

MARCH 25, 2024

You may get a pat on the back, and the recognition might last 10 minutes. But for true recognition, you have to have a presence beyond your company,” says Balaban, who has had multiple senior-level IT positions and was most recently a director in the Office of the CIO at waste management company Covanta. Others can learn from Balaban’s insights.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

As we moved from transaction to integration, we began to translate customer thoughts into a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for VMware Cloud Foundation, or VCF. Early in this process, I concluded that the previous go-to-market model was too complex and costly for VMware and its customers.

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CIO

JANUARY 29, 2024

Back in the day, IT culture was all about the perks. Would-be employees were drawn in by modern, open spaces punctuated by game tables and fully stocked kitchens along with an array of services that might include on-site gyms, coffee bars, even chef-inspired cafeteria fare. To be clear, everyone still fancies a high-end perk.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

Build better business alignment Multiple CIOs plan to strengthen their ties to other functional areas in ’24, building on the work they’ve done in recent years to create even more synergy. Create dynamic, flexible teams Alignment only gets IT so far, though. Claffey notes that undertaking such a shift goes beyond making structural changes.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

They have AI-based services that either make processes automatic, more efficient, or provide the business with services that give competitive advantages,” he says. With this in mind, the AI ​​CoE acts along two clear lines at a global level.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

When salespeople are working off good data, they will have a competitive advantage,” Tantrum states. “If Building sales requires a well-equipped sales team, and in today’s digital world, that means IT must become a strong support partner. It requires a deep commitment to frequent, clear communication and coordination on mutual goals.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

Navigating uncertainty Like many IT leaders, Saket Srivastava, CIO of Asana, believes ongoing lack of economic clarity on a wide scale, paired with instability in the tech market, will create new challenges for 2024. These external factors can have a dramatic impact on business operations and strategic planning.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As today’s digital-centric landscape continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, software agility, and speed-to-market are critical to long-term success and revenue growth for any business. It requires a mindset change away from the technology itself and instead, towards identifying the target market and understanding those wants and needs.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Following are seven steps to guide this transformation for competitive advantage. Ask IT leaders about their challenges with shadow IT, and most will cite the kinds of security, operational, and integration risks that give shadow IT its bad rep. That’s not to downplay the inherent risks of shadow IT.

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2024

More than 120 ‘flavors’ to handle When your company is dealing with today’s volatile market, a variety of products, and a supply chain covering 120+ countries – each with its own rules and processes – demand planning, including forecasting, can get a bit gut-wrenching. As a result, the company was able to check off that wish list.

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CIO

MAY 9, 2023

times more likely to have accelerated their time to market for new products, services, experiences, and other initiatives. times more likely to have accelerated their time to market for new products, services, experiences, and other initiatives. Companies that commit to clear and focused action now will achieve a competitive advantage.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. But it’s not the only one. In addition to cloud consumption, there may be drivers at play.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

With the cloud market maturing significantly, the company could now look at what it had and compare it to other solutions out there. When talking about the organization’s digital transformation journey, he describes it as a constant. It’s just too risky.” We walked into a partner-managed cloud environment,” he says. “We

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The multinational operates in 80 countries, has a market capitalization of $18 billion, and employs roughly 20,000. The proof is in the implementation and replication of successful collaboration,” says Shuster, adding that the acquisition of Wells Fargo’s IRT business has given Principal relatively rapid access to market share.

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CIO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Giving benefits Being able to centrally create these types of resources and roll them out gives a big competitive advantage. Axel Johnson International is an industrial group within Axel Johnson, which also owns Swedish food retailer Axfood and Dustin, the online IT partner in the Nordics and Benelux, among others.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The interview process ensures that the people who are getting into our program are passionate about technology and that they see this as a career path — something that they’re going to leverage and really take advantage of,” says Wilson. The training is free, but learners must be accepted to the program after a rigorous interview process. “The

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Come back early and say, ‘Boss, I’m defining the problem you gave me as one of streamlining our go-to-market approach to make it more cost-effective and responsive to end customers. That said, it’s still worthwhile to think about how to use large language model (LLM)-powered tools like ChatGPT in more strategic ways.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Norway is a leader in sustainability. Its use of renewable energy, sustainable technologies, and recycling is common in homes and businesses throughout the country, as well as the neighboring Nordic region, making Norway a role model of environmental stewardship. Cegal , a Norwegian global IT services business, is a great example of this leadership.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Implications for CIOs : Besides avoiding cost and complexity, deploying an off-the-shelf ERP solution also helps in accelerating time to market and making the business agile. It wouldn’t be far-fetched to call ERP (enterprise resource planning) the brain of an organization’s IT infrastructure.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Pair these strategies with using the inherent security strengths of each platform—including the mainframe—in your hybrid plan, and your organization’s infrastructure will become much more difficult for today’s professional hackers to breach or take advantage of unintentional insider actions. The same can be said about IT.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Data analytics technology has been instrumentally valuable for the marketing profession. billion on marketing analytics within the next seven years. One of the biggest ways that data analytics is changing marketing is that it can help with marketing research. What are their advantages and disadvantages?

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CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

Countering competition with pricing Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer offers the company a price advantage over rival offerings, according to Ron Westfall, research director at The Futurum Group. The dedicated cloud IaaS market is expected to reach $20.5 billion in 2026 with a compound annual growth rate of 112%, according to IDC.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2023

On average, our products are designed to give you a minimum useful life of 10 years—5 years availability in-market, and 5 years of hardware warranty and software support. Many assets within a customer’s network still have market value despite being fully depreciated. But what about the product lifecycle itself?

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CIO

JULY 27, 2023

Result: dramatic productivity gains and potentially game-changing business advantage. Employees are going to use this. If we don’t do anything about it, they will have no choice but to use it on their own,” says Chan, CIO of Avnet, a technology parts and services provider. There is a fear of missing out.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

Applications with the greatest potential payback Creating code and improving customer experience are the main areas companies can take advantage of today using generative AI, and they have the greatest potential payback in terms of efficiency gains, Mohammad says. That’s incredibly powerful.” The second is for project staffing.

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CIO

JUNE 1, 2023

The B2B marketing landscape is experiencing a seismic shift fueled by the ascent of ChatGPT and other generative AI (GAI) apps. In a testament to its growing importance, 80% of marketers have experimented with or deployed the burgeoning technology, in some cases redirecting budgets from last year’s forays into the metaverse.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2023

Multiple communication solutions cause multiple challenges Because Beyond Journey operates in the experiential tourism market, providing a personalized, seamless customer experience is essential — something its previous communications systems lacked, Mazumdar says. For instance, our train journeys get sold out a year prior to their launch.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Competitors may overcome challenges and gain an advantage, for example. That should start with examining their IT architecture and asking whether/how it enables the business to: Use cloud services to achieve improved business outcomes such as efficiency, cost optimization, and speed to market; Pivot to new ways of working, as needed.

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2023

The title of my presentation has been “Digital Transformation Strategy,” subtitled “How to effectively exploit the IT resource to gain sustained competitive advantage.” At that time, Sears was the world’s largest retailer and it was just beginning to use the new System 360 from IBM.

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

Developer velocity Time to market is critical for the success of any project, particularly when it impacts revenue. Therefore, IT projects must be scoped, ramped, and run expeditiously in order to take advantage of market dynamics. This can be costly for organizations. To outsource or not to outsource?

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CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Providing a compelling ROI on technology initiatives also puts CIOs in a stronger position for securing support and funds from the business for future projects. This compounding effect shows just how imperative it is for enterprise technology leaders to ramp up the ROI from their deployments. Align projects with business goals. It is important.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 16, 2023

David Curry of Business of Apps points out that the market for Android apps is massive since around 75% of all smartphone users have Androids. If you take too long to deploy your app, competitors will create better ones and steal your market share. Fortunately, SDKs can help you bring your app to market more quickly.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 10, 2020

Taking control of the data that you have can not only improve information accessibility within your company but provide a range of benefits that can be the driving force behind gaining a competitive advantage in your market. Well, let’s explore some of the biggest advantages that it can offer your business below.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you have a much better overview about what’s going on in the market, you can be faster — that is a very important element — but also more productive. Third, with speed and market focus you start to achieve escape velocity, namely the space in our sprints where we innovate, learn, and improve. But what if we can fly at 80,000 feet?

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Crayon

APRIL 7, 2021

Conducting market research is never an easy task — it presents challenges to businesses of all shapes and sizes. With that being said, those with large budgets do enjoy certain advantages. When you have access to an endless array of top-tier tools and resources, you can uncover strategy-changing insights with relative ease.

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