CIO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Certinia, a developer of software for service businesses, is using AI and automation to extend the capabilities of its tools for report-building or planning and analysis beyond the financial sphere and into operations, too. At Certinia he also oversees IT and finance, helped by another new appointment, CFO Erin Sawyer.

Finance 461

Finance Gaming Sales Analysis 461

CIO

JANUARY 3, 2024

Organizations considering value stream management (VSM) must look at several deciding factors, not the least of which is the potential return on investment (ROI). One of the biggest challenges in value stream delivery is connecting DevOps with business outcomes. Data Management, IT Leadership

Management 768

Management Finance Analysis Learning 768

CIO

MARCH 4, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is delivering rapid change for Australian business by raising customers’ expectations, generating new competitive challenges, and creating opportunities for new products and services. The integration of AI into Tungsten Automation’s service offering is organised around three key pillars.

Business 865

Business Predictive Analytics Finance Intelligence 865

CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

Cloud cost management remains a critical CIO priority. For CIOs who may need to customize their cloud cost information streams or manage a complex cloud estate, do-it-yourself cloud cost management may be the way to go. And that’s all before considering the need to fuel new AI initiatives , which can push cloud costs up further.

Management 680

Management Finance Capital Technology 680

CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

What is a business analyst? Business analysts (BAs) are responsible for bridging the gap between IT and the business using data analytics to assess processes, determine requirements, and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders.

Business 787

Business IT Analysis Finance 787

CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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.

Business 706

Business IT Finance Globalization 706

CIO

JANUARY 5, 2024

So now, he says, more than 90% of the company’s business initiatives are possible through the tech borne out of the IT area he leads. Also during the pandemic, we completely restructured and created every IT element the company needed: new ERP, purchasing systems, hotel management systems, and HR systems, for example.

IT 656

IT Business Hospitals Travel 656

mention

MAY 23, 2024

For businesses, crisis management is critical for corporate resilience and longevity. The difference between thriving and merely surviving, or even facing closure, often hinges on your company’s ability to manage crises effectively. This post will help you learn everything you need about crisis management.

Management 157

Management Business Loss Human Resources 157

CIO

MARCH 13, 2024

One of the most satisfying parts of my job is to write about digital transformation and the extraordinary ways companies are using technology to solve real problems and create business opportunities. A new operations management platform was needed to enable a fast-growing portfolio of work executed for business and enterprise customers.

Management 412

Management Finance Knowledge Innovation 412

CIO

APRIL 25, 2023

So in an attempt to provide advice you haven’t already received, here are seven venial sins of IT management, presented in no particular order, that you aren’t likely to get advice about from anywhere else. Too much managing, not enough leading Okay, I lied — a venial sin in and of itself. No, don’t thank me … 1. Give it up.

Management 631

Management IT Finance Technology 631

CIO

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Robotic process automation (RPA) is a well-established means of automating repetitive business processes implemented in software. Combined with RPA tools they enable much greater levels of automation of many business processes. Organisational change management (OCM): processes do not exist in isolation from organisational structures.

Business 679

Business Analysis Intelligence Intelligence 679

Smart Data Collective

JULY 26, 2023

Big data has become an invaluable aspect to most modern businesses. Nevertheless, many companies have been reluctant to Harvard Business Review reports that only 30% of businesses have a data strategy. However, running a data-driven business isn’t always easy. You are going to need the right infrastructure in place.

Business 186

Business Management Human Resources Loss 186

CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Project management office (PMO) definition A project management office (PMO) is a group, or functional unit, that sets, maintains, and enforces the practices, policies, and standards for structuring and executing projects within an organization. A good PMO drives discipline, communication, and orchestration.

Management 732

Management Startups Finance Advantage 732

Smart Data Collective

MAY 14, 2024

AI can help small businesses improve their financial management practices, which helps them save money.

Management 238

Management Business Finance Intelligence 238

CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The cloud is undoubtedly transformative for both IT and businesses, but the business has often been left out of the process when it comes to cloud technology decisions. The business has to get involved. But insight alone isn’t enough to realign the business and IT.

Business 589

Business IT Finance Data Analysis 589

CIO

MARCH 27, 2024

Automation can also eliminate many of the errors that occur during manual processes such as data entry, while also providing new tools for combatting fraud when applied in finance applications. At the construction company McConnell Dowell, rapid growth had created challenges when scaling specific processes.

Business 325

Business Loss Finance Innovation 325

CIO

MARCH 13, 2023

While banking and finance organizations have aggressively moved workloads and apps to the cloud to meet changing customer needs, some remain hesitant to tackle modernization of core infrastructure and systems, fearing a disruption to the business. They need to move quickly, and at scale.” You have to be innovative, but in a secure way.

Banking 325

Banking Finance Innovation Algorithm 325

CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2022

IT organizations are shifting to product-based methodologies , in which cross-functional teams made up of both tech and business pros focus on a single product or service offering. Much of a product manager’s job involves ensuring the various functions of a cross-functional team work well together.

Management 711

Management Learning Analysis Finance 711

CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Il digitale è riconosciuto come forte leva di business”, conferma Alessandra Luksch, Direttore dell’Osservatorio Digital Transformation Academy e dell’Osservatorio Startup Thinking del Politecnico di Milano, che dal 2016 mappa i trend della spesa ICT delle organizzazioni in Italia. “Il

Management 536

Management Startups Business Intelligence Commerce 536

Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 10, 2023

Specialties that businesses and individuals can take advantage of to meet their goals. Financial planners are valuable for businesses and individuals that would like help meeting their long-term goals. A financial planner might help your business set a budget, or simply better understand what resources you have available to you.

Finance 247

Finance Data Mining Banking Predictive Analytics 247

CIO

APRIL 16, 2024

Companies expect a lot from their CIOs: integral knowledge of the business, visible financial results, and agility, as well as the ability to manage change, actively collaborate with business leaders, and explain IT in plain English. This is why many companies now seek CIOs with MBA degrees or non-IT business experience.

Finance 739

Finance Knowledge Management Technology 739

Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Securing financing is a huge example. Data analytics technology is helping more companies get the financing that they need for a variety of purposes. One of the most important benefits of big data involves getting financing for new equipment. The Growing Importance of Using Big Data to Finance New Equipment.

Finance 251

Finance Predictive Analytics Advantage Advantage 251

CIO

MAY 23, 2024

Back-office ERP systems are gaining strategic importance as organizations seek to digitize and automate business processes, modernize their application stack, migrate to the cloud, and accelerate the speed of business. This innovation will reset the use of ERP systems for years to come. One thing all vendors can agree on?

Finance 733

Finance Retail Innovation Advantage 733

mention

JUNE 16, 2021

When it comes to finance, breaking down complex topics for the audience or selling relevant services is always a challenge. Finance has a reputation for being boring — anyone interested in a financial instrument or service is overwhelmed by the never-ending paperwork and lengthy brochures. Promo videos. Demo videos.

Finance 359

Finance Marketing Marketing Banking 359

CIO

APRIL 7, 2023

Some African entrepreneurs have begun to address this urgency by developing atypical accounting automation and new management systems where CIOs drive the ins and outs of the processes to keep up with ever-changing markets. Some entrepreneurs say they’ve already found solutions to make management easier and more beneficial to organizations.

Management 578

Management Commerce Finance Algorithm 578

Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In this modern age, each business entity is driven by data. It doesn’t matter whether the decision being considered has huge or minimal impact; businesses have to ensure they can access the right data to move forward. Typically, this approach is essential, especially for the banking and finance sector in today’s world.

Finance 354

Finance Banking Knowledge Competitive 354

CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

Le aziende capaci di offrire una customer experience superiore hanno tassi di crescita cinque volte più elevati dei loro concorrenti e, nella gestione della CX, il CIO ha un ruolo fondamentale, scriveva Forrester Research (“Improving CX Through Business Discipline Drives Growth”) nel 2019.

Commerce 474

Commerce Business Retail Startups 474

CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

But to find ways it can help grow a company’s bottom line, CIOs have to do more to understand a company’s business model and identify opportunities where gen AI can change the playing field. Revenue leaders embracing AI The interest is there on the business side. The point of AI isn’t to create AI, but to solve business problems.”

Finance 770

Finance Knowledge Technology Technology 770

CIO

AUGUST 7, 2023

As CIO of E&J Gallo Winery, Robert Barrios has made it a priority to lead transformation projects not with directives, but by cultivating the right blend of shared experiences and immersion in the business. Like most of his peers, Barrios increasingly sees change management leadership as a cornerstone of the CIO agenda.

Business 534

Business IT Gaming Sales 534

CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

If you are a CIO or CISO and haven’t yet read this article – Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer,’ you should and then share it with your entire company. The digital impostors mimicked the finance worker’s actual team with disturbing accuracy. What happens then?

Gaming 590

Gaming Finance Entertainment Algorithm 590

CIO

JUNE 13, 2023

Information is at the core of every business’s digital transformation. Managing it has gotten more and more challenging due to growing volumes of content, and the disparate and complex tools and systems. Organizations are awash in information management systems. Today it’s still the top driver for 41% of companies.

Information 393

Information Management Globalization Finance 393

CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2022

We were able to manage some of them through Excel and Word,” he says. “It Out-of-the-box thinking “We were looking for something where we could leverage 90% or maybe 100% of out-of-box capability because we were just building the business processes,” he says. So the process was short, but not cursory, he says.

Business 646

Business Startups Finance Globalization 646

CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax One of the most painful – and pained – statements I’ve heard in the last two years was from an IT leader who said, “my team is struggling to find ways that our company’s data could be valuable to the business.” The latter case is as it should be.

Business 526

Business IT Finance Banking 526

CIO

APRIL 10, 2023

IT was looked upon as a group of techies that performed some unexplainable job that was supposed to revolutionize the business. Beyond that, the senior executives across the business knew little of us nor did they want to know. Ever since then, IT has been accused of being too technology-oriented. But much has changed.

Business 449

Business IT Finance Retail 449

CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We were able to manage some of them through Excel and Word,” he says. “It Out-of-the-box thinking “We were looking for something where we could leverage 90% or maybe 100% of out-of-box capability because we were just building the business processes,” he says. So the process was short, but not cursory, he says.

Business 567

Business Startups Finance Globalization 567

CIO

MARCH 31, 2023

Business analysts are in high demand, with 24% of Fortune 500 companies currently hiring business analysts across a range of industries, including technology (27%), finance (13%), professional services (10%), and healthcare (5%), according to data from Zippia. Amazon, Capgemini, and IBM.

Business 545

Business Knowledge Analysis Management 545

CIO

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Seemingly since the beginning of time, CIOs have been working to change their IT organizations from “order takers” into “business partners.” Yes, most IT leadership teams have stronger relationships with their business partners than, say, five years ago, but there is still a long way to go.

Business 511

Business IT Biotech Knowledge 511