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Illuminating the black box: why CIOs should consider publishing an annual IT report

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The black box For decades IT has been a black box—an obscurity of inner workings mostly just accepted by the firm. By 2015, the technical executives of at least one conglomerate, Intel, had figured they could enrich the firm’s perception of IT by showcasing how essentially that function contributes to business value.

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Women IT leaders take center stage

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Judy Balaban has seen firsthand how stepping into the professional spotlight, even on a small stage, pays dividends. Judy Balaban, former CIO at Covanta Judy Balaban “People say with hard work you’ll be recognized. She considered her commitments to PMI as a way to give back to her professional community. Well, yes and no.

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Simplifying IT strategy: How to avoid the annual planning panic

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Annual or not, like running with the bulls in Pamplona, this exercise never fails to test your mettle and often leaves you staring frantically at the page and wondering: how do I tell this story? How will the company have improved for your customers once the vision is achieved? Does someone in the audience have an ax to grind with you?

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Ask yourself: How can genAI put your content to work?

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By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax One of the major findings of our recently released State of AI Innovation report was how bullish managers and technical practitioners were about generative AI enhancing, rather than threatening, their careers. It enables people–including Wroblewski himself!–to

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What LinkedIn learned leveraging LLMs for its billion users

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So, among LinkedIn’s first lessons was the importance of tuning LLMs to audience expectations — and helping the LLMs understand how to be perhaps not human, but at least humane with its responses. LinkedIn declined to comment on how many Premium members it has.) The initial deliverables “felt lacking,” Bottaro said.

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4 CIOs on marketing IT’s value to the business

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We may hope that the work speaks for itself, but the reality is, IT leaders must communicate IT’s accomplishments in a way that people can understand why and how it matters to them. But it takes work to transform long-held perceptions and make your organization’s value proposition tangible for all of your business partners.

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Building digital fluency in the C-suite and beyond

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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. Yet, while there is “a high level of awareness in legacy companies on the need to do this,’’ there is “a low level of awareness on how to do it.”

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