CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

Supported by Kuwait’s Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT), the summit will feature a distinguished lineup of speakers and thought leaders at the forefront of digital transformation. How do they face technological leadership to accelerate digital business in a context of profound change? billion USD by 2024. Dr. Ammar H.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. In fact, for security, compliance, and efficiency reasons, CIOs will want to carefully manage which data generative AI has access to.

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CIO

AUGUST 30, 2023

Organizations are seeing a dramatic rise in informal adoption of gen AI – tools and platforms used without official sanctioning. A CISO at a major marketing software firm worried about this explicitly, stating, “The real risk is that you have unintentional data leakage of confidential information. Privacy leaks?

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2024

Stakeholder management is vital to project success. When key individuals are informed and on task, projects run smoothly. Many project managers struggle to implement effective stakeholder management, despite its importance. The following is a high-level guide to effective stakeholder management.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To ensure vendor relationship help their organizations achieve their goals, IT leaders should establish a comprehensive technology vendor management strategy focused on maximizing fit and value. Vendor partnerships are becoming increasingly vital to IT agendas today. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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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.

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2024

In this resume makeover, Van Vreede modernizes the resume of a seasoned IT leader, who wishes to remain anonymous, updating the aesthetic while delivering a clear, strategic message to draw in recruiters and hiring managers. A modern look to catch a hiring manager’s eye When updating your resume, content shouldn’t be your only focus.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

That has been the message coming from veteran CIOs, executive advisors, and management consultants in recent years. That has been the message coming from veteran CIOs, executive advisors, and management consultants in recent years. In other words, they excel at managing IT budgets, projects, staffing needs, and so on.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Officials at the North Carolina Department of Information Technology found themselves in a position familiar to most IT organizations: aware of the need to do more to attract IT workers given that they — like most employers — faced fierce competition for talent.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2022

These new building blocks of business include both tech and business pros, and they’re generally led by a product manager , who acts as the point person throughout the product’s lifecycle. Product managers aren’t a new job category by any means, but this shift means that they’re newly prominent and important to many companies’ strategies.

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CIO

MARCH 25, 2024

Early in her career as a program management specialist at AT&T, Balaban became an active member with the Project Management Institute’s New Jersey chapter, which put her front and center at plenty of events. Judy Balaban has seen firsthand how stepping into the professional spotlight, even on a small stage, pays dividends.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2022

To Guy Hadari, CIO of Biogen, the most important, but often overlooked skill for a CIO is management. CIOs need to understand infrastructure, security, and business applications at a high level, but it is more important that they know how to manage a business function. The ability to think strategically — and focus on details. “I

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2024

While not every IT leader is likely to match King’s rapid success, there’s little doubt that earning an MBA can help many CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and other IT executives and high-level managers successfully straddle the technology and business worlds. Does it make sense for an IT leader to seek an MBA? Are you ready to move your career up a notch?

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Lack of project management expertise Workers are often tapped to take on extra work, and for IT workers that sometimes means being tasked to lead projects. Or we expect managers who have a full-time job doing something else to also manage a project,” says Zach Rossmiller, CIO for the University of Montana. So what’s going on?

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

IT teams hold a lot of innovation power, as effective use of emerging technologies is crucial for informed decision-making and is key to staying a beat ahead of the competition. How does a company approach data integration and management when in the throes of an M&A? Innovation is crucial for business growth.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

Despite growing interest in “as a service” consumption models for everything from infrastructure to storage, most enterprises have continued to procure, maintain, and manage endpoint devices in-house. In its place, managed solutions are gaining traction. Click here for more information on HP’s Managed Device Services proposition.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The challenge some companies face, however, is the change management of the structured approach for handling alterations within a development cycle. Change management is an enabling framework for managing people through a change, in this case, related to a product in production. Change management brings consistency to DevOps.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Many managers are measured by their production rather than their speed of evolution, and that’s an issue in the modern world,” he notes. Avila says it’s also important to understand that that the rate-of-change metric doesn’t only live within the IT department — it also informs business leaders. Here they are.

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CIO

OCTOBER 12, 2023

To thrive, project managers need to have and hone a complex combination of technical, business, and interpersonal skills. Effective project managers must know how to define the scope of a project , identify necessary resources, and schedule those resources — all part of the technical aspect of the job.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The certification is targeted at agile team members, managers, organizational decision-makers, change leaders, executives, coaches and consultants, and aspiring or current leaders. Certifications can validate your IT skills and experience to show employers you have the expertise to get the job done.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Management rules typically exist to enable faultless decision-making, set a foundation for consistent operation, and provide protection from risk, observes Ola Chowning, a partner at global technology research and advisory firm ISG. Still, there are some occasions when following a long-established rule simply doesn’t make sense.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Over the summer, I wrote a column about how CIOs are worried about the informal rise of generative AI in the enterprise. But with time, CIOs are starting to figure out ways to manage the use of generative AI within the enterprise. That column may have been the understatement of the year.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

We’re moving away from rigid hierarchies of managers and subordinates, transitioning towards more dynamic and flexible teams.” He’s determined to keep up, finding ways to help his staffers be more agile in using AI to accelerate insights that inform innovation. Create dynamic, flexible teams Alignment only gets IT so far, though.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

On average, it takes professional services firms more than a month from the beginning of the estimating process to actually send an estimate to a customer, said Chloe Stephenson, a senior product strategy manager at Certinia, in a press briefing held last week. But that’s it, you know?”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Business needs first, then the lifecycle management program Your infrastructure lifecycle management program should be aligned with your organization’s growth roadmap. This will involve comprehensive and proactive infrastructure management. Lifecycle management keeps an equal focus on an asset through all its stages.

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Although less complex than the “4 Vs” of big data (velocity, veracity, volume, and variety), orienting to the variety and volume of a challenging puzzle is similar to what CIOs face with information management. In contrast, the new lifecycle is distinctly digital , agile , and recursive. Iron Mountain Capture/Enrich.

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CIO

MARCH 21, 2024

In 2018, the day after his employer publicly announced it was being acquired, Lynn Lovelady, then VP of IT at Energen, received a pivotal phone call that would reshape his career. The Birmingham, Ala.-based To address the growing pains, Lovelady reinforced the importance of strategic planning for IT.

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CIO

JANUARY 31, 2024

CIOs and their IT teams — including operations/DevOps, site reliability engineering, and platform engineering — are charged with building and managing IT services that can provide near 100% uptime. Quickly access information via natural language. Quickly access information via natural language. Identify root causes faster.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2024

IT organizations are taxed with managing, maintaining, and augmenting complex IT infrastructures that are constantly evolving. At the same time, they must deliver consistent IT service performance and availability to end users, while enabling innovative digital transformation for the business.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

Here’s how the right Managed Services provider can help ensure successful IT transformation and allow your workforce to perform at their best. To meet this challenge, your Managed Services provider should deliver: Small, business-ready printers to extend your print network into your remote workers’ homes. To read the full guide here.

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CIO

MARCH 24, 2023

It encompasses the people, processes, and technologies required to manage and protect data assets. The Data Management Association (DAMA) International defines it as the “planning, oversight, and control over management of data and the use of data and data-related sources.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

IT leaders at the 60-year-old fleet management firm determined that cloud could support its rapid growth without the challenges of maintaining data centers. But creating an inventory of existing workloads with key information about each one makes it much easier to make decisions on the cloud journey. Why are we really going to cloud?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

To avoid the inevitable, CIOs must get serious about data management. But at the other end of the attention spectrum is data management, which all too frequently is perceived as being boring, tedious, the work of clerks and admins, and ridiculously expensive. One villain in all this is the analyst community.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We walked into a partner-managed cloud environment,” he says. “We From the moment your data is put into a partner-managed environment, you lose control of it. At the time, they explored three options: on-prem, continuing with a managed environment, and moving to an ERP as a service model. It’s just too risky.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. Organizations that enhance customer experience can boost sales by upwards of 7% and profitability between 1% and 2% , according to management consulting firm McKinsey. IT needs to go beyond that.

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