CIO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

You’ve worked hard advancing your career and are ready to make the shift to leadership. You’ve landed an interview for an IT executive position at a company you like. Like every step that got you to this moment, how you perform is vital for achieving the results you want. What kind of research should you do to ace this interview?

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the role of the CIO has transcended simply managing IT infrastructure to becoming a pivotal player in enabling business strategy. This article delves into the six steps of delivering a successful IT strategy. This involves analyzing the organization’s long-term vision, mission, and goals.

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CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

You’ve seen the virtues of transforming from a project to a product operating model: value-driven work, delivered by dedicated teams rather than through projects led by disparate team members. But as you embark on this transformation, you’ll have to remember one thing: you can’t do it without a product owner. Is training available? What could be?

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CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Many organizations have struggled to find the ROI after launching AI projects, but there’s a danger in demanding too much too soon, according to IT research and advisory firm Forrester. But an AI reset is underway. Obvious use cases that enterprises experimented with last year are now table stakes and embedded in business software.”

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

As a digital transformation leader and former CIO, I carry a healthy dose of paranoia. Call it survival instincts: Risks that can disrupt an organization from staying true to its mission and accomplishing its goals must constantly be surfaced, assessed, and either mitigated or managed. Is the organization transforming fast enough?

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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. We’re hoping that the interns will turn into full-time employees,” he says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Gen AI in practice is a special case of Euronics’ strategy that concerns data and analysis , and the task of those who direct it — the CIO or the CDO — is to understand when to apply it, and when not to. IT must be at the service of the business,” he says. I don’t consider it convenient in our case. It must always be safe for the people we treat.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Acumatica has released a new “edition” of its cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software tailored to the needs of mid-size professional services firms. The number of potential customers for Acumatica’s new functionality — or similar products from competitors — is huge. trillion in 2024, according to The Business Research Company.

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CIO

AUGUST 19, 2024

Whether AI is set to replace workers, augment jobs, or shift the necessary skillsets entirely , organizations — and IT pros alike — need to be prepared for an impending shift in how IT roles will be defined in the AI era and what skills will be needed going forward. Moreover, 69% of IT pros believe they’re at risk of being replaced by AI.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Creating opportunity is key to fostering diversity in the tech industry — and that’s what IBM is aiming to do in partnership with the Hispanic Heritage Foundation. Together, the organizations have brought Spanish-based IT learning courses to the Latino community through IBM’s SkillsBuild platform, creating new pathways to careers in technology.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Williams remembers that the hiring manager, a former US Marine, was particularly interested in his certifications. “He He was very honest about what piqued his interest, which was my combination of the CISSP and PMP. For him, it was all about my experience and those certifications,” Williams says. Rather, the answer is: It depends.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Ever wonder what it takes to achieve this exalted state of rentable wisdom? Once upon a time I was a lowly IT manager. I say “lowly” because the IT function I was responsible for was one of those absolutely essential but utterly thankless IT responsibilities where the “ invisibility index ” is the key success metric.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2024

Vendors and consultants are always eager to share insights into innovations and trends, but exchanging ideas and opinions with colleagues and fellow IT leaders can often be invaluable. Inspire aims to empower CIOs at every stage of their careers by cultivating rewarding relationships and developing thought leadership, Ferrise says. “It

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

Sustainability is on the rise as a CIO imperative, with most CIOs now central to their organization’s increasing focus on sustainability planning — a trend that’s shaking up what technologies IT leaders are investing in and the vendors and partners they are signing deals with.

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CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Technology evangelists abound in the IT sector, but typically the term is used to describe a marketing-related role aimed at promoting a product, service, or technology. These external-facing positions have been established to educate users and enterprises about a company’s offerings and inspire those potential customers to adopt them.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2024

These begin at ASL-1 for models that have very basic capabilities (for example, chess-playing bots) and progress through ASL-2, ASL-3, and so on.” Of course, much of the text around these contexts is vague, including what a ‘multi-layered approach’ looks like to prevent deployment risks.”

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CIO

AUGUST 16, 2024

Next time you settle into your airline seat, it might be worth setting aside the reports and spreadsheets and instead turn this time into an opportunity for big-picture thinking. I asked CIOs and other high-level IT leaders what they have read that they think other leaders would benefit from. Find fulfillment in what you do.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As CIO at NTT DATA North America, Barry Shurkey is responsible for digital transformation and optimizing the IT roadmap to support the company and its clients. With more than 35 years in the IT services industry, Shurkey has built a reputation as a leader who invests in his people and is actively focused on setting them up to succeed.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AIs, a form of technology designed to run specific functions within an organization without human intervention, are gaining traction as enterprises look to automate business workflows, augment the output of human workers, and derive value from generative AI. In addition, the power of agentic AIs is still in its infancy, they say.

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CIO

APRIL 26, 2024

Count TransUnion among the rising tide of enterprises evolving their identities thanks to IT. “We The information and insights company’s foundation remains ensuring that every consumer is accurately represented in the market. But following its $3.1 Data has gravity. Eventually, AI models will get slimmer and will move closer to the data.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Retailers are preparing their technology systems to scan 2D barcodes and ingest the data, an initiative known as Sunrise 2027. And as part of it, both manufacturers and retailers will transition to 2D barcodes over the next three years. “A The benefits are potentially huge. RFID is not new but in earlier years it was expensive to implement.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

To put what Torres is dealing with in context, MemorialCare has over 14,000 physicians and employees using connected devices, and runs more than 52,000 connected devices and pieces of equipment throughout its network. “We We work in a high stakes environment,” he says. “If According to Torres, the strategy has proven to be successful.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For IT leaders working in the public sector, tailoring your resume for private-sector opportunities can be challenging. That was the problem Christina Sewell, CIO at a government agency, encountered in considering next steps for her career. To truly step back and objectively view your career path, a fresh set of eyes can help.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

It is often suggested that rapid advances in technology are threatening jobs in the IT sector perhaps more than any other. Among the cited factors are the rapid popularity of AI technologies and the desire to automate many processes. The most important action is to ensure that IT staff are kept current with new and critical technologies.

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

IT projects fail at alarming rates — nearly 70% of them , according to project management tool provider TeamStage. Common factors of project failure are missed deadlines, blown budgets, or deliverables that fail to meet original objectives. CIOs and project managers understand these risks. They do everything they can on the IT side to address them.

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CIO

JUNE 13, 2024

When adopting AI, sometimes the best direction is to go small. That’s what a number of IT leaders are learning of late, as the AI market and enterprise AI strategies continue to evolve. You might already have a GPU in your video game machine, or you want to just spin up some GPUs in the cloud, and just have them long enough to train,” he says. “It

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

My experience aligns with this trend. Our IT evolution Having worked primarily in traditionally structured industries like oil and gas, government, education and finance, I’ve witnessed firsthand how technology was once considered a commodity, a cost center. However, two crucial misconceptions persist. IT’s image problem?

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer Julia White and Chief Revenue Officer Scott Russell will leave the SAP Executive Board on August 31, 2024. White’s and Russell’s contracts were not due to expire until 2027. SAP’s explanation for why it is restructuring its Executive Board remains vague. With this adjustment as of Sept.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

As a result, organizations such as TE Connectivity are launching internal training programs to reskill IT and other employees about AI. Such programs, IT and HR leaders believe, will give their organizations added benefits that a hiring-heavy approach to AI needs isn’t likely to provide.

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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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