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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IT Education Globalization Research 857

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

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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IT Capital Gaming Learning 809

CIO

JULY 1, 2024

Shane McDaniel was nearly a year into a modernization effort when he and his IT team for the City of Seguin, Texas, cut over from the city’s legacy network to the upgraded version. On hand for much of the work that Saturday in June 2019 was the rep from Extreme Networks, a Morrisville, N.C.-headquartered It’s not just a transactional relationship.

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IT Alliance Win Management 788

CIO

JULY 22, 2024

IT leader and former CIO Stanley Mwangi Chege has heard executives complain for years about cloud deployments, citing rapidly escalating costs and data privacy challenges as top reasons for their frustrations. They, too, were motivated by data privacy issues, cost considerations, compliance concerns, and latency issues.

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IT Banking Research Security 652

CIO

JUNE 25, 2024

As enterprises continue to plan, expand, or evolve their digital transformation efforts and shifts to the cloud, many are likely relying on IT consultants or considering hiring them for help. Here are some tips for getting the most value from using IT consultants and ensuring that the engagement is successful and aligned with your objectives.

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CIO

JULY 2, 2024

But the frequent use of “crazy” on the demand side of the technology world opened my mind to the possibility that there may be value in applying a multifaceted mental health lens to IT endeavors to see what can be gleaned about helping executives find technology and their organization’s technology agendas less psychologically unsettling.

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Learning IT Globalization Technology 703

CIO

JUNE 6, 2024

Composing a workforce is like playing chess. When it’s done well, every choice is calculated, made mindfully of both its short- and long-run impacts, and of the delicate balance in which it must hold certain key variables — cost, productivity, digital maturity, and the potential to build capabilities that last. So how do you forge a different path?

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IT Innovation Profiling Globalization 744

CIO

JULY 3, 2024

Businesses are under constant change as they evolve to meet new customer and commercial needs. That means they must constantly modernize the IT systems that power their business, bringing in.

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IT Business Management 579

CIO

MAY 22, 2024

Difficulties estimating or demonstrating the value of AI technologies to the business have been or will be a top barrier to their implementation, according to a recent Gartner survey of more than 700 IT leaders at organizations that have adopted or plan to adopt AI. Nearly half of respondents pointed to challenges with showing its value.

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IT Globalization Technology Technology 897

CIO

JUNE 10, 2024

Now, they’re racing to train workers fast enough to keep up with business demand. When it comes to how companies are getting talent, the word that comes to mind is ‘scrambling’ — they’re scrambling to get the talent they need. Complicating matters is the nuance involved, Kanungo says. Here’s how IT leaders are coping.

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IT Learning Management Education 847

CIO

MAY 21, 2024

With the generative AI gold rush in full swing, some IT leaders are finding generative AI’s first-wave darlings — large language models (LLMs) — may not be up to snuff for their more promising use cases. LLMs, with their advanced ability to comprehend and generate text, have become a near stand-in for generative AI in the collective mindshare.

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IT Retail Startups Innovation 809

CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

New tech moves from bleeding edge to mainstream at an ever-increasing pace. Consider how fast generative AI went from avant-garde to ubiquity: At under two years, it may be a record. Luckily, there are ways to slash the timelines on those projects. Here veteran IT leaders and advisers offer eight strategies to speed up IT modernization.

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IT Win Technology Technology 876

CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

And while ransomware accounts for a relatively small proportion of that total, enterprises should really be budgeting more for it. For the study, titled “The Hidden Costs of Downtime,” Oxford Economics quizzed executives from Global 2000 companies about the causes and costs of downtime in IT systems. million on cybersecurity tools and $19.5

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IT Globalization Security Security 722

CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

By mid-2023, Walldorf-based Gerresheimer had its IT strategy revised, and a central component of this was its cloud journey, for which CIO Zafer Nalbant and his team built a hybrid environment consisting of a public cloud part based on Microsoft Azure, and a private cloud part that runs in a data center completely managed by T-Systems.

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IT Finance Security Security 650

CIO

JUNE 19, 2024

Three years ago BSH Home Appliances completely rearranged its IT organization, creating a digital platform services team consisting of three global platform engineering teams, and four regional platform and operations teams. Berke Menekli, VP of digital platform services, says it’s one of the best things he ever did.

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IT Security Security Finance 866

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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IT Innovation Security Security 903

CIO

MAY 30, 2024

Following a legislative review of state purchases in fiscal year 2022, the state of Oklahoma discovered that its agencies had procured more than $3 billion worth of goods and services outside the oversight of its Office of Management and Enterprise (OMES) Central Purchasing division. That figure polled No. The analysis posed several challenges.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When you’re tasked with migrating 200,000 servers to a new operating system, a helping hand is very welcome indeed. This is going to change how infrastructure is managed.” The migration is still in its early stages. Before, it took humans a significant amount of time to pore through logs to try to figure out what was going on before moving forward.

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IT Data Logging Commerce Security 879

CIO

MAY 14, 2024

Controlling escalating cloud and AI costs and preventing data leakage are the top reasons why enterprises are eying hybrid infrastructure as their target AI solution. CIOs are working through how to leverage the most of what LLMs can provide in the public cloud while retaining sensitive data in private clouds that they control.” The Milford, Conn.-based

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Airline IT Startups Security 896

CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Generative AI continues to dominate IT projects for many organizations, with two thirds of business leaders telling a Harris Poll they’ve already deployed generative AI tools internally, and IDC predicting spend on gen AI will more than double in 2024. But the usual laundry list of priorities for IT hasn’t gone away. But it was.

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IT Due Diligence Security Security 895

CIO

MARCH 14, 2024

Does it make sense for an IT leader to seek an MBA? Ben King, head of mobile app development firm Aviato Consulting, is convinced that it can provide a major career boost. He credits his decision to earn an MBA with transforming his career. While an individual contributor at Google, King spent several years working toward an MBA.

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IT Knowledge Education Startups 775

CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

IT leaders are drowning in metrics, with many finding themselves up to their KPIs in a seemingly bottomless pool of measurement tools. The result is wasted time, confusion, and, in some cases, conflicting insights. To name a few — products and services that are delivered on time and on budget, and overall IT ROI.” Here they are.

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IT KPI Briefing Technology 873

CIO

MAY 17, 2024

IT is an ever-changing industry, a truism that 2023 underscored, thanks in large part to the meteoric rise of generative AI. The industry saw unprecedented growth in certain areas — such as AI and ML — alongside massive layoffs from tech vendors and cooling (or even contracting) salaries for a wide range of IT roles.

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IT Education Analysis Technology 847

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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

There comes a time in every IT leader’s life when a key decision must be made: whether to follow an established rule or, as a matter of necessity, break precedent and embark on an alternate course. All are established to help the organization meet compliance and achieve essential goals. It should be, and usually is, a top IT priority.

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IT Intellectual Property Startups Security 886

CIO

JUNE 18, 2024

OpenAI has appointed a former director of the US National Security Agency (NSA) to its board to help oversee safety and security. The company’s appointment of retired US Army General Paul M. Nakasone is likely motivated by its need to turn a profit, a Gartner analyst said. How concerned are they really about trust and safety? But it is not enough.

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IT Security Security Intelligence 775

CIO

MAY 2, 2024

When a necessary change hits your IT team, getting everyone to buy in and adapt is key — and challenging. Some team members will, by nature, fight any change. Even those once adaptable may have become change resistant due to years of near-constant turbulence. This is true of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures — any type of change.” Why fix it?’”

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IT Win Management Technology 866

CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

To Carm Taglienti, the explosion of all things AI over the past few years has been both a pro and a con to IT teams. On the one hand, artificial intelligence has helped both technology departments and the business units to work better, faster, and cheaper. It hit us all and kept us from looking at the things we were working on,” he says. “We

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IT Security Security Technology 788

CIO

MAY 6, 2024

If you spread yourself too thin, you’ll never make the kind of impact you want. You need to focus on your most important thing — your M.I.T.” The meeting took him aback, but it was a turning point in his career, providing new clarity and purpose. “I I went through my list of ideas, scrutinizing each one. I tell people to just say yes.

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