Cipher

JULY 7, 2021

When it comes to conducting market research, there’s a wide variety of methods that organizations can employ to uncover meaningful insights.

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APRIL 1, 2024

There is a ton of competitive pressure to move fast, because those who can do things quicker, better, faster are the ones winning the market share,” says Ricardo Madan, senior vice president of TEKsystems Global Services. Recent research found that application modernization took an average of 16 months.

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APRIL 11, 2024

In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan , Mexico , and the Middle East. These qualities are making it easier for CIOs to adopt OCI as a second or third provider in their environment.”

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APRIL 29, 2024

CIOs must redirect resources when technologies as revolutionary as generative AI come to market or risk falling behind or becoming obsolete — in which case, hitting other strategic goals won’t matter much. 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.

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APRIL 7, 2021

Conducting market research is never an easy task — it presents challenges to businesses of all shapes and sizes. Nowadays, free market research tools and resources are abundant — and you’ll be familiar with eight of our favorites by the time you’re done reading this blog post. Absolutely not.

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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

MARCH 13, 2024

According to a research report IDC released in November, based on a survey of over 2,100 business leaders and decision makers with responsibility for AI transformation, 71% of companies already using AI are seeing returns on their AI investments within 14 months, averaging $3.50 for every $1 spent.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.” As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

Certinia has joined the growing ranks of enterprise software vendors turning to generative AI to enhance their offerings. The Spring ’24 update, released today, contains numerous enhancements to Certinia’s core offerings. The estimation process is notoriously complex — and lengthy — in the professional services sector. But that’s it, you know?”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Some expertise in marketing, operations, cybersecurity, and other functional areas is important, too. IT leaders have gotten the message: To successfully perform their jobs, they need more than technical skills. They also need general business acumen, industry knowledge, and accounting talent.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Independent research analyst Sageable founder Andi Mann agrees, pointing out how many internal operations and basic functions of IT infrastructure turn out to be the ‘picks and shovels’ to power an AI gold rush. But the usual laundry list of priorities for IT hasn’t gone away. But it was.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

These developments, along with broader market reports, have cast a shadow over the growth prospects of the IT services sector. This includes a significant reevaluation of large ticket items, influenced by developments in 2023 around generative AI, according to Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst and CEO at Greyhound Research.

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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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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2023

Most CIOs and IT staffers remain, at heart, technologists, with many proclaiming their interest in shiny new tech toys. They may publicly preach “No technology for technology’s sake,” but they still frequently share their fascination with the latest tech gadgets. They’re not the only ones enthralled by tech. Consider some recent survey findings.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Our platforms like Neo and NeoBiz are designed to be quick to respond to what the market needs. After thorough research, Oracle’s Exadata Cloud at Customer emerged as the ideal solution. The company aims to provide customers with a banking journey that is not just efficient and secure, but also innovative, engaging, and memorable.

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CIO

JANUARY 29, 2024

Back in the day, IT culture was all about the perks. Would-be employees were drawn in by modern, open spaces punctuated by game tables and fully stocked kitchens along with an array of services that might include on-site gyms, coffee bars, even chef-inspired cafeteria fare. To be clear, everyone still fancies a high-end perk.

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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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CIO

JANUARY 31, 2024

While an oft-mentioned concern regarding large tech firms buying small firms is the potential for such deals to reinforce monopoly power in the product market, we argue instead that acquihiring can be understood as a means of bolstering monopsony power in the specialized labor market,” the researchers wrote.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

One recommendation is to leverage a lightweight CRM and treat networking like a lead-generation activity, a skill that also builds better understanding and appreciation of sales and marketing functions. At some point in your career, you’re likely to find yourself in transition, having left an IT leadership job without a new one lined up.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Some organizations have been innovating, transforming, and growing so fast that they haven’t had time to clear up older cost structures that start getting in the way,” says Stewart Buchanan, research vice president on Gartner’s CIO team. Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. But it’s not the only one.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

New research from Microsoft on use of its Copilot AI assistant points to ways that everyone—from the most junior individual contributor to the CEO—can lean in to doing so in any organization. That said, it’s still worthwhile to think about how to use large language model (LLM)-powered tools like ChatGPT in more strategic ways.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The stages of burnout Developing over time, burnout builds in distinct stages that lead employees down a path of low motivation, cynicism, and eventually depersonalization, according to Yerbo’s The State of Burnout in Tech report, which points to 2005 research by Salanova and Schaufeli on the subject. And it can be hard to spot.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This volatility can make it hard for IT workers to decide where to focus their career development efforts, but there are at least some areas of stability in the market: despite all other changes in pay premiums, workers with AI skills and security certifications continued to reap rich rewards.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s not to say they’re looking to ditch their roles or smash machines, as the real Luddites had. Yet CIOs do admit that they’re worried about multiple issues these days. Here are 10 worries keeping IT leaders up at night. For example, it highlighted a 153% rise in global ransomware attacks from September 2022 to September 2023.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2022

trillion, according to projections released by Gartner Research. According to John-David Lovelock, research vice president at Gartner, inflationary pressures are top-of-mind for most IT decision-makers at the moment, which creates a degree of uncertainty—high prices today could become even higher tomorrow. Managed services on the rise.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2022

By going in for a standardized ERP solution, IT leaders can avoid these issues, and most are following suit,” says Abhishek Mundra, practice director for enterprise platform services at research firm Everest Group. It wouldn’t be far-fetched to call ERP (enterprise resource planning) the brain of an organization’s IT infrastructure.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities. In a recent blog post, Sun described how Microsoft researchers conducted experiments to compare the performance of different AI models for use in Dynamics 365.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

Navigating uncertainty Like many IT leaders, Saket Srivastava, CIO of Asana, believes ongoing lack of economic clarity on a wide scale, paired with instability in the tech market, will create new challenges for 2024. These external factors can have a dramatic impact on business operations and strategic planning.

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APRIL 27, 2023

Meanwhile, the CTO focuses on technology research and development efforts, often working closely with the CIO to develop a strong IT strategy. And according to the latest 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report , you don’t need to reach for an executive career in IT to earn a six-figure salary. increase from 2021. increase from 2021.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With the aim to accelerate innovation and transform its digital infrastructures and services, Ferrovial created its Digital Hub to serve as a meeting point where research and experimentation with digital strategies could, for example, provide new sources of income and improve company operations.

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2023

Veteran CIOs, researchers, and advisors share the changes they’re seeing, offering a look at the new rules of IT leadership and the old ones they’ve replaced. Veteran CIOs, researchers, and advisors share the changes they’re seeing, offering a look at the new rules of IT leadership and the old ones they’ve replaced.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Just as Netflix innovated against Blockbuster with seamless technology development, companies that streamline this process can accelerate market innovation, boosting revenue and profitability,” says Gibson. Connected teams exhibit greater ownership and commitment, resulting in enhanced productivity,” she says. One such framework is SPACE.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2023

IBM Watson integration to aid backend automation The integration of IBM’s Watson AI into SAP’s portfolio will not only help automate backend tasks but also aid in churning business insights, said Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst of AI platforms at Omdia Research. Like IBM, SAP certainly has invested heavily in its own AI research.

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CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

Countering competition with pricing Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer offers the company a price advantage over rival offerings, according to Ron Westfall, research director at The Futurum Group. The dedicated cloud IaaS market is expected to reach $20.5 billion in 2026 with a compound annual growth rate of 112%, according to IDC.

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MAY 4, 2022

automation, integration): 41% Improving employee productivity: 27% Improving profitability: 24% New product development: 22% Enhancing hybrid work technologies: 21% Increasing topline revenue for the business: 20% Meeting compliance requirements: 19% Other researchers have found similar trends in IT spending.

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