CIO

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

IT leaders take note: At your likely current trajectory, your organization is the Titanic and its data is the iceberg. To avoid the inevitable, CIOs must get serious about data management. Data, of course, has been all the rage the past decade, having been declared the “new oil” of the digital economy.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2024

Skills-first (or skilled-based) hiring is mostly self-explanatory: It is an approach to hiring that focuses on finding candidates with the skills needed by the organization. Some researchers and tech leaders are using the strategy. Maura Healey issued an executive order directing state agencies to institute skills-based hiring.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2024

Few technologies have provoked the same amount of discussion and debate as artificial intelligence, with workers, high-profile executives, and world leaders waffling between praise and fears over AI. IT leaders say they’re discussing everything from the costs of AI implementations to whether AI is the existential threat to humanity some fear.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When IT leaders gather next month at FutureIT New York, the conversation will center around AI and other emerging technologies, data strategies, and practical use cases – all with an eye toward using IT to create business value. What do you need to know about AI contracts before you lock in a platform provider?

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In tandem with his job as chief digital officer and senior vice president of strategy at Hussman, Seals got a Ph.D. in business administration and wrote his dissertation on digital acuity and intelligence in “incumbent companies.” Digital technology is infiltrating our business in ways we never thought of ourselves,’’ he says.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

But that level of ingenuity is deeply unsettling for many consumers, who perhaps prefer to know that the humans are still at the wheel. This presents a conundrum for many of today’s business leaders. But an even greater proportion (93%) have ethical concerns about genAI. That sounds simple enough, right?

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CIO

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A complex mix of macroeconomic instability, technological advancements, and digital disruption has businesses in search of IT leaders who can rise to the occasion and turn what could be intractable challenges into business opportunities. Most CIOs (58%) are still in what Forrester calls the traditional mode of leading IT.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

CIOs are readying for another demanding year, anticipating that artificial intelligence, economic uncertainty, business demands, and expectations for ever-increasing levels of speed will all be in play for 2024. Yet, CIOs remain both undaunted by that list and expectant about what they can achieve. Claffey Jr.,

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

As CIOs prepare for the next wave of digital transformation, they must demonstrate shorter-term business impacts from technology investments and achieve larger innovation goals that evolve the organization’s business model. It’s hard to deliver business outcomes from any technology investment without business executives as partners.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. These external factors can have a dramatic impact on business operations and strategic planning.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

On the one hand, artificial intelligence has helped both technology departments and the business units to work better, faster, and cheaper. Other top challenges included budgetary constraints, compliance with laws and regulations, and responding to inquiries from other leaders within the organization.

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CIO

MARCH 1, 2024

But as you speak with an expanding cadre of lawyers, accountants, and bankers, you start to appreciate what such an event means for your department. You see the data by which Wall Street will judge your business is scattered across the company, stored and formatted unsystematically. You start to see the cracks in its foundation.

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CIO

MAY 17, 2024

What we’re seeing today is a prioritization towards technology roles that add value, so companies are just more aligned today with their initiatives that will truly add the value,” says Sutton. Still, data shows there are more IT job openings than job seekers today, making for a candidate-friendly market.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. Other top concerns are data privacy and security challenges (31%) and lack of cloud security and cloud expertise (24%).

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Companies are now recognizing the work ahead of them to get their data, people, and processes ready to capitalize on gen AI’s potential. So leaders will need to radically re-think how work gets done. Yet leaders struggle to take the necessary next steps to get the technology off the ground. So, what can CIOs do now?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Sometimes knowing history (aka “remembering what happened”) can keep you out of trouble. It was business users, with, surprisingly enough, accounting and financial analysts in the lead, who brought in PCs and electronic spreadsheets while IT looked the other way. 1: “Define the problem you need AI to solve.” Expert No.

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2023

CIOs today find themselves in a unique position to survey everything taking place across their organization, find opportunities, resolve conflicts, set priorities, and help shape strategy. But CIOs who act as orchestrators can create value for their organizations in ways that go well beyond what traditional CIOs can deliver.

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CIO

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. Here veteran IT leaders and advisers offer eight strategies to speed up IT modernization.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

CIOs are hardly Luddites, but even some technologists fret about artificial intelligence, the rapid pace of tech evolution, and their ability to keep up. Yet CIOs do admit that they’re worried about multiple issues these days. Here are 10 worries keeping IT leaders up at night. Recent figures do nothing to ease anxiety.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

Ask your network, and you’ll likely find IT leader peers who have been in a similar situation at least once in their career. What are key activities to focus on and skills to develop that can help you land a new, exciting role faster? It is not who you know, but rather, who knows you,” he says.

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CIO

JANUARY 18, 2024

The result of all this tech activity is that organizations are putting great stock in their CIOs to be true strategic leaders — not just a member of the C-Suite, but one of its loudest voices. I have had more calls asking about my situation and openness to work in the last month than in the previous six months.”

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

IT leaders have long relied on third parties for talent, but what’s different is that CIOs are more likely these days to seek partners for highly strategic or niche skills, not just commoditized capabilities as in the past. Many of the new skills are in rare supply, as are team leaders experienced in this new development paradigm.”

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2024

What do the following quotes have in common? I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. A good CIO needs to know who they’re speaking to and how they like to absorb information and points of view.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

“Cloud is scalable IT infrastructure that enables organizations to respond quickly to market changes, support business growth, and minimize disruptions,” says Swati Shah, SVP and CIO of US markets at TransUnion, the Chicago-based IT services and consulting company. “It They care about value.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Frank LaQuinta is head of digital, data, and operations at Edward Jones, a role that encompasses responsibility for the financial services firm’s technology, digital, and data leadership, vision, and strategy. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity.

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CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

Once a vanguard business strategy, digital transformation has become a perennial objective for business survival. Digital transformation is the integration of digital technologies into all aspects of business operations. Moreover, digital transformation means doing all that work on a continuous basis.

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CIO

OCTOBER 12, 2023

You’re an IT leader at an organization whose employees are rampantly adopting generative AI. You require a strategy for efficient, productive, and responsible corporate use. Consequently, organizations are seeking first-mover or at least fast-follower advantages—not unlike startup businesses looking to disrupt industries.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2023

Some don’t know they are. For IT leaders who find themselves in this situation, and that’s most of you, it’s time to focus less on “managing the narrative” around AI and more on capturing the value associated with this important technology. Boards need to be assured that organizations are spending enough and moving quickly enough.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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. According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Until a year ago, when people suggested that AI was already mainstream and asked what the next big thing would be, I replied that we had not reached the end state of AI yet. With relevant, reliable, and responsible Business AI, we can use this new toolbox to drive innovation, enhance efficiency, and redefine industries.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. Their comments offer insights as to what to do if your teams are “doing agile” but aren’t agile enough to deliver digital transformation results.

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. And that is the rub.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As organizations of all stripes continue their migration to the cloud, they are coming face to face with sometimes perplexing cost issues, forcing them to think hard about how best to optimize workloads, what to migrate, and who exactly is responsible for what. Lacking a clear strategy determined by business objectives.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2022

By Chet Kapoor, Chairman & CEO of DataStax Enterprises have been talking about digital transformation for quite a while. It’s about rethinking how we use technology to drive new or improved strategy, people, and operations to meet changing business and customer needs.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

With leaders from every department bandying about possibilities and concerns, CIOs are uniquely positioned to provide real talk and leadership on the company’s AI agenda. They said they did not know what questions to ask,” the survey concluded. In AI hype cycles, 2022 seems an eon away.

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2024

Over the past decade, CIOs have invested significantly in digital transformation initiatives in an effort to improve customer experiences, build data analytics capabilities, and deliver productivity enhancements with automation. Unfortunately, the business impact of many digital transformations continues to fall short of expectations.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Without revenue from sales of products or services, a business becomes little more than a hobby or a charitable organization. But aligning with sales leaders on transformative technology initiatives takes more than just rolling out their tech of choice. Data should be both insightful and actionable.

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