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Your CEO has little idea who IT is or what IT does

CIO Business Intelligence

Executives need to understand and hopefully have a respected relationship with the following IT dramatis personae : IT operations director, development director, CISO, project management office (PMO) director, enterprise architecture director, governance and compliance Director, vendor management director, and innovation director.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO Business Intelligence

By comparison, the previous record-holder for most expensive downtime was the 2017 AWS outage, which cost customers an estimated $150 million. The overall cost was estimated at $5.4 Delta alone had more than $500 million in losses as a result of crippled operations and thousands of flight cancellations and delays.

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CIOs step up to fill plus-size leadership roles

CIO Business Intelligence

When Strickland joined Wyndham in 2017, he served as a traditional CIO, but he soon expanded his portfolio with vendor management, selling the argument that because IT constituted the bulk of the spend, it made sense to centralize under one organization and management.

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How CIOs reinterpret their role through AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Banking, Business IT Alignment, CIO, Digital Transformation, Financial Services Industry, IT Leadership, IT Management, IT Strategy, Transportation and Logistics Industry, Vendor Management

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Nutanix acquisition rumors highlight need for managing vendor risk

CIO Business Intelligence

We’ve already seen what happened when HPE bought hyperconverged infrastructure vendor SimpliVity back in January 2017. Buying another vendor in the same space isn’t out of the question, as Nutanix and SimpliVity target enterprises of different sizes. Mergers and Acquisitions, Risk Management, Vendor Management.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2017 he left to become a senior vice president at Reliance Payment Services. He is an alumnus of Delhi College of Engineering and holds a postgraduate diploma in business management from IIM Bangalore. Bhardwaj has over 20 years of experience in IT.

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3 lessons that CIOs learned in 2018

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

percent from 2017. Organization-wide, staff must be educated on security risks and resulting policies surrounding BYOD, printing, third-party software, remote workers, legacy equipment, vendor management, social engineering, outdated-training and security policies, and public or poorly protected WiFi. million, up 6.4