CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

Welcome to 2023. As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. This is no longer true. “As How well teams execute will be key.”

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

. — Ali Dasdan , chief technology officer of ZoomInfo Technologies , is resigning from his role at the publicly traded company to “pursue a new opportunity,” according to a new Securities and Exchange Commission filing. software development company in 2023. He joined the Vancouver, Wash.,

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

” Aquagga co-founders Chris Woodruff, chief operations officer (left); and Brian Pinkard, chief technology officer. It launched in 2019 and has been testing and building PFAS destruction devices that incorporate technology from the UW and the Colorado School of Mines. Aquagga has raised $1.1

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

million in 2023, and is expected to grow by 5% in 2025, equal to 3.75 Case in point was the high turnover rate at road and highway maintenance company AVR Group, and the solutions enacted by its CTO Pierangelo Perdomi to remedy it. million compared to about 3.6

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

Yet the leading tech execs who make up CIO’s 2023 CIO Hall of Fame share many of the same attributes, attitudes, and ambitions. For example, he took on the CTO role at Rodan + Fields because he “liked the appeal of being part of the product.” NTT i 3 ), a research and development center; and CIO and CTO of Magellan Health.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2025

One factor that is affecting demand for developers is a drop in the number of mobile apps being built, says Elin Thomasian, senior vice president for workforce strategy and consulting at TalentNeuron, a labor market intelligence firm. Between 2023 and 2024, demand for software developers actually grew by 22%, according to TalentNeuron data.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Thats nearly twice the total of 2023 and significantly higher than the previous record, set in 2022, of $963 million. And some large, cutting-edge enterprises are already beginning to spend money on quantum technology. NIST isnt alone in seeing massive disruptive potential in quantum computing. So do investors. billion so far in 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

But the entire process will need to be reinvented in order to make full use of the technology, says Monteiro. Theres too much attention on AI for code development, which is actually just a fraction of the whole software development process. We have to look at how we interact with colleagues and how we interact with AI, he adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Steve Ross, director of cybersecurity for the Americas at S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting, says gen AI can reduce a day’s worth of research to a single hour, but not without a catch. “It The AI can go deeper than a Google search.” “And they get better, and it starts to come naturally to them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

If 2023 was the year of experimentation with gen AI, 2024 was when companies zeroed in on use cases and started putting pilot projects into production. In a survey of 2,300 IT decision makers that IBM released in December, 47% say theyre already seeing ROI from their AI investments, and 33% say theyre breaking even on AI.

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2024

Jim Loter, a longtime tech leader inside the city of Seattle, currently serves as interim chief technology officer. We brought in some folks from Microsoft and we consulted with folks from Adobe and from AWS to give us their perspectives on what was emerging. Conference of Mayors in Columbus, Ohio.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Gartner has forecast that 65% of organizations will adopt ERP applications that use one or more of what it calls “fourth-era hallmarks” by 2023. Those include AI, data-centric design, systems that can be used off the shelf, functions that augment decisions, developer enablement, and customer-facing technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Last year Overland won a two-year contract worth up to $18.6 Army and Defense Innovation Unit to develop its OverDrive technology platform for the U.S. Speaking at the GeekWire Summit in 2023, Boots recounted how the roots of self-driving technology started with military-related applications. and compute.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In April of 2023, Censuswide conducted a survey of 608 US respondents from companies with $250m+ revenue. That study focused on CIO and CTO satisfaction with their existing IT support and services models for enterprise software. CIOs and CTOs are frustrated at the many inconveniences of managing multiple vendors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

Singapore’s data centers have a 1% vacancy rate, and data center availability in the huge northern Virgina data center hub stands at 0.9%, despite an 18% increase in capacity between early 2023 and early 2024, according to the report. The 2023 CBRE report found that 83% of the data center capacity under construction at the time was presold.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

in September, 2023, the price pressures facing IT have persisted. The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. While inflation challenges have moderated in the US from a high of 9.1%

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

We’ve had a homegrown customer data environment for decades,” says Paul Gaffney, CTO and supply chain officer at the $19.4 Gartner analyst Erick Brethenoux says use of consultant data and ML models is gaining steam, especially among retailers. We now have a matrix that’s about 1,500 cells instead of just 35,” the CTO says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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.” One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves.

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GeekWire

MAY 6, 2024

Gaurav Oberoi, Lexion CEO, speaks during the 2023 GeekWire Summit in Seattle. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Docusign announced an agreement to acquire Lexion for $165 million, signaling plans to integrate the Seattle-based company’s AI-powered contract management technology into its Intelligent Agreement Management Platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024. The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “Any

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It laid off more than 1,000 employees in October 2023. Kunal Anand, F5’s chief innovation officer. (F5 F5 Photo) — Kunal Anand of F5 is changing roles, moving from chief technology officer to chief innovation officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Employee training on AI is essential, says Sam Ferrise, CTO at Trinetix, a tech consulting firm. CIOs and CTOs must also set the rules of the road for using AI and navigate or mitigate potential risk and ethics issues, he says. Gartner analyst John-David Lovelock suggested that timeline was ambitious for most companies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

As key officers of their companies, technology leaders have entered a more lucrative compensation bracket,” notes Martha Heller, CEO of Heller Search Associates. Since 2023, compensation for CIOs and CTOs has increased by more than 7% and over 20% since 2019, according to Heller. Stephenson says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

We do a lot of paperwork in leasing and contracts, pages and pages of legal documents in multiple languages,” which has thus far been challenging to incorporate, the CTO says. According to JLL’s own research, so far in 2023, the range for physical occupancy compared to pre-COVID levels is between 45% to 65% in the US, for example.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If anything, 2023 has proved to be a year of reckoning for businesses, and IT leaders in particular, as they attempt to come to grips with the disruptive potential of this technology — just as debates over the best path forward for AI have accelerated and regulatory uncertainty has cast a longer shadow over its outlook in the wake of these events.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. You might have the CIO rolled into a different role, or you might be able to merge the CIO and CTO,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2023

No one denies its transformative potential, but digital leaders say a majority of people seem to think generative AI, which Gartner recently placed at the peak of inflated expectations in its 2023 hype cycle , has more capabilities than it does — at least at this time. Consider some recent survey findings.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. The longtime Seattle tech executive served as CTO of BuddyTV and Cozi Group, spent more than a decade on the board of the Washington Technology Industry Association, and co-founded Bsquare. — Jay Inslee. Vancouver, B.C.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. The year 2023 seems to be no different. on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5%

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

The resulting redefinition of their role is influencing their priorities as they prepare for the 2023 financial year. Her colleague, CTO Rajaneesh R Kini, agrees. Cybersecurity tops the list of concerns for Monish Darda, CTO and co-founder at Icertis, a developer of contract management software. Talent retention.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

Operating profit gains from AI doubled to nearly 5% between 2022 and 2023, with the figure expected to reach 10% by 2025, she adds. Some backlash against the hype is likely, but gen AI will be a transformative technology in the long term, adds Hamza Tahir, CTO and co-founder of ZenML, an open-source MLOps startup.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. Meanwhile, The Global CTO Survey 2023 released last November by IT consulting company STX Next found that 35% of responding tech leaders listed technical debt/refactoring as their biggest challenge — making it the No.

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