CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

“A pragmatic and structured architectural approach when moving to the cloud is critical,” says William Peldzus, senior director and Center of Excellence head with enterprise consulting firm Capgemini Americas. You must ensure at the start of the project that you have a full, holistic cloud budget,” Matin advises.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

During the 2008–2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and subsequent recession, researchers noted that cybercrime rates increased dramatically. Their report focused exclusively on financial cybercrime, including identity theft. This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

CIOs and their IT teams have enjoyed a bump in power and prestige in recent years, as the C-suite has embraced continuous transformation, digital everything, and a host of emerging technologies — all enabled by IT. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The bad news, however, is that IT system modernization requires significant financial and time investments. When addressed properly , application and platform modernization drives immense value and positions organizations ahead of their competition, says Anindeep Kar, a consultant with technology research and advisory firm ISG.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Employees need proof IT is meeting their needs Brian Shield, SVP and CTO of the Boston Red Sox, is very proactive asking his stakeholders, “Are we meeting your needs? Cheryl Smith, former CIO at Keyspan, McKesson, and West Jet, generated a zero-based budget report for every senior non-IT leader in the enterprise.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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A CIO's Voice

JULY 9, 2014

ECQ #4 – BUSINESS ACUMEN : This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Financial Management. Understands the organization’s financial processes. Prepares, justifies, and administers the program budget. Leadership Competencies : 1.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

Therefore, always-lurking tech debt gets put on the backburner, says Daniel Saroff, group vice president for consulting and research at IDC. A certain level of tech debt isn’t necessarily bad, Saroff says, just as some financial debt can be useful to organizations. It’s not a sexy subject,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Delivering on time and on budget Completing software projects in a timely manner while staying within budget is a long-time challenge of software development. On time and on budget are much easier to judge with the finger on the pulse of expectations of both the users and the developers.” What we can’t measure we can’t improve.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Such conversations … should conclude with clear actions, benefits, timelines, and the budget and resources required to close gaps.” Rahul Mahna, partner and outsourced IT services leader at management consulting firm Eisner Advisory Group, believes that scenario-playing with teams and management colleagues can spur useful security insights.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2024

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. In one, he mocked up a cover of the Financial Times , showing the company’s stock soaring and praising its technologically enabled innovations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

“Holistic CloudOps is a framework with several layers that help enterprises manage all aspects of their cloud ecosystem,” says Jason Hatch, vice president and cloud center of excellence lead at consulting firm Capgemini Americas. At a governance layer, we can implement better budgeting and financial tracking and optimization.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We came to the conclusion that the way we do things in IT is outdated,” says Arooni, now executive vice president and CIO at Discover Financial Services. “If Amir Arooni, executive vice president and CIO, Discover Financial Services. Establishing technology and business owners also drives collaboration.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Agentic AI will integrate smoothly with ERP, CRM, and business intelligence systems to automate workflows, manage data analysis, and generate valuable reports, says Rodrigo Madanes, global innovation AI officer at EY, a consulting and tax services provider.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As technologies evolve, CIOs still need to build mutual commitment and support for IT initiatives,” says tech consultant and author Gerald Leonard. Imagine you’re a client technologist of the athletics department, and you’re looking for financial information for athletics,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

Successful AI teams also include a range of people who understand the business and the problems it’s trying to solve, says Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst for AI platforms, analytics, and data management at consulting firm Omdia. AI strategists can also help organizations obtain the data they need to fuel AI effectively.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 26, 2023

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Neal Sample A transferable skill set Meyercord would certainly make that case. Cultivate an appetite for risk.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Unfortunately, many organizations still view data quality and governance functions as a given IT responsibility, leaving these investments without a financial sponsor. “The Ultimately, companies will need to address challenges with ethics, bias, data inaccuracy, and more as this technology continues to advance and applications expand.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. Companies often approach this as contract-to-hire strategy,” explains Rowley. “Or CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott compared the company’s Copilot stack to the LAMP stack of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, enabling organizations to build at scale on the internet, and there’s clear enterprise interest in building solutions with these services. Not all licences are the base $30 per user per month for Copilot.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2022

By Reed Peterson, Field CTO, Telecom, DataStax. Real-time data is critical for everything, from your financials to customer sales to whether promos are working, whether advertising is working, whether the initiatives that you’re investing in are paying off. DataStax is one of the core technologies that helped us achieve that goal.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

Mark Schlesinger, senior technical fellow at Broadridge Financial Solutions, agrees that with the speed of change in technology, tech leaders need small, nearly independent teams to succeed. Budgets may need adjusting,” he says. CIOs are under even more pressure now to deliver practical business benefits,” Schlesinger says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 1, 2023

They also expect to benefit from the expertise of cloud providers—expertise that isn’t easy for companies to develop and maintain in house, unless your company happens to be a technology provider. A third reason companies are disappointed is because of a lack of control over their information systems. million in 2017).

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

Resource Constraints Smaller healthcare organizations often operate under tight budgets and limited resources, which can hinder their ability to allocate sufficient time, personnel, and financial resources to compliance initiatives. Book a free consult today.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

“Today’s CIOs inherit highly customized ERPs and struggle to lead change management efforts, especially with systems that [are the] backbone of all the enterprise’s operations,” wrote Isaac Sacolick, founder and president of StarCIO, a digital transformation consultancy, in a recent blog post.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

JUNE 28, 2009

I am writing about my biggest failure as CTO, hoping there is a lesson here for others. In 2005-2006 we tried to partially consolidate information technology in the City of Seattle. Yet in “good” budget times, when jobs can be preserved, the support from elected and appointed officials is less compelling.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Everything has to go right: the technology, the goals, the financial platform, and most important of all, the timing. Launch an initiative too soon and the technology may be premature and flawed. Planning and launching a major IT initiative can be a CIO’s biggest challenge.

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2020

White House chief technology officer Michael Kratsios speaks at the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Tech Prom in 2018. White House chief technology officer Michael Kratsios ?— has himself been enlisted for another role as the Defense Department’s top official for technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Roland Carandang, global leader for innovation at consultancy Protiviti, says the fact that organizations “don’t know what they’ve got” in and around those legacy systems can also stymie IT’s efforts to innovate. As former CTO and head of digital at Harley-Davidson Motor Co., They’re creative and empower their teams to ideate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Beyond the CIO First, no formal request was made to the CIO — the chief information officer — to execute a project, nor were business requirements defined, or even an elaborate budget needed. Funding for this is minimal at first and likely to grow — outside of the IT budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In the digital transformation era, IT success is no longer defined by meeting a go-live date or keeping within a budget. Change management is not something that can be haphazardly addressed toward the end of a transformation-type initiative,” says Matt Mead, CTO at technology modernization firm SPR.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

During keynotes and discussions with CIOs, I remind everyone how strategic priorities evolve significantly every two years or less, from growth in 2018, to pandemic and remote work in 2020, to hybrid work and financial constraints in 2022.

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