CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. It’s all about uptime and input.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Once you get Copilot for Office 365, you go through training, and thats driven up our utilization to around 93%. According to the survey by Google Cloud and National Research Group, 28% of leaders report positive ROI for gen AI in developer productivity and engineering, with another 34% expecting to see ROI within a year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Cera Group appoints Manish Chandegara as group CIO. Manish Chandegara has joined Cera Group as group CIO. Prior to that, he worked at Maahi Milk Producer, KSP solutions, Magna Seatings, and Adani Group. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. Zero-based budgeting can be a good approach for discretionary spending.

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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

JULY 18, 2024

This on-demand approach also vastly reduces the upfront costs of buying processors and scales up or down based on workload, notes Tom Richer, a former CIO and current CEO of CloudBench, a Google Partner and CIO consultancy. “To We’ve already seen the cost of AI really start to negatively impact cloud budgets,” he says. “In

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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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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

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JANUARY 25, 2014

Understand where the government’s $82B IT budget will be spent. There is an IT chapter in the President’s budget that is especially important to read (download here , then see chapter 19 on page 349). Subscribe to the blog at CTOvision.com for daily updates on the status of federal technology. CTO Gov2.0'

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings. This can be a challenge to cyber budgets in organizations where security is viewed primarily as a cost center. However, for another smaller group of CFOs, cybersecurity is viewed as an area to discover potential savings.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The September Monthly Threat Intelligence Report from cybersecurity firm NCC Group delivers plenty of reasons to worry. Many IT departments lack strong documentation around their code, processes, and systems, says Hemenway, who also serves as a fractional CIO and is a leader with the Arizona SIM chapter. That’s what really concerns me.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“Very often, IT teams don’t consider other, non-IT, activities that can affect their user base and their ability to collaborate,” says Seth Lively, US digital lead at IT consulting firm PA Consulting. Confusion results when the initiative inadvertently ruins departmental synchronization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

million to roll out, with a recurring annual budget hit of $8,000 to $11,000 per user. Determining the ROI for “ubiquitous” gen AI uses, such as virtual assistants or intelligent chatbots , can be difficult, says Frances Karamouzis, an analyst in the Gartner AI, hyper-automation, and intelligent automation group.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

We sought technology leaders who could advise on succeeding fast, along with creating a strong organization, developing team leaders, leveraging the support of peers, and specifically how to streamline day-to-day management of a technology group. One day, your employee should say, ‘Yes, my manager helped my career progress.’”

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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. Tech debt is boring Company boards and CEOs are putting pressure on CIOs to find innovative uses for AI, and the need for better cybersecurity never goes way. It’s not a sexy subject,” he says.

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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

MARCH 9, 2022

By far the fastest approach is to lift and shift the whole environment, says Matthew Hon, CTO for public sector at technology services company Fujitsu Americas, as rewriting applications for the cloud could take more than two years to complete. Cloud-native is much more than just technology,” Rubina says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

An effective enterprise AI team is a diverse group that encompasses far more than a handful of data scientists and engineers. If you’re building a team for the first time, you should understand that data science is an iterative process that requires a lot of data, says Matt Mead, CTO at information technology services company SPR.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

Using new CPUs, data centers can consolidate servers running tens of thousands of cores into less than 50 cores, says Robert Hormuth, corporate vice president of architecture and strategy in the Data Center Solutions Group at AMD. Many hardware users are prioritizing replacement.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

To name a few — products and services that are delivered on time and on budget, and overall IT ROI.” Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. Metrics provide a means to monitor progress.” Here they are.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

Modernize with purpose Before you begin, it’s essential to tie any app modernization project to the business need that is being addressed, says Aparna Sharma, a managing partner for hybrid cloud services at IBM Consulting. Picking the right approach requires carefully studying all of the available options before making a final selection.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives. We get consistent investment year over year,’’ says Yao Morin, CTO of global commercial estate company JLL. “We The payoff can be significant. “We

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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. The uses of storytelling Storytelling can be used to persuade senior executives to release budget, plot a change in strategy, or share good and bad news.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But for Kapil Mehrotra, group CTO at National Collateral Management Services (NCMS), high turnover presented an opportunity to cut costs of the IT department, streamline its operations, and find a long-term solution to the perpetual skills scarcity problem. We then got into a task-based contract with the outgoing team members.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Organizations don’t want fractional allocation — people rolling on to a project and rolling off,” he explains. It can be reused by any other lines of business or Chase groups, streamlining software delivery while also ensuring a seamless customer experience across the Chase portfolio. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

We asked a representative group of CIOs to share what they’ve resolved to do. Chris Bowers,CIO of Boston Consulting Group, puts it this way: “In 2024, we’re going to go after generative AI very aggressively. That’s the case for Yi Zhou, CTO and CIO with Adaptive Biotechnologies. We’re piloting, PoC-ing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The use of data, analytics, AI, and machine learning has raised ethical questions regarding privacy and the development of appropriate regulations and governance frameworks to ensure AI is safe, transparent, and accountable,” says Ram Chakravarti, CTO of BMC.

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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. “A Don’t view Copilot as just an extra bolt on to Office 365.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Such rivals can prevent you from receiving sufficient budget, successfully implementing vital business initiatives, and steering your organization in the right direction. Gold Associates, a business consulting and research firm. They must be dealt with but doing so can be tricky. Gold, president and principal analyst at J.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Brian Jackson, research director in the CIO practice at Info-Tech Research Group, has studied how CIOs tackle their first 100 days in the role and has found that many new IT chiefs think there’s no need to clean house. Hook, executive vice president and CIO of Penske Automotive Group and CIO of Penske. Flying solo.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2022

By Reed Peterson, Field CTO, Telecom, DataStax. Pulsar is also making more inroads on the enterprise and business group sides. We transitioned from batch processing to streaming and in doing so have been able to reduce our data services hardware budget by more than 30%. Efficiency, speed, growth, and excellent user experiences.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

Signs of inflation, labor market instability, and geopolitical strife are among the many reasons CIOs may be feeling some anxiety about the future, says Steve Shoemake, managing partner and global technology practice leader at consulting and staffing firm Vaco. Budgets may need adjusting,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

“Collaboration with external partners allows enterprises to enhance their IT prowess, drive innovation, and bridge skill gaps more effectively amid a swiftly evolving digital landscape,” says Arpita Dwivedi, practice director at Everest Group. Staff augmentation and outsourcing are nothing new.

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