CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2024

As SVP and CTO for the Boston Red Sox, Brian Shield is responsible for the strategic direction of technology, fan engagement, day-to-day IT operations, and cybersecurity in support of the team, their fans, and Fenway Sports Management. You have your full-time lineup of veteran leaders. Your very best are your all-stars.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To keep ahead of cybercriminals, organizations must remain agile, pivoting to embrace new strategies and technologies whenever necessary in order to outrun attacks. This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings. 1 That’s a number no CFO would want to ignore.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Here’s a quick rundown of seven major trends that will likely reshape your organization’s current data strategy in the days and months ahead.

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CTOvision

MAY 30, 2014

Here are the details: If you’re trying to stay ahead of advanced persistent threats getting inside your network while working with shrinking budgets that impact headcount and training, then you know that defending your enterprise isn’t easy. Learn how offensive measures can support your defensive strategy. Register here.

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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. Business leaders can’t wait until next year for another budget to get approved.” You can’t ignore what’s going on in the world,” he says.

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CTOvision

APRIL 12, 2017

The chief technology officer (CTO) and chief executive officer must work together for the good of the company. The CTO is responsible for focusing on technological matters, such as computers, websites and social networking.

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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 13, 2023

The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. This should secure our business strategy for the next five years and longer.”

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CTOvision

MAY 20, 2016

Join Bob Flores, Executive Partner of Cognitio, and Junaid Islam, CTO of Vidder, Inc, at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit for their session on How to Stop Catastrophic Cyber Failure in Your Organization. Bob Flores , Executive Partner, Cognitio Corp & Former CTO of the Central Intelligence Agency, Cognitio Corp. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. Here’s how.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud. And keep in mind seasonality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. February 2022. January 2022. December 2021.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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. The bad news, however, is that IT system modernization requires significant financial and time investments.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic. nyike The best way to avoid hidden #cloud costs is to read every word in the contract. Drafting and Negotiating Cloud Computing Agreements’ , so they can understand the many nuances of cloud contracts.

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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

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

AUGUST 15, 2024

Generative AI has been hyped so much over the past two years that observers see an inevitable course correction ahead — one that should prompt CIOs to rethink their gen AI strategies. million to roll out, with a recurring annual budget hit of $8,000 to $11,000 per user. For example, a gen AI virtual assistant can cost $5 million to $6.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The value of addressing cybersecurity issues through ongoing discussions is getting corporate alignment on effective and robust strategies, says Roger Albrecht, co-lead of the cybersecurity unit at technology research and advisory firm ISG. Are our systems adequately modernized for security? What would be the next steps?

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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

JANUARY 11, 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. The challenge is finding ways to achieve these goals in an era of constricted budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

Influential CIOs and other technology leaders responded with time-tested, hard-won knowledge and guidance. Check out these strategies for leading well based on decades or experience from the C-suite. We have candid discussions about anything from our enterprise strategy to how we manage work-life balance,” he says.

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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. That helps me plan.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

Hiring and retaining the best people with the right skills is always the best strategy to improve overall performance.” The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Beacon Global Strategies. Director, Technology Directorate. Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Science & Technology. Coordinator, Strategy & Intelligence Studies. Office of Management and Budget. Independent Consultant. Independent Consultant. Chief Technology Officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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. We believe that smart technology still holds the biggest promise to improve our client’s operations,” he says.

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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

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. 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. At his company, anyway.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

To fully capitalize on the cloud’s scalability and flexibility, most enterprises go beyond a simple lift-and-shift approach, instead injecting them with cloud-native capabilities — a strategy that sounds simple but can quickly prove complex. Select the strategy that best aligns with your goals, timeline, and resources,” Csonka advises.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 20, 2023

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler.

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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. This allows them to pinpoint areas that need improvement.

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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. That has served me incredibly well.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Defective leadership Leadership is a key component in the successful timing of any major transformation project, ahead of strategy and technology, says Suneet Dua, chief revenue and growth officer for products and technology at business advisory firm PwC.

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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

JUNE 3, 2024

After taking a hard look at their physical operations and staff capabilities as well as the fine print of cloud contracts, some are coming up with strategies that are delivering positive return on investment. It’s well within the budget.” On the cloud, you’re paying by the hour and you’re paying a premium.”

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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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