CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2024

As a result, for IT consultants, keeping the pulse of the technology market is essential. Being a successful IT consultant requires knowing how to walk in the shoes of your IT clients and their business leaders, says Scott Buchholz,CTO of the government and public services sector practice at consulting firm Deloitte.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Kristen Costagliola, CTO at Syncro, suggests applying Harvard professor Michael Porters strategic competitive levers, which identify three primary approaches a company can use to achieve competitive advantage: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Para que las transformaciones digitales funcionen desde una perspectiva cultural, es necesario que los lderes de una organizacin adopten o fomenten el cambio, afirma Michael Corrigan, director de TI de World Insurance. Tiene que haber un liderazgo eficaz y un compromiso de los lderes empresariales y de TI, afirma Corrigan de World Insurance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

These leaders hold key positions across a spectrum of roles, including Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Chief Data Officer (CDO). Beyond these technical titles, the honorees also play critical roles in business transformation and executive leadership.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

The technology is relatively new, but all the major players are already on board. In October, Microsoft announced that 100,000 organizations including Standard Bank, Thomson Reuters, Virgin Money, and Zurich Insurance are using Copilot Studio, double the number just months earlier. There are too many separate tasks in too many places.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Justin Giardina, CTO at 11:11 Systems, notes that the company’s dedicated compliance team is also a differentiator. And throughout all of this, we enable them to draw on the VMware assets they know and trust.“

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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

APRIL 7, 2025

Yet, as appealing as it is for employees to be able to use modern technologies, decommissioning and replacing systems is arduous for IT. Its a very long and painful process, notes Don Henderson, CTO at BetaNXT, a wealth management company that provides tech services to clients.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2023

The research, conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC) and commissioned by SUSE surveyed 838 respondents in 11 Asia/Pacific countries across a range of industries such as financial services and insurance, telecommunications, and government. Learn more about SUSE here.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 30, 2024

Digital assistants can also be specialized for specific needs, says Nick Rioux, co-founder and CTO of Labviva, provider of an AI-assisted purchasing solution. For product companies, understanding customer feedback is crucial,” says Aswini Thota, director of AI and data science at banking and insurance provider USAA.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When Matt Postulka left Arbella Insurance Group as deputy CIO at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he didn’t intend to look back. Postulka aspired to become a CIO — and he achieved it, landing a job as CIO and senior vice president of technology and operations at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Take for example the use of AI in deciding whether to approve a loan, a medical procedure, pay an insurance claim or make employment recommendations. But things are going to get really interesting when agents start talking to each other, says Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant. Multi-agent systems Sure, AI agents are interesting.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Dutch insurance and asset management company Nationale-Nederlanden, part of the NN Group, has a presence in 19 countries and serves several million retail and corporate customers. According to Nationale-Nederlanden deputy general manager and CTO David Vaquero, the company’s digital transformation and evolution is continuous.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

PE investors have begun to realize they can achieve better returns with strong and empowered CIOs at portfolio companies, says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, a managed services provider focused on the private equity market. Every aspect of the business is dependent on some type of technology.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Your data platform is the foundation for foundation models,” says Ram Venkatesh, Chief Technology Officer at Cloudera. “If And in insurance, according to Alex Cook, Head of Strategic Capabilities at New York Life Insurance Co. It’s just that simple.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2024

Poor culture impacts a team’s delivery — having a really good culture means delivering what’s needed for the business,” Dundas says. We use these types of storytelling to underscore that we’re not just supporting systems, we’re supporting technology that affects people’s lives,” Ramoneda says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Vamsi Ithamraju, CTO, Axis Mutual Fund reiterates, “Consider a scenario where a deep fake impersonates a business leader, alleging false information that could influence stock prices or market dynamics. Ajay Poddar, CTO, HDFC Retirement Tech firmly that with great power, comes great responsibility.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2023

IT leaders looking for a blueprint for staving off the disruptive threat of generative AI might benefit from a tip from LexisNexis EVP and CTO Jeff Reihl: Be a fast mover in adopting the technology to get ahead of potential disruptors. brillion on its digital transformation, the CTO says. We will pick the optimal LLM.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

Darryl Maraj, senior vice president and chief technology officer of the Digital Innovation Group at GA Telesis , will share how quick prototyping and other advances have made data integral part of the commercial aviation company’s business. Don’t miss out – register today.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2022

“We are seeing a significant expansion in the CIO role and specifically in a handful of responsibilities that weren’t there pre-COVID,” including monetizing data and technology for the organization, re-imagining how work is done through automation , and more focus on emerging technology to drive business solutions, Kark says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Conscious of the recent history of disruption to financial services, the sector’s technology leaders are already looking for opportunities in AI. Generative AI is starting off a new age of exploration in IT,” says Frank Schmidt, CTO at insurance firm Gen Re.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). Cold: On-prem infrastructure As they did in 2022, many IT leaders are reducing investments in data centers and on-prem technologies. “We

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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. It’s just a question of choice.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Italian insurer Reale Group found itself with four cloud providers running around 15% of its workloads, and no clear strategy to manage them. “It Next came three related concerns: business agility and innovation (30%); best-of-breed cloud services and applications (25%); and cloud vendor lock-in concerns (25%).

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

But TOPS alone don’t tell the whole story,” wrote Christian Jacobi, IBM Fellow and CTO, IBM Systems Development, and Elpida Tzortzatos, IBM Fellow and CTO of z/OS and AI on IBM Z and LinuxONE, in a blog about the new processor. “It So, of course, that is very valuable IP to them.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2023

Multinational insurance and finance corporation AIA New Zealand’s dream is to help make the country one of the healthiest and best protected nations in the world. As New Zealand’s largest life insurer and leading health insurer, our purpose is to help New Zealanders live longer, healthier lives,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 16, 2024

While US organizations are indeed “showing enthusiasm for AI,” they are taking “a measured approach,” with certain areas of the business seeing more rapid adoption than others, noted Stephen Kowski, field CTO at SlashNext Email Security+.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 31, 2023

Plus, the pace of change increases the need for architects to use tools that enable efficient response times to business needs. “At Digital transformation needs to be rapid, too, but can’t lose sight of regulations, cyber security, and business reputation. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2024

“As we head into the new year, CIOs and other IT leaders will need to understand how innovation can disrupt the business from both an internal and external perspective and make decisions with measured risk taking and a strong focus on priority outcomes.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We experienced the impact of one of our SaaS providers, OpCon, not having a solid DR [disaster recovery] plan during the MS Azure Central Region outage,” says Gary Jeter, CTO of TruStone Financial. The nightly processing jobs were significantly delayed, which has a large impact on our credit union and our members.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Your laptop breaks down, you miss a flight, or you need to call an insurance company. That wasn’t entirely the case with AirHelp, according to its chief technology officer, Tim Boisvert. We’ve all been there. Build a humane team Many organizations think of using AI in customer support in the context of cutting costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

“We get consistent investment year over year,’’ says Yao Morin, CTO of global commercial estate company JLL. Too often, business leaders operate by gut feel without the science part, which lowers their win rate.” Leadership “puts their money where their mouth is.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2022

Elpida Tzortzatos, IBM’s CTO for AI on IBM Z, said the company has already helped one US bank introduce AI-based fraud detection to its credit card authorization process on IBM Z. “When you consider that 85% to 90% of the world’s credit card transactions probably touch a mainframe, you can see the value this could deliver,” he said.

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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. degrees Celsius, businesses will feel further impacts to their bottom line, including increased supply-chain issues on a network already overstretched and fragile.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

Aligning on business goals There must be open, transparent, and collaborative working sessions to create alignment on how technology capabilities can be deployed to meet enterprise goals, states Bill Cassidy, CIO at New York Life Insurance. The challenge is finding ways to achieve these goals in an era of constricted budgets.

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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. So here, we explore why so many IT leaders attempt to improve this sense of narrative and ability to spin tales, and how it can make a difference to the business. “I

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