CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Weve developed our own agentic AI for code management, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. The key challenge in our area is there are hundreds of tasks that might not be particularly well automated, says CTO Paul Gaskell. But there are already some jobs specifically in the software development lifecycle poised to be aided by AI agents.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. because the scale of compute power required would be too costly to reproduce in house, says Sid Nag, VP, cloud, edge, and AI infrastructure services and technologies at Gartner.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Conversations and subscriptions A per-conversation model seems to be an emerging approach, says Sesh Iyer, managing director, senior partner, and North America regional chair at BCG X, Boston Consulting Groups IT building and designing group. Vendors could also charge a small price per audio input or output.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. In a countersuit, CrowdStrike blamed Delta for the airlines problems, saying that other airlines were able to recover much faster, and that the contract between the two companies meant Delta wasnt allowed to sue for damages.

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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. What we learned from our misfortune resulted in an award-winning industry solution.

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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 But adopting the technology is helping the company move forward, she says. The AI can go deeper than a Google search.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2025

A lack of trust from leadership The culture of fear often stems from a few roots, including a lack of accountability from employees who dont understand their roles, and mistrust of coworkers and management, says Alex Yarotsky, CTO at Hubstaff, vendor of a time tracking and workforce management tool.

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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. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. She admits that the tech industry can still feel less inclusive to women, and this ‘societal problem’ can push women to leave the sector mid-career.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Looking ahead to 2025, I expect small language models , specifically custom models, to become a more common solution for many businesses, says Andrew Rabinovich, head of AI and ML at Upwork. LLMs arent just expensive, theyre also very broad, and not always relevant to specific industries, he says.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The 2014 Data Impact Awards highlight achievements in the following areas: BUSINESS IMPACT. Driving tangible results to an organization, company or industry by empowering new capabilities that generate top-line growth and/or increased competitive advantage, or improving operational efficiencies that result in quantifiable bottom-line savings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 15, 2022

DTN is more than just a weather forecaster: It also offers decision-support services to companies in agriculture, energy, commodities, and the finance industry. The forecasting systems DTN had acquired were developed by different companies, on different technology stacks, with different storage, alerting systems, and visualization layers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

Jason Hishmeh, cofounder and CTO at IT services provider Varyence, sees such AI innovations infiltrate every level of the customer journey in the next five years. Imagine walking into a store where every shelf magically knows exactly what you need before you do, he says.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. According to Baris Sarer, who leads the AI division of Deloittes technology, media, entertainment and telecommunications industry practice, Metas Llama model is the one that shows up most in industry deployments, followed by Mistral.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

For instance, CIOs in industries like financial services need to monitor how competitors leverage AI for fraud detection or offer personalized services to inform their IT strategies. CIOs can ensure that IT supports and drives key business outcomes by translating business strategies into clear technology roadmaps.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The 2014 Data Impact Awards highlight achievements in the following areas: BUSINESS IMPACT. Driving tangible results to an organization, company or industry by empowering new capabilities that generate top-line growth and/or increased competitive advantage, or improving operational efficiencies that result in quantifiable bottom-line savings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

CIO.com: How has your career evolved to becoming an IT director/CIO/CTO? I was initially an IT consultant working across the UK, in industries covering legal, health, manufacturing, education, and oil and gas. Healthcare Industry, Innovation, IT Leadership

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

There have been fewer stories about how AI is being used right now, today, to transform critical business functions. It is also one of the most challenging functions to manage and it has historically been categorized by many in the industry as one of the biggest leaky buckets in the business. But it is happening.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Reflecting on his own journey from cyber security professional to aspiring Chief Technology Officer, Kumar remarked, “As a cyber security professional, the journey to become a Chief Technology Officer was not apparent to me. James further elucidated the key components CEOs look for in CVs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

global inflation rate, an ongoing talent squeeze, and persistent supply issues as a triple threat to CIOs’ ability to realize time to value for their tech investments this year, according to its 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey , which gathered data from 2,203 CIOs in 81 countries and all major industries.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

HashiCorp is known for its Terraform product, an infrastructure automation tool, which is considered an industry standard for infrastructure provisioning in hybrid and multicloud environments. Notably, HashiCorp’s multicloud focus aligns with the market’s increasing demand for flexibility, said CMR’s Ram backing the move. “By

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Since the introduction of ChatGPT, the healthcare industry has been fascinated by the potential of AI models to generate new content. However, the effort to build, train, and evaluate this modeling is only a small fraction of what is needed to reap the vast benefits of generative AI technology. Consider the iceberg analogy.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

Safeguard contracts: Include clauses in vendor contracts that address service-level agreements (SLAs), response times, and penalties for prolonged outages. Continuous improvement and review Stay informed: Keep abreast of industry trends and incidents like the CrowdStrike outage to learn from the experiences of others.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

“Business leaders are figuring out how to weather a post-pandemic soft economy, looming recession, and inflation,” Mukkamala says. How do you future-proof your business in the face of so much uncertainty? But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2023

With that in mind, we asked tech leaders in various roles and industries to list what technologies they think are overhyped and to put a more realistic spin on each one’s potential. He says generative AI’s “potential is great; it will transform many industries. Here’s what they say on the topic.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 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. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

More companies in every industry are adopting artificial intelligence to transform business processes. But the success of their AI initiatives depends on more than just data and technology — it’s also about having the right people on board. The domain expert has in-depth knowledge of a particular industry or subject area.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

“The inflated expectations were so inflated from the early days and have kept on, and I think this is going to be a pretty deep trough of disillusionment,” says Chris Stephenson, managing director of intelligent automation, AI, and digital services at IT consulting firm alliantgroup, affirming Gartner’s hype cycle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2024

Some enterprises struggle with executing a critical step in their AI journeys: developing and establishing AI guardrails and ethical policies within their organization, according to the Texas-based non-profit, whose members include Amazon Web Services, Boston Consulting Group, ATB Financial, and Shell.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

Additionally, he’s working on his company’s annual attestation of compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Research from PwC had similar findings, with 47% of CIOs saying they’re “prioritizing the transformation of their data platforms to drive business growth.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

The report for Q3 of fiscal 2024, released yesterday, said that Oracle had signed multiple large-scale cloud infrastructure contracts in the previous three months, with no end in sight, as CEO Safra Catz touted the company’s bright prospects in cloud. “We Enterprise Applications, Oracle, Technology Industry

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2024

Vendors and consultants are always eager to share insights into innovations and trends, but exchanging ideas and opinions with colleagues and fellow IT leaders can often be invaluable. The CEC offers a variety of benefits, including access to peers, insights from industry leaders, and curated resources for honing IT leadership skills.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

Long before the advent of customer data platforms (CDPs) , Kohl’s business model centered on collecting and cultivating customer data. We’ve had a homegrown customer data environment for decades,” says Paul Gaffney, CTO and supply chain officer at the $19.4 Data Science, Google Cloud Platform, Retail Industry

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