CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

Artificial intelligence and machine learning Unsurprisingly, AI and machine learning top the list of initiatives CIOs expect their involvement to increase in the coming year, with 80% of respondents to the State of the CIO survey saying so. Other surveys offer similar findings. 1 priority among its respondents as well.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In today’s organizational landscape, where technology wields increasing influence, the role of the CIO has been elevated, particularly catalyzed by the exigencies of the pandemic. The State of the CIO 2024 survey published by CIO, states that 85% of CIOs are becoming a changemaker, increasingly leading business and technology initiatives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2022

Too often, technology companies pay consulting or analyst firms to create metrics based on the best characteristics of their offerings,” says Judith Hurwitz, CEO of Hurwitz Strategies, an emerging technology consulting firm. Results may be based on a survey, for instance. Metrics are only as good as their source.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

According to IDC’s July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending (FERS) survey of 856 senior IT and business managers in large enterprises, the IT line items most affected, in addition to rising tech salaries, include SaaS and PaaS costs. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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. Ensuring end-user satisfaction begins with periodic surveys to collect user feedback. Here they are.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

And while CIOs are working to train internal candidates within IT and the business units for tough-to-fill tech jobs or are using contractors to fill in staffing gaps , Sengupta says those practices create talent challenges, too. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

Tech debt can take many forms — old applications, bloated code, and aging hardware among them — and while the issue often takes a back seat to innovation and new technology, it is on the minds of a lot of CIOs. And 47% percent of those who expect to overspend blamed excessive tech debt, including old apps. It’s not a sexy subject,” he says.

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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. He notes that multiyear contracts can lock unwary clients into expensive, inflexible consumption models.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 22, 2024

Difficulties estimating or demonstrating the value of AI technologies to the business have been or will be a top barrier to their implementation, according to a recent Gartner survey of more than 700 IT leaders at organizations that have adopted or plan to adopt AI. Most companies are simply playing with the novelty of AI still.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2023

Consider some recent survey findings. The anticipation and fear of the impact of generative AI in particular, and its relationship to artificial general intelligence (AGI), makes it overhyped,” says Daryl Cromer, vice president and CTO for the PCs and smart devices division at Lenovo. Others have made similar observations.

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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? Every year the Red Sox IT organization conducts an Annual Quality of Service Survey. This took the form of an actual contract between the parties involved.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Of roughly 2,500 CIOs surveyed recently by Gartner, 9% say they have already deployed gen AI applications, and a staggering 55% say they will deploy large language models (LLMs) in production by the end of 2025. A recent survey of nearly 1,000 IT decision-makers conducted by Foundry underscores this.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A 2022 survey of 850 IT leaders by Foundry found more than two-thirds were accelerating their cloud migration and nearly three-quarters (72%) were defaulting to cloud-based services for upgrades or new IT purchases. Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For a qualitative view, employee surveys that measure engagement or information from front-line managers can be used. Focus on transparency and alignment An effective leader clearly communicates organizational goals that align with the overall enterprise mission, says Sandeep Angra, CTO at commercial aviation services provider Unifi Aviation.

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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 3, 2024

Entire businesses have been built on top of OpenAI and its APIs. According to an O’Reilly survey released late last month, 23% of companies are using one of OpenAI’s models. We look at the vendor’s maturity and if they have proven success in the right focus areas for our business,” he says. He’s not the only one.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But by May 2023, according to an IDC survey, 65% of companies were using gen AI, and in September, that number rose to 71%, with another 22% planning to implement it in the next 12 months. Yet according to the IBM survey, data complexity was the second biggest barrier to adoption after lack of expertise, while the cnvrg.io

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

And when it comes to business and management IT jobs, 63% were classified as “high transformation” due to AI. And online education company Pluralsight conducted a survey of IT professionals in the US and UK and found that 74% worried AI tools will make many of their daily skills obsolete. I like driving the business forward.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

Threats have evolved from malware and denial-of-service attacks in the early days of ecommerce bad actors, to ransomware attacks that threaten the ability of a business to operate. In another, “Over half of organizations report cybersecurity posture to the board of directors at least quarterly.” ( IDC Worldwide CEO Survey , February 2024).

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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. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

Cybersecurity will continue to be a top priority for Indian CIOs in the year ahead, according to a recent survey of technology executives by Gartner: 64% of Indian CIOs surveyed said they will increase their spending on security-related technologies in 2022, higher than the global average of 57%. Talent retention.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2024

GitHub released data on its copilot’s impact, with 88% of surveyed developers stating improved productivity, 74% focusing on more satisfying work, and over 87% saying they complete tasks faster. GitHub’s research shows that users accept 30% of code its Copilot suggests and that less experienced developers have a greater advantage with AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Case in point was the high turnover rate at road and highway maintenance company AVR Group, and the solutions enacted by its CTO Pierangelo Perdomi to remedy it. So smart working was introduced at AVR last year in the technology business unit with a different supplementary contract for different groups.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

“If you bring the right portfolio of experience,” including data knowledge, business acumen, and information security, “I think any industry will pay relative to their market for their selection of a CIO,” Stephenson says. CIO and CTO positions have become much more important as leadership is starting to look at AI, Janulaitis says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

According to the company’s latest global survey of desk workers, employees spend 37% more time on routine administrative tasks instead. 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

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2024

“You can have the best solution but if you don’t have adoption, it will fail,” says Wayne Tung, managing director of Sendero Consulting. There’s always change,” says Jim Moore, CTO at HR Acuity. “A Paulo Gardini Miguel, director of technology at The CTO Club, agrees. A healthy team is used to it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Anything that falls into the category of IT management tools is often cast aside, but these are the workhorses of IT,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas. What does that really mean and what does it take?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Organizations that scored in the top quartile for EA maturity in a recent Bizzdesign survey were three times more likely to report having organizational agility, which has been crucial during the past few years with the COVID-19 pandemic. Enterprise architects often go on to work as a CTO, software engineering or development director, or CIO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey , conducted by PwC, predicts that one in five workers worldwide may quit their jobs in 2022 with 71% of respondents citing salary as the major driver for changing jobs. I told the business that we wouldn’t be able to take any new requirements from them for the next three months. IT Skills

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2022

That is backed up by a 2021 survey by industry analysts at Forrester, which showed that, of 2,329 data and analytics decision-makers worldwide, 55% want to hire data scientists. Gary Jeter, executive vice president and CTO, TruStone Financial Credit Union. Focusing on team building. TruStone Financial Credit Union.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

“There’s been a fundamental hunger for the responsive creation of new digital capabilities through the dawn of computing and now there’s actually an ability to deliver systems at the speed of business,” Betz says. Organizations don’t want fractional allocation — people rolling on to a project and rolling off,” he explains.

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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. Key to this is a greater understanding of business operations and their production of CO2, or use of unsustainable practices and resources.

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