CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

We may look back at 2024 as the year when LLMs became mainstream, every enterprise SaaS added copilot or virtual assistant capabilities, and many organizations got their first taste of agentic AI. AI at Wharton reports enterprises increased their gen AI investments in 2024 by 2.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They understand that their strategies, capabilities, resources, and management systems should be configured to support the enterprise’s overarching purpose and goals. Recognize IT and business are inseparable IT and business strategies are now fully intertwined, observes Jay Upchurch, EVP and CIO at analytics vendor SAS.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Simultaneously, the monolithic IT organization was deconstructed into subgroups providing PC, cloud, infrastructure, security, and data services to the larger enterprise with associated solution leaders closely aligned to core business functions. Highlighting the importance of value delivery is another core tenet of the redefined ZTD culture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2025

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Change management across people, processes, and technologies is a critical part of succeeding with generative AI (genAI). About Bryan Kirschner : Bryan is Vice President, Strategy at DataStax. DataStax Agency and orchestration But theres an added twist with genAI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2023

Despite headlines warning that artificial intelligence poses a profound risk to society , workers are curious, optimistic, and confident about the arrival of AI in the enterprise, and becoming more so with time, according to a recent survey by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). For many, their feelings are based on sound experience.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2025

In response, traders formed alliances, hired guards and even developed new paths to bypass high-risk areas just as modern enterprises must invest in cybersecurity strategies, encryption and redundancy to protect their valuable data from breaches and cyberattacks. Theft and counterfeiting also played a role.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

Accenture reports that the top three sources of technical debt are enterprise applications, AI, and enterprise architecture. What CIOs can do: To make transitions to new AI capabilities less costly, invest in regression testing and change management practices around AI-enabled large-scale workflows.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The key areas we see are having an enterprise AI strategy, a unified governance model and managing the technology costs associated with genAI to present a compelling business case to the executive team. Our research indicates a scramble to identify and experiment with use cases in most business functions within an enterprise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

CIOs have been able to ride the AI hype cycle to bolster investment in their gen AI strategies, but the AI honeymoon may soon be over, as Gartner recently placed gen AI at the peak of inflated expectations , with the trough of disillusionment not far behind. That doesnt mean investments will dry up overnight.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Sameer Purao, who joined Celanese as CIO and CDO in 2021, is keeping the team and company focused by making change management a core competency of his team, and ensuring a focus on value, agility, and purpose. This required a major mindset change for our team, so we put people at the center of the strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 23, 2024

As CDIO, I partner closely with my peers across ServiceNow to unify our tech and business strategy and make everyday moments easier for employees and customers. Aligning on shared goals helps us deliver amazing experiences and outcomes, so we can be that driver of change. As a result, CIOs cant slow down at all.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

While the product team was busy doing that, my team worked with the operations functions and our strategy team to completely reimagine our front- and back-office processes and supporting applications to enable this new cloud company. So what’s the change management lesson here? Look at changing metrics and KPIs as a gift.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Making ITSM better than ever Overcoming these challenges is more than just making temporary fixes; it’s also changing the culture around how IT services are being managed. To deliver truly transformational benefits, businesses need to modernize their ITSM strategy by breaking down barriers between the organization and their end users.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Why are we really going to cloud?

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

While data and analytics were not entirely new to the company, there was no enterprise-wide approach. As a result, we embarked on this journey to create a cohesive enterprise data strategy. Transforming business through enterprise data Graham Construction recently received a CIO Canada Award for our enterprise data project.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Organizations should create a cross-functional team comprised of people who are already building, managing and governing existing AI initiatives in order to lay the foundation for genAI and select the appropriate AI solutions or models. Increase adoption through change management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

These external-facing positions have been established to educate users and enterprises about a company’s offerings and inspire those potential customers to adopt them. After all, change management is a vital component of digital transformation success. Why be an evangelist? 1 for CIOs to do the selling.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

Open up your talent model In the next five years, an estimated 40% of the skills needed in the workplace will change. CIOs should consider an open talent model a hybrid strategy incorporating the enterprise version of gig work into the traditional employee base. The traditional workforce model will need to evolve to keep up.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Facilitate developing self-organizing standards where team leaders, enterprise architects , and product managers promote best practices and establish design principles. Top CIOs rebrand IT as part of a transformational vision that inspires the IT team, employees, stakeholders, and executives to experiment and drive change.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Enterprise infrastructures have expanded far beyond the traditional ones focused on company-owned and -operated data centers. This increased complexity means more companies will be relying on IT consultants to help navigate the changes and develop short-term and long-term strategies. What is an IT consultant?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

They joined me on a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast to discuss the “AQ Factor” and how adaptive companies are consistently able to outperform the pack in revenue growth, profitability, employee engagement, innovation, change management, and more. But it’s not enough to align strategy and execution.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2024

For example, with several dozen ERPs and general ledgers, and no enterprise-wide, standard process definitions of things as simple as cost categories, a finance system with a common information model upgrade becomes a very big effort. For the technical architecture, we use a cloud-only strategy. This is a multi-year initiative.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2025

Our company is about 176 years old, so weve got a lot of legacy systems that are older than me, says Mehta, executive vice president and chief information and strategy officer at National Life Group. Another big challenge was change management , especially considering the scale of the transformation, Maresca says.

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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

APRIL 1, 2024

Here veteran IT leaders and advisers offer eight strategies to speed up IT modernization. CIOs can create dedicated testing units to test the output generated by gen AI LLMs, while establishing change management and upskilling processes to enable the workforce to maximize productivity throughout the modernization cycle.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

Some prospective projects require custom development using large language models (LLMs), but others simply require flipping a switch to turn on new AI capabilities in enterprise software. “AI Webster Bank is following a similar strategy. “We need to continue to be mindful of business outcomes and apply use cases that make sense.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

22% have implemented an AI strategy, built advanced capabilities and are beginning to realize substantial gains. Much of that energy has been spent assembling the right team and fully backing them with robust leadership and change management. 74% of companies are struggling to achieve value and scale.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2025

When change is no longer needed Many CDOs see their roles primarily as change management gurus focused on helping organizations embrace data-first strategies and adopt good data practices, says Bean, co-author of the survey. The role will likely remain in the C-suite as long as data is the differentiator, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

To maximize the impact of AI initiatives, organizations should focus on aligning each project with their overall corporate strategy and long-term goals. For example, if a companys strategy is cost leadership, the CIO would prioritize projects that drive efficiency to lower costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2023

Technologies cited by IDC include intelligent space and capacity planning tools, which the firm predicts 55% of global enterprises will use to reinvent office locations by 2024. Those principles, along with lessons learned during recent years, have helped Pfeiffer sharpen her tech strategy for supporting hybrid work in 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gen AI is that amplification and the world’s reaction to it is like enterprises and society reacting to the introduction of a foreign body. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2023

The adoption curve here is by no means gradual, with most enterprise leaders quickly working to harness the technology’s potential mere months after the November 2022 launch of gen AI tool ChatGPT kicked off a wave of enthusiasm (and worry). So, what are the concerns that will complicate the enterprise gen AI playbook?

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Data center managers are now expected to supervise three more people than they did the previous year, and technical employees are being asked to take on non-technical responsibilities in areas such as marketing, finance, and sustainability. Focus: Management of complex data center projects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In fact, research firm Gartner named IT talent strategy as one of five common CIO pain points that will persist through 2025. But to assemble a high-performance team today , CIOs must pay particular attention to their management ranks. The manager wasn’t able to exceed expectations until he built up his leadership capabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

The strategy would incorporate business process analysis, design, and improvement, as well as process change management. Celonis therefore wants the US court to force SAP to change its market behavior, and its executives are also seeking damages, though the amount of damages is not disclosed in the partially redacted document.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The Impact of Technology in 2025 and Beyond survey from professional organization IEEE found that 58% of enterprise tech leaders believe AI will be the most important area of technology in 2025, far ahead of any other tech.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In his chief transformation officer (CTO) capacity, the current mission is to spearhead an enterprise transformation effort that takes aim at operational efficiency. He’s also made compromises on the digital agenda to advance larger enterprise transformation goals. “I Sometimes the strategies are at odds.

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