CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2024

Jim Chilton is an award-winning CIO who serves as the chief technology officer of Cengage Group, an innovative disruptor in the edtech space. As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A lack of AI expertise is a problem, however, when other company leaders often turn to CIOs and other IT leaders as the “go-to people” for solving AI problems, says Pavlo Tkhir, CTO at Euristiq, a digital transformation company. “A Until employees are trained, companies should consult with external AI experts as they launch projects, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Examples include scanning invoices, extracting basic contract information, or capturing information from PDF forms. Michael Beckley, CTO and founder of Appian, says document processing is a boring gen AI use case with significant business potential. Why should CIOs bet on unifying their data and AI practices?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Daniel Saroff is group vice president of consulting and research at IDC, where he is a senior practitioner in the end-user consulting practice. This practice provides support to boards, business leaders, and technology executives in their efforts to architect, benchmark, and optimize their organization’s information technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. In a November report by HR consultancy Randstad, based on a survey of 12,000 people and 3 million job profiles, demand for AI skills has increased five-fold between 2023 and 2024. Other surveys found a similar gap.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With C-suite leaders under increasing pressure to align technology with strategic objectives, many experience that roles — whether CEO, CFO or even CTO — lack the deep technical insight needed to bridge the gap between business and technology. The CTO and CIO handle IT management and technological innovation.

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GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2025

LinkedIn Photo) — MicroVision appointed Glen De Vos as its chief technology officer. — Icertis , a Bellevue-based contract management software company, appointed Shashi Mandapaty to its strategic advisory board. Siteimprove provides AI-powered marketing, analytics and search engine optimization. Glen De Vos.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Caylent, an AWS cloud consulting partner, uses AI to write most of its code in specific cases, says Clayton Davis, director of cloud-native development there. “A lot of the problem with AI-generated code is not necessarily that it doesn’t work right, but that we already do this a certain way.” Some companies are already on the bandwagon.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

The 2024 Enterprise AI Readiness Radar report from Infosys , a digital services and consulting firm, found that only 2% of companies were fully prepared to implement AI at scale and that, despite the hype , AI is three to five years away from becoming a reality for most firms. Theyre foundational pieces that an organization has to get right.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The 36,000-square-foot innovation hub will be led by the company’s CTO, Saurabh Mittal, and Markandey Upadhyay, head of business intelligence unit for Piramal. CIO.com caught up with Mittal to know more about his plans for the innovation lab, as well as the technology strategy for the financial services company.

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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. You have your full-time lineup of veteran leaders. Your very best are your all-stars.

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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

MARCH 10, 2025

Erik Gfesser, an IT consultant and former director at Deloitte, says hes seen enterprises running hundreds of unauthorized apps and software libraries when he engages with them. It rarely ends well for either the business team, the ghost IT team, or the central technology organization, he adds.

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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. There’s a reported international expansion on the horizon, government contracts to win and a new CDO, hired from Meta, now reporting into Nikolic. “I

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 15, 2022

We had five different forecast engines running in the company through various acquisitions,” says Lars Ewe, who inherited the thorny IT environment when he joined as CTO in February 2020. Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Combined with an April IDC survey that found organizations launching an average of 37 AI POCs, the September survey suggests many CIOs have been throwing the proverbial spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, says Daniel Saroff, global vice president for consulting and research services at IDC.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

She previously worked at Iron Mountain, where she was Executive Vice President and CTO. She co-founded Trend Micro in 1988 and has been leading the company ever since; first as executive vice president, CTO in 1996, and CEO since 2005. Johnson was named president and CEO of Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) in 2022.Saddled

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2025

The US Army adopted TBM practices about five years ago in its financial management and contract processes, says Katie McAteer, chief of strategic business transformation and optimization there. The US Office of Management and Budget has also pushed agencies to use TBM practices since 2017.

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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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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

With the deal, which was 10 months in the making , IBM plans to further integrate HashiCorps automation technology into its Red Hat, watsonx, data security, IT automation, and consulting businesses. IBM uses Hashicorp technology in its cloud offerings already.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Consulting firm McKinsey Digital notes that many organizations fall short of their digital and AI transformation goals due to process complexity rather than technical complexity. Data architecture components A modern data architecture consists of the following components, according to IT consulting firm BMC : Data pipelines.

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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

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

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

APRIL 8, 2025

Rule 1: Start with an acceptable risk appetite level Once a CIO understands their organizations risk appetite, everything else strategy, innovation, technology selection can align smoothly, says Paola Saibene, principal consultant at enterprise advisory firm Resultant.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Underutilized and/or overprovisioned resources are among the biggest contributors to high cloud costs, says Shreehari Kulkarni, principal consultant with global technology research and advisory firm ISG. Optimizing resources based on application needs is essential to avoid setting up oversized resources, he states.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2025

One factor that is affecting demand for developers is a drop in the number of mobile apps being built, says Elin Thomasian, senior vice president for workforce strategy and consulting at TalentNeuron, a labor market intelligence firm. The job will evolve as most jobs have evolved.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2025

To achieve this, SAP must continuously harmonize its product landscape and consistently implement uniform standards, for example, in data models and identity and security services, said DSAG CTO Sebastian Westphal. The CTO emphasizes that all newly developed functions by SAP are fully integrated into the overall system.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“By explaining the concepts behind AI in a clear manner, the business leader can be introduced to the building blocks for AI, and the IT leader can develop an acceptable strategy,” advises Nidal Haddad, principal at business advisory firm Deloitte Consulting. Yet these topics are often foreign to most business leaders. “It

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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. To help mitigate these risks, it’s necessary for IT leaders to increase their profile and visibility across the organization, and make sure they educate all potential users. “As

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Pay-as-you-go pricing is a way to reduce financial risk by not locking into long-term contracts. Adnan Masood, chief AI Architect at UST, says unpredictable pricing makes it tough even for CFOs to manage AI spending. That uncertainty creates a challenge for risk-averse companies that must work within budget constraints.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

— Ali Dasdan , chief technology officer of ZoomInfo Technologies , is resigning from his role at the publicly traded company to “pursue a new opportunity,” according to a new Securities and Exchange Commission filing. . and comes to the role from Alpha Consulting Services. John Spellman.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Your communication strategy is lacking Leaders often overlook the importance of building strong communication links between management and team members, says Pavlo Tkhir, CTO at software development firm Euristiq. Providing employee support during changes is one of the key features of a good change management initiative, he states.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I know every answer, agrees Dave Curtis, CTO at RobobAI. But no one especially in technology knows everything. Sort decisions by their complexity and impact There are two things you have to consider: the urgency and the importance of the decision, says Efrain Ruh, field CTO for Continental Europe at Digitate.

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