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

MARCH 16, 2022

Insurance companies are no longer only there for their customers in times of disaster. Modern approaches to insurance and changes in customer expectations mean that the insurance business model looks very different than it used to. For many insurers, this means investing in cloud.

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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

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

MAY 2, 2022

Addressing a major pain point for businesses globally, Extreme Networks CIO John Abel, Sanmina CIO and Senior Vice President Manesh Patel, and Erik Singleton, a consultant at North Highland Worldwide will discuss using data to solve supply chain challenges. Don’t miss out – register today.

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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. The CIO role is front and center on all these topics that are really top of mind for an investor.”

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CTOvision

MAY 26, 2015

The regulations themselves are a part of, and a driver to, a set of complex problems for industry — presently, with risk being transferred away from DoD to its contractors who will find risk rebounding to them via their “cyber” insurance policies. We’ll start by peeling back the onion layers around the regulations themselves. What is it not?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

The global head of cyberthreat management at a leading global property and casualty insurance company suggests: “Look across your portfolio where you’ve got that kind of auto-update automation and [ask], ‘Can they be slowed down some to keep this from being bigger than it needs to be?’ This helps mitigate risks and ensures accountability.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But strategically important digital transformations should be protected “because they set you up over time and create more flexibility and adaptability,” says Andrew Blau, MD and US leader, eminence and insights, at Deloitte Consulting. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.”

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Thomas Phelps, CIO and SVP of corporate strategy at Laserfiche, says cloud contracts typically include several “gotchas” that IT leaders and procurement chiefs should be aware of, and he stresses the importance of studying terms of use before signing. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. This is no longer true. “As Budgets are being slashed across industries, Avila notes.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Wokelo co-founders Saswat Nanda, left, and Siddhant Masson, both worked previously as management consultants. That’s the premise behind Wokelo , a Seattle-area startup co-founded by two former management consultants, Siddhant Masson and Saswat Nanda. ” Funding: The company, founded in 2022, has raised $1.5

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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. The consulting giant said it was buying the 29-person, London-based company to help clients articulate and activate their vision and change strategies.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 14, 2021

Often seen as “servant-leaders”, these CIOs know that their value is derived from the trust and partnership they have with the business and other technology executives such as the Chief Experience Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Data Officer. Gaining Expertise In Technology.

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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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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Seattle-based home services technology company Porch Group added two new board members : Imagination Capital co-founder and Managing Partner Rachel Lam , and former Aviva plc Group CEO Maurice Tulloch. Freelancing platform Upwork hired former Amazon General Manager Saty Bahadur as CTO.

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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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CTOvision

MAY 22, 2014

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ). Legal experts need to be consulted if you want to know what level of encryption is allowed in an area. CTO Cyber Security Access control Consultants Information security InfoSec Management Policy Security Security policy' The Sarbanes-Oxley Act ( SOX ).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The startup offers a suite of services that begin with a virtual consultation to understand the diagnosis of the person being cared for, who is involved with the caregiving and what supports are needed. Magnolia’s other co-founders are Chief Operating Officer Kate Farley and Chief Technology Officer Volker Einsfeld.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2024

The startup is additionally working with hospital networks, providing a solution for patients who don’t have a nearby lab or face challenges visiting a facility, and life-insurance providers. A single screening costs $129 for consumers, but the costs come down for contracts with employers, healthcare providers and others.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says. 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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

based online insurer, is developing an LLM-based platform to handle customer requests with far more intelligent and enhanced chatbots. The WiPro exec cited an example of a recent POC that a life sciences firm conducted using Google’s Gen App Builder to reduce contract management costs and improve agreement adherence to company policies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

The other proposed additions to the healthcare suite includes adding inventory management systems, administrative systems including applications for management of complex contract workforce, recruiting, scheduling and payment options.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 5, 2023

Introduction In today's digitally connected world, cybersecurity is a top concern for businesses across all sectors, and insurance companies are no exception. In this blog post, we will explore the different dimensions of cybersecurity for insurance companies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

Koinig studied user experience and user interface design at the Vienna University of Technology, earning a doctorate. Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I She retired from that position in 2020.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

It makes sense that development is the top agentic AI use case, says Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant. Insurance company Aflac is one company making sure this is the case to maintain human oversight over the AI, instead of letting it act completely autonomously. Most of us in AI are software engineers,” he says.

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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. Taking an ad hoc approach Digital literacy takes time and at Rosendin, a national electrical and communications contracting firm, the approach is slow but steady. Leadership “puts their money where their mouth is.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Data and API infrastructure “Data still matters,” says Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst for AI platforms, analytics, and data management at London-based independent analyst and consultancy Omdia. I’m seeing it across all industries,” says Khan, “from high tech and banking all the way to agriculture and insurance.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. But CIOs are also working with niche consultancies and startups for skills in areas such as cybersecurity, AI, cloud, analytics, and DevOps.

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CTOvision

MARCH 17, 2015

This post provides the views of the leadership team of Cognitio Corp , a consultancy with experience defending both government and commercial enterprises. Legal and Insurance Implications: How are we leveraging external security organizations for independent advice/assistance? Issues with re-insurance and rates.

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GeekWire

MAY 21, 2020

Affective has nine full-time employees and contractors, plus eight part-time consultants in areas including user experience, artificial intelligence and machine learning, business and psychology. The company says its technology complies with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for data security and privacy.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

. — Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer. The longtime human resources vet previously served as CPO of telemedicine startup Galileo and health insurance company Surest. Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports. Gleam, a platform for insurance brokers to implement self-funded health plans for SMBs and startups. Watto AI From left: Watto AI founder and CEO Rishabh Panwar, co-founder Ishita Bhandari, and CTO and founder Suryansh Soni. What’s your secret sauce?

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CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2015

Bob is Co-Founder of Cognitio, Former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the first Director of Intelligence (J2) at DoD’s cyber defense organization JTF-CND and author of the Cyber Threat. I have worked with Bob Gourley to come up with a set of questions that government leaders should be asking to mitigate cyber security risks.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A new startup born out of Pioneer Square Labs in Seattle wants to help independent workers who don’t have medical insurance save money at the pharmacy. From left: Otis leaders Luke Nilles, Aaron Bach, and Steve Moses, with Pioneer Square Labs investor T.A. Otis is targeting freelance and part-time workers with a digital discount card.

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