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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TechEmpower - Information Technology

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? Who are the customers?

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect example of quite literally the physical manifestation of Gaurav’s customer discovery than the worn carpets in our conference room,” said Jacob Colker, managing director at the AI2 Incubator. . He learned that companies were struggling to track contracts. “That social validation felt good.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Then perhaps the government contracting world (we have previously written about software eating the government contracting world and DoD command and Control ). Analysis Big Data CTO DoD and IC Anki Apple DoD Facebook Google iTunes Marc Andreessen Netscape Spotify Twitter' Seems like education. Then healthcare.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2024

In the US, for example, the three biggest mobile network providers are ahead of the curve, but they still have a lot to do. You need to have a good throughput so the data gets around really fast in a power plant, for example, where you could have million-dollar high pressure turbines and generators operating.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

We’ve had a homegrown customer data environment for decades,” says Paul Gaffney, CTO and supply chain officer at the $19.4 Gartner analyst Erick Brethenoux says use of consultant data and ML models is gaining steam, especially among retailers. billion American department store chain. The Milwaukee, Wis.-based

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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. IT organizations can save substantial amounts on SaaS contracts by lowering service levels, CIOs say.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

For example, most say they love both technology and problem-solving — a combination that often got them interested in the IT profession in the first place. For example, he took on the CTO role at Rodan + Fields because he “liked the appeal of being part of the product.” Second, be intentional. Curiosity tops his list. “I

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GeekWire

MARCH 4, 2024

The Chennai-based team working for Zuper turned their conference room into a sleeping area for employees who were staying late at the office working to improve the company’s software platform. Zuper follows a similar model to Icertis, the Bellevue, Wash-based contract management software giant.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2024

Therefore, always-lurking tech debt gets put on the backburner, says Daniel Saroff, group vice president for consulting and research at IDC. For example, some organizational leaders may balk at replacing an old ERP system because they see it as a back-office function, Saroff says. It’s not a sexy subject,” he says.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. You might have the CIO rolled into a different role, or you might be able to merge the CIO and CTO,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

The meteoric rise of generative AI is only one example of the incidents and issues that can hinder or outright halt an IT department’s delivery on strategic objectives. The increasing pace of technology advances AI is just the latest, and perhaps most prominent example of emerging technologies that have disrupted organizational roadmaps.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

This on-demand approach also vastly reduces the upfront costs of buying processors and scales up or down based on workload, notes Tom Richer, a former CIO and current CEO of CloudBench, a Google Partner and CIO consultancy. “To RunPod is a GPU-as-a-service for developers that is very cost effective for universities and startups.

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CTOvision

JULY 26, 2016

During interview today with GovMatters.tv I'll be discussing an observation many of us in the enterprise technology community have been discussing lately. There is a growing consensus in the enterprise tech community (CIO, CTO, CISO) regarding the Cambrian Explosion of great capabilities in the tech sector.

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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. Today, many CIOs feel the same way about metrics. Metrics are only as good as their source.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Unlike prior chatbots and other digital point solutions, generative AI technology is transformative because it unlocks the power of unstructured data to create new content. Here’s an example. A payer organization was working with an existing technology provider but only achieving incremental benefits. Artificial Intelligence

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Bridge is one of Kyndryl’s major services offerings, which include consulting, hybrid cloud, security, and applications services. AI networking is definitely in its early days, but we have been in a few consulting engagements about that,” Shagoury said. “A AI networking is another area Kyndryl is targeting. “AI

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an Oracle team based largely in the company’s Seattle engineering office. Oracle photo).

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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

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 Some changes — buyouts or leadership shifts, for example — don’t allow for much notice. A healthy team is used to it. “It

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In addition to the direct contributions made by Washington state’s space companies, the report factors in the space economy’s indirect contributions (for example, purchases of supplies and equipment) and induced contributions (for example, restaurant meals and housing expeditures). billion annually.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Lets take Disney World for example. With Disney you are entering into a contract with a company and that contract holds them to very little when it comes to your privacy. Big Data CTO Disney Disruptive IT MagicBands RFID technology The Future of Technology' Well isn’t this a breach of our privacy?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

For example, one model incorporates rent and lease terms for customers in the 84 counties in which JLL operates. We do a lot of paperwork in leasing and contracts, pages and pages of legal documents in multiple languages,” which has thus far been challenging to incorporate, the CTO says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Prioritize transparency Prioritizing transparent communication is necessary to maintain positive team morale, says Chip Kleinheksel, global SAP CTO at business consulting firm Deloitte. Encourage team members to communicate openly — listen to their concerns and provide opportunities for skill development,” he explains.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. Then came the decision to launch Crafty CTO and suddenly I had a burning need for art, starting with a logo. Fortunately lots of sites are popping up with guidance and examples for each AI. With words!

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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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CTOvision

APRIL 19, 2014

Many other best practices exist for different domains of industry, for example, the credit card industry enforces PCI guidance. Big Data CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC Computer security Consultants General and Freelance Hawkeye Hexis Hexis Cyber Solutions Security' Read more on HawkEye-G Here.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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GeekWire

JULY 7, 2021

Use the Toyota Prius as an example. But several local transit agencies already have begun to negotiate contracts with The Routing Company. King County Metro, for example, is planning a similar pilot project in Kent. The startup’s core technology was developed at MIT. But it does in a 14-seat van or larger.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 17, 2015

Combining results from an extensive survey of analytics professionals with findings from several focus groups and consulting projects, Harris and Mehrotra identify a number of pain points, and solutions, for businesses hoping to extract value from their ever expanding mountains of data. Full article: [link].

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In times of economic downturn, for example, cybercrime may increase as people turn to illegal activities to make money. For example, suppose an organization has multiple teams or departments responsible for different parts of its cybersecurity strategy. Looking at history, this does not bode well for levels of cybercrime.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Employee training on AI is essential, says Sam Ferrise, CTO at Trinetix, a tech consulting firm. CIOs and CTOs must also set the rules of the road for using AI and navigate or mitigate potential risk and ethics issues, he says. With each one of these new cycles comes enthusiasm and apprehension both,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

For example, a gen AI virtual assistant can cost $5 million to $6.5 Some backlash against the hype is likely, but gen AI will be a transformative technology in the long term, adds Hamza Tahir, CTO and co-founder of ZenML, an open-source MLOps startup. What comes up must come down.”

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