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 20, 2024

Data architecture definition Data architecture describes the structure of an organizations logical and physical data assets, and data management resources, according to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). Flexible data architectures can integrate new data sources, incorporate new technologies, and evolve with business needs.

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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. We see breaches in the news monthly, if not weekly, he observes.

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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. We had high turnover, not so much in the IT part, but in software development and engineering operating units, so innovations in human resource management started from here.”

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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. It requires them to role-play your job, and they’re not very good at that because it’s never been their job,” explains Rob Collie, founder and CEO of consulting firm P3.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

Jim Warman, vice president of infrastructure architects and engineers at Myriad360, a data center and cybersecurity consulting firm, sees the same trend. The demands of AI make for a compelling reason to consider hardware upgrades, adds Rob Clark, president and CTO at AI tool provider Seekr.

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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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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. Not many security vendors from the 1980s are still around, but Trend Micro is a survivor.

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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. They have a plan to develop young talent by recruiting capable interns and early-career resources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. The academic community expects data to be close to its high-performance compute resources, so they struggle with these egress fees pretty regularly, he says. Judes Perry.

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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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TechEmpower - Information Technology

AUGUST 7, 2023

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. A CTO can help you find the right answers. Instead, they should consider a Fractional CTO who can help close the gap.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Error correction is vital for enterprise users of quantum computing, says Yoram Avidan, CTO of Citigroups Innovation Lab and global head of Citi Accelerator. The system is part of IBMs vision for quantum-centric supercomputing, combining quantum and classical resources. Whats the deal with error correction?

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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

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. I am a firm believer in in-house resources. Jumping straight in and making a wrong decision can cost more in the long term.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Conversations and subscriptions A per-conversation model seems to be an emerging approach, says Sesh Iyer, managing director, senior partner, and North America regional chair at BCG X, Boston Consulting Groups IT building and designing group. Vendors could also charge a small price per audio input or output.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2025

Infrastructure architecture: Building the foundational layers of hardware, networking and cloud resources that support the entire technology ecosystem. Distributed responsibility ownership model: Responsibility for technology solutions may not be clear and spread across multiple teams, departments and organisations.

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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. Milena Nikolic Such growth in scale has resulted in a steady ramp-up in resources. Everything fell in place; every box was ticked,” she says. “I

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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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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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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Merv Adrian is a Research Vice President following RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop and other big data technologies as digital business transforms assumptions about how to activate and leverage unused information assets. During hos two decades as an analyst, Mr. Adrian headed IT Market Strategy, an independent market research consultancy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Integration with other systems was difficult and it required a lot of specialized resources to make changes, such as business processes and validation during order entry and replenishment to branch offices, he says. Quite frankly, we didn’t have the internal resources to support an on-premise solution,” Shannon says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Moving into the digital 2020s, enterprises are contemplating the adoption of a new generation of collaborative, composable, and cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) technologies, motivated by a stubborn pandemic, insecure supply chains, transient workforces, and other factors.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Merv Adrian is a Research Vice President following RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop and other big data technologies as digital business transforms assumptions about how to activate and leverage unused information assets. During hos two decades as an analyst, Mr. Adrian headed IT Market Strategy, an independent market research consultancy.

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GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2024

Vered was most recently CTO at engineering insights startup Uplevel. She was most recently chief communications officer at police body camera giant Axon, and previously worked for Tesla in investor relations. — Robert Villaseñor joined Seattle crypto startup Coinme as chief legal and compliance officer. Anna Olson.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Companies that fail to build their own AI agents will turn to outside AI consulting firms to build custom agents for them, or they will use agents embedded in software from their current vendors, write Forrester analysts Jayesh Chaurasia and Sudha Maheshwari. Kumar adds. Start with one [AI model], and you can start tailoring its behavior.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, the effort to build, train, and evaluate this modeling is only a small fraction of what is needed to reap the vast benefits of generative AI technology. About the Authors: Jay Nambiar is the chief technology officer for the Healthcare business at EXL, a multinational data analytics and digital operations and solutions company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

CIOs must redirect resources when technologies as revolutionary as generative AI come to market or risk falling behind or becoming obsolete — in which case, hitting other strategic goals won’t matter much. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. 1 challenge listed.

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 5, 2023

It can be beneficial to hire a fractional CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in a variety of situations. They can provide guidance on which technologies to invest in and help you create a roadmap for the future.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

By understanding which processes and systems are most vital, businesses can prioritize resources and recovery efforts effectively. Safeguard contracts: Include clauses in vendor contracts that address service-level agreements (SLAs), response times, and penalties for prolonged outages.

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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

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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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. That makes them a better fit for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Legal indemnification is a common feature of gen AI contracts from OpenAI, Microsoft, Adobe, and other major vendors. Thats not the case with open source.

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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. Carter advises IT leaders to look deep within their organizations to understand how software resources are being used.

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