CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

While it’s critical to control costs continuously, it becomes even more imperative during times of economic pressure,” says Jon Pratt, CIO at security managed services provider 11:11 Systems. Following are some actions IT leaders can take now to secure those funds for the future.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Of roughly 2,500 CIOs surveyed recently by Gartner, 9% say they have already deployed gen AI applications, and a staggering 55% say they will deploy large language models (LLMs) in production by the end of 2025. A recent survey of nearly 1,000 IT decision-makers conducted by Foundry underscores this.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2023

Consider some recent survey findings. The anticipation and fear of the impact of generative AI in particular, and its relationship to artificial general intelligence (AGI), makes it overhyped,” says Daryl Cromer, vice president and CTO for the PCs and smart devices division at Lenovo. Others have made similar observations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

These complaints, filed by a variety of different copyright holders, allege the companies of training their AIs on copyrighted data—images, code, and text. It’s no surprise, then, that according to a June KPMG survey, uncertainty about the regulatory environment was the top barrier to implementing gen AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

With a pre-trained model, you can bring it into HR, finance, IT, customer service—all of us are touched by it.” Traditional ML requires a lot of data, experienced data scientists, as well as training and tuning. The world has flipped since 2022,” says David McCurdy, chief enterprise architect and CTO at Insight.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Ahead in a broad market In Morgan Stanley’s quarterly CIO survey, 38% of CIOs expected to adopt Microsoft Copilot tools over the next 12 months. It’s embedded in the applications we use every day and the security model overall is pretty airtight. CIOs would rather have employees using a sanctioned tool than bring your own AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Embrace new challenges and prioritize engaging pilots Justin Rodenbostel, executive vice president at technology modernization firm SPR, believes that emphasizing learning, training, and professional growth is crucial. Secure funding, design a program for a small group of individuals, and run a pilot,” he advises.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 20, 2023

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Organizations that scored in the top quartile for EA maturity in a recent Bizzdesign survey were three times more likely to report having organizational agility, which has been crucial during the past few years with the COVID-19 pandemic. EA, and its goals, however, are constantly evolving. It’s designed for the U.S.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

Delayed decision-making Bhadresh Patel, chief digital officer at global consulting firm RGP, sees organization’s showing more caution than usual. We believe that smart technology still holds the biggest promise to improve our client’s operations,” he says. Waiting is a losing strategy.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It sets the tone and the strategy; it defines the policies and the procedures and what the expectations are,” explains Lisa McKee, director of governance, risk, compliance, and privacy at American Security and Privacy, as well as a member of the Emerging Trends Working Group with the governance association ISACA.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

IT executives see talent shortage as the most significant adoption barrier to 64% of emerging technologies, ahead of implementation cost (29%) or security risk (7%), according to a September 2021 Gartner survey. Identifying which emerging technologies will prove most useful is a challenge, though.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

According to an O’Reilly survey released late last month, 23% of companies are using one of OpenAI’s models. According to an Ernst & Young survey of 1,200 global CEOs released in late October, 99% are either planning or are already making “significant” investments in generative AI. He’s not the only one.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But by May 2023, according to an IDC survey, 65% of companies were using gen AI, and in September, that number rose to 71%, with another 22% planning to implement it in the next 12 months. Yet according to the IBM survey, data complexity was the second biggest barrier to adoption after lack of expertise, while the cnvrg.io

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

The systems are fed the data, and trained, and then improve over time on their own.” Our goal is to analyze logs and metrics, connecting them with the source code to gain insights into code fixes, vulnerabilities, performance issues, and security concerns,” he says. Adding smarter AI also adds risk, of course. “At

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Some of the most vocal complaints about generative AI have come from authors and artists unhappy at having their work used to train large language models (LLMs) without permission. Human reviewers should be trained to critically assess AI output, not just accept it at face value.”

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Teams across Amazon have hired hundreds of thousands of Black employees and thousands of Black managers, and our retention data and employee surveys illustrate that they have similar attrition rates and greater job satisfaction and feelings of inclusion than their non-Black colleagues. And she walked away from me.”. Meron Menghistab for Vox.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Teams across Amazon have hired hundreds of thousands of Black employees and thousands of Black managers, and our retention data and employee surveys illustrate that they have similar attrition rates and greater job satisfaction and feelings of inclusion than their non-Black colleagues. And she walked away from me.”. Meron Menghistab for Vox.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2023

Existing generative AI platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Bard, or Stable Diffusion aren’t trained on 3D images of teeth. It’s one of the largest deployments of generative AI that I know of,” says David McCurdy, Insight’s chief enterprise architect and CTO. This will be a use case all over the world.” Turbo and GPT 4.0

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