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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Chandegara has over 20 years’ experience in managing IT and communication systems. 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.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

Megan Amdahl, SVP of partner alliances and operations at Insight, an Arizona-based solution integrator, says her company evaluates generative AI vendors both for internal use and on behalf of its clients. Insight has a partner contract management team that looks closely at vendor agreements. “If

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CIOs eye SaaS backup plans post-CrowdStrike

CIO Business Intelligence

If the CrowdStrike outage underscored anything for CIOs, it’s that modern enterprises are dependent on a growing number of interconnected systems, any one of which can cripple business operations beyond CIOs’ control. Although not implemented yet, we will be making it part of our vendor management and selection processes.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Double down on vendor management.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

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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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO Business Intelligence

“This is the largest change management project in history,” says Greenstein. We’ve never had a technology touch everyone so rapidly.” Embedded AI Embedding AI into enterprise systems that employees were already using was a trend before gen AI came along. Gen AI took a few months. Then gen AI came out.

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7 challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2020

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One major challenge for CIOs is attracting and retaining new talent,” says Vijay Kurkal, Chief Operating Officer at Resolve Systems. The most obvious answer is pay a premium for the best talent, or hire consultants with modern skills. The fact is, many businesses still rely on legacy systems.