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JANUARY 9, 2024

Few technologies have provoked the same amount of discussion and debate as artificial intelligence, with workers, high-profile executives, and world leaders waffling between praise and fears over AI. Here are the central AI conversations you should be having with your teams, line-of-business leaders, C-suite colleagues, and the board.

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CIO

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Around the time ChatGPT crossed 100 million users, Walmart executives visited a leading research institution to discuss the long-term opportunity around generative AI. A clear vision not only excites and aligns; it helps teams to answer key questions and by extension mobilize for execution: How would associates access the tool?

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

And in spite of the spate of books that extol risk-taking as the only smart path, it’s worth remembering that their authors don’t face what might be the biggest risk CIOs have to deal with every day: executive teams adept at preaching risk-taking without actually supporting it. Mitigation is about reducing the damage.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

CIOs and others who manage technology teams are advised to see beyond the churn of constant upskilling, and consider what people excel at: creativity and critical thinking, business strategy, and building strong relationships that increase employee satisfaction while boosting the organization’s performance.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

These executives can help lead their organizations toward increased efficiencies and improved performance through strategic implementation of the right products and services. In 2023, it would be highly improbable for a CTO not to be asked by their CEO, ‘What are we going to do about generative AI? Why is this important?

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In other words, IT project failure now is more about missed marks than technological disasters. According to KPMG’s 2023 Technology Survey , 51% of the responding 400 US technology executives said they have seen no increase in performance or profitability from their digital transformation investments in the past two years. “If

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CIO

JANUARY 18, 2024

I have had more calls asking about my situation and openness to work in the last month than in the previous six months.” Someone who has vision and the ability to develop and execute a long-term technology strategy aligned with the company’s overall business goals is key.” Needless to say, he also gets his own fair share of job offers.

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CIO

JULY 10, 2023

Aside from causing personal angst, executives run amok can also wreak lasting damage to the organizations they work for by driving away talent and squandering business opportunities. For technology leaders, difficult executives take a variety of forms. How do you deal with these people? The following list is by no means exhaustive.

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2023

“It’s really only the CIO and the CEO who have this perspective,” says Irving Tyler, distinguished research vice president with Gartner’s CIO Research team. The CIO has a deeper perspective because it’s in the execution aspect, not just the bigger-picture strategic perspective.” So either I or someone on my team will take them through.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Over the summer, I wrote a column about how CIOs are worried about the informal rise of generative AI in the enterprise. One Fortune 500 executive recently told me that they were worried that one organization could use a public LLM to learn what its competitors were asking that same LLM. government’s attention.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

Eliminating the danger of fires, which cost about $10,000 per hour, should enable the implementation to more than pay for itself, according to Gudipati. Our data team uses gen AI on Amazon cloud to explore sustainability metrics. “At A key focus of the bank’s AI team is likewise data quality.

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2023

Consequently, tech executives must lead, manage, and work differently than they did in the past. Old rule: Command and control New rule: Facilitate The command-and-control leadership style had been on its way out for all executives for years, before rebounding during the early days of the pandemic. You empower them to work together.”

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CIO

MARCH 21, 2024

To buck the trend, Lovelady prioritized meeting with all senior executives upon his arrival: to sell his strategic plan, share how he planned to make improvements, and most importantly, state his intention to earn their trust by establishing a relationship based on frequent and transparent communication. It showed when he presented to them.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Long-term success is generally the result of leaders who make a committed effort to connect directly with their teams, rather than simply issuing memos, edicts, and other top-down commands. Projects that really excite our teams.” Our IT team has an opportunity to be on the forefront of tech innovation.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“Previous relationships can help a boomerang leader get quickly up to speed, but unchecked assumptions about the culture can be a derailer.” Moving to Loftware “was an opportunity to go retool this other team.” Quite frankly, we had conversations for months on how to retool teams and what role I would be [as] successor to him.”

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2024

Snyder, secretary of the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security and Commonwealth CIO for Massachusetts, responded by overhauling the agency’s recruitment and retention practices. Maura Healey issued an executive order directing state agencies to institute skills-based hiring. Others IT execs express reservations.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2023

“One of my bold bets is I want to eliminate our traditional service desk by 2025,” says Jason Ballard, IT executive and general manager for infrastructure and operations services at Toyota Motor North America. We were very focused on getting to a common technology stack so our team members could be more efficient.”

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

And according to a survey from NTT, a majority of senior executives recognize this and are actively working to harness digital technology and innovation to support their social sustainability initiatives. Learn more about the business case for social responsibility. IT Leadership

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CIO

APRIL 12, 2023

By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax I recently had a conversation with a senior executive who had just landed at a new organization. It was obvious that things had to change for the organization to be able to execute at speed in real time. Sound familiar?)

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Yes, it gets into some nitty-gritty details about app development, but that’s part of its power. By clearly showing the real-world steps to build a generative AI app, powered by a vector database , Kubow hammers home something that every executive needs to understand in their bones. CHRO, CMO) as the executive sponsor of one such team.

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CIO

AUGUST 22, 2023

But digital transformation remains a vital endeavor for today’s enterprise as it is about evolving the business and operating model and not just about modernizing technologies. Product leaders define the opportunity and problem statement, while delivery leaders establish the solution’s architecture, execution plan, and support model.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies. We discussed how many agile teams focus on rituals without truly understanding the manifesto’s objectives or the organization’s goals.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

These thoughtful and reflective experiences allowed me to develop a statement of purpose about the life that I’d like to live, namely, to live a full and authentic life by personally and continually striving, learning, and growing, and by helping others flourish,” he says. “We

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Two years on since the start of the pandemic, stress levels of tech and security executives are still elevated as global skills shortages, budget limitations and an ever faster and expanding security threat landscape test resilience. “In We need to remember that it’s not just about technology,” she says. “It It involves people too.”.

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CIO

APRIL 8, 2024

Nearly 10 years ago, Bill James, a pioneer in sports analytics methodology, said if there’s one thing he wished more people understood about sabermetrics, pertaining to baseball, it’s that the data is not the point. million video frames and documents about 100 million locations and positions of players on the field.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

CIOs, too, are expanding their executive capabilities — as they should be — given the everchanging list of challenges they face. Create a personal board of directors The use of a personal board of directors is a longstanding recommendation for executives. This has allowed me to stay on my game.” Who wouldn’t want to be able to do that?

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By employing Value Stream Management (VSM), executives gain the visibility to align teams, workflows, and investments around one key aspect: customer value. They created cross-functional teams that empowered employees to spend more time and effort on delivering customer value. What you see is maximizing the ROI.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The first 30 days are about listening more than speaking, engaging my business stakeholders and IT team, and identifying people who will be trusted advisors on our transformational journey. In the next 30 days, I start working on vision and roadmap, and begin assessing team capabilities. The next 40 days are when I take action.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

Under a sun-bleached tent outside Baghdad, we came to a grim conclusion: Our elite counterterrorism teams (JSOC) — composed of the best-equipped forces in history — were losing to an enemy armed with tech you could fish out of a bargain bin. They could execute quickly, adapt on a dime, and strike with devastating effect. Our solution?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. What are we doing about cybersecurity?

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

94% of the executives we surveyed said they had plans to increase their investment in IT or emerging technologies, and 80% said they plan to increase investment in AI over the next year,” reports Ken Englund, leader of technology, media, and telecommunications for the Americas at EY. Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94%

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2024

And yet, IT teams face significant challenges, including: • Addressing information overload • Predicting capacity planning • Assessing risks that are sometimes unknown • Meeting complicated regulatory standards Complexity is the common thread that runs through these challenges. IT Leadership

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Every step of the way provides an opportunity for employees to resist new technologies or processes, which can derail even the most well design and executed digital transformation efforts. Poor execution Even the best plans can fail if execution is poor.

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CIO

MARCH 28, 2024

It seems every week I’m on the phone with a CIO or other technology executive who’s either contemplating, on the verge of, or has recently gone through the process of retiring. Karenann Terrell served as an executive at big brands like Baxter, Walmart, and GSK. Afterward, we talked about their lessons learned once the dust settled.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company. After the show, we spent some more time talking about Chilton’s experience as a P&L leader and how that has contributed to his success as a CTO.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

That has left a lasting legacy: Even as the pandemic recedes, enterprise executives continue to expect CIOs and their IT departments to deliver transformative capabilities at a rapid-fire pace. They say growing concerns about economic slowdowns and a possible recession only ratchet up the need for speed.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I’ve owned the AI teams, the client teams, service teams, and I’m GM for two businesses — the calling and contact center businesses — and I’ve managed teams upwards of 4,000 people across developers, designers, PMs, etc.” Her success in growing this team led to her being offered the CIO position.

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