CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

They should be able to work collaboratively with many departments in developing AI strategy and vision, and they should be able to design and target relevant business use cases, assess project outcomes, and measure ROI in each case. What is a chief AI officer? Ozzie Coto, chief AI officer and CTO at The Cult Branding Co.,

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

They are a director of engineering at a midsize startup and just got their first headhunter inquiry for a CTO role. I realized that while there are some books on technology leadership careers, there aren’t many resources explaining the most senior levels. I’ve been a CTO for five and a half years.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Hiring and retaining the best people with the right skills is always the best strategy to improve overall performance.” The recent layoffs and hiring freezes by the big tech companies have leveled the playing field somewhat,” Hoemeke says. and in terms of certain aspects of recruiting, she also sees the glass as half full. “The

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CIO

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

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. Here’s how.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. To guide an organization through uncertainty, IT leaders must help ensure everyone in the company is on the same page, Srivastava says.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Never forget the power of people Despite trendy talk about current and future use cases, as with any technology artificial intelligence is only as powerful as the people developing and working with it, says Satish Jayanthi, co-founder and CTO at Coalesce. Quality, hard-working individuals underpin all data initiatives,” Jayanthi says.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

It gets costly very quick,” says Jim Ducharme, CTO of ClearData, a cloud security posture management (CSPM) and managed detection and response (MDR) SaaS provider for the healthcare industry. Ducharme cites the complexity of cloud cost optimization tools and “AI washing” in the commercial market as reasons behind his company’s move to DIY.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

Influential CIOs and other technology leaders responded with time-tested, hard-won knowledge and guidance. Check out these strategies for leading well based on decades or experience from the C-suite. We have candid discussions about anything from our enterprise strategy to how we manage work-life balance,” he says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

At his company, anyway. In tandem with his job as chief digital officer and senior vice president of strategy at Hussman, Seals got a Ph.D. in business administration and wrote his dissertation on digital acuity and intelligence in “incumbent companies.” The payoff can be significant. “We

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

CIOs and their IT teams have enjoyed a bump in power and prestige in recent years, as the C-suite has embraced continuous transformation, digital everything, and a host of emerging technologies — all enabled by IT. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following. They did not refactor for flexibility.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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CIO

DECEMBER 29, 2023

With the merging of operational efficiency and embracing new technologies, today’s CIOs are under increasing pressure to do more with less and become both technologists and business leaders, says Sunny Azadeh, CIO at digital services company GlobalLogic. “In

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CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

The past year was rough for the tech industry, with several companies reporting layoffs and the looming threat of a recession. But despite the bumpy year, demand for technology skills remains strong, with the US tech unemployment rate dropping to 1.5% as of January. Average salary: US$151,364 Increase from 2021 : 2.3%

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CIO

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 uses of storytelling Storytelling can be used to persuade senior executives to release budget, plot a change in strategy, or share good and bad news.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

To name a few — products and services that are delivered on time and on budget, and overall IT ROI.” Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. IT Leadership, IT Strategy Here they are.

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

As companies vie for talented tech workers to meet skills gaps in their organizations, the demand for certain tech roles has increased. There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Delivering on time and on budget Completing software projects in a timely manner while staying within budget is a long-time challenge of software development. On time and on budget are much easier to judge with the finger on the pulse of expectations of both the users and the developers.”

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. “As The challenge is finding ways to achieve these goals in an era of constricted budgets.

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CEO Tech Tips

APRIL 9, 2021

One of the first inquiries I get from non-technical founders is, when do I need a CTO? To answer that, you first need to understand how a CTO fits into your organization. If you are building a company reliant on technology and you don’t have a technical co-founder, I’d tell you that you’d need a CTO from day one.

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CEO Tech Tips

APRIL 9, 2021

One of the first inquiries I get from non-technical founders is, when do I need a CTO? To answer that, you first need to understand how a CTO fits into your organization. If you are building a company reliant on technology and you don’t have a technical co-founder, I’d tell you that you’d need a CTO from day one.

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CIO

MAY 18, 2023

Why not pick up a book that will inspire you to be a more effective leader, help you spot challenges and pitfalls in your IT strategies and processes, or prepare for the future of information technology? CTO and co-founder of Digibee. also recommends two books by founder and former CTO of Tripwire Gene Kim.

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2023

Wide-scale digital transformation has positioned technology as the center piece of companies’ revenue-generation strategies, both as foundation for delivering and servicing products and as the primary touchpoint for customer engagement.

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CIO

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

APRIL 25, 2023

It can do it the simple way — allocate the IT budget to cost-center managers based on some easy-to-understand metric, like percent of the corporation’s total headcount, or the percent of the total corporate budget the cost-center manager controls. IT Leadership, IT Management, IT Strategy Give it up.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

With AI being the talk of 2023, [there were questions on] how do we, as a company, handle its adoption, governance, and education about it to our employees,” he says. That’s the case for Yi Zhou, CTO and CIO with Adaptive Biotechnologies. He’s set on helping his company grow without having to always add more staff.

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. Create a brand and reputation to attract this kind of talent to the work you do and your company’s culture,” says Drees.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance.

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MagmaLabs

AUGUST 6, 2020

In this first series from the Outreach Ops department, we share how we’ve been generating new strategies when COVID-19 impacted our 2020 sales plans. As a consequence, the cost of planning our 2020 sales strategies became a negative expense. Our new Sales Strategie. This blog is for you then! Keep reading! It wasn’t hard.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The answers reflected the need for companies to properly prepare for cloud migrations. benrothke Asked about the main challenges in migrating premises-based workloads to the cloud, issues centered around planning, strategy and not moving too fast. Lacking a clear strategy determined by business objectives.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2022

While IT leaders can maximize the opportunity arising out of this shift by leveraging the partners’ strategies and advanced capabilities, it’s important for them to maintain focus on the risks. The evolution of technology, driven by modernization of applications and services, is catalyzing collaboration among system integrators.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Based in Warsaw, Poland, Intent assists a wide variety of companies with everything from product design and UX to development and deployment of connected devices. How do you assess their requirements, and what information do you need before you can share an estimated project timeline and budget?

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CIO

MAY 31, 2023

Companies moving to the cloud often find themselves at a crossroads near the midpoint of their migrations , spending more than they intended and getting out less than they hoped. With this change, technology has become a major part of revenue beyond CRM and sales enablement; technology has moved into the line of business [LOB].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The company announced today it has closed a $8.5 Founded in in 2020 by Tan and CTO Deepak Malhotra, Brick now has more than 50 paying clients and supports more than 13 million API calls and almost one million consumers a month. million seed round led by Flourish Ventures and Antler.

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CIO

MARCH 22, 2023

That’s no small undertaking, and as CTO for the company, it’s Marc Hale’s core responsibility to help achieve that goal by providing a secure and stable platform on which the business can operate and innovate. “As Budget constraints, of course, are ever present and need to be worked through very closely.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Platforms like Shopify, Stripe and WordPress have done a lot to make essential business-building tools — like running storefronts, accepting payments and building websites — accessible to businesses with even the most modest budgets. Trademark registration is one such concern, and Toronto-based startup Heirlume just raised $1.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Those hints included the revelation that the startup had generated just $600,000 in revenue for all of 2021 despite raising $120 million in venture capital earlier in the year (in a round led by Stripe) and rumors that the company was having trouble raising more funds, and as a result, might be seeking a buyer. The takeaway here?

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