CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Ever since SAP CEO Christian Klein (pictured) told financial analysts in July that the company would only offer its latest AI and “green ledger” innovations to customers running its flagship S/4HANA ERP platform through its subscription-only, cloud-based Rise with SAP offering, the company has been on the back foot.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity. What have some of those experiences been like? How do you do more training and certification?

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

What is the business transformation currently underway at Informatica? When we were taken private in 2015, we were a traditional software vendor, but the market was starting to embrace the cloud. What has IT’s role been in the transformation to a SaaS model? What has IT’s role been in the transformation to a SaaS model?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“CIOs need to do all the things to make AI workloads run well and in a disciplined and hygienic way,” he says. When you think about all the blocking and tackling a CIO needs to do for regular applications, that especially applies to AI.” What it’s doing is surfacing your lack of governance around your data.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Martha Heller: What is the transformation currently underway at Perdue Farms? Mark Booth: We have a growth strategy to improve our business, and to support that, we’re driving a transformation in technology and business processes. In addition to business process change, what else are you facing to getting value out of data?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. It depends on what business model you’re in. We’re constantly looking at the economics of both.”

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2024

We went from accessing 1mbps to 250mbps in some locations. But they also run a small fleet of seaplanes, maritime vessels, ferries, pontoons, coaches, and more to deliver the best in experiential tourism. Overnight, we acquired six solutions all doing the same thing.” Mazumdar says. “It

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO. But what we’re learning from public announcements like these might just scratch the surface of gen AI use cases for the enterprise.

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CIO

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What helps Mate and his team achieve the push-and-pull of digitizing while maintaining quality service is Elara’s culture, which encourages employees to experiment — but make decisions quickly and fail fast when projects are not panning out — as well as investing in people who can bring new ideas and perspectives.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO. It’s actually being delivered by a web service that’s run by IT. We put IT offered services right into the product.” With the subscription-based model, customers download the software and run it on infrastructure in their data centers.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Generative AI is transforming the world, changing the way we create images and videos, audio, text, and code. First, the company uses a secure gateway to check what information is being uploaded. Second, the company funnels its engineers to a version of ChatGPT running on a private Azure cloud. It’s blocked.”

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

Everyone is running around trying to apply this technology that’s moving so fast, but without business outcomes, there’s no point to it,” says Redmond, CIO at power management systems manufacturer Eaton Corp. “We We need to continue to be mindful of business outcomes and apply use cases that make sense.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Afterwards, we spent some time discussing how today’s digital leaders can build multidimensional resiliency to set themselves, their teams, and the business up for success. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity. What is the interplay of these attributes and how does it show up among resilient leaders?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

While there are still a substantial number of organizations running GroupWise, many have opted to move away from the platform and migrate to newer technologies. The move to do everything internally was important to secure the SIU’s operational continuity and to guarantee the sustainability of the organization.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The report found almost two-thirds (63%) do not completely trust the data their company uses. Banks are particularly vulnerable to this problem because almost 90% of the top 100 banks still use mainframes to run complex workloads related to their core business processes. Doing so can have spectacular results.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Or failure may mean a project doesn’t produce returns, runs so late as to be obsolete when completed, or doesn’t engage users who then shun it in response. So what’s going on? Why do IT projects continue to fail? We expect people who have no training to run projects. There are some common culprits.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What they are finding is that the line between advancing technologically and ensuring AI doesn’t result in detrimental outcomes is thin. Organizations must also consider what values guide them, and what obligations they have in terms of retraining, upskilling, and job protection. We intend to implement it in Q1 2024.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

For example, AI can quickly answer: what is the best strategy for optimizing savings in a rising market for a particular category? When in the thick of running a complex RFP, we might ask what combinations of suppliers give the best savings and lowest risk,” says Blake.

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2024

Sick of hearing you should “do more with less?” This is the time to “do fewer things better.” Expect your CFO to ask: “ Don’t we already have a tool that does this? ” We can’t forget every CISO’s favorite: “ How much will this reduce our cybersecurity risk? or “ How long will this take to show results? ”

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CIO

JULY 26, 2023

Along the way he’s developed deep expertise in what it takes to succeed in the cloud. Customers dictate how, when, and where they do business. If you run your operations the same way as when you operated in data centers, the cloud will be three to five times as expensive.” Now the paradigm has shifted.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“Our mission is to build the world’s leading digital airline, and digital in its broadest sense, not just technology, but the experiences we deliver for our customers, the new business models we can put in place, the way we govern the organization, the way we deliver change, and everything in between,” says CDO Nikhil Ravishankar. “At

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2024

My father had a technical role in the New Zealand Navy, so we had computers at home from a young age. We need to make the pathway for young women to get into tech much easier. Personally, I’ve always focused on being good at what I do. Never underestimate your personal experiences in life and what you bring to the table.

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CIO

AUGUST 17, 2023

In a business that’s been around for as long as we have, skills are also an issue because we become victims of our own success,” he says. “We We bought a system years ago and it still works so we don’t want to touch it because it’s still doing what it’s supposed to do. Can it do what I need it to do?

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Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 7, 2024

If the angular separation is very close to zero, we have a solar eclipse. Ideally, we would grab 3D coordinates for the Earth, the sun, and the moon. This is probably the “right” way to do it, and if I had time, I would brush the dust off my geometry skills and do this. However, I don't have time!

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CIO

MARCH 21, 2024

While we can’t do everything the Ritz Carlton does, I think the spirit of having a customer-first mindset is critical. Following up, not assuming a problem is solved, paying attention: It’s critical we all share these values.” Or do you want it designed by your A players?” The Birmingham, Ala.-based posits Lovelady. “Or

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2024

While warp speed is a fictional concept, it’s an apt way to describe what generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) are doing to exponentially accelerate Industry 4.0. Although we cannot yet envision the full breadth of transformations, they are moving forward fast. This creates barriers to Industry 4.0

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CIO

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He was interested in “doing something a little different,” and leading technology at a quasi-governmental entity where he would be responsible for two business areas held great appeal. “So So there was an interesting opportunity to get my hands dirty running a business operation.”

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2023

The question is intentionally vague, and putting aside for a moment whether seeking to be “normal” is an appropriate strategic goal, it’s worth unpacking the elephant in the room: At this moment, our industry does not know what “normal” is regarding the driving technology of the age. At the top there is what is the board being told.

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CIO

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , we unpacked those four roles as well as Dickson’s career journey, lessons learned, and leadership superpowers — in particular, his focus on building community around the technology, not just on building the technology itself. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It will be more disruptive than what Apple did with the iPhone for consumers,” says Thompson. And for business users, it will surpass what Microsoft did for workforce productivity.” The big question is what to do with it now. We were a little ahead of the game, mainly out of necessity,” says Thompson.

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CIO

MARCH 28, 2024

They’ve been so heads-down doing the work that they’ve failed to properly and intentionally prepare themselves for this next chapter. Afterward, we talked about their lessons learned once the dust settled. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity. So I would do that differently.

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CIO

MAY 31, 2023

Along the way he has developed deep expertise in what it takes to succeed in the cloud. Now customers dictate how, when, and where they do business. What is your focus as head of software business operations? In our hardware business, the COO runs the supply chain. SaaS operations, which runs that.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

We also had some time after the show to explore another aspect of his leadership, one that has been a hallmark of the best CIOs throughout the decades: having a well-thought-out and well-articulated set of leadership principles. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity.

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CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2023

But whenever somebody says they need an IT system to do something, I wonder if they do. The first question is not about how do I have an IT solution, but how do I have the best solution.” So what we do is try and figure out a massive, chunky problem that can become a day-to-day, business as usual operation.

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CIO

JUNE 30, 2023

Part of what makes them good is they understand one another. CIOs and CFOs who have this chemistry know that the relative success of the relationship runs along three dimensions: The reporting structure : “Where the CIO reports should fit the nature of the business,” says McGittigan.

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2024

But Somerset Capital runs its developer environment in house using VMware. “As As we look at our own licenses, it could be a significant uphill battle on cost structure,” he says. And the question there is, ‘Do we keep it on VMware? Do we go with something else?’” What else might change?”

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this blogpost we’ll dive into such a custom solution. We’ll do the following: Deploy our ML model using a custom Docker image. Run smoke tests to see if our deployment is working as expected, before we replace our previous model. For this example, we’ll use FastAPI.

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