CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2024

“You can have the best solution but if you don’t have adoption, it will fail,” says Wayne Tung, managing director of Sendero Consulting. There’s always change,” says Jim Moore, CTO at HR Acuity. “A Getting your team to accept, and even embrace, change is an essential leadership skill. A healthy team is used to it.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.” One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves.

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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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Modern CTO

APRIL 25, 2024

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! I am a leadership advisor, best-selling author, podcast host, and speaker. I have been recognized by Thinkers360 as one of the Top Voices in Leadership and by LeadersHum as one of the Biggest Voices in Leadership. Have feedback about the show?

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

The recent layoffs and hiring freezes by the big tech companies have leveled the playing field somewhat,” Hoemeke says. The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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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 consulting giant said it was buying the 29-person, London-based company to help clients articulate and activate their vision and change strategies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

New data from Kruze Consulting’s salary data from more than 200 startups show that CTOs, on average, are on higher salaries than their CEO counterparts. With a dataset of more than 200 startups, startup accountants Kruze Consulting found the balance leans toward the technical co-founder of a startup. Differences by stage.

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Modern CTO

MARCH 25, 2024

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! For booking inquiries, email booking@proseriesmedia.com About Jim Harris Jim Harris is one of North America’s foremost management consultants, public speakers, authors and thinkers on change and leadership. To learn more about Jim Harris, check out his website here.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO. Martin-Flickinger, who, before Adobe, was CIO of McAfee and VeriSign, became CTO of Starbucks for many years. So congratulations!

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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. Most companies think of failure as something they want to avoid, but really fast-changing organizations understand failures as a step towards success.”

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. I even got this particular section framed and hung up at our office: Your mission Let's say you were employed as a CTO behind the front lines and you wanted to destroy productivity for as long as you can without getting caught. Blame the previous CTO.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The survey should include questions directly related to organizational culture, including morale, personal recognition, compensation, promotion decisions, management leadership quality, and an employees’ likelihood to remain with the organization. Culture is a function of leadership execution. A clear vision guides team direction.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Keeping a tight rein on the budget allows the company to have flexibility in making strategic decisions when needed for a new platform, project, or taking on growth.” These ‘small’ expenditures can add up to a significant sum,” says Vineet Arora, CTO at IT services firm WinWire.

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Modern CTO

JANUARY 8, 2024

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! His 25 year career spans leadership, board, consulting, and investing work with high-growth technology and services companies. To learn more about Testlio, visit their website here. Have feedback about the show? Let us know here.

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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

JUNE 26, 2023

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Neal Sample A transferable skill set Meyercord would certainly make that case.

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CIO

MAY 5, 2023

He will bring his story and lessons about leadership and disruption to the FutureIT Washington, D.C. As companies move into cloud maturity, mastering cloud governance will become a vital skill. Change Management, Cloud Computing, Data and Information Security, Data Breach, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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CIO

JULY 18, 2022

With an expanding customer base that includes public and private-sector leaders, demand for the company’s solutions is being driven by enterprises that must monitor their data and ensure that it remains on Dutch soil at all times. Our customers can consult with one of our engineers within minutes on any day and at any time,” he says.

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Modern CTO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Today, we’re bringing you our first Modern CTO panel episode! All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! For more on Brian Singer’s company, check out MedZed. For more on Brian Singer’s company, check out MedZed. For more on Matt Peters’ company, check out CAI. Let us know here.

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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

MARCH 8, 2023

Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I I was able to see that the breadth of technologies I could use in education was small compared to the tech that could help global private-sector companies,” she says.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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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. Chris Bowers,CIO of Boston Consulting Group, puts it this way: “In 2024, we’re going to go after generative AI very aggressively. We’re piloting, PoC-ing.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We have an innovation spirit that’s ingrained into who we are as a company.” Caldas says that innovation today includes the adoption of promising new technologies, such as generative AI and open frameworks. Caldas has no doubt that technology is a key differentiator. IT Leadership, Staff Management

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

Two of the top executive recruiters in the CIO retained search space, Shawn Banerji and Martha Heller, joined me for the first episode of 2024 to share their insights on a range of talent-related issues, including hiring trends, hybrid work questions, and the critical skills companies are looking for at the executive level.

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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

APRIL 29, 2024

Sengupta acknowledges that layoffs at the tech giants in the past year or so eased the talent crunch a bit — but only for other big companies who could offer highly-competitive salaries to those laid-off workers. Other executives haven’t gotten the memo, says Mikhail Papovsky, CEO and founder of Massaro Consulting. 1 challenge listed.

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TechEmpower CTO

AUGUST 21, 2023

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. Let’s assume that you’ve already expressed your frustrations with technical leadership.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Building wealth is a long process and can be complex, but Farther is bringing both technology and advisors to the table to make these kinds of services more accessible. Meanwhile, Genser, CTO, is a military veteran who previously worked at Goldman Sachs leading an artificial intelligence team in private wealth.

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Apiumhub

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Andrea Tosato – Software Architect at Open Job Metis Andrea is a green software speaker, Microsoft MVP in Azure, and Developer Technologies, recognized for outstanding contributions. Employed as a software architect within an Italian company, Andrea has been actively involved in software development since 2010.

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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. The real ethical concern lies in how companies safeguard against misinformation. Companies need both a practical plan and a transparent communications strategy in their response.”

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

The goal isn’t to restructure with nothing remaining from what was valuable and meaningful,” says Andrew Sinclair, a managing director in consulting firm Accenture’s technology strategy and advisory practice. The same can be said for IT operations itself. Change requires something that is stable and durable.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 28, 2022

“Scope 3 reporting will come as a shock to a lot of technology leaders,” says Niklas Sundberg, CIO of global solutions at Swedish conglomerate Assa Abloy. “I Companies will be required to publish real numbers about sustainability across the supply chain—and much of the data will come from IT procurement.”

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Narwhal , the company behind the popular monorepo -focused open source Nx build system for JavaScript code, today announced that it has raised an $8.6 As Cross told me, it was working with Capital One that actually pushed the team to pursue Nx and turn that into the company’s main product. And they really needed a monorepo.

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CIO

JULY 4, 2023

And if you’re presenting, it’s best to study older board packages and consult with colleagues about how the directors discuss, debate, and finalize key decisions. They assume their board lacks technical expertise In 2019, MIT reported that only 24% of US boards of companies with over $1 billion in revenue were digitally savvy.

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