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Hasso Plattner stepping down signals another turning point at SAP

CIO

It’s difficult to imagine SAP without Hasso Plattner, who’s been there from the beginning and has significantly shaped the fortunes of Europe’s largest software manufacturer for more than five decades as founder, board of directors member, and, most recently, as chairman of the supervisory board. Our startup phase lasted about 10 to 15 years.”

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Delivering value through IT at Village Roadshow

CIO

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.” But transformation can be difficult with people agitating for change on one end and people who are resistant on the other.

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Today’s best CIOs are strategy wranglers

CIO

Strategy is not a label you stick on what you are doing. Putting strategy to work Two and a half thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Protagoras concluded, “Man is the measure of all things.” When we started this century the buzz in IT was “everything is going to have a chip.” As CIO, you need a data strategy.

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Difficult Things To Do

Rapid BI

Difficult Things To Do To break a bad habit To love an enemy To think logically To admit ignorance To withhold judgement To grow old gracefully To persevere without haste To wait without impatience To suffer without complaint To know when to.

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What’s holding CTOs back?

CIO

With 43% of CTOs reporting up to another IT leader or LOB executive, according to the 2024 State of the CIO survey , and just 38% having a budget separate from IT, as change agents they can find themselves in a difficult spot. The CTO role also means different things in different organizations.

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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

CIO

It became difficult to get anyone to accept there was a problem,” he says. Tomago Aluminium is an industry giant in the Asia-Pacific region, and as IT superintendent, Dennis Moncrieff is responsible for leveraging the right technologies to make the process of producing aluminum more efficient. It’s just too risky.”

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What LinkedIn learned leveraging LLMs for its billion users

CIO

LLM was the new thing and it felt like it could solve everything,” Bottaro said. “We We didn’t start with a very clear idea of what an LLM could do.” Some members may be contemplating a career change into fields where they currently do not have a strong fit and need help understanding what are the gaps and the next steps.”