CIO

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Generative AI and, more specifically, ChatGPT captivated the corporate world in 2023, with board directors, CEOs, and other executives fawning (and sometimes fearing) the technology. IBM, for one, found that the average ROI on enterprise-wide AI initiatives at 5.9% with best-in-class companies “reaping an enviable 13% ROI.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In a healthy enterprise environment, each manager is committed to the success of everyone within their organization. Sealock also advises conducting regularly scheduled anonymous team surveys, designed to reveal a budding toxic culture. Culture is a function of leadership execution. A clear vision guides team direction.

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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

The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.” Here’s how.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A 2022 survey of 850 IT leaders by Foundry found more than two-thirds were accelerating their cloud migration and nearly three-quarters (72%) were defaulting to cloud-based services for upgrades or new IT purchases. Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For a qualitative view, employee surveys that measure engagement or information from front-line managers can be used. Focus on transparency and alignment An effective leader clearly communicates organizational goals that align with the overall enterprise mission, says Sandeep Angra, CTO at commercial aviation services provider Unifi Aviation.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2023

Consider some recent survey findings. At the same time, today’s hype may be distracting enterprise leaders from fully understanding how generative AI (also known as GAI) will evolve and how they can use that power in the future. The number of use cases and utility values are limited, impacting the potential.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

In a 2019 Vanson Bourne survey, enterprises said that they’ve been held back by legacy database technologies — specifically relational databases systems. “EdgeDB has a very ambitious goal: re-imagine relational databases with a focus on developer experience,” Selivanov said.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2023

While AI has steadily worked its way into the enterprise and business vernacular over many years, gen AI has not only become an abrupt and immediate force unto itself, but also an overarching AI accelerant. Not without warning signs, however. But I’d like to see more legislation and guidance in place, especially for medical records.”

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CIO

JULY 28, 2022

Synchrony isn’t the only company dealing with a dearth of data scientists to perform increasingly critical work in the enterprise. The research report also noted that top enterprises, such as Deloitte, Amazon and Microsoft, are looking to fill a wide spectrum of technical jobs but data science far outweighs all other roles.

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It found that 53% of the organizations it surveyed reported that their directors are among the main decision-makers for emerging technology investments, coming in just behind their CIOs and chief technology officers. Yet Ross says that work is sometimes overlooked by new IT chiefs. Flying solo.

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CIO

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) is an operational strategy for managing an organization’s overall governance, enterprise risk management , and regulation compliance efforts. Governance is who does what, how, and based on what data,” says Tilcia Toledo, senior managing director with FTI Consulting. What is GRC?

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CIO

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction.

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Modern CTO

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We discuss Tori’s idea of the Digital Employee Bill of Rights, the surprising survey question that 90% of respondents agreed on, and how their biggest research finding is shedding new light on traditional organizational hierarchy. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

To his point, a 2022 survey found that — among banks and credit unions who believe they’re at least three-quarters through a transition to digital — less than 25% have seen a meaningful increase in revenue. The problem Savana solves pertains to architecture, Sanchez tells TechCrunch.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

When interconnected, they struggle to deal with unstructured data and the process required to scale that solution across the enterprise. As per a recent survey, the number of companies using cloud technologies as part of their digital transformation endeavors has increased from 51% in 2019 to 62% in 20212. Let’s discuss.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 22, 2022

During COVID period, we conducted a software architecture metrics survey and found that there is strong demand for software architecture metrics resources, yet very few are available. Before joining Thoughtworks, Neal was the chief technology officer at the DSW Group Ltd., Rene Weiss is a CTO at Finabro.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

CIO.com’s 2023 State of the CIO survey recently zeroed in on the technology roles that IT leaders find the most difficult to fill, with cybersecurity, data science and analytics, and AI topping the list. As a result, many enterprise IT leaders find themselves in bidding wars they’re unable to win. “The

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

But Adept’s co-founders, CEO David Luan, CTO Niki Parmar and chief scientist Ashish Vaswani, boil their ambition down to perfecting an “overlay” within computers that works using the same tools people do. ” It’s lofty stuff. ” Luan told TechCrunch in an interview via email. billion in 2020 to $19.6

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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. The company’s marketing strategy succeeds at creating awareness among enterprise IT decision makers and customers.

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CIO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The goal is to shift the company from simply providing information to enterprises, says Mary-Alice Vuicic, chief people officer. As enterprises race to integrate cutting-edge tools and platforms, a greater focus to reskill employees on responsible and effective deployment becomes mission-critical.

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Accenture

MAY 12, 2020

The same rules of customer focus, small teams, and flexible organizations are being adopted by whole enterprises and driving toward a future with greater resilience, flexible systems, and more human-centricity including a focus on the customer. Evan Campbell – Managing Director and CTO, Accenture | SolutionsIQ. Take the survey.

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Openxcell

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

According to a survey by Forbes, as of 2023, there are as many as 1.13 Contrary to popular belief, web application development costs no longer burn a hole in the pockets of enterprises looking to invest in them. This can be very costly for small-scale enterprises that lack disposable funds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

As TC’s Connie Loizos reported on January 11: “The 11-year-old, San Francisco-based outfit whose core business is selling software to investors to track their portfolios, has sued its former CTO , Jerry Talton, who the company says was fired ‘for cause’ almost three weeks ago, on Friday, December 23.” pre-seed

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The use of gen AI in the enterprise was nearly nothing in November 2022, where the only tools commonly available were AI image or early text generators. But by May 2023, according to an IDC survey, 65% of companies were using gen AI, and in September, that number rose to 71%, with another 22% planning to implement it in the next 12 months.

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CIO

JANUARY 3, 2024

According to an O’Reilly survey released late last month, 23% of companies are using one of OpenAI’s models. Putting aside the fact this is an astronomically high adoption rate for a brand new technology, it’s also an indicator of how risky this space is. Entire businesses have been built on top of OpenAI and its APIs.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Forrester estimates about a third of organizations have either made or are in the process of orchestrating the shift to product-centric structures with more to follow as cloud migration gives IT a platform to retool for greater business agility, according to Charles Betz, vice president and research director for enterprise architecture at Forrester.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2019

30% of surveyed cyber security engineer jobs actually begin at the $83,000 to $108,499 range. This reflects cyber security’s vital role in an increasingly digital world, especially in large-scale enterprises with massive amounts of data. He also provides consulting services to startups and enterprise companies.

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Tenable

JANUARY 31, 2024

These are the findings from a commissioned survey including 262 IT and security professionals who have the final decision-making authority for their organization’s cloud infrastructure. And, managing who has access to these systems poses a significant challenge.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 6, 2019

Forrester Consulting discovered that poor checkout experience and long lines are the third highest reason grocers would skip the line and shop in a different place. Source: Forrester Consulting. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in their 2017 survey estimated that 6.5 percent of U.S. The solution for store employees.

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CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Businesses are accountable for the consequences of their choices, and that includes deploying AI in inappropriate areas, says Andi Mann, global CTO and founder of Colorado-based consultancy Sageable. You may also want to include generative AI usage in audits and eDiscovery the same way you do with enterprise chat systems.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 14, 2020

David Johnson, Chief Technology Officer at Mulytic and Founder at Clear Blue Data. William Chin, Web Consultant at PickFu. Chris Alexander, Enterprise Agile Coach at EXPANSIA. Matt Scott, owner of Termite Survey. In that case, you’ll be just fine with any Agile framework you pick. APMG International?—?a

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