article thumbnail

Bridging the IT leadership gender gap

CIO

The ‘broken rung’ has long restricted women from achieving managerial positions in IT, and the latest joint LeanIn.org and McKinsey Women in the Workplace report finds underrepresentation in leadership roles is still a problem, and more so for women of color. Very often when there’s a woman in leadership, she is the only female,” she says.

article thumbnail

Keeping the customer journey and experience as a North Star

CIO

As a connected car data company focusing on the motor insurance sector, UK-based ThingCo is dedicated to developing next gen telematics built with the latest technology. It’s good to see and it’s going to change the way we work and make our life easier, but I don’t think it’ll get rid of engineers or developers” he says. “I

Insurance 265
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Transforming IT culture for business success

CIO

To reinforce the creator culture, Wenhold’s group hosts regular events like hackathons and Nitro Create, a development conference keyed to specific themes designed to encourage people to think outside the box. We built a culture based on those themes and traits we wanted to see on our team.”

Culture 322
article thumbnail

CIOs in financial services embrace gen AI — but with caution

CIO

Generative AI is starting off a new age of exploration in IT,” says Frank Schmidt, CTO at insurance firm Gen Re. Cugini at KeyBank agrees, and adds that the exploration has to include a cross-functional team from all areas of the business, not just IT. “We However, developing and deploying an LLM is costly. Humans get fatigued.

article thumbnail

3 areas where gen AI improves productivity — until its limits are exceeded

CIO

So based on early results, the three functional areas where companies see the biggest productivity improvements are in customer service, software development, and general creative and knowledge work. AI models are able to present best practice code systems to help junior developers learn and hone their skills.”

article thumbnail

What your CFO really needs in periods of economic uncertainty

CIO

Keep tabs on the keep the lights on (KTLO) budget If you fall on hard times in your personal life, you pay for your mortgage, health insurance, and groceries first to cover the necessities: shelter, security, and food, respectively. Securing the technical estate from bad actors? Of course.

Budget 246
article thumbnail

12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO

However, the measure of success has been historically at odds with the number of projects said to be overrunning or underperforming, as Panorama has noted that organizations have lowered their standards of success. While we weren’t naïve to the risk of disruption to the business, the extent and magnitude was greater than we anticipated.”