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Your Generative AI strategy could use a startup’s touch

CIO

You’re an IT leader at an organization whose employees are rampantly adopting generative AI. Although it’s early days, as many as 75% of organizations reported quantified outcomes from GenAI projects, with 26% expecting productivity gains, according to a Dell Technologies survey of IT decision makers. What are your metrics for success?

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Low code/no code tools reap IT benefits—with caveats

CIO

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. So there’s a lot in the plus column, but there are reasons to be cautious, too.

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Valence raises $25M to track team performance with continuous reviews

TechCrunch

Mitchell describes it as a set of tools for talent and development, specifically teams-based coaching, in an organization. Valence lets managers track team performance by certain metrics and, if they deem it necessary, intervene with “guided conversations.” What constitutes a “teamwork platform,” exactly?

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How Can CIOs Avoid Wasting Their Budget?

The Accidental Successful CIO

All too often they end up building something new rather than buying off the shelf. Currently everyone’s seeing CIOs causing digital acceleration, but very few organizations are tracking what they’re getting in terms of business outcomes. The answer is that CIOs are not using business metrics to influence investment.

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Why Reinvent the Wheel? The Challenges of DIY Open Source Analytics Platforms

Cloudera

In their effort to reduce their technology spend, some organizations that leverage open source projects for advanced analytics often consider either building and maintaining their own runtime with the required data processing engines or retaining older, now obsolete, versions of legacy Cloudera runtimes (CDH or HDP).

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How Software Development Services Can Supercharge Your Operational Efficiency

Sunflower Lab

Every business is unique and while it might be tempting to invest in off-the-shelf software solutions to assist, the truth is that you often need something more bespoke for your specific needs. And when you invest in technology like this, you’ll find that it opens many new doors that can transform your organization for the better.

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Panera CIO John Meister on mastering customer experience

CIO

If we know, for example, that a guest always takes the onions off their order, then if they forget, we know to ask about it. John Meister is the senior vice president and CIO of Panera Bread, a chain of bakery-cafe fast casual restaurants with more than 2,000 locations across the United States and Canada.