CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In our fast-changing digital world, it’s essential to sync IT strategies with business objectives for lasting success. Technology has shifted from a back-office function to a core enabler of business growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. Understanding the competitive landscape is also essential.

Business 460

Business IT Competitive Landscape Matrix 460

CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Jeff Schumacher, CEO of artificial intelligence (AI) software company NAX Group, told the World Economic Forum : “To truly realize the promise of AI, businesses must not only adopt it, but also operationalize it.” Lazarev agrees: “It’s one thing to have the technology, but it’s another to weave it into the fabric of your business strategy.

Business 483

Business Predictive Analytics Startups Learning 483

CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The Middle East is rapidly evolving into a global hub for technological innovation, with 2025 set to be a pivotal year in the regions digital landscape. AI and machine learning are poised to drive innovation across multiple sectors, particularly government, healthcare, and finance.

Innovation 398

Innovation Finance Predictive Analytics Technology 398

CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

In almost all these transformations, one must prove the justification for change and navigate resistance to it, and go above and beyond to develop the business case. So the question that plagues any professional entrusted with or motivated to drive a huge change initiative is how to inspire innovation and foster a culture of excellence.

Innovation 419

Innovation Capital Benchmarking Technology 419

CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

Digital transformation represented among the largest investments in technology to modernize businesses starting in the early 2000s. With the rise of generative AI, CEOs recognize an opportunity to shift from technology-led digital transformation to executive-led business reformation.

Innovation 543

Innovation Business Gaming Win 543

CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The opening of this new office in Dubai not only marks a key development for the company but also reflects its dedication to helping local businesses with their digital transformation journeys. In the years to come, Salesforces role in Dubai will likely grow, contributing to the continued development of the UAEs digital economy.

Innovation 398

Innovation Banking Retail Globalization 398

CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, AI platforms are playing a pivotal role in reshaping industries and driving business transformation. As businesses across the UAE embark on their digital journeys, AI has emerged as a key enabler, streamlining operations, enhancing decision-making, and fostering innovation.

Business 419

Business Banking Profiling Innovation 419

CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

Despite the promise generative AI holds for boosting corporate productivity, closing the gap between its potential and business value remains one of CIOs’ chief challenges. Deloitte 2 meanwhile found that 41% of business and technology leaders said a lack of talent, governance, and risks are barriers to broader GenAI adoption.

Innovation 535

Innovation Business Security Security 535

CIO

JANUARY 13, 2025

AI, once viewed as a novel innovation, is now mainstream, impacting just about facet of the enterprise. Over the next 12 months, IT leaders can look forward to even more innovations, as well as some serious challenges. As 2025 dawns, CIOs face an IT landscape that differs significantly from just a year ago.

Innovation 526

Innovation Competitive Landscape Security Security 526

CIO

AUGUST 8, 2024

The business narrative around generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has been consumed with real-world use cases. However, as GenAI matures and businesses move deeper into enterprise-level adoption, it’s become clear that the most transformative impact of GenAI will be on the very idea of transformation itself.

Innovation 492

Innovation Business Knowledge Intelligence 492

CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We havent realistically begun updating and normalizing the wider semi- and unstructured data applications that pervade business processes and that are exactly the data and business flows that can most benefit from the latest waves of AI innovation. Its about bridging the gap between raw data and actionable insights.

Business 406

Business Banking Management Innovation 406

CIO

MARCH 5, 2025

To help enterprises overcome these challenges and achieve positive business outcomes, EXL launched EXLerate.AI, its agentic AI platform. The platform demonstrates EXLs continued innovation and investment in the development of new AI solutions across key functions in insurance, healthcare, banking and capital markets, and other industries.

Business 322

Business Banking Finance Capital 322

CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

How and why is Ingram Micro becoming a platform business? But today, were working toward becoming a platform business, and recently re-entered the public eye under the NYSE: INGM ticker symbol. Many digital transformations focus on platforms to support the business, but thats different from running a platform business.

Business 436

Business Commerce Algorithm Technology 436

CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

Innovate Shane McDaniel, CIO for the City of Seguin, Texas, says his city has grown by about 35% since the 2020 census. McDaniel says this work also creates a strong launchpad for more IT innovation in the upcoming year. Were embracing innovation, he explains. Heres what they resolve to do in the upcoming 12 months.

IT 526

IT Innovation Security Security 526

CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

If we remain solely focused on just building better and better AI capabilities, we risk creating an amazing technology without clear applications, public acceptance, or concrete returns for businesses. Innovation is what will make companies successful in an AI-driven future. Instead, it needs to be coupled with innovation.

Innovation 530

Innovation Intelligence Intelligence Technology 530

CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Agus Huerta, SVP of digital innovation and VP of technology at Globant, says hes seen better performance on code generation using Llama 3 than ChatGPT. Its one thing to build an open model, release it, and have millions of people use it, versus building a business model around it and monetizing it, he says.

Security 433

Security Security Business Entertainment 433

CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

AI is clearly making its way across the enterprise, with 49% of respondents expecting that the use of AI will be pervasive across all sectors and business functions. Yet, this has raised some important ethical considerations around data privacy, transparency and data governance.

Technology 318

Technology Technology Business Data Analysis 318

CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

With data central to every aspect of business, the chief data officer has become a highly strategic executive. Todays CDO is focused on helping the organization leverage data as a business asset to drive outcomes. Its a message CDOs have been yelling from the rooftops for some time.

Business 340

Business Brainstorming Education Intelligence 340

CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The survey found that people are surprisingly knowledgeable and excited about AI and business leaders should understand and not underestimate consumers when developing and deploying AI-enabled solutions. GenAI created tremendous interest, and is giving a boost to enterprise AI strategies, and promises to enable many business outcomes.

Technology 321

Technology Technology Globalization Innovation 321

CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Salima Bhimani has been encouraging the responsible and ethical use of AI for several years as Alphabet’s first chief strategist and director for inclusive and responsible technology, business, and leaders from 2017 to 2023. Now, we have to think about innovation as a way of really reshaping the world so that it works for everybody.

Loss 492

Loss Innovation Technology Technology 492

CIO

DECEMBER 2, 2024

trillion annually — translating this into compelling business language for the board remains a persistent challenge. The more strategic concern isn’t just the cost— it’s that technical debt is affecting companies’ abilities to create new business, and saps the means to respond to shifting market conditions.

Innovation 513

Innovation Advantage Advantage Competitive 513

CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

With technology rapidly shaping business outcomes, and the tech infrastructure supporting every aspect of business, CIOs much deservedly now occupy a seat at the table. For Shajy Thomas, Regional Head of Tech APAC at Technicolor, technology actively contributes to shaping long-term business outcomes.

Business 222

Business Finance Commerce Innovation 222

CIO

AUGUST 5, 2024

Almost every business across the globe now uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) in some form. This joint focus on CX and EX is integral to sustaining innovation and driving business growth. Businesses can meaningfully use AI to meet peoples’ expectations of what they should be providing.

Innovation 476

Innovation Technology Technology Learning 476

CIO

JANUARY 13, 2025

To some consumers and businesses, alike it may appear companies are exaggerating the significance of this emerging technology. AI this, AI that The reality is that AI is here to stay and will play a massive role in the future of global technology, how consumers interact with it and the way businesses operate.

Technology 501

Technology Technology Predictive Analytics Innovation 501

CIO

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Here are five specific areas to focus on regarding innovation and thought leadership. Innovation is critical despite economic cycles or company performance Especially in difficult times, the board may look for additional ways to improve profit margins and generally tighten the belt.

Innovation 458

Innovation Education Win Technology 458

CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Long-term game Business leaders are turning their focus from experimenting with GenAI to exploring long-term use cases that transform business performance and workplace culture for the better. The report shows GenAI is on track to augment human labour in a range of areas, with implications for business models in every industry.

Research 284

Research Business Primary Research Value Chain 284

CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

In a global economy where innovators increasingly win big, too many enterprises are stymied by legacy application systems. As a consequence, these businesses experience increased operational costs and find it difficult to scale or integrate modern technologies. The solutionGenAIis also the beneficiary.

Innovation 469

Innovation Win Globalization Security 469

CIO

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Global professional services firm Marsh McLennan has roughly 40 gen AI applications in production , and CIO Paul Beswick expects the number to soar as demonstrated efficiencies and profit-making innovations sell the C-suite. However, the higher value use cases involve new business models, which require widespread organizational change.”

Travel 516

Travel Innovation Globalization Profiling 516

CIO

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

For IT leaders, balancing must-have AI-powered innovation in the cloud with cost efficiency poses a massive challenge. The fast pace of AI development also means that models require continuous improvement and retraining to keep up with the latest technological innovations. Operating expenses have skyrocketed as a result.

Innovation 436

Innovation Competitive Landscape Benchmarking Algorithm 436

CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As digital transformation becomes a critical driver of business success, many organizations still measure CIO performance based on traditional IT values rather than transformative outcomes. To drive change, a reworking of what defines CIO/IT success is needed, with a focus on strategic business goals, innovation, and market differentiation.

Benchmarking 482

Benchmarking Innovation Research Gaming 482

CIO

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

For its Generative AI Readiness Report, IT services company Avanade surveyed over 3,000 business and IT executives in 10 countries from companies with at least $500 million in annual revenue. Here are key attributes of those who embody this new standard in order to succeed in the current multifaceted business environment.

IT 488

IT Business Environment Innovation Intelligence 488

CIO

AUGUST 28, 2024

For this reason, paying down technical debt while innovating and supporting growth is one of the greatest challenges for the modern CIO. We have nine business units, some B2C and some B2B, but regardless of the business unit or customer, we use the same set of digital technologies across the enterprise.

Innovation 455

Innovation Capital Finance Retail 455

CIO

OCTOBER 3, 2024

To comply with this obligation, Suncor has developed the Intercompany Tax Automation (ITC) solution using SAP Business AI & SAP Build Products. The key highlight of the solution was leveraging Suncor’s existing investments in SAP, improving, and optimizing the solution for evolving and challenging business needs with quick time-to-value.

Business 461

Business Innovation Learning Technology 461

CIO

AUGUST 9, 2024

Companies eager to harness these benefits can leverage ready-made, budget-friendly models and customize them with proprietary business data to quickly tap into the power of AI. The right generative AI solutions can unlock a world of opportunities for business leaders aiming to increase efficiency, drive productivity, and boost performance.

Business 525

Business Innovation Security Security 525

CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Focus on the areas that will enhance business and efficiency,” he says. I believe if you don’t enhance every business process with it, you will simply get left behind.” You’re going to have to innovate, and the way you innovate isn’t by getting it right out the gate. The technology is too novel and evolving,” he says. “As

Learning 498

Learning Knowledge Innovation Education 498

CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This forward-thinking initiative, recently approved by The Executive Council, is set to position the emirate at the forefront of emerging technologies, making it a beacon for innovation and economic growth in the digital age. The data centre economy exemplifies these transformations.

Innovation 469

Innovation Globalization Technology Technology 469