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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They understand that their strategies, capabilities, resources, and management systems should be configured to support the enterprise’s overarching purpose and goals. Most IT and business executives recognize the necessity of close alignment. Here are 11 effective ways to reach that goal.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Sameer Purao, who joined Celanese as CIO and CDO in 2021, is keeping the team and company focused by making change management a core competency of his team, and ensuring a focus on value, agility, and purpose. We have 52 manufacturing plants globally, some of which have been in place for more than 100 years.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLennan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLellan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Globally, the professional services market, including legal, engineering, and consulting services, is expected to reach $6.5 Globally, the professional services market, including legal, engineering, and consulting services, is expected to reach $6.5 trillion in 2024, according to The Business Research Company.

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MARCH 19, 2025

Our data capability finds global commonality across all our regional solutions. It takes a lot of change to build a global common data capability. CIOs have the daunting task of educating it on the various flavors of this capability, and steering them to the most beneficial investments and strategies. Thats gen AI driving revenue.

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JULY 25, 2024

IT managers are often responsible for not just overseeing an organization’s IT infrastructure but its IT teams as well. To succeed, you need to understand the fundamentals of security, data storage, hardware, software, networking, and IT management frameworks — and how they all work together to deliver business value.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Data integration challenges Indicium, a global data services company, is a digital native with modern platforms. The knowledge management systems are up to date and support API calls, but gen AI models communicate in plain English. All of this creates new challenges, on top of those already posed by the gen AI itself.

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MARCH 5, 2025

Essential to global prosperity yet subject to economic and geopolitical forces, companies across the entire energy value chain are under pressure to operate at high levels of safety, efficiency, and uptime. Managed, on the other hand, it can boost operations, efficiency, and resiliency. Its the same story across all industries.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

The launch by SAP of new AI capabilities in its SuccessFactors HCM (human capital management) suite Monday is a case of “better late to the party than never,” according to an analyst with Info-Tech Research Group. Enhancements to SAP’s AI copilot, Joule, which allow it to guide employees through the onboarding process. he asked. “It

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

With advanced technologies like AI transforming the business landscape, IT organizations are struggling to find the right talent to keep pace. The problem isnt just the shortage of qualified candidates; its the lack of alignment between the skills available in the workforce and the skills organizations need. Take cybersecurity, for example.

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MARCH 4, 2024

It’s one of those sayings that sticks around: People quit managers, not jobs. When it comes to why your best IT managers quit, the answer is yes, no, and maybe. But top-tier managers may bail for myriad other reasons, too, even if their own bosses are superstar managers. Because when issues pile up, managers will quit.”

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JANUARY 13, 2025

Thats why, in 2025, the top priority for tech leaders should be ensuring that AI technology investments are strategically aligned to deliver measurable commercial outcomes while also addressing rapidly evolving customer needs, says Bill Pappas, MetLifes head of global technology and operations.

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MARCH 19, 2025

Then in November, the company revealed its Azure AI Agent Service, a fully-managed service that lets enterprises build, deploy and scale agents quickly. Before that, though, ServiceNow announced its AI Agents offering in September, with the first use cases for customer service management and IT service management, available in November.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Aligning ESG and technological innovation At the core of this transformation is the CIO, a pivotal player whose role has expanded beyond managing technological innovation to overseeing how these innovations contribute to ESG goals. It provides CIOs a roadmap to align these technologies with their organizations’ ESG goals.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In this role, Brady oversees the front-to-back IT organization, data and analytics, enterprise security, enterprise risk, and an intelligent automation center of excellence, all while managing back-office operations, contact center services, and KeyBanks corporate real estate portfolio. So, I thought, banking would be stable.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

AI is at the core of this vision, driving smart governance, efficient resource management, and enhanced quality of life for residents and visitors alike. The country also launched Smart Dubai, an initiative under the Dubai Future Foundation, Smart Dubai aims to transform Dubai into the world’s smartest and happiest city.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We spoke with several IT leaders for their insights on what might make an IT worker safe or vulnerable in this environment and what steps CIOs can take to build and manage an IT team for survival. It is often suggested that rapid advances in technology are threatening jobs in the IT sector perhaps more than any other.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

Cloud and the importance of cost management Early in our cloud journey, we learned that costs skyrocket without proper FinOps capabilities and overall governance. Cloud and the importance of cost management Early in our cloud journey, we learned that costs skyrocket without proper FinOps capabilities and overall governance.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

When I think about the technology we started working with early in my career and look at what we’ve been able to do since, it truly is amazing, a global transformation led by and driven through technology. Today, we’re a $450 billion company with more than 35,000 employees globally. We live in an age of miracles. One example is toil.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Running AI on mainframes as a trend is still in its infancy, but the survey suggests many companies do not plan to give up their mainframes even as AI creates new computing needs, says Petra Goude, global practice leader for core enterprise and zCloud at global managed IT services company Kyndryl.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Microsoft has announced the expansion of its Global Engineering Development Center to Abu Dhabi, marking a significant milestone in the UAE’s journey to becoming a global technology leader.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Retailers plan to focus on improving supply chain planning, warehouse/inventory management, and integration between supply chain planning and execution during the coming year to meet these challenges. IDC’s Global Retail Survey (July 2023) found that 36% plan to invest in robotics for guest and store services in the next 36 months.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Nate Melby, CIO of Dairyland Power Cooperative, says the Midwestern utility has been churning out large language models (LLMs) that not only automate document summarization but also help manage power grids during storms, for example. IDC also surveyed IT leaders on their build vs. buy equations for AI. I think that will take longer,” he says.

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APRIL 2, 2024

Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures. This dip delays when the business can start realizing the value delivered.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Like any other hiring manager, we started with the traditional route of putting out a job description and trying to recruit. We’ve trained more than 400 Singaporeans to become AI engineers, and nearly all of them are today AI engineers, AI consultants, managers, or data scientists. To do that, I needed to hire AI engineers.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

As the chief research officer at IDC, I lead a global team of analysts who develop research and provide advice to help our clients navigate the technology landscape. Companies tend to invest heavily in the data plane where data is stored, organized and managed. We were full of ideas and possibilities.

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JULY 1, 2024

It will mean, in theory, that Morgan Stanley management can see analysis of every call made across the enterprise — often within a few minutes of that call’s completion. Any data that the company can access can also be demanded via legal discovery in litigation, pointed out Rebecca George, the managing director of AI consulting firm Slalom.

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JUNE 11, 2024

After all, many C-suite leaders and employees have an outdated impression of what IT departments do today, which may undermine the CIO’s digital transformation , change management, and other strategic objectives. That definition was well ahead of its time and forecasted the current era’s machine learning and generative AI capabilities.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

At Google’s parent company, she worked with moonshot companies such as Waymo, Wing, and X, to shape sustainable businesses and global impact. In many cases, IT leaders and companies have focused on innovation, including benefits to users and customers , but they should think more broadly about global impacts, she says.

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CIO

JANUARY 12, 2025

The UAEs vision for AI is encapsulated in its National AI Strategy 2031, which aims to position the country as a global leader in AI by integrating it across various sectors. Another key feature of the week will be the Dubai AI Festival, which will gather global thought leaders to discuss the latest developments in the field.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Our digital transformation has coincided with the strengthening of the B2C online sales activity and, from an architectural point of view, with a strong migration to the cloud,” says Vibram global DTC director Alessandro Pacetti. It’s a change fundamentally based on digital capabilities.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Guan, along with AI leaders from S&P Global and Corning, discussed the gargantuan challenges involved in moving gen AI models from proof of concept to production, as well as the foundation needed to make gen AI models truly valuable for the business. MIT event, moderated by Lan Guan, CAIO at Accenture. Give a better experience,” she said.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

From nimble start-ups to global powerhouses, businesses are hailing AI as the next frontier of digital transformation. research firm Vanson Bourne to survey 650 global IT, DevOps, and Platform Engineering decision-makers on their enterprise AI strategy. Nutanix commissioned U.K. Cost, by comparison, ranks a distant 10th.

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

More than nine in 10 CIOs are ramping up sustainability investments, according to the Logicalis Global CIO Report for 2024. In addition, US Signal has created a sustainable data management to-do list, which gives its customers tips on how to limit the amount of data they store and thus, reduce energy use.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Water management projects are more dominant in water-scarce regions, Breckenridge says. She notes, however, that the green sector has a lot of overlap globally as climate and sustainability goals become increasingly universal. In especially high demand are IT pros with software development, data science and machine learning skills.

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CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Gartner’s top predictions for 2025 are as follows: Through 2026, 20% of organizations will use AI to flatten their organizational structure, eliminating more than half of current middle management positions. By 2029, 10% of global boards will use AI guidance to challenge executive decisions that are material to their business.

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