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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. With Databricks, the firm has also begun its journey into generative AI.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

You spent 14 years working on the business side at Bank of America when the banks president asked you to move to Atlanta and build a research and development group. It felt risky because I didnt know anything about building and leading a research and development team. So, I thought, banking would be stable.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. With Databricks, the firm has also begun its journey into generative AI.

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2025

The next evolution of AI has arrived, and its agentic. AI agents are powered by the same AI systems as chatbots, but can take independent action, collaborate to achieve bigger objectives, and take over entire business workflows. The technology is relatively new, but all the major players are already on board.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Challenge: Consumers want to shop on their own terms Recent research shows that 77% of consumers today buy through a mix of digital and physical shopping, while just 17% buy only online or only in physical stores (IDC Retail Insights: Consumer Sentiment Survey, 2024 — Findings and Implications, July 2024). And they are making progress.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2025

Tay notes that Accenture research shows that enterprises with digital core investments accelerate their reinvention and innovation, achieving up to 60% higher revenue growth rates and a 40% boost in profits. As 2025 dawns, CIOs face an IT landscape that differs significantly from just a year ago.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2024

MIT Center for Information Systems Research The MIT Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR) operates as a research center in Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We work directly with technology leaders, executives, and boards to develop our research insights.”

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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.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Traditional analytics tools often fall short when it comes to delivering a complete, real-time understanding of customer behavior. Gen AI transforms this by helping businesses make sense of complex, high-density data, generating actionable insights that lead to impactful decisions. The future of Gen AI in DXA: What’s next?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrateddistributed quantum computing for the first timeby connecting two separate quantum processors via a photonic network interface. By using optical fibers to entangle quantum bits in separate modules, quantum logic operations can be performed across the modules via quantum teleportation.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This tool aims to help companies make informed decisions as they develop and implement AI technologies. The government also plans to introduce measures to support businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in adopting responsible AI management practices through a new self-assessment tool.

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CIO

APRIL 12, 2024

These roles include data scientist, machine learning engineer, software engineer, research scientist, full-stack developer, deep learning engineer, software architect, and field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineer. As a result, AI skills are now among the most sought-after skills, even as companies retrench via layoffs.

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CIO

JULY 2, 2024

Any task or activity that’s repetitive and can be standardized on a checklist is ripe for automation using AI, says Jeff Orr, director of research for digital technology at ISG’s Ventana Research. Yet there’s now another, cutting-edge tool that can significantly spur both team productivity and innovation: artificial intelligence.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

However, research demonstrates that more executives, like Schumacher, recognize the connection between AI and business innovation. A June 2023 study by IBM found that 43% of executives use generative AI to inform strategic decisions, accessing real-time data and unique insights. Most AI hype has focused on large language models (LLMs).

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For example, employees might inadvertently broadcast corporate secrets by inputting sensitive company information or source code into public-facing AI models and chatbots. Imagine a hacker compromising a healthcare database and simply changing the blood type of every individual in a research study or the entire patient population.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

What kind of research should you do to ace this interview? Research will help prepare you, either way. Research, research, research — and have your talking points down Everyone I spoke to said that interviewers expect candidates to research the company and know its products, goals, mission statements, and more.

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

Therefore, always-lurking tech debt gets put on the backburner, says Daniel Saroff, group vice president for consulting and research at IDC. With business data in silos or hidden in dark corners of an organization’s IT systems, modern AI tools won’t have the information they need to return good results, he notes.

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

In addition, the quality of qubits aka quantum bits, the basic units of information for quantum computing is not yet sufficient for longer calculations. To do this, Googles team tested increasingly larger arrays of physical qubits, scaling up from a grid of 33 encoded qubits to a grid of 55 and then to a grid of 77.

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

This attack and a steady drumbeat of others over the years have put cybersecurity front and center not only for CISOs but for CIOs, too, says Chad Anderson, assistant professor of information systems and analytics at Miami University’s Farmer School of Business. Other surveys offer similar findings. 1 priority among its respondents as well.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Officials at the North Carolina Department of Information Technology found themselves in a position familiar to most IT organizations: aware of the need to do more to attract IT workers given that they — like most employers — faced fierce competition for talent.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2024

Building a new platform To move on from an outdated IT environment, a new platform is being developed, for Karolinska as well as the entire Stockholm region, to make data available both operationally in care and treatment, and analytically for follow-up, analysis, and research. I made a U-turn,” she says. It would be a huge time-saver.”

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CIO

MAY 30, 2024

Process mining provides the potential to enable organizations make quicker, more informed decisions when overhauling business processes by leveraging data for insights. By using the information gleaned from process mining, companies can better streamline workflows, enhance resource allocation, and automate repetitive tasks.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The value of addressing cybersecurity issues through ongoing discussions is getting corporate alignment on effective and robust strategies, says Roger Albrecht, co-lead of the cybersecurity unit at technology research and advisory firm ISG. Are our systems adequately modernized for security? This is equivalent to building on sand,” he states.

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MAY 22, 2024

Difficulties estimating or demonstrating the value of AI technologies to the business have been or will be a top barrier to their implementation, according to a recent Gartner survey of more than 700 IT leaders at organizations that have adopted or plan to adopt AI. Nearly half of respondents pointed to challenges with showing its value.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

When thinking about the facts that drive information investment decisions, I recall the story of the three baseball umpires discussing the facts of strikes. The facts that drive information investments require an umpire. In a perfect world, every digital investment would be based on a set of universally agreed upon facts. I admit it.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

IT executives, hiring managers, recruiters, researchers, and workers themselves say there are certainly jobs — such as the one Williams signed on for in 2022 — where certifications are preferred because they indicate that the candidate has the specific skills required to do that job. Williams is now an IT security analyst with BuddoBot.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

AI and other advanced technologies have the potential to create huge benefits for all of humanity, she says, including solving tough problems such as health and information inequality, but vendors and users need to think about IT in new ways. The opportunity in front of us is not to just ride the wave of AI,” Bhimani says. “The

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.” As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports.

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CIO

JANUARY 12, 2025

A recent report from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, and consultancy firm Hello Tomorrow highlights the rapid growth of deep tech startups in Saudi Arabia, with 50% of these startups focusing on AI and IoT.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Instead, failure today means an IT project doesn’t deliver some or all its expected benefits, according to CIOs, project leaders, researchers, and IT consultants. Instead, failure today means an IT project doesn’t deliver some or all its expected benefits, according to CIOs, project leaders, researchers, and IT consultants.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

He’s determined to keep up, finding ways to help his staffers be more agile in using AI to accelerate insights that inform innovation. Build better business alignment Multiple CIOs plan to strengthen their ties to other functional areas in ’24, building on the work they’ve done in recent years to create even more synergy.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2024

So they will walk if the executives who manage them aren’t up to the task, says Eric Bloom, executive director of the IT Management and Leadership Institute and part of the Society for Information Management (SIM) Leadership Institute. It’s one of those sayings that sticks around: People quit managers, not jobs. The most obvious one: money.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Management rules typically exist to enable faultless decision-making, set a foundation for consistent operation, and provide protection from risk, observes Ola Chowning, a partner at global technology research and advisory firm ISG. The goal is to get everyone on the same page and make an informed, collective decision.”

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CIO

AUGUST 16, 2024

Next time you settle into your airline seat, it might be worth setting aside the reports and spreadsheets and instead turn this time into an opportunity for big-picture thinking. I asked CIOs and other high-level IT leaders what they have read that they think other leaders would benefit from. Find fulfillment in what you do.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

Its newly appointed CEO, Romain Fouache, is bringing Australian retailers a collection of cloud-based technologies, including Product Information Management (PIM), Syndication, and Supplier Data Manager capabilities to rapidly scale the depth and maturity of their AI applications. So the question here isnt if AI will disrupt your business.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They deliver Although it’s true that leading , which is about visioning, is not synonymous with managing , aka accomplishing tasks , true IT leaders are indeed “great at the business of IT,” says Eric Bloom, executive director of the IT Management and Leadership Institute and part of the Society for Information Management (SIM) Leadership Institute.

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