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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

You may have seen the main features: Draghi states that productivity and thus GDP in the EU lags behind considerably and that the US and China have Usain Bolt–ran away from us when it comes to innovation. “This is an existential challenge,” writes Draghi. It’s pure horror reading. In fact, IT is the culprit in the whole drama.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As part of its storytelling ethos, the flight-status LLM will specify, for example, which precise weather event may be affecting a delayed flight and provide quick and useful information to customers about next actions. People hear the specifics, and they understand it and their blood pressure goes down.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Business leaders may be confident that their organizations data is ready for AI, but IT workers tell a much different story, with most spending hours each day massaging the data into shape. But 84% of the IT practitioners surveyed, including data scientists, data architects, and data analysts, spend at least one hour a day fixing data problems.

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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.

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CIO

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Many C-suite executives want the IT team to both keep the systems running and drive strategic innovation, he says, a challenging balance act. Some bad news for CIOs: Many C-suite leaders, including IT leaders themselves, have less confidence in your department’s ability to get the job done than they did a decade ago. So what’s the deal?

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

It’s among CIOs’ most persistent and underdiscussed challenges: embracing innovative technologies without losing sight of mounting — and potentially crippling — technical debt. Tech debt is boring Company boards and CEOs are putting pressure on CIOs to find innovative uses for AI, and the need for better cybersecurity never goes way.

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2024

Innovating faster with data, domain, and AI expertise By removing artificial barriers to a centrally controlled tech architecture, it is possible for every single business unit owner to implement AI-powered solutions and start iterating and transforming their workflows immediately.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Despite these opportunities, Tencent Cloud faces challenges from competitors, requiring a careful balancing act between innovation and market adaptability. Tencent Cloud’s deployment of palm verification for secure identity authentication, particularly in collaboration with Telkomsel in Indonesia, underscores its ability to innovate.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

Businesses rely heavily on software for innovation and competition, which tends to be riddled with bad-quality code, leading to mounting technical debt,” says Andrea Malagodi, CIO of Sonar. “ As a digital transformation leader and former CIO, I carry a healthy dose of paranoia. Is the organization transforming fast enough?

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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. By fostering such an environment, Dubai aims to become a magnet for investment in AI-driven data infrastructure.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Effective IT leadership now demands not only the courage to innovate but also a profound understanding of change management principles. By building a program on the existing foundation of culture, structure, and governance, IT leaders can navigate the complexities of AI while upholding ethical standards and fostering innovation.

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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.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Most IT and business executives recognize the necessity of close alignment. They understand that their strategies, capabilities, resources, and management systems should be configured to support the enterprise’s overarching purpose and goals. Is your IT organization doing all it can to build strong alignment with business leaders and colleagues?

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CIO

JULY 2, 2024

Yet there’s now another, cutting-edge tool that can significantly spur both team productivity and innovation: artificial intelligence. Now, innovations in machine learning and AI are powering the next generation of intelligent automation.” Better employee engagement leads to employee retention.” Check out the following 10 ideas.

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CIO

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

AUGUST 1, 2024

Vendors and consultants are always eager to share insights into innovations and trends, but exchanging ideas and opinions with colleagues and fellow IT leaders can often be invaluable. He notes that Inspire also sponsors the ORBIE Awards, which honors and showcases members’ accomplishments in innovation, leadership, and excellence.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This innovation not only ensures product freshness and authenticity, but boosts confidence among stakeholders in critical sectors like pharmaceuticals and food, where traceability is crucial for regulatory compliance. Empowering retail with RAIN RFID innovation Another technology that’s increasingly being leveraged is RAIN RFID.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Advantages of gen AI workshops In conducting hundreds of innovation workshops around the world for the public and private sectors, many of which have been focused on AI/ML, data, and analytics, I’ve found these design-based brainstorming sessions work well for gen AI as well as any other strategic technology trends.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Technology has shifted from a back-office function to a core enabler of business growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. Senior business leaders and CIOs must navigate a complex web of competing priorities, such as managing stakeholder expectations, accelerating technological innovation, and maintaining operational efficiency.

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Business IT Competitive Landscape Matrix 458

CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

Rawson’s focus on adopting innovative technologies that support sustainability includes implementing blockchain for transparent ESG reporting, AI for energy management, and IoT solutions to monitor and reduce resource consumption, he says. CIOs go green US Signal’s Gaudy Jandron is one CIO not surprised by the changing tide.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Now, there’s a growing desire to infuse that mentality throughout the greater IT organization, stretching beyond basic business-IT alignment to creating a collaborative force hyper-fixated on channeling innovation to advance enterprise business goals. Today, its top IT hires have quite a different pedigree.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It began with the opening keynote, which asked the question: “The world of Artificial Intelligence is exhilarating and often exhausting, and the pace of innovation can seem impossible to keep up with. Analysts at this week’s Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo spent tons of time talking about the impact of AI on IT systems and teams.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

Executives need to understand and hopefully have a respected relationship with the following IT dramatis personae : IT operations director, development director, CISO, project management office (PMO) director, enterprise architecture director, governance and compliance Director, vendor management director, and innovation director.

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IT Algorithm Gaming Knowledge 418

CIO

MAY 20, 2024

The CIO position has morphed since its inception 40 years ago, shifting from a nuts-and-bolts techie job to an increasingly business- and strategy-focused executive role. Long and varied, the list focuses on delivering impactful results for the business, further reshaping the responsibilities and outlook for the CIO role.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It’s more or less the exact same things that have been highlighted at least as long as I’ve been covering these issues, which is around 20 years now: IT and the business must go hand in hand ; IT leaders must speak to the company management in the language of the business ; IT leaders must find balance between uptime and innovation.

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IT Innovation Management Learning 421

CIO

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The past year was another one of rapid change, as economic cycles, business trends, and technology itself evolved at a breakneck pace. So what did the year that was and all its frenetic energy teach us? We asked a handful of CIOs to catch their breath and think about what they are taking away from the past year. Heres what they say.

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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 6, 2025

Superintelligent tools could massively accelerate scientific discovery and innovation well beyond what we are capable of doing on our own. In an interview with Bloomberg , he noted that OpenAIs o3, which was announced in December and is currently being safety tested, has passed the ARC-AGI challenge, the leading benchmark for AGI.

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Benchmarking IT Intelligence Intelligence 497

CIO

JANUARY 2, 2025

Leveraging third-party support, enterprises can reclaim the power dynamic, reaping value from their on-premises SAP estate while moving as fast as theyd like toward their innovation goals. Korean tire manufacturer, Nexen , is one such business applying this strategy for innovation.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

That’s according to a blunt open letter and newspaper advertisement signed by 49 executives, researchers and industry organizations, notably including the CEOs of SAP, Spotify, and Ericsson.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2024

What if artificial intelligence (AI) could prevent 1,000 potential outages and improve IT service health and delivery by more than 75%? IT teams would sleep better, but thats just the start. The companys more recent adoption of BMC ServiceOps has transformed change management processes and IT services management (ITSM) success for his organization.

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CIO

JUNE 13, 2024

Chief among ethical considerations is GenAI’s habit of returning responses that contain biases and violate consumer privacy laws. While GenAI can indeed make a company more efficient, it can also lose customers’ trust if implemented without the ethics of generative AI in mind. Safeguards need to be in place when testing such powerful new tools.”

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Innovation Algorithm Finance Retail 516

CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The full list of the Top InfoSec Innovators for 2024: [link] About One Identity One Identity delivers unified identity security solutions that help customers strengthen their overall cybersecurity posture and protect the people, applications, and data essential to business. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

That’s great, because a strong IT environment is necessary to take advantage of the latest innovations and business opportunities. Technology continues to advance at a furious pace. The bad news, however, is that IT system modernization requires significant financial and time investments. Is your organization overdue for an IT systems update?

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

A typical candidate for the CAIO role is someone with a proven track record of leading successful innovation programs and with a clear understanding of AI,” says David Weldon, adjunct research advisor with IDC’s Executive Programs (IEP) in IDC PlanScape: Chief AI Officer Role (May 2024).

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CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Your product owner will not only need to drive innovation—putting the most promising features at the top of the backlog—but will also need to do this while adhering to regulatory constraints. A leader like this may disrupt the status quo, bring innovation, and offer new ways of thinking about the same problem. Is training available?

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Chief technology and innovation officer for Transport for NSW Kurt Brissett took out the CIO50 top spot. Since stepping into her role, Dorling has successfully restructured the IT operating model and focused on AI-driven innovation to uplift safety performance through improved analysis and fault detection. Ranked No. And coming in No.

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