CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“Innovate or die,” Peter Drucker’s 1985 exhortation on the importance of constant reinvention, was great business advice for the last 40 or so years. By collaborating with a CSP, CIOs can gain access to technical and industry knowledge they need to navigate the complexity of bringing their technology stacks fully into compliance.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A shift has occurred and IT is now viewed as an equal partner in driving business growth with CIOs recognized as the de facto leaders of innovation. Here, they and others share seven ways to create and nurture a culture of innovation. Here, they and others share seven ways to create and nurture a culture of innovation.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Healthcare technology innovation is poised to revolutionize the medical landscape. Better outcomes for patients worldwide are on the horizon as industry partners share knowledge and work together to develop this revolutionary healthcare technology. Through innovation and collaboration, the future of medicine looks brighter than ever.

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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

JULY 5, 2024

Cairn Oil & Gas is on a mission to transform its value chain. For HSE, for example, Cairn has rolled out a system for AI-based safety surveillance that ingests a feed from CCTV cameras. “If The safety violations that the model can detect are complex, such as a truck reversing without a guide. Instead, the solution came from a startup.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The reason for this shift is simple: While CIOs can often call on talented teams of internal IT professionals to deliver business solutions, no technology department can be expected to generate every innovation necessary to compete in a fast-moving digital age. I would say, right now, I’m a technologist last.

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CIO

AUGUST 7, 2024

We’re heavily operational, rather than other corporates that might have a lot of knowledge workers, so you need to think slightly differently,” says Jenkins. We’re heavily operational, rather than other corporates that might have a lot of knowledge workers, so you need to think slightly differently,” says Jenkins.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

During the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, held at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center from September 5-6, Tencent unveiled a slew of cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI) offerings, proprietary innovations, and global solutions for enterprises to advance their digital transformation efforts.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

Organizations want a one click technology solution but all too frequently lack the patience, discipline, and knowledge of what is required to make that one click solution a reality. IT may be central to modern existence, but the people and processes of IT remain a mystery to most business executives and colleagues. Its time to change this.

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Achieving a reputation for knowledge, reliability, and honesty takes time, as well as a strong personal commitment to embracing professional standards. Now, the CIO is more likely to be known as the chief innovation officer, responsible for driving digital transformation within the organization.” Respect is an asset every CIO seeks.

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2024

We explored Bates’ role as the chief influence officer , the chief innovation officer, the chief impact officer, and more. That on-the-job learning and deliberate transfer of knowledge is a big characteristic of the program. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity. We’re investing to solve a business problem.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Knowledge workers suddenly have access to powerful content creation engines. GenAI brings accessibility to things that once required specialized skillsets—like data science knowledge or coding—to a broader set of workers than ever thought possible. This shifts IT from being a cost center to a driver of innovation for the company.

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CIO

JUNE 13, 2022

That initiative includes technology upgrades such as API integration layers for greater, more agile access to data and a culture change encouraging more innovation by “testing hypotheses” using data. All that together, though, is nothing compared to the turbulence that CIOs are seeing today. Ever increasing demands for transformation.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique that allows models to retrieve information from a specified dataset or knowledge base. Hallucinations can be problematic for organizations racing to adopt generative AI. Here are a range of options IT can use to get started.

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2024

It will struggle to act autonomously, meet evolving priorities, and innovate. You can reclaim autonomy over your key digital initiatives, build internal capabilities, and repatriate institutional knowledge all by reducing dependencies on suppliers.” Composing a workforce is like playing chess. So how do you forge a different path?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With the aim to accelerate innovation and transform its digital infrastructures and services, Ferrovial created its Digital Hub to serve as a meeting point where research and experimentation with digital strategies could, for example, provide new sources of income and improve company operations.

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CIO

MAY 8, 2024

Of late, innovative data integration tools are revolutionising how organisations approach data management, unlocking new opportunities for growth, efficiency, and strategic decision-making by leveraging technical advancements in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing.

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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 18, 2023

The biggest tech fail was expecting folks to come back to the office without sophisticated scheduling for knowledge workers, who found themselves commuting to the office to find there was no one there they needed/wanted to see,’’ Wettemann says. Hybrid work is often thought of in terms of location, according to a November Gartner report.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2023

Otherwise, they say, IT simply moves the location of its servers from its own data centers to someone else’s — and risks missing out on the innovation, transformation, and speed to market that cloud adoption enables. Rather, Holden — like most CIOs — wanted his increasing use of cloud to enable and shape the company’s transformation agenda.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

But with Amazon Web Services (31%), Microsoft Azure (24%), and Google Cloud Platform (11%) accounting for two thirds of the worldwide market, according to Synergy Research Group, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) remains distantly behind the behemoths, leaving many to question whether Oracle’s cloud gains are enough to make it a contender.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Here tech leaders discuss how they’re innovating in an uncertain world by returning to the basics of good leadership, building trust, promoting transparency, and leaning into strategy over skillset. But one’s knowledge of the business and ability to drive business value will prove the exception.

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

By infusing gen AI functionality across its portfolio, Red Hat aims to reduce the complexity of enterprise IT and help platform engineers and developers be more accurate and efficient — in turn giving them more freedom to drive IT innovation. Red Hat said it will offer more information on RHEL Lightspeed availability soon.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Angelic Gibson, CIO at accounts payable automation software and payment solutions provider AvidXchange, agrees that removing friction in the developer workflow can enhance agile innovation. Streamlining to optimize productivity Agile software development is essential to innovate and retain competitiveness.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s not to say they’re looking to ditch their roles or smash machines, as the real Luddites had. Yet CIOs do admit that they’re worried about multiple issues these days. Here are 10 worries keeping IT leaders up at night. For example, it highlighted a 153% rise in global ransomware attacks from September 2022 to September 2023.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2023

CIOs invest in skills development, and HR usually offers leadership development programs, but these approaches often don’t address the knowledge and skills needed to lead digital transformation initiatives. CIOs must communicate strategy and goals when making investment cases and garnering support from the CEO, executives, and the board.

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2023

Building and managing infrastructure yourself gives you more control — but the effort to keep it all under control can take resources away from innovation in other areas. The system was brittle, highly manual and based on a lot of tribal knowledge. They wrote bash scripts!”

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CIO

JANUARY 18, 2024

Fiscal responsibility: Despite increasing budgets, competing priorities — especially when factoring innovation versus operational excellence — requires today’s CIO candidates to demonstrate fiscal savvy. Knowledge of IT governance principles: Buttoned-up operations are key, especially with regulations on the rise.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

We’re now entering a new gen AI era, which is already impacting how we staff teams, their business objectives, and the tools they use to deliver innovations. These teams focused on delivering reliable technology capabilities, improving end-user experiences, and establishing data and analytics capabilities.

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IT Startups Management Technology 529

CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Building sales requires a well-equipped sales team, and in today’s digital world, that means IT must become a strong support partner. But aligning with sales leaders on transformative technology initiatives takes more than just rolling out their tech of choice.

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CIO

JULY 17, 2024

With IT innovation continuing to accelerate faster than anyone could have imagined, IT leaders are universally faced with “not quite enough time” but still need a plan that will enable their organizations to grow and succeed. To quote Leonard Bernstein, “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The technical skills, IT leadership expertise, and ability to keep the network secure and running, and even to deliver innovation aren’t enough to create success for today’s CIOs. That advice from executive coach and bestselling author Marshall Goldsmith has never been truer for CIOs than it is today. Engineers want to go build stuff.

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IT Brainstorming Hospitals Security 501

CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The CIO is quick to point out that Marsh McLennan’s gen AI platform — like its development and analytics platforms — uses industry-standard products but its interface, tooling, core services, and enhanced capabilities, which go “beyond what the model can do on its own,” were built by MMTech at the company’s innovation center in Dublin, Ireland.

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