CIO

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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JUNE 11, 2024

A 1958 Harvard Business Review article coined the term information technology, focusing their definition on rapidly processing large amounts of information, using statistical and mathematical methods in decision-making, and simulating higher order thinking through applications.

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CIO

OCTOBER 8, 2024

An IBM report based on the survey, “6 blind spots tech leaders must reveal,” describes the huge expectations that modern IT leaders face: “For technology to deliver enterprise-wide business outcomes, tech leaders must be part mastermind, part maestro,” the report says. The drop was the largest among the CEOs surveyed. So what’s the deal?

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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.

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CIO

AUGUST 5, 2024

The trick is to ensure they are cashing in on the promise of the technology with real, tangible benefits. But as with any technological investment, AI is what companies make of it. AI investments can also serve as a unifier between humans and technology – helping us to learn better, communicate clearly, and connect faster.

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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. Looking ahead to 2025, Lalchandani identifies several technological trends that will define the Middle Easts digital landscape.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Uniteds embrace of SageMaker and Bedrock as well as Amazon Q is going to be a game changer for building data products, said Mai-LanTomsenBukovec, AWS vice president of technology, who pointed to United Data Hub as a transformational component in its AI journey at re:Invent.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2024

As CIOs know, a highly acquisitive company will reach an inflection point when years of technology proliferation begin to stymie future growth. For this reason, paying down technical debt while innovating and supporting growth is one of the greatest challenges for the modern CIO. How are you approaching this modernization effort?

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Courage and the ability to manage risk In the past, implementing bold technological ideas required substantial financial investment. Effective IT leadership now demands not only the courage to innovate but also a profound understanding of change management principles. Gen AI isn’t a simple plug-and-play solution.

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2024

The real strength of the technology is its ability to put incredible power into the hands of everyone – not just the technology team. For the past 10-15 years, business transformation initiatives have been the sole mandate of the technology team.

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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

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. This scientific assessment revealed many opportunities for enhanced coordination among key stakeholders.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Some industry experts believe the pull-back is only temporary, and the future for self-checkout is bright — as soon as new technologies begin to be deployed on a large scale. When combined and supported by industry standards, the technologies may be the secret sauce to the next generation of self-check.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2024

However, in terms of in-house technology, the Belgian company’s carbon footprint data used to be stored on spreadsheets, while quality control was performed manually, limiting the Elia Group’s ability to calculate the Scope 3 upstream emissions released for all their assets.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

What really matters is determining how to fit every function together to achieve unified goals — chiefly IT and its business counterparts, given the importance technology has organizationwide. It allows businesses to be the best technologically enabled version of themselves,” Upchurch says.

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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. We work directly with technology leaders, executives, and boards to develop our research insights.”

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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 8, 2024

One of the greatest things about working in technology is the surprise advancements that take the industry by storm. A bleeding-edge technology is one that takes the industry by storm because it creates a significant paradigm shift into how things currently work with the potential to majorly impact the industry itself.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

The certifications you’ll want to pursue will vary depending on the technologies you work with and the methodologies your organization employs. IT managers are often responsible for not just overseeing an organization’s IT infrastructure but its IT teams as well. Plus, you must be adept at managing teams, projects, and processes.

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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. “ But devsecops roles are also stressful when teams feel pressure to deliver capabilities, resolve defects, and keep up with the latest technologies.

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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

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. Smith says he has seen that transition over the past 12 months or so, saying the technology has matured to the point where it is winning over skeptics. Heres what they say.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

While technology prowess remains an important attribute, many in IT now hail from different functional areas, the connective tissue being a passion for the intersection of healthcare and business. Today, its top IT hires have quite a different pedigree.

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AUGUST 13, 2024

Sustainability is on the rise as a CIO imperative, with most CIOs now central to their organization’s increasing focus on sustainability planning — a trend that’s shaking up what technologies IT leaders are investing in and the vendors and partners they are signing deals with.

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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

JULY 2, 2024

Yet there’s now another, cutting-edge tool that can significantly spur both team productivity and innovation: artificial intelligence. 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.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When it comes to identifying and prioritizing opportunities for business value across the enterprise, gen AI use cases, specifically, are arguably no different than any other technology-related ones. Of course, there are innumerable ways to run an innovation workshop or brainstorming session, so here’s one in particular that worked well.

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

Although AI, machine learning, and generative AI — the more recent entrant in the space — are not new, they are becoming more mature, mainstream technologies. Although AI, machine learning, and generative AI — the more recent entrant in the space — are not new, they are becoming more mature, mainstream technologies.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As one of the largest and most influential technology exhibitions in the world, GITEX Global 2024 promises to be a pivotal event for technology leaders. Hosted in Dubai from October 14-18, GITEX will showcase cutting-edge innovations and provide a platform for global experts to discuss the latest advancements in technology.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Generative AI is likely to confuse the capital investor as much as any technology ever has,” he adds. In many cases, CIOs and other IT leaders have moved past the peak expectations about what gen AI can do for their organizations and are headed into more realistic ideas about the future of the technology, Lovelock adds.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

laments the widely held erroneous perception that IT is a technology drive-thru where executivesorder into a speaker and drive around to the window expecting to be handed the finished product. IT may be central to modern existence, but the people and processes of IT remain a mystery to most business executives and colleagues.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In the UAE, 91% of consumers know GenAI and 34% use these technologies. AI is at the core of this vision, driving smart governance, efficient resource management, and enhanced quality of life for residents and visitors alike. Positioning the country at the forefront of AI development.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Technology continues to advance at a furious pace. That’s great, because a strong IT environment is necessary to take advantage of the latest innovations and business opportunities. Assuming the biggest challenge is technology-based, there are few problems that can’t be easily solved, Hafez says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Because of its pervasiveness and depth, AI has a very large potential for disruption that’s different from previous technologies. In addition to having been CIO, Wiedenbeck’s background includes founding a start-up company focused on emerging technologies. “An Reporting to Wiedenbeck is a team of some 20 people, mainly technologists.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Artificial intelligence is an early stage technology and the hype around it is palpable, but IT leaders need to take many challenges into consideration before making major commitments for their enterprises. 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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