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JANUARY 13, 2025

AI, once viewed as a novel innovation, is now mainstream, impacting just about facet of the enterprise. Over the next 12 months, IT leaders can look forward to even more innovations, as well as some serious challenges. As 2025 dawns, CIOs face an IT landscape that differs significantly from just a year ago.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

Organizations look at digital transformation as an opportunity to radically improve operations and increase the value of a product or service to the customer by embedding technology into the decision-making fabric and building automation into its functions.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Regulation will play a key role in the successful implementation of AI and will be just as much of a priority as innovation is for leaders,” said Karl Crowther, VP of MEA at Alteryx. Having the right AI tools will help these employees manage the increasing volume and variety of data and find the competitive edge their organisations need.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2025

Innovate Shane McDaniel, CIO for the City of Seguin, Texas, says his city has grown by about 35% since the 2020 census. Hes leveraging his vendor relationships to keep pace with emerging as well as tried-and-true technologies and practices. Were embracing innovation, he explains. Were embracing innovation, he explains.

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CIO

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Rather than discuss “legacy systems,” talk about “revenue bottlenecks,” and replace “technical debt” with “innovation capacity.” Operational drag (interest): “Our teams spend 25% of their time on workarounds rather than innovation.” So it’s essential to show the ROI to your business from the management of these costs.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Salima Bhimani has been encouraging the responsible and ethical use of AI for several years as Alphabet’s first chief strategist and director for inclusive and responsible technology, business, and leaders from 2017 to 2023. Now, we have to think about innovation as a way of really reshaping the world so that it works for everybody.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Despite AI’s potential to transform businesses, many senior technology leaders find themselves wrestling with unpredictable expenses, uneven productivity gains, and growing risks as AI adoption scales, Gartner said. CIOs should create proofs of concept that test how costs will scale, not just how the technology works.”

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In an era where technology reshapes entire industries, I’ve had the privilege of leading Mastercard on an extraordinary journey. 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.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

To drive change, a reworking of what defines CIO/IT success is needed, with a focus on strategic business goals, innovation, and market differentiation. Business is too dependent on technology as a key driver for both business value and differentiation. The CIO is no longer the chief of “keeping the lights on.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Some did manage to scale agile and leverage frameworks to create process standards and improve IT practices. As SaaS and other technology companies began to abandon traditional project management, product-based IT became a bold shift to business value. But many enterprises stopped their agile transformations at this layer.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

While the ROI of any given AI project remains uncertain , one thing is becoming clear: CIOs will be spending a whole lot more on the technology in the years ahead. Research firm IDC projects worldwide spending on technology to support AI strategies will reach $337 billion in 2025 — and more than double to $749 billion by 2028.

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CIO

MARCH 31, 2025

The 2024 Security Priorities study shows that for 72% of IT and security decision makers, their roles have expanded to accommodate new challenges, with Risk management, Securing AI-enabled technology and emerging technologies being added to their plate.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Banks hope these shifts will enable them to innovate faster and work more efficiently in a rapidly changing market. Even beyond customer contact, bankers see generative AI as a key transformative technology for their company. Data integration allows deeper insights into customer behavior and the development of innovative products.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

We’re an IT company that’s very integrated into the business in terms of applications, and we put innovation at the center. We’re in publishing, but it’s the accompanying services that differentiate us on the market; the technology component is what gives value to our business.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2024

It says our job as technology leaders can help educate our audience on what is possible and what it will take to get to their goal. The implications of the ongoing misperception about the data management needs of AI are huge, Armstrong adds. Innovation often involves a lot of misfires, he adds.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

Digital transformation represented among the largest investments in technology to modernize businesses starting in the early 2000s. With the rise of generative AI, CEOs recognize an opportunity to shift from technology-led digital transformation to executive-led business reformation.

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CIO

MARCH 25, 2025

Even modest investments in database tooling and paying down some data management debt can relieve database administrators of the tedium of manual updates or reactive monitoring, says Graham McMillan, CTO of Redgate. Gen AI is a powerful enabler, but sustainable success depends on architectural observability for long-term innovation.

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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 14, 2025

With advanced technologies like AI transforming the business landscape, IT organizations are struggling to find the right talent to keep pace. As the pace of technological advancement accelerates, its becoming increasingly clear that solutions must balance immediate needs with long-term workforce transformation.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

However, successful AI implementation requires more than cutting-edge technology. Enter Akeneo, a global leader in Product Experience Management (PXM) and AI tech stack solutions. The disruption isnt in the technology itself but in how it can transform buying behaviours.

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CIO

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. It allows businesses to be the best technologically enabled version of themselves,” Upchurch says. Here are 11 effective ways to reach that goal.

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CIO

JUNE 12, 2024

Managed infrastructure services provider Kyndryl is considering a bid for competitor DXC Technology, Reuters reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. If Kyndryl announces this deal, I would be bullish on the company’s prospects to drive innovation for clients and to drive out costs,” Dickens said.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In addition to its flight status LLM, United has also developed LLMs for procurement and another LLM for enhancing manager-employee communications. Another new United gen AI app, currently in beta at customer sites, summarizes all relevant operational data required when there is a shift change, the CIO says.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

But because Article was growing so quickly, managing one of the largest student housing portfolios in the US, it needed to be more intentional about operational efficiency. There are a lot of moving parts acrossour properties, says Erica White, the companys SVP of technology and strategic innovation.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

Nine of 10 CIOs surveyed by Gartner late last year expressed concerns that managing AI costs was limiting their ability to get value from AI. The divestiture trend is most pronounced in the IT sector, Brundage says, because of the need for funding while companies build the technology, infrastructure, and applications to enable AI.

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2025

This transition also supports a more strategic roadmap for growth and innovation. Another example of the model in action is in our Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) service line, which has enabled us to put technology in the hands of our clients to manage their own experiences. What was the model you were using before?

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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. This means that new approaches are needed to manage and protect data access and govern AI inputs and outputs and safely deliver AI value.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Adopting Operational AI Organizations looking to adopt Operational AI must consider three core implementation pillars: people, process, and technology. People : To implement a successful Operational AI strategy, an organization needs a dedicated ML platform team to manage the tools and processes required to operationalize AI models.

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CIO

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 take a use-case focus to innovation, so we’re not implementing a digital twin here or some IoT there.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Set clear, measurable metrics around what you want to improve with generative AI, including the pain points and the opportunities, says Shaown Nandi, director of technology at AWS. These insights can help companies address common issues or innovate new solutions to boost customer loyalty and can even extend to consumers views on competitors.

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2025

Two years of experimentation may have given rise to several valuable use cases for gen AI , but during the same period, IT leaders have also learned that the new, fast-evolving technology isnt something to jump into blindly. The next thing is to make sure they have an objective way of testing the outcome and measuring success.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This will require the adoption of new processes and products, many of which will be dependent on well-trained artificial intelligence-based technologies. Having a strategic data governance program that combines technological solutions with robust policies and employee education is a must. Years later, here we are.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

To manage this power effectively, companies depend on cloud infrastructures that can handle giant processes at scale. For IT leaders, balancing must-have AI-powered innovation in the cloud with cost efficiency poses a massive challenge. This is driving an unprecedented hunger for extra compute power.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI), a term once relegated to science fiction, is now driving an unprecedented revolution in business technology. The Nutanix State of Enterprise AI Report highlights AI adoption, challenges, and the future of this transformative technology. Nutanix commissioned U.K. Nutanix commissioned U.K.

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