CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

Welcome to 2023. As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. The following eight priorities are gaining the most attention.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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. Are we building AI strategies that are aligned to business goals?

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

To understand how organizations may be approaching their cloud strategies and tech investments in 2023, members of VMware’s Tanzu Vanguard community shared their insights on what trends will take shape. According to Forrester , forty percent of firms will take a cloud-native first strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Earlier this year, Broadcom commissioned extensive industry research to learn how VSM adoption is evolving and which key trends are emerging in 2023. The findings from this survey are now available in a report entitled “ 2023 Value Stream Management Trends.” By the end of 2023, 60% of organizations will be shipping products using VSM.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

IDC’s Sustainability Readiness Survey (July/August 2023) also found that organizations worldwide have improved in their environmental sustainability efforts over the past few years. An operationalized carbon-neutral strategy requires end-to-end visibility on climate data. Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Noting that companies pursued bold experiments in 2024 driven by generative AI and other emerging technologies, the research and advisory firm predicts a pivot to realizing value. Forrester said most technology executives expect their IT budgets to increase in 2025. Others won’t — and will come up against the limits of quick fixes.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience. Businesses are looking for tech pros with highly specialized skills, as they embrace digital transformation and increasingly rely on technology for core business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

times compared to 2023 but forecasts lower increases over the next two to five years. As gen AI heads to Gartners trough of disillusionment , CIOs should consider how to realign their 2025 strategies and roadmaps. CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2023

Furthermore, the firm had predicted that the number of hybrid workers would continue to increase, hitting 55% as we enter 2023. Technologies cited by IDC include intelligent space and capacity planning tools, which the firm predicts 55% of global enterprises will use to reinvent office locations by 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2023

CIOs confronted a host of issues over the past year, with economic, political, and technology events creating both uncertainties and opportunities for organizations across all sectors. As I reflect back to December 2022, we had the most important technology I’ve seen during my career land, which was generative AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

2023: Greater flexibility, challenging decisions In 2023, the cloud services space — including hosting and managed and migration services — continued to experience impressive growth, eclipsing $564B in total spend. Here is a closer look at recent and forecasted developments in the cloud market that CIOs should be aware of.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024. Any organization of size, dealing with diverse technology, is doing their company a disservice if a public cloud–only strategy is their ultimate end goal,” says Brian Shields, SVP and CTO of Boston Red Sox and Fenway Sports Management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 10, 2024

According to a 2023 survey from Access Partnership and Amazon Web Services (AWS) , 92% of employers expect to be using AI-related solutions by 2028 and 93% expect to use generative AI within the upcoming five years. And they need people who can manage the emerging risks and compliance requirements associated with AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As the chief research officer at IDC, I lead a global team of analysts who develop research and provide advice to help our clients navigate the technology landscape. Back in 2023, at the CIO 100 awards ceremony, we were about nine months into exploring generative artificial intelligence (genAI). We were full of ideas and possibilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Rather than wait for a storm to hit, IT professionals map out options and build strategies to ensure business continuity. Following Broadcom’s late 2023 acquisition of VMware, numerous changes prompted customers and partners to reassess their strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Let’s revisit the most prevalent security threats and see how they’re evolving in 2023. Prevention: In the age of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and remote work, preventing data exfiltration needs a comprehensive, well-rounded data security and governance strategy. It is impossible to know your adversaries. Cybercrime, Security

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 21, 2023

AI builds customized optimization strategies. Optimization strategies that work for one group of keywords might not work for another. Optimization strategies that work for one group of keywords might not work for another. This article provides a brief layman’s guide to understanding SEO in 2023 for your convenience.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cloud strategies are undergoing a sea change of late, with CIOs becoming more intentional about making the most of multiple clouds. A lot of ‘multicloud’ strategies were not actually multicloud. Today’s strategies are increasingly multicloud by intention,” she adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Following are ways CIOs can help overcome disconnect in the C-suite on the evolving nature of their role in an effort to better enable support for their digital strategies. The dialogue with the board and with human resources is fruitful, and the managers are receptive, which greatly facilitates the digital strategy.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2024

As organizations worldwide prepare to spend over $40 billion in core IT (technology budgeted and overseen by central IT) on GenAI in 2024 (per IDC’s Worldwide Core IT Spending for GenAI Forecast, 2023-2027 , January 2024), there’s an urgent need to manage the risks associated with these investments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fast-forward to 2023 and IT leaders have distilled many more lessons about effective API development and use over the past twenty years. Here, MACH Alliance members and other IT leaders offer the following three commandments that should underpin any API strategy. API-first organizations focus more on interfacing than integrating.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI are putting more pressure on analytics and IT leaders to get their houses in order when it comes to data strategy and data management. Salesforce’s findings gibe with IDC’s Worldwide C-Suite Survey 2023-2024 , released in September.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

At the end of 2023, Chicago-based Article Student Living was acquired by a global real estate investment company, which allowed the business to expand, and enabled it to make key investments in the high-demand student housing market. Articles technology strategy of creating integrated, scalable systems has been key to success.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. And it’s never too late for CIOs to reassess their cloud strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

Ransomware accounted for nearly a quarter (24%) of data breach incidents in the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report , and Sophos’ State of Ransomware 2023 found that two-thirds of surveyed companies had experienced a ransomware attack. At the top of the cybersecurity risk chart is ransomware attacks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

He worked with one insurance company that in 2023 made such a move, driven specifically by the desire to have a firm hold on its regulated data, for example. Moreover, these repatriations show how CIOs have a shrewder, more fluid cloud strategy today to ensure they don’t settle for less than what they want.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

Recruiting, retainment, and yes, adoption of lead-edge technology, are back on the radar of IT leaders. Grace Liu, senior vice president of IT for Seagate Technology, says the shifting economy can offer a chance to be opportunistic. “We and in terms of certain aspects of recruiting, she also sees the glass as half full.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For organizations seeking to unlock innovation with data and AI, AWS re:Invent 2023 offers several opportunities. Attendees will discover services, strategies, and solutions for tackling any data challenge. F1 uses all that data with AWS to gain insights on race strategy and car performance. million data points per second.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

AI technology is rapidly changing the state of business. Strategy is no longer something dreamed up by humans in a brainstorming room on a Tuesday afternoon. And you want this technology by your side because it can help you improve your promotional strategies in four ways.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The sheer number of options and configurations, not to mention the costs associated with these underlying technologies, is multiplying so quickly that its creating some very real challenges for businesses that have been investing heavily to incorporate AI-powered capabilities into their workflows. To learn more, visit us here.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2024

We are excited about the OpenSearch Service features and enhancements we’ve added to that toolkit in 2023. 2023 was a year of rapid innovation within the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) space, and search has been a significant beneficiary of that progress.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2024

More than nine in 10 IT decision-makers project their budgets will increase in 2025, according to the Forrester 2025 Budget Planning Guide for Technology Executives. That spectrum of budget adjustments is being met by a range of strategies by IT leaders seeking to make the most of their 2025 IT spend. through 2027.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2024

Yet, that can’t happen without the right people in place, says Ryan Sutton, executive director for technology talent solutions at Robert Half. The right hiring strategy can help organizations reduce labor costs, and then reassign labor savings toward addressing technical debt,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

Cloud architects are responsible for managing the cloud computing architecture in an organization, especially as cloud technologies grow increasingly complex. Its an advanced job title, with cloud architects typically reporting to the IT director, CIO, CTO, or other technology executives. What does a cloud architect do?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 12, 2023

You require a strategy for efficient, productive, and responsible corporate use. Although it’s early days, as many as 75% of organizations reported quantified outcomes from GenAI projects, with 26% expecting productivity gains, according to a Dell Technologies survey of IT decision makers. 2023 Artificial Intelligence

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 23, 2023

You have probably read a lot about the major changes brought on by AI technology in recent months. Many people have called 2023 “the year of AI.” For example, ChatGPT recently The Independent said that the technology is starting to show signs that it can think like humans.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Disaster recovery is vital for organizations, offering a proactive strategy to mitigate the impact of unforeseen events like system failures, natural disasters, or cyberattacks. In Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part I: Strategies for Recovery in the Cloud , we introduced four major strategies for disaster recovery (DR) on AWS.

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