Jen Stirrup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Digital transformation and climate change initiatives have similarities despite having different foci. Digital transformation focuses on integrating digital technologies into all business areas, fundamentally changing how the organisation operates and delivers value to customers.

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Digital Transformation Technology Modeling Risk 98

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

According to data from Layoffs.fyi, 470 tech companies have laid off around 141,145 employees in 2024 as of this writing, on top of the 428,449 tech workers who were laid off in 2022 and 2023. Notable layoffs from this year include Dell, which laid off 5% of its workforce in March , amounting to nearly 6,000 employees.

Marketing 130

Marketing IT Digital Transformation Consulting 130

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In a survey of 451 senior technology executives conducted by Gartner in mid-2024, a striking 57% of CIOs reported being tasked with leading AI strategies. You must understand the cost components and pricing model options, and you need to know how to reduce these costs and negotiate with vendors.

Enterprise 141

Enterprise Cost-Benefit Broadcasting Risk 141

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

It’s a change fundamentally based on digital capabilities. Our digital transformation has coincided with the strengthening of the B2C online sales activity and, from an architectural point of view, with a strong migration to the cloud,” says Vibram global DTC director Alessandro Pacetti.

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ROI B2B Business Objectives Digital Transformation 119

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 10, 2024

Saudi Arabia’s rapid stride towards digital transformation is propelled by a concerted effort between the government and private sectors. With Vision 2030 as its guiding light, the Kingdom is embarking on ambitious projects, steering its course towards a tech-driven future.

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Digital Transformation Data-driven Data Processing Forecasting 98

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2022

The pandemic has put digital transformation up front and center on the CIO’s agenda over the past few years. According to 2022 State of the CIO study , 85% of CIOs are focusing on transformational initiatives with pre-pandemic levels of technology budget growth. Complexity, the key barrier to digital transformation.

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Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit Uncertainty Technology 105

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“In a world underpinned by change, it remains constant that digital transformation must be a core organizational competency,” she says. The most pressing responsibilities for CIOs in 2024 will include security, cost containment, and cultivating a data-first mindset.” Snow Software’s CIO Al Pooley agrees.

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Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Consulting Strategy 139

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. Gen AI is quite different because the models are pre-trained,” Beswick explains.

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IT Insurance Consulting Risk 122

CIO Business Intelligence

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. For decision-makers and industry leaders, the event offers a unique opportunity to explore how emerging technologies will shape the future of industries and drive digital transformation.

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Technology Digital Transformation Data Processing Machine Learning 116

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

Digital transformation must be a core organizational competency. The impact of generative AIs, including ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs), will be a significant transformation driver heading into 2024. That’s my key advice to CIOs and IT leaders.

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Digital Transformation Unstructured Data Strategy Data Science 98

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. Gen AI is quite different because the models are pre-trained,” Beswick explains.

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IT Insurance Consulting Risk 105

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

We know upskilling and reskilling are critical to digital transformation and thriving in the future of work. Yet, despite the investments in IT training, we have a chronic skills shortage that’s causing, on average, digital transformations to fall behind by five months.

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Digital Transformation IT Cost-Benefit Software 111

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

AI agents topped Forresters 2024 trend list, and Salesforce expects one billion in use by the end of fiscal year 2026. Salesforces Agentforce plays a key role in SharkNinjas digital transformation, too, with agentic AI being evaluated across user browsing, product selection, recipe discovery, and customer support.

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IT Sales Cost-Benefit Data-driven 139

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2024

With the theme ‘Amplify Intelligence’, Huawei Connect 2024 in Shanghai showcased how different industries can embrace AI and digitalisation to innovate, grow, and maximise efficiency. Ascend is accelerating innovations in AI models and applications, while Kunpeng has been widely adopted across various industries.

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Digital Transformation Enterprise Strategy Technology 114

AWS Big Data

MARCH 13, 2025

At AWS re:Invent 2024, we announced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker , the center for all your data, analytics, and AI. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio reduces the time-to-value for our customers data projects by up to 40%, helping us with our mission to accelerate our customers digital transformation journey.

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Analytics Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven 114

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2024

Nimesh Mehta, SVP and chief information and strategy officer, National Life Group National Life Group The 2024 State of CIO research clearly depicts a more prominent, business-centric role for IT leadership. “For CIOs, understanding the business is table stakes — now we’re expected to change the business, not just technology.”

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Digital Transformation Strategy Technology Enterprise 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accenture on Wednesday said it is acquiring digital transformation services provider Navisite in an effort to boost its cloud transformation business. billion in 2024, up from $563.6 The company has served clients in sectors such as technology, business services, healthcare, life sciences and manufacturing.

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IT Consulting Digital Transformation Manufacturing 116

Jet Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Organizations can now streamline digital transformations with Logi Symphony on Google Cloud, utilizing BigQuery, the Vertex AI platform and Gemini models for cutting-edge analytics RALEIGH, N.C. – “insightsoftware can continue to securely scale and support customers on their digital transformation journeys.”

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Analytics Digital Transformation Business Intelligence Data-driven 59

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Gone are the days when simple firewalls and antivirus software could keep our digital assets safe. For instance, in 2024, a troubling trend emerged where hackers used AI-powered tools to create highly convincing deepfakes, impersonating CEOs and other C-suite executives in 75% of such attacks.

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Behavioral Analytics Data-driven Risk Insurance 122

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This week on the keynote stages at AWS re:Invent 2024, you heard from Matt Garman, CEO, AWS, and Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI and Data, AWS, speak about the next generation of Amazon SageMaker , the center for all of your data, analytics, and AI. The relationship between analytics and AI is rapidly evolving.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

SAP customers have a lot to navigate in 2024. Consider the potential business implications, including the potential to disrupt customers’ current and future business models and create unforeseen competitive disadvantages. Otherwise, SAP will have disproportionate control of the agenda, cadence, and outcome of your relationship.

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Consulting Cost-Benefit Strategy Modeling 118

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

In 2024, major operators in Asia and the Middle East have already begun deploying 5G-A networks, and some have launched differentiated experience packages based on this technology. Over the past five years, commercial 5G has achieved remarkable success and has had an unprecedented impact on the global mobile industry.

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Digital Transformation Technology Modeling IT 103

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

With the AI revolution underway which has kicked the wave of digital transformation into high gear it is imperative for enterprises to have their cloud infrastructure built on firm foundations that can enable them to scale AI/ML solutions effectively and efficiently. How difficult can it be, after all?

Optimization 98

Optimization Strategy Cost-Benefit Enterprise 98

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

AI and large language models can process millions of data points from various channels like social media and reviews to analyze feedback, says Jacqueline Woods, CMO of Teradata. I reviewed some of these agents, and found several AI capabilities that can become competitive differentiators.

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Sales Metrics Data-driven Unstructured Data 143

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

Here is the latest SAP news and analysis: SAP partners up to make AI more practical August 15, 2024: Many companies find it difficult to incorporate AI into their business processes. SAP restructuring to impact more jobs than expected July 24, 2024: The restructuring at SAP affects almost a tenth of its workforce.

Digital Transformation 122

Digital Transformation Enterprise Software Unstructured Data 122

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

Digital transformation remains top of mind worldwide. According to Foundry’s State of the CIO 2024 study, technology leaders will be focused on driving digital innovation, redesigning processes, and modernising infrastructure and apps in the next three years in order to stay ahead.

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Digital Transformation IoT Consulting Big Data 130

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

According to IDC’s Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide (August 2024) , the global AI market is expected to surge from US$235 billion in 2024 to US$632 billion by 2028. billion in 2024 to over US$110 billion by 2028.

Marketing 122

Marketing Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Data-driven 122

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 29, 2024

That has been the objective of The Mosaic Company’s global digital transformation, which aims to yield at least three times its investment of $300 million. Previously, each Mosaic location operated its own digital infrastructure. Digital transformation projects have always been about creating a data-driven business.

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Digital Transformation IT Data Lake Sales 118

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Digital Transformation is critical to modern enterprises, yet creating it remains inefficient. Generative AI is poised to redefine software creation and digital transformation. A 2024 study found that three-quarters of product features are rarely used, underscoring the need for precision.

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Software Digital Transformation Testing Advertising 124

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Even as it designs 3D generative AI models for future customer deployment, CAD/CAM design giant Autodesk is “leaning” into generative AI for its customer service operations, deploying Salesforce’s Einstein for Service with plans to use Agentforce in the future, CIO Prakash Kota says. Not anymore.

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Digital Transformation Experimentation Sales Software 119

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

At the recent 2024 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of the global leading technology company Tencent, announced a strategic partnership with the S.M.A.R.T It facilitates enterprises’ intelligent service upgrades while supporting digital transformation and improving communication efficiency.

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Digital Transformation Recreation/Entertainment IoT Interactive 111

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

With the cloud being an inevitable part of enterprise digital transformation journeys, IT leaders must keep on top of the latest developments in the cloud market to better predict downstream impacts on their roadmaps. The cloud services landscape is in constant flux.

Marketing 131

Marketing Strategy IT Data Processing 131

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2024

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have witnessed a remarkable surge in Information Technology (IT) spending in recent years with, for example, governments and businesses embracing technology’s transformative power to drive growth and innovation. billion USD in 2024, an increase of 5.2%

Internet of Things 105

Internet of Things IoT IT Digital Transformation 105

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

It published the first set of those standards in the summer of 2024, marking a one-year countdown for US federal agencies to create a plan to migrate their encryption standards as mandated by the US Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act.

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Reporting Digital Transformation Risk Business Intelligence 139

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In IDCs April 2024 CIO Poll Survey of 105 senior IT professionals and CIOs, developing better IT governance and enterprise architecture emerged as one of the top priorities for 2024, ranking fourth. While each model has its strengths, it also comes with significant limitations.

IT 52

IT Metrics Key Performance Indicator Risk 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

Embrace the future-proofing imperative Eighty-three percent of IT leaders and 88% of LOB leaders expect full-year spending in 2024 to be higher or in line with original 2024 budgets despite inflation and potential recession concerns, according to IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3 (March 2024).

Technology 111

Technology Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Optimization 111

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 17, 2024

Cloud maturity models are a useful tool for addressing these concerns, grounding organizational cloud strategy and proceeding confidently in cloud adoption with a plan. Cloud maturity models (or CMMs) are frameworks for evaluating an organization’s cloud adoption readiness on both a macro and individual service level.

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