CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Think about it: LLMs like GPT-3 are incredibly complex deep learning models trained on massive datasets. In analytics, LLMs can create natural language query interfaces, allowing us to ask questions in plain English. Sustainable IT is about optimizing resource use, minimizing waste and choosing the right-sized solution.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

But before we get into that, lets talk about what steps CIOs have taken to ensure their teams are equipped to navigate this rapidly changing environment. Learn more about IDCs research for technology leaders OR subscribe today to receive industry-leading research directly to your inbox. Contact us today to learn more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Now that we have a few AI use cases in production, were starting to dabble with in-house hosted, managed, small language models or domain-specific language models that dont need to sit in the cloud. Trying to rationalize how we use AI in conjunction with the cloud is very important. Theres no other way than to embrace it ourselves.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Our DigiOps group gives us a single point of accountability for digital investment value, and creates an operational spirit in the technology team. To keep us accountable and moving forward, I conduct a monthly and quarterly operating review with my team where we assess financial results and value so everybody knows how were trending.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

Regardless of the driver of transformation, your companys culture, leadership, and operating practices must continuously improve to meet the demands of a globally competitive, faster-paced, and technology-enabled world with increasing security and other operational risks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“I would encourage everbody to look at the AI apprenticeship model that is implemented in Singapore because that allows businesses to get to use AI while people in all walks of life can learn about how to do that. Of course, we’ve learned a lot over time about how to improve both 100E and AIAP.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

According to recent data from IDC’s CIO Sentiment Survey (Figure 1), only 38% of organizations have reached a high level of maturity in their digital transformation efforts (with only about 13% claiming full transformation). Contact us today to learn more. And being late places your organization at a competitive disadvantage.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Results showed that 80% of the group estimated they used gen AI more often than once a week, and 30% said they used it several times a day. Other staff, amounting to about 100, also received AI support, even if it was less niche, such as Microsoft’s Copilot. That’s crucial for success.” So all of this has been adapted for AI. “No

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Caldas joined me for a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , where she opened up her leadership playbook and discussed what it takes to be a truly innovative, tech-forward company, one that leverages technology to gain first-mover advantage. Right now, we are thinking about, how do we leverage artificial intelligence more broadly?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

CIOs worried about where the money for new AI initiatives will come from may have some help on the way, with some companies apparently selling off non-core assets to pay for new AI projects. EY, in a recent blog post focused on top opportunities for IT companies in 2025, recommends money raised from these activities be used on AI projects.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It also provided a moment for us to launch an important initiative for Cloudera: our Women Leaders in Technology (WLIT) initiative. Building Inclusive Data-Driven Organizations: Leadership Strategies for the Modern Workplace As it stands, women currently account for approximately 25% of the technology workforce.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Risk management is among the most misunderstood yet valuable aspects of leadership, Saibene observes. We no longer have the luxury of anticipating the attacks coming at us head-on. That may sound straightforward, but many CIOs fall short of this fundamental discipline, Grimes observes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 14, 2025

The irony is that generative AI (genAI) knows just about everything about nearly every subject because it can instantly read and curate everything that is readable. AI knows too much about all data but very little about life. It will actually drive us to a form of perfected mediocrity. AI is a tool, not an expert.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 24, 2025

In this post, we demonstrate how to get started with ABAC in SageMaker Lakehouse and use with various analytics services. Example Retails leadership is interested in analyzing sales data in Amazon S3 to determine in-demand products, understand customer behavior, and identify trends, for better decision-making and increased profitability.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

After about three months, though, he just wanted tech. In the end, it’s about finding a balance between opportunity and risk, and having those conversations with the board and exec teams because not everybody is a tech expert. And if you just talk about defending what you have and not looking at how to grow it, that’s also dangerous.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Overcoming this hurdle requires strong leadership and good data that will lead to effectively investing budgets in ways that yield a measurable ROI. Learn more about IDC’s research for technology leaders OR subscribe today to receive industry-leading research directly to your inbox. Contact us today to learn more.

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DataKitchen

APRIL 26, 2021

In early April 2021, DataKItchen sat down with Jonathan Hodges, VP Data Management & Analytics, at Workiva ; Chuck Smith, VP of R&D Data Strategy at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) ; and Chris Bergh, CEO and Head Chef at DataKitchen, to find out about their enterprise DataOps transformation journey, including key successes and lessons learned.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2025

Enterprise technology providers will introduce agentic AI capabilities throughout 2025, enabling organizations to move from experimentation and piloting to broad-scale deployment and integration into existing workstreams, said Todd Lohr, Head of Ecosystems at KPMGs US Advisory division.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Excessive infrastructure costs: About 21% of IT executives point to the high cost of training models or running GenAI apps as a major concern. Learn more about IDCs research for technology leaders OR subscribe today to receive industry-leading research directly to your inbox. Contact us today to learn more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 1, 2025

And as a result, Soltour is at a point where digitalization is no longer just a support tool, but an essential component in its growth and leadership plans.We We know technology is the engine that drives us to remain competitive, so we constantly invest to improve our platforms, implement new tools, and adopt the latest technological trends.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2025

On a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , we explored Masseys many leadership talents. Afterwards, we spent some time talking about another important influence on Masseys approach to technology leadership: music. The experience of playing music and performing in bands has directly influenced my leadership style.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This is an unexpected new role for CIOs, but offers an opportunity for leadership in a fast-developing and complex global environment. Learn more about IDC’s research for technology leaders OR subscribe today to receive industry-leading research directly to your inbox. Contact us today to learn more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

That will help us achieve short-term benefits as we continue to learn and build better solutions. What if we stopped thinking about creating the output files directly? What if we didn’t use the created prompts? It was exciting to think that we had a system that would write code for us. Don’t let that scare you off.

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DataKitchen

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Fail Fast, Learn Faster: Lessons in Data-Driven Leadership in an Age of Disruption, Big Data, and AI, by Randy Bean. If your data nerd is all about bucking the status quo, Disrupting Data Governance is the book for them. ???. For more from the author, we sat down with Simon to talk about DataOps in Financial Services in early 2021.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 14, 2025

These tools also offer insights into promotion and career mobility patterns, showing whether certain groups are consistently underrepresented in leadership roles. As often as possible, ask yourself, How does this technology help us meet our long-term DEIB goals?. It is imperative to maintain a balance between innovation and focus.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

It mostly happened, not because CIOs became better at explaining what IT is all about, but because Digital happened. Which, at last, gets us to the point: Is your IT organization doing what it can to be a metaphorical EV and not an ICE? Except that Digital didnt end up meaning what many commentators said it meant. Thats much worse.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 7, 2025

Tell me about what you were trying to build or replace or accomplish. How did executives feel about the data refresh? They gave us the opportunity to build it. For example, we send routine reports to the senior leadership team. That partnership gave us data of when people are coming 10 years in the future.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

Talk us through a gen AI use case. The leadership team agrees that the ability to communicate to our customers in clear and transparent English is a top priority for AI investment. The cross-functional risk management team is also essential because you dont want to jeopardize your entire business over an AI pilot.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Nutanix’s growth mindset and openness to change have influenced my leadership. Here leveraging unique strengths to their fullest is appreciated and expected, shaping a dynamic and forward-thinking approach to leadership and innovation. Learn more about Nutanix. Addressing cybersecurity is paramount.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The challenges of integrating data with AI workflows When I speak with our customers, the challenges they talk about involve integrating their data and their enterprise AI workflows. As customers entrust us with their data, we see even more opportunities ahead to help them operationalize AI and high-performance workloads.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2025

We are standing at a once-in-a-generation inflection point that will rival the most transformative infrastructure eras in US history. Following are the unique insights, bold thinking, and real-world examples they shared about how their organizations are showing up to meet this moment. Are you making your organization faster?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

“Cloud is scalable IT infrastructure that enables organizations to respond quickly to market changes, support business growth, and minimize disruptions,” says Swati Shah, SVP and CIO of US markets at TransUnion, the Chicago-based IT services and consulting company. “It They care about value. This frees us to focus on our mission.”

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 7, 2025

Relying solely on turnover is like driving a vehicle using only your side and rearview mirrors; youre reacting to what has already happened, without a clear view of what lies ahead. While turnover shows us that employees are leaving, it doesnt reveal why theyre departing, what the impact is, or how it ties into larger workforce issues.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

Our conversation touched on what defines a great information security leader today and how those leadership attributes fuel results for the business. The best CISOs are intentional about making sure their people understand their purpose and connection to the business. Ultimately, she says, this is about building consensus, and the No.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Except for one thing: The CIO’s focus on management was, to use the technical term, a “good thing.” Because what’s frequently missed in the perennial leadership vs. management fracas is that management is about getting work out the door. That being the case, why is it that leadership gets all the mystique?

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datapine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Companies can be selective about the types of features and options they want. Increased thought leadership. Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way.” – Peter Thiel , co-founder of PayPal, one of the planet’s biggest SaaS providers. Vertical SaaS. Micro-SaaS.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

On a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , Soni and I unpacked her leadership philosophies and business-centric approach to technology. She also shared some of the lessons she’s learned about taking risks, navigating complexity, fostering an innovative culture, and creating significant impact across the business.

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