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Chief data officers step into the business strategist spotlight

CIO Business Intelligence

Investments to support AI adoption are on the rise, but many business executives are overconfident about their organizations data capabilities and readiness , issues their CDOs are much more clear-eyed about. A strong CDO who can communicate and drive the strategy is essential for getting value out of these AI investments.

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Leading tech in a PE portfolio company: 5 things you need to know

CIO Business Intelligence

Influence on technology strategy In most public companies, the CEO and board rely heavily on the CIO to bring forward the right tech strategy. As such, PE partners often have a stronger desire to participate in developing your tech strategy. Business acumen is understanding business drivers, performance, and markets.

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Top 10 business needs driving IT spending today

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies that used to be able to put the virtual brick walls around the building and say they’re secure on the inside now have too many openings — to the cloud, partners, customers, employees — for that strategy to be viable.”. 13, respectively. It’s not about cost control; instead, we talk about investments for value.

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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO Business Intelligence

They tend to utilize a castle-and-moat security strategy focused on the network perimeter. We even copied that perimeter defense strategy to our cloud environments by building virtual firewalls to control access to those applications. Reassuring staff their jobs are secure, but being clear that the way they do their jobs may change.

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3 Essential Cybersecurity Strategies for 2020

CDW Research Hub

There are also an increasing number of tools and strategies recommended to handle this challenge. Cut through the complexity with these three crucial strategies for improved cybersecurity. Use a data classification strategy to help you identify the varying values of your data so you can treat it accordingly.

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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Business drivers for the first wave of digital transformation through 2020 targeted growth, data capabilities, cloud migration, and delivering competitive technology capabilities. AI is a fundamentally different set of technologies that requires a separate strategy and capabilities.” And a key facet of that is data management.

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Why Data Governance Is Crucial for All Enterprise-Level Businesses

Cloudera

Even the COVID-19 pandemic and the acceleration to digital transformation — when data and data insights became two of the main business drivers — haven’t improved the situation. A recent Experian survey found that 55% of business leaders don’t trust their data assets, hindering their ability to be fully data driven.