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Digital transformation 2025: What’s in, what’s out

CIO Business Intelligence

But this year three changes are likely to drive CIOs operating model transformations and digital strategies: In 2024, enterprise SaaS embedded AI agents to drive workflow evolutions , and leading-edge organizations began developing their own AI agents.

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How resilient CIOs future-proof to mitigate risks

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs are facing these challenges head-on by designing integrated resilience strategies to future-proof their organizations. The pandemic has further underscored the importance of resilience, prompting CIOs to prioritize not only immediate risk management but also long-term resilience strategies, says Rajavel.

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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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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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3 Essential Cybersecurity Strategies for 2020

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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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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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Implementing Digital Sovereignty in the Journey to Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Continuing with current cloud adoption plans is a risky strategy because the challenges of managing and securing sensitive data are growing. Businesses cannot afford to maintain this status quo amid rising sovereignty concerns. This is becoming a priority as sensitive data volumes are growing exponentially.