CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

Business and IT leaders thought theyd be left behind if they werent adopting AI as fast as the earliest users. How does our AI strategy support our business objectives, and how do we measure its value? To counter such statistics, CIOs say they and their C-suite colleagues are devising more thoughtful strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

To succeed, you need to understand the fundamentals of security, data storage, hardware, software, networking, and IT management frameworks — and how they all work together to deliver business value. IT managers are often responsible for not just overseeing an organization’s IT infrastructure but its IT teams as well.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

This scalability allows you to expand your business without needing a proportionally larger IT team.” Complex business decisions, such as fraud detection and price optimization, can now be made in real-time based on huge amounts of data,” Liddle states. Better employee engagement leads to employee retention.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Fundamentally people don’t understand how their business activities — the processes, services, and customer journeys — are tied to the technologies,” Carandang says. And it prevents turf wars between groups, so, for example, a business unit won’t run away with an innovation that IT proposed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

AI headed for reset On the AI front, Forrester predicted that AI technologies will continue to grow at an unprecedented pace, but businesses are evincing skepticism about the business value it delivers. “Some leaders will pursue that goal strategically, in ways that set up their organizations for long-term success.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

But CIOs will need to increase the business acumen of their digital transformation leaders to ensure the right initiatives get priority, vision statements align with business objectives, and teams validate AI model accuracy. AI tools exacerbate the issue by exposing these data pockets, creating new security risks.

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datapine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

When setting up a business strategy for your IT department, you need to craft a vision, identify goals to achieve and a clear path of how to get there. If what you are reporting does not align with the wider business objectives, you might end up driving the IT department – and sometimes even the rest of the business – further apart.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Laggards must follow the pace of leaders with defined roles and responsibilities that align with business needs and transformation goals,” says Ram Palaniappan, chief technology officer at IT services company TEKsystems. Yet many IT departments are struggling to reshape themselves to better meet the mandates of today.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As digital transformation becomes a critical driver of business success, many organizations still measure CIO performance based on traditional IT values rather than transformative outcomes. To drive change, a reworking of what defines CIO/IT success is needed, with a focus on strategic business goals, innovation, and market differentiation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2024

Businesses rely heavily on software for innovation and competition, which tends to be riddled with bad-quality code, leading to mounting technical debt,” says Andrea Malagodi, CIO of Sonar. “ As a digital transformation leader and former CIO, I carry a healthy dose of paranoia. Is the organization transforming fast enough?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Still, CIOs have reason to drive AI capabilities and employee adoption, as only 16% of companies are reinvention ready with fully modernized data foundations and end-to-end platform integration to support automation across most business processes, according to Accenture. Below are five examples of where to start.

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DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Your data consumers are focused on business objectives. They need to grow sales, pursue new business opportunities, or reduce costs. Data is the modern business decision apparatus (just ask Google, Target, Amazon, or Facebook). What would it mean for a company to lead its industry in savvy and business agility?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Company executives are well aware that their businesses need to adapt to keep up with the rapid transformation now taking place. Which is why modernising applications is so important, especially for traditional businesses – they need to keep pace with the challenges facing trade and commerce nowadays.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Avila says it’s also important to understand that that the rate-of-change metric doesn’t only live within the IT department — it also informs business leaders. Businesses should work hand in hand with their IT department to pivot quickly in order to maximize success,” he concludes. Metrics provide a means to monitor progress.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

Build better business alignment Multiple CIOs plan to strengthen their ties to other functional areas in ’24, building on the work they’ve done in recent years to create even more synergy. To ensure results, some CIOs say they’re creating teams that can easily pivot as business needs change. We’re piloting, PoC-ing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It will be critical for the technology team to have knowledge around data, what insights it can provide, and how to use it to further business objectives,” says Joan Holman, CIO of the law firm Clark Hill. “We Today’s CIOs need to be more than strategic, they should be visionaries, too. Connected devices, torrents of data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Encourage cross-functional collaboration : Partner with IT, operations and finance teams to align data-driven sustainability efforts with broader business objectives. By leveraging expertise in data governance, analytics and AI, they can help organizations align ESG goals with business objectives, ensuring long-term success.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Walker, a business consultant and coach. If you can effectively communicate with both the business and the IT departments, you’ll be well on your way to building a strong reputation,” he notes. Yet a single false move, made in haste or by a momentary lack of judgment, can leave a hard-earned reputation in ashes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 4, 2024

While artificial intelligence is a key focus at SAP’s user conference, Sapphire, this year, the company has announced that it is also enhancing its Business Technology Platform — application development and automation, data and analytics, integration, and AI capabilities — by adding features to extend its components’ functionality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

Organizations that have made progress on environmental objectives to include circular economy principles have also made progress on broader business objectives of better asset management strategies and reduced procurement cycles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Digital transformation initiatives, for the most part, offer significant advantages—enhancing efficiency, agility, and innovation across the business. However, these initiatives can also introduce new challenges. As IT landscapes and software delivery processes evolve, the risk of inadvertently creating new vulnerabilities increases.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Developing an IT Budget is Crucial for Data-Driven Businesses As big data technology leaps lightyears ahead , different industries are jumping on the wagon. It doesn’t matter if you own a manufacturing business, an ecommerce, or a retail shop, you have IT needs. This means you need to work out an IT budget with your financial plans.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

High performance back then generally focused on delivery — a contrast to previous generations of IT where business and IT alignment was an issue, and teams struggled to deliver with waterfall project management practices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That’s unfortunate given how much of smooth business operations depends on the efficient delivery of IT services today. Provide an IT service that focuses on user experience,” advises Edgar Padua, business value architect at digital workplace provider Nexthink. The following nine tips will help get your there.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 25, 2024

Here are some tips for getting the most value from using IT consultants and ensuring that the engagement is successful and aligned with your objectives. Based on my experience, the most favorable outcomes stem from referrals provided by trusted business associates.” Another consideration is having a clear definition of expectations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Clearing business strategy hurdles Choosing the right technologies to meet an organization’s unique AI goals is usually not straightforward. Business objectives must be articulated and matched with appropriate tools, methodologies, and processes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

It is nearly impossible to separate the business strategy from the organization’s technology strategy. Given this, it is critical that the CIO drive technology innovation in order to drive the overall business strategy,” says Marcus Murph, head of CIO Advisory at professional services firm KPMG.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

Effectively developing and growing a positive and innovative culture is easily one of the top objectives for most IT organizations and companies today. Forty-eight percent of those polled also say that a distinctive culture can result in better business outcomes, while nearly 90% point to improved customer satisfaction.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 4, 2023

Summarizing with too few slides may leave out key details on the problem statement, growth opportunities, market trends, and other details that connect business and customer needs with technology strategy. Be prepared to answer common board questions about cyber readiness, technology roadmaps, and plans to hire and retain a diverse team.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Utilizing these technologies helps reinforce the need for IT capabilities to evolve alongside business strategies, thereby enhancing overall organizational agility. Its scalability allows businesses to expand their automation efforts without significant upfront investments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 13, 2024

Lawrence Bilker can easily articulate the business values that his IT initiatives should deliver: better experiences for both employees and customers, more insights from data to enable smarter decision-making, and more intelligence for improved operations. I believe we’re in a post-alignment world.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Providing a compelling ROI on technology initiatives also puts CIOs in a stronger position for securing support and funds from the business for future projects. Align projects with business goals. If well aligned, such IT projects can even help generate new business opportunities, he says. It is important.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2024

The original resume also included two brief sentences about the candidate’s general experience, noting that they have a “proven record of achievement in reducing costs, streamlining operations, stakeholder satisfaction, creating business strategies and how to best leverage technology.” View the original resume for “Patricia T.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2022

It was a daunting challenge, not least with technology leadership being restructured in the wake of CDIO Norma Dove-Edwin’s departure in March, but also owing to complex business operating across five departments and more than 20 companies. He also wanted to increase the visibility of IT – with the COVID-19 pandemic giving him a helping hand.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Source: [link] Every business wants to get on board with ChatGPT, to implement it, operationalize it, and capitalize on it. I suggest that the simplest business strategy starts with answering three basic questions: What? It is important to realize that the usual “hype cycle” rules prevail in such cases as this.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

APRIL 29, 2025

Ultimately, this pressure weighs heavily on security leaders, hindering their ability to align security goals with broader business objectives. Streamlining operations and modernizing security management is essential for overcoming these barriers and ensuring alignment with current business objectives.

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