CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Rule 1: Start with an acceptable risk appetite level Once a CIO understands their organizations risk appetite, everything else strategy, innovation, technology selection can align smoothly, says Paola Saibene, principal consultant at enterprise advisory firm Resultant.

Risk Management 131

Risk Management Risk Management Business Objectives 131

Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

More companies than ever are being driven by data. They use a number of important data analytics tools to help implement their functions more efficiently. Unfortunately, big data can be mysterious for many companies. Only 13% of companies with data strategies are meeting the objectives outlined in them.

Consulting 145

Consulting Data-driven Big Data Marketing 145

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

CRAWL: Design a robust cloud strategy and approach modernization with the right mindset Modern businesses must be extremely agile in their ability to respond quickly to rapidly changing markets, events, subscriptions-based economy and excellent experience demanding customers to grow and sustain in the ever-ruthless competitive world of consumerism.

Optimization 98

Optimization Strategy Cost-Benefit Enterprise 98

Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Data-driven ecommerce companies have a strong advantage over their competitors. As we stated before, data-driven marketing strategies are extremely valuable for ecommerce companies. What kind of ROI can big data offer for the ecommerce sector? What data does your online store need to transfer?

Data-driven 145

Data-driven Big Data ROI Manufacturing 145

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

in 2025, one of the largest percentage increases in this century, and it’s only partially driven by AI. growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs. Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% trillion, builds on its prediction of an 8.2%

IT 133

IT Data-driven Recreation/Entertainment Experimentation 133

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLennan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

IT 122

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 122

O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 25, 2025

Weve seen this across dozens of companies, and the teams that break out of this trap all adopt some version of Evaluation-Driven Development (EDD), where testing, monitoring, and evaluation drive every decision from the start. Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data.

Testing 168

Testing Data-driven Software Measurement 168

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Data is the foundation of innovation, agility and competitive advantage in todays digital economy. As technology and business leaders, your strategic initiatives, from AI-powered decision-making to predictive insights and personalized experiences, are all fueled by data. Data quality is no longer a back-office concern.

Data Quality 102

Data Quality Data-driven Key Performance Indicator Metadata 102

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Artificial Intelligence can reduce these times through data scanning, obtaining reports or collecting patient information. This way, waiting times before going in for a consultation can be minimized. Using that data and running AI on top will prevent early disease in the future.

Data-driven 104

Data-driven Consulting Big Data Risk 104

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLellan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

IT 105

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 105

Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We have talked about the benefits of using big data in web design. One of the most important benefits of data analytics is improving user experience. Jenny Booth highlighted this in her post Data-informed design: Getting started with UX analytics. Big Data is Crucial for Improving Online User Experience.

Data-driven 136

Data-driven Advertising Big Data Optimization 136

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As someone deeply involved in shaping data strategy, governance and analytics for organizations, Im constantly working on everything from defining data vision to building high-performing data teams. My work centers around enabling businesses to leverage data for better decision-making and driving impactful change.

Unstructured Data 115

Unstructured Data Manufacturing Data Governance Sales 115

DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

This is not surprising given that DataOps enables enterprise data teams to generate significant business value from their data. Companies that implement DataOps find that they are able to reduce cycle times from weeks (or months) to days, virtually eliminate data errors, increase collaboration, and dramatically improve productivity.

Testing 300

Testing Machine Learning Consulting Data Science 300

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud.

Strategy 145

Strategy Consulting Risk Testing 145

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Consulting giant Deloitte says 70% of business leaders have moved 30% or fewer of their experiments into production. As senior product owner for the Performance Hub at satellite firm Eutelsat Group Miguel Morgado says, the right strategy is crucial to effectively seize opportunities to innovate. We use machine learning all the time.

Forecasting 133

Forecasting Risk Technology Strategy 133

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. How enterprises gather, store, cleanse, access, and secure their data can be a major factor in their ability to meet corporate goals. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

Data Strategy 136

Data Strategy Strategy Unstructured Data Data Governance 136

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The demand for ESG initiatives has become an integral part of a company’s strategy for long-term success, offering a promising future for those who embrace them. This could involve adopting cloud computing, optimizing data center energy use, or implementing AI-powered energy management tools.

Metrics 124

Metrics Optimization Strategy Technology 124

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

According to Boston Consulting Group (BGC) survey, artificial intelligence isn’t new, but broad public interest in it is. Overall, 75% of survey respondents have used ChatGPT or another AI-driven tool. GenAI created tremendous interest, and is giving a boost to enterprise AI strategies, and promises to enable many business outcomes.

Technology 85

Technology Data Architecture Data-driven Consulting 85

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2024

CIOs are under pressure to integrate generative AI into business operations and products, often driven by the demand to meet business and board expectations swiftly. Samsung employees leaked proprietary data to ChatGPT. We examine the risks of rapid GenAI implementation and explain how to manage it.

Risk 111

Risk Strategy Consulting Cost-Benefit 111

Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Data analytics is very important to the future of marketing. A growing number of marketers are using data analytics technology to optimize their lead generation models. One of the most important benefits of using data analytics is that it can improve AI algorithms. Combining Data Analytics with Your Lead Generation Model.

Data Analytics 120

Data Analytics Strategy Analytics Data-driven 120

Smart Data Collective

JULY 21, 2021

Specifically, we’re talking about how digital transformation efforts routinely fail to take advantage of the data they provide access to. All those invoices have reams and reams of valuable data that you can use to create reports, forecasts and direct management decisions. Why Are We so Focused on Data Strategy?

Digital Transformation 143

Digital Transformation Data Strategy Strategy Cost-Benefit 143

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

IT leader and former CIO Stanley Mwangi Chege has heard executives complain for years about cloud deployments, citing rapidly escalating costs and data privacy challenges as top reasons for their frustrations. They, too, were motivated by data privacy issues, cost considerations, compliance concerns, and latency issues.

Optimization 128

Optimization Strategy IT Cost-Benefit 128

datapine

JANUARY 24, 2021

In our cutthroat digital age, the importance of setting the right data analysis questions can define the overall success of a business. That being said, it seems like we’re in the midst of a data analysis crisis. That being said, it seems like we’re in the midst of a data analysis crisis.

IT 317

IT Statistics KPI Data-driven 317

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2023

According to the MIT Technology Review Insights Survey, an enterprise data strategy supports vital business objectives including expanding sales, improving operational efficiency, and reducing time to market. The problem is today, just 13% of organizations excel at delivering on their data strategy.

Data Strategy 116

Data Strategy Strategy Visualization Consulting 116

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

As enterprises become more data-driven, the old computing adage garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) has never been truer. The application of AI to many business processes will only accelerate the need to ensure the veracity and timeliness of the data used, whether generated internally or sourced externally.

Data Strategy 132

Data Strategy Strategy Data-driven Enterprise 132

Cloudera

AUGUST 6, 2021

This landscape is one that presents opportunities for a modern data-driven organization to thrive. At the nucleus of such an organization is the practice of accelerating time to insights, using data to make better business decisions at all levels and roles. Data Strategy. Data and decision culture.

Data-driven 105

Data-driven Data Strategy B2B Strategy 105

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Configurability in cloud-first strategies is key as organizations don’t have to worry about hardware control, allowing for more focus on getting new services up and running faster,” he says. A cloud-first enterprise applications strategy helps make data more accessible to distributed users and workflows, he says.

Strategy 138

Strategy Enterprise Digital Transformation Data Processing 138

Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Below are five strategies to use Analytics to aid your SEO efforts. One of the first things that SEO consultants will do when working on a new website is to either implement or analyze Google Analytics goals. But, your content strategy needs to be data-driven as it forms the foundation of SEO. Which it is.

Strategy 135

Strategy Analytics Metrics Measurement 135

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 19, 2024

Additionally, 46% said they are “not fully equipped to face disruption” especially when it comes to data security and technology innovation. In a sense, skills are just data, and data-informed talent decisions are better than decisions made because of affinity bias or any other bias that humans naturally lean towards.

Strategy 116

Strategy Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit Consulting 116

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Business intelligence (BI) analysts transform data into insights that drive business value. The role is becoming increasingly important as organizations move to capitalize on the volumes of data they collect through business intelligence strategies.

Business Intelligence 126

Business Intelligence Data-driven Statistics Data Warehouse 126

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Conversations and subscriptions A per-conversation model seems to be an emerging approach, says Sesh Iyer, managing director, senior partner, and North America regional chair at BCG X, Boston Consulting Groups IT building and designing group. Vendors could also charge a small price per audio input or output.

Cost-Benefit 128

Cost-Benefit Modeling ROI Marketing 128

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Across arguably every industry, business leaders view a great customer experience strategy as a key differentiator. And thanks to online metrics, specific customer feedback, and data analytics, these retailers had more information about their customers than ever before. Increasingly organizations expanded what they offered.

Data-driven 92

Data-driven Manufacturing Advertising Consulting 92

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2024

The firm offers custom silicon solutions for consumer devices, data centers, artificial intelligence (AI), and edge computing applications, with clients in the automotive, telecommunications, and high-tech sectors. Pareekh Jain, CEO of Pareekh Consulting, noted that other consulting companies are following a similar path.

Consulting 111

Consulting Data-driven Forecasting Software 111

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to the IBM survey, when CMOs were asked what they thought the primary challenges were in adopting generative AI, they listed three top concerns: managing the complexity of implementation, building the data set and brand and intellectual property (IP) risk. With the right generative AI strategy, marketers can mitigate these concerns.

Marketing 112

Marketing Strategy B2B Cost-Benefit 112

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

An organization is only as strong as its talent pool, so organizations have increasingly embraced talent management as a core component of their overarching strategy. Demonstrate a strong approach during recruitment and onboarding Talent management strategies begin before an organization ever hires someone.

Strategy 97

Strategy Management Cost-Benefit Consulting 97

datapine

MARCH 31, 2022

Does data excite, inspire, or even amaze you? Despite these findings, the undeniable value of intelligence for business, and the incredible demand for BI skills, there is a severe shortage of BI-based data professionals – with a shortfall of 1.5 2) Top 10 Necessary BI Skills. 3) What Are the First Steps To Getting Started?

Business Intelligence 239

Business Intelligence Statistics Visualization Data-driven 239

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2025

At the same time, the scale of observability data generated from multiple tools exceeds human capacity to manage. Observability builds on the growth of sophisticated IT monitoring tools, starting with the premise that the operational state of every network node should be understandable from its data outputs.

IT 105

IT Cost-Benefit Data Science Data-driven 105