CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

With advanced technologies like AI transforming the business landscape, IT organizations are struggling to find the right talent to keep pace. The problem isnt just the shortage of qualified candidates; its the lack of alignment between the skills available in the workforce and the skills organizations need. Take cybersecurity, for example.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

Though loosely applied, agentic AI generally refers to granting AI agents more autonomy to optimize tasks and chain together increasingly complex actions. UIPaths 2025 Agentic AI Report surveyed US IT execs from companies with $1 billion or more in revenue and found that 93% are highly interested in agentic AI for their business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2025

Khalid Kark, field CIO, Cloudflare Cloudflare These pillars represent the expanded value narrative for digital leadership, one that is also redefining the playbook for CIOs and their teams. Following are the unique insights, bold thinking, and real-world examples they shared about how their organizations are showing up to meet this moment.

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Corinium

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Ahead of his appearance at this year’s Chief Data & Analytics Officer Africa conference, Michiel van Staden, Data Analytics Lead: Everyday Banking Growth at Absa, shares three things his experiences to date have taught him about data leadership. The value of data analytics rests on communication.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2024

You may be unfamiliar with the name, but Norma Group products are used wherever pipes are connected and liquids are conveyed, from water supply and irrigation systems in vehicles, trains and aircraft, to agricultural machinery and buildings. It all starts with a sense of presence, both remote and local.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

IT may be central to modern existence, but the people and processes of IT remain a mystery to most business executives and colleagues. Its time to change this. I asked a group of business executives to take out a blank sheet of paper, draw a big circle, and label it IT People and Processes. For the vast majority, that circle was a tiny period.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

JP Morgan Chase president Daniel Pinto says the bank expects to see up to $2 billion in value from its AI use cases, up from a $1.5 billion estimate in May. And speaking at the Barclays Global Financial Services conference in September, he said gen AI will have a big impact in improving processes and efficiencies. It gets beyond what we can manage.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

NTT takes leadership role NTT is taking a leadership role on a variety of fronts, Mabrucco said. Speaking of NTTs AI Charter, Mabrucco said NTT was looking to take a leadership role in AI governance and ethics. This is vitally important because there are legitimate concerns that AI will outpace the capacity of the power grid.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In a recent interview, Bhimani talked about the importance of thinking about ethical uses of AI and how it can benefit both humanity and individual organizations. The opportunity in front of us is not to just ride the wave of AI,” Bhimani says. “The The opportunity in front of us is not to just ride the wave of AI,” Bhimani says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

All of this creates new challenges, on top of those already posed by the gen AI itself. Plus, unlike traditional automations, agentic systems are non-deterministic. This puts them at odds with legacy platforms, which are universally very deterministic. If you want to strike oil, you have to drill through the granite to get to it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

And maybe most importantly, it can influence leadership. Hands-on leadership creates AI success Many executives are eager to implement AI, but the most successful take a hands-on approach, involving the C-suite throughout planning, implementation, and iteration—like Simon Bacher, CEO of education technology startup Ling App. “I’m

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

IT managers are often responsible for not just overseeing an organization’s IT infrastructure but its IT teams as well. 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.

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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

APRIL 8, 2025

Risk management is among the most misunderstood yet valuable aspects of leadership, Saibene observes. A PwC Global Risk Survey found that 75% of risk leaders claim that financial pressures limit their ability to invest in the advanced technology needed to assess and monitor risks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

CIO leadership metrics: Operational over strategic In IDC’s CIO Sentiment Survey (Figure 2) that asked about the top metrics used to evaluate CIO performance in 2024, a startling imbalance was revealed. This creates a disconnect between the strategic role that CIOs are increasingly expected to play and how their success is measured.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In addition, if CIOs don’t fully understand the cost of scaling generative AI, they could miscalculate by 500% to 1,000%, says Hung LeHong, an analyst focused on executive leadership for digital business at Gartner. AI projects with broad impact show leadership and employees the power of AI, he adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Leadership Buy-In: The first and most critical step to developing a successful data-first culture is support from the top. Leadership must prioritize data-driven strategies across all business functions. Data is the lifeblood of the modern insurance business. There are lots of reasons for this.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 11, 2024

A 1958 Harvard Business Review article coined the term information technology, focusing their definition on rapidly processing large amounts of information, using statistical and mathematical methods in decision-making, and simulating higher order thinking through applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

AI is a leadership opportunity for CIOs. Everything starts with the board, who are asking, ‘How can we anticipate the unexpected threats brought on by AI?’” Langer, Associate Vice Provost, Professor of Practice and Director, Center for Technology Management and Digital Leadership at Northeastern University. “So

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 29, 2024

Joy Brown’s rise through the upper echelons of digital and IT roles models what is now requisite preparation for technology leadership. As the business world evolved and things changed, my list of what was needed evolved as well,” she says. Data experience is another must-have set of competencies, Heller says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Then a clear plan was also required for how it should be incorporated into the job, based on clear leadership and change management. In recent years, there’ve been a number of smaller AI products geared toward the legal profession, but it wasn’t until gen AI caught on that Swedish law firm Setterwalls really saw the benefit. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

Its also a position that requires strong leadership and collaboration skills to run cloud teams and work across other departments to identify and communicate cloud needs. Its an advanced job title, with cloud architects typically reporting to the IT director, CIO, CTO, or other technology executives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

For CIOs, success will depend not only on technological leadership but also on mastering cost control, governance, and the human side of digital transformation. In a survey of 451 senior technology executives conducted by Gartner in mid-2024, a striking 57% of CIOs reported being tasked with leading AI strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As CIO of Avnet one of the largest technology distributors and supply chain solution providers Im responsible for the organizations IT stack and oversee digital transformation and strategy. Two critical areas that underpin our digital approach are cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). That said, were not 100% in the cloud. It is so important.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

If everyone speaks the same language — across all the operating groups and our leadership team — we have the foundation by which we can more effectively manage the business. You ’re building an enterprise data platform for the first time in Sevita’s history. What’s driving this investment? How do you know the new platform is working?

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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 In addition, Abril highlights specific benefits gained from applying new technologies. We want to have the best specialists in the field.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The technical skills, IT leadership expertise, and ability to keep the network secure and running, and even to deliver innovation aren’t enough to create success for today’s CIOs. Intangible 2: Change leadership “Most people are familiar with change management,” Struckman says. “If What got you here won’t get you there.

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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. An operationalized carbon-neutral strategy requires end-to-end visibility on climate data. Back to the good news: Organizations are slowly conquering this issue. The key is good data quality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The leadership has embraced AI, and it’s reflected in the initiatives that are being worked on across various federal and governmental entities,” Al Awadi said. Jasim Al Awadi, Chief ICT Officer at Du highlighted the importance of this partnership, emphasizing how it aligns with the UAE’s long-term goals for digital governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

What are your transformation leadership lessons learned? Transformation leadership is about communicating with compassion while executing with passion. DigiOps and platform operators look at our priorities, as well as commercial and go-to-market strategies, and prioritize accordingly. All of this is intertwined.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Youll also need to demonstrate strong leadership skills, and the importance of team leadership, dynamics, and assigning responsibilities within a team. Youll need to submit a project for approval, demonstrating proficiency in team leadership, team dynamics, and an ability to identify the right team members for a project.

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O'Reilly on Data

MAY 14, 2020

This role includes everything a traditional PM does, but also requires an operational understanding of machine learning software development, along with a realistic view of its capabilities and limitations. Whether or not that’s how your organization works, every AI PM must consider how their products relate to these phases.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

When I first got to LIC, I spent a lot of time with the tech team, but probably more with shareholders, farmers, and directors in the senior leadership team. And even though his first job was in the travel industry in the late 90s, it was a role that was a mix of IT support and finance. After about three months, though, he just wanted tech.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

The trick for CIOs who have significant tech debt is to sell it to organization leadership , he says. It’s among CIOs’ most persistent and underdiscussed challenges: embracing innovative technologies without losing sight of mounting — and potentially crippling — technical debt. You can’t modernize without addressing tech debt,” Saroff says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The good news for CIOs is that you have an opportunity to take a leadership role with AI, especially as organizations mitigate risk by keeping AI model development centralized. Meredith sets IDCs annual thought leadership theme and research agenda for IDCs global team of 1,300+ analysts. Its been a year of intense experimentation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

You’ve worked hard advancing your career and are ready to make the shift to leadership. Know what makes the executive interview stand apart An executive role is more about managing people, communicating with leadership, and thinking strategically than it is about technology itself. What should you wear? Everyone makes mistakes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

From automating tedious tasks to unlocking insights from unstructured data, the potential seems limitless. But heres the question I keep asking myself: do we really need this immense power for most of our analytics? Think about it: LLMs like GPT-3 are incredibly complex deep learning models trained on massive datasets. Theyre impressive, no doubt.

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