CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

To get back in front, IT leaders will have to transform lessons learned from 2023 into actionable, adaptable processes, as veteran technology pros have been remarkably consistent in identifying global and economic uncertainties as key challenges for IT leaders to anticipate in 2024 as well.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2024

The next generation of leaders in family businesses is poised to embrace the transformative power of generative AI (GenAI) despite marked resistance from the incumbent leaders, according to a PwC report. In the same breath, the findings suggested the NextGen leader’s apprehension about the incumbent leaders’ ability to capitalize on it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

The second point is that while we’re seeing significant layoffs across Silicon Valley and IT companies worldwide, most still report good results, unlike Dell.” These actions resulted in a reduction in overall headcount. Thus, these companies are seizing the opportunity to streamline their workforce now.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2022

Yet the report also found that 74% of C-suite executives say that no one at their company truly owns the employee experience. They’re people — each with their own unique circumstances at home, families to support, and worries about the uncertainty that comes with a volatile global pandemic. That has to change.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s no surprise, then, that according to a June KPMG survey, uncertainty about the regulatory environment was the top barrier to implementing gen AI. So here are some of the strategies organizations are using to deploy gen AI in the face of regulatory uncertainty. Not without warning signs, however. Then there are the lawsuits.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2024

Although the total number of deals declined in 2023 compared to the previous year, the average deal size remained constant, the report said. Although the total number of deals declined in 2023 compared to the previous year, the average deal size remained constant, the report said. billion, IDC said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The 2023 IT salary report from Robert Half reinforces these findings. Burnout is quickly becoming a widespread problem for IT organizations. For IT leaders aware of the impact burnout can have on their staff , the reality of IT exhaustion is complicated further by the fact that burnout isn’t caused by just one thing.

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O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The responses show a surfeit of concerns around data quality and some uncertainty about how best to address those concerns. Executives see the big picture, not only vis-à-vis operations and strategy, but also with respect to problems—and, especially, complaints —in the units that report to them. There’s good and bad in this.

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Jet Global

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Financial reporting requires a significant amount of time, attention, and input to prepare reports that offer valuable analysis and deep insight into enterprise performance. Rather, these issues are evidence of a financial reporting process that’s producing untrustworthy information and eating extra time along the way.

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Jet Global

JUNE 23, 2020

As companies grapple with economic shutdowns, plummeting revenues, market instability, and economic uncertainty now and into the foreseeable future, they need financial insights more than ever before. Reporting has always been necessary, but now it’s paramount. Self-service reporting looks like the obvious solution.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

Several economists, a bank president, and a couple of reporters walk into a bar. The economists lament, “ A thick fog of uncertainty still surrounds us.” The reporters keen about “ gut-churning feelings of helplessness ” and “a world of confusion.” Uncertainty is our jam.” After all, uncertainty is the one certainty.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

Rasmussen’s budget is representative of CIO spending in 2022, based on findings from the CIO.com 2022 State of the CIO Report and other IT spending surveys, which show CIOs by and large enjoying bumps in annual budgets, with IT spending expected to surpass last year’s figures. That’s why IT spending right now is so strategic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The global IT services industry is at a significant crossroads, with the explosive growth of generative AI and deepening economic uncertainties reshaping its future. These developments, along with broader market reports, have cast a shadow over the growth prospects of the IT services sector.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 29, 2022

It noted in its February 2022 “Impact of Russian Invasion of Ukraine on Software Engineering Services” report that most large- and mid-tier system integrators have some presence in those three countries. Their stories show their resolve and commitment to look forward despite the destruction and uncertainty being inflicted on their land.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Cloud computing industry faces the heat Microsoft and Google, which compete with AWS for cloud computing market share, have reported similar reduction in customer spending, impacting growth in their respective cloud businesses. Note that Microsoft does not separately report Azure revenue. In Q4, Google Cloud reported revenue of $7.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The September Monthly Threat Intelligence Report from cybersecurity firm NCC Group delivers plenty of reasons to worry. Here are 10 worries keeping IT leaders up at night. Recent figures do nothing to ease anxiety. For example, it highlighted a 153% rise in global ransomware attacks from September 2022 to September 2023.

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Octopai

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Data is processing, information is moving through various systems, and reports are generating valuable insights for the decision-makers down the line. Then a BI reporting nightmare crops up – a significant mistake has been discovered in a data field. Anxiety and uncertainty descend. BI Reporting Best Practices.

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BA Learnings

JULY 18, 2019

I tend to describe the agile approach as a way of working; A targeted way of working that allows us to make changes, respond to customers’ needs and manage uncertainty with minimal delays, and without needing to wade through “red tape”. This may be in the form of weekly or monthly status reports depending on the organisation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

Digital disruption, global pandemic, geopolitical crises, economic uncertainty — volatility has thrown into question time-honored beliefs about how best to lead IT. Thriving amid uncertainty means staying flexible, he argues. . The past few years in IT have exemplified this. Develop team trust. Budgets may need adjusting,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2023

Because of economic uncertainty, about 40% of CIOs slowed hiring as 2022 wound down, and about 30% experienced hiring freezes. IT leaders say the best approach is to focus on adaptability. Here we look at five hiring trends for 2023, five that are falling out of favor, and how organizations are adjusting to new hiring realities this year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Viole Kastrati: Without systematic and continuous reporting, it is almost impossible to get a complete picture of the personnel situation and make informed decisions based on it. This is due, on the one hand, to the uncertainty associated with handling confidential, sensitive data and, on the other hand, to a number of structural problems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2023

CIOs confronted a host of issues over the past year, with economic, political, and technology events creating both uncertainties and opportunities for organizations across all sectors. Curious about what it all meant, we asked IT leaders to look back on the somewhat tumultuous year and reflect on what they learned.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

At least as it was reported, it comes across sounding like a flip dismissal of what genAI might have to offer. GenAI itself can report week-on-week progress, putting it to work across your organization–including the ROI. On the one hand, enthusiasm for getting out of “ pilot purgatory ” is a good sign.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

There’s no better type of job security than indispensability. Once an IT leader is regarded as essential by his or her employer, recognition rises, colleagues begin listening, project doors swing open, and salaries and benefits skyrocket. Achieving indispensability isn’t as challenging as it may sound. Inquisitiveness.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Hot: Getting comfortable with uncertainty To address disruptions across multiple aspects of the business, organizations need to be able to pivot quickly, says DeVry University CIO Chris Campbell. Harvard’s McNulty says ongoing uncertainty is prompting more interest in futures and scenario planning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 25, 2024

A growing number of workers worldwide are considering changing employers within the next year due to rising workloads and the rapid pace of technological change, surpassing the levels seen during the “Great Resignation” of 2022, a report by PwC said. This sense of uncertainty appears to coincide with rising workloads.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2024

Those investments come just as the company claims, in its 2023 annual report, that demand from corporate data centers in the US is expected to roughly double within the next three years as generative AI deployments expand. But with the addition of more renewable energy to its portfolio, weather uncertainty becomes a greater challenge for AES.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

by AMIR NAJMI & MUKUND SUNDARARAJAN Data science is about decision making under uncertainty. Some of that uncertainty is the result of statistical inference, i.e., using a finite sample of observations for estimation. But there are other kinds of uncertainty, at least as important, that are not statistical in nature.

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Jet Global

OCTOBER 17, 2020

There is uncertainty, too, around the business climate in many urban areas of the US in the wake of the damage done by rioters and looters. When each update to a report requires that someone go through that extract/copy/paste process all over again, the organization as a whole tends to operate on day-old information (or worse).

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Dataiku

JULY 6, 2022

Which metrics should be reported? In this article, we relate our experience in building an evaluation framework for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in ML. If performing benchmarks for ML evaluation could seem self-evident, it conceals how crucial and challenging it is to build them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The US Federal Government has been investing heavily in IT modernization and cybersecurity, with an estimated budget of $65 billion for 2023 for civilian IT spending, according to a White House report. Its consulting business alone has acquired 13 companies to boost its offerings.

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John Wheeler

JANUARY 31, 2021

This week the Wall Street Journal reported that due to emerging virus mutations , Harvard economist James Stock sees a “scenario of this thing sticking around for a much longer time frame.’’ No doubt, 2021 will be the year of uncertainty and change. These uncertainties can make or break a business. – Gartner, January 2021.

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Jet Global

JULY 16, 2020

COVID-19 uncovered some important truths about the state of financial reporting. Financial reporting promises to offer users a glimpse of what’s coming, yet few managed to predict the onset of a global pandemic or take meaningful steps to prepare early. If reporting was important before, it’s mission-critical now.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 27, 2024

It’s nearing the end of the summer in North America, and one report has been a staple on my reading list for more than a decade: the Flexera State of the Cloud Report. I’ve referenced the latest iteration of the report dozens of times since its inception. 89% of respondents report using multiple clouds, up from 87% in 2023.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 13, 2020

To support verification in these areas, a product manager must first ensure that the AI system is capable of reporting back to the product team about its performance and usefulness over time. Proper AI product monitoring is essential to this outcome. I/O validation. While useful, these constructs are not beyond criticism.

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Jet Global

JANUARY 5, 2021

Although Microsoft’s rollout of its two ERP cloud products (D365 F&SCM, and for smaller businesses, D365 Business Central) has been going on for some time, the current climate of economic uncertainty has prompted a lot of companies to hit the pause button on migration, choosing instead to stay the course with their existing Dynamics AX systems.

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Jet Global

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Single source of truth reporting is exactly what it sounds like: reporting based on a shared repository of facts that includes all information relevant to every user. It’s the ideal approach to reporting, but it’s rarer than people realize. PeopleSoft users are an excellent example. Here’s how.

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