CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

CIOs perennially deal with technical debts risks, costs, and complexities. While the impacts of legacy systems can be quantified, technical debt is also often embedded in subtler ways across the IT ecosystem, making it hard to account for the full list of issues and risks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

But as with any transformative technology, AI comes with risks chief among them, the perpetuation of biases and systemic inequities. If these relationships prioritize profit over fairness or innovation over inclusion, entire communities risk being excluded from the benefits of AI. Black professionals make up just 8.6%

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

The proof of concept (POC) has become a key facet of CIOs AI strategies, providing a low-stakes way to test AI use cases without full commitment. Companies pilot-to-production rates can vary based on how each enterprise calculates ROI especially if they have differing risk appetites around AI. Its going to vary dramatically.

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DataKitchen

MARCH 20, 2025

Rather than concentrating on individual tables, these teams devote their resources to ensuring each pipeline, workflow, or DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) is transparent, thoroughly tested, and easily deployable through automation. Their data tables become dependable by-products of meticulously crafted and managed workflows.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

Its typical for organizations to test out an AI use case, launching a proof of concept and pilot to determine whether theyre placing a good bet. But as CIOs devise their AI strategies, they must ask whether theyre prepared to move a successful AI test into production, Mason says. Am I engaging with the business to answer questions?

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O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

These articles show you how to minimize your risk at every stage of the project, from initial planning through to post-deployment monitoring and testing. Many organizations start AI projects, but relatively few of those projects make it to production. We’ve said that AI projects are inherently probabilistic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Despite AI’s potential to transform businesses, many senior technology leaders find themselves wrestling with unpredictable expenses, uneven productivity gains, and growing risks as AI adoption scales, Gartner said. CIOs should create proofs of concept that test how costs will scale, not just how the technology works.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Key AI companies have told the UK government to speed up its safety testing for their systems, raising questions about future government initiatives that too may hinge on technology providers opening up generative AI models to tests before new releases hit the public.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

GRC certifications validate the skills, knowledge, and abilities IT professionals have to manage governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) in the enterprise. Enter the need for competent governance, risk and compliance (GRC) professionals. What are GRC certifications? Why are GRC certifications important?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

By articulating fitness functions automated tests tied to specific quality attributes like reliability, security or performance teams can visualize and measure system qualities that align with business goals. Technical foundation Conversation starter : Are we maintaining reliable roads and utilities, or are we risking gridlock?

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O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 15, 2023

Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?” And they are stress testing and “ red teaming ” them to uncover vulnerabilities. But exactly how this stress testing, post processing, and hardening works—or doesn’t—is mostly invisible to regulators. Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

Adding smarter AI also adds risk, of course. “At The big risk is you take the humans out of the loop when you let these into the wild.” When it comes to security, though, agentic AI is a double-edged sword with too many risks to count, he says. “We That means the projects are evaluated for the amount of risk they involve.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

As IT landscapes and software delivery processes evolve, the risk of inadvertently creating new vulnerabilities increases. These risks are particularly critical for financial services institutions, which are now under greater scrutiny with the Digital Operational Resilience Act ( DORA ).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2024

As CIO, you’re in the risk business. Or rather, every part of your responsibilities entails risk, whether you’re paying attention to it or not. There are, for example, those in leadership roles who, while promoting the value of risk-taking, also insist on “holding people accountable.” You can’t lose.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Financial institutions have an unprecedented opportunity to leverage AI/GenAI to expand services, drive massive productivity gains, mitigate risks, and reduce costs. GenAI is also helping to improve risk assessment via predictive analytics.

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O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Unexpected outcomes, security, safety, fairness and bias, and privacy are the biggest risks for which adopters are testing. We’re not encouraging skepticism or fear, but companies should start AI products with a clear understanding of the risks, especially those risks that are specific to AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

While tech debt refers to shortcuts taken in implementation that need to be addressed later, digital addiction results in the accumulation of poorly vetted, misused, or unnecessary technologies that generate costs and risks. million machines worldwide, serves as a stark reminder of these risks. Assume unknown unknowns.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

There are risks around hallucinations and bias, says Arnab Chakraborty, chief responsible AI officer at Accenture. Meanwhile, in December, OpenAIs new O3 model, an agentic model not yet available to the public, scored 72% on the same test. And EY uses AI agents in its third-party risk management service.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2024

Not instant perfection The NIPRGPT experiment is an opportunity to conduct real-world testing, measuring generative AI’s computational efficiency, resource utilization, and security compliance to understand its practical applications. For now, AFRL is experimenting with self-hosted open-source LLMs in a controlled environment.

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O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 12, 2019

1] This includes C-suite executives, front-line data scientists, and risk, legal, and compliance personnel. These recommendations are based on our experience, both as a data scientist and as a lawyer, focused on managing the risks of deploying ML. 6] Debugging may focus on a variety of failure modes (i.e., Sensitivity analysis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

These changes can expose businesses to risks and vulnerabilities such as security breaches, data privacy issues and harm to the companys reputation. It also includes managing the risks, quality and accountability of AI systems and their outcomes. AI governance is critical and should never be just a regulatory requirement.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 8, 2024

You risk adding to the hype where there will be no observable value. The learning phase Two key grounding musts: Non-mission critical workloads and (public) data Internal/private (closed) exposure This ensures no corporate information or systems will be exposed to any form of risk. Test the customer waters.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

One of them is Katherine Wetmur, CIO for cyber, data, risk, and resilience at Morgan Stanley. Wetmur says Morgan Stanley has been using modern data science, AI, and machine learning for years to analyze data and activity, pinpoint risks, and initiate mitigation, noting that teams at the firm have earned patents in this space.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

DevOps teams follow their own practices of using continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools to automatically merge code changes and automate testing steps to deploy changes more frequently and reliably. With this information, teams can ask the AI agent additional questions such as Should I approve the change?

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

A DataOps Engineer can make test data available on demand. We have automated testing and a system for exception reporting, where tests identify issues that need to be addressed. It then autogenerates QC tests based on those rules. Every time we see an error, we address it with a new automated test.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2025

This simplifies data modification processes, which is crucial for ingesting and updating large volumes of market and trade data, quickly iterating on backtesting and reprocessing workflows, and maintaining detailed audit trails for risk and compliance requirements. At petabyte scale, Icebergs advantages become clear.

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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

MARCH 5, 2025

If they decide a project could solve a big enough problem to merit certain risks, they then make sure they understand what type of data will be needed to address the solution. The next thing is to make sure they have an objective way of testing the outcome and measuring success. But we dont ignore the smaller players.

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DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The best way to ensure error-free execution of data production is through automated testing and monitoring. The DataKitchen Platform enables data teams to integrate testing and observability into data pipeline orchestrations. Automated tests work 24×7 to ensure that the results of each processing stage are accurate and correct.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Allegations of fraud and security risks The indictment details that the fraudulent certification, combined with misleading claims about the facility’s capabilities, led the SEC to award Jain’s company the contract in 2012. The scheme allegedly put the SEC’s data security and operational integrity at risk.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

And we’re at risk of being burned out.” Woolley recommends that companies consolidate around the minimum number of tools they need to get things done, and have a sandbox process to test and evaluate new tools that don’t get in the way of people doing actual work. But it’s also nice for employees to have some personal autonomy. “If

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

In fact, successful recovery from cyberattacks and other disasters hinges on an approach that integrates business impact assessments (BIA), business continuity planning (BCP), and disaster recovery planning (DRP) including rigorous testing. See also: How resilient CIOs future-proof to mitigate risks.)

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Integration with Oracles systems proved more complex than expected, leading to prolonged testing and spiraling costs, the report stated. Change requests affecting critical aspects of the solution were accepted late in the implementation cycle, creating unnecessary complexity and risk.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

particular, companies that use AI systems can share their voluntary commitments to transparency and risk control. At least half of the current AI Pact signatories (numbering more than 130) have made additional commitments, such as risk mitigation, human oversight and transparency in generative AI content.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

3) How do we get started, when, who will be involved, and what are the targeted benefits, results, outcomes, and consequences (including risks)? Keep it agile, with short design, develop, test, release, and feedback cycles: keep it lean, and build on incremental changes. Test early and often. Test and refine the chatbot.

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O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You can see a simulation as a temporary, synthetic environment in which to test an idea. Millions of tests, across as many parameters as will fit on the hardware. “Here’s our risk model. A number of scholars have tested this shuffle-and-recombine-till-we-find-a-winner approach on timetable scheduling.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 17, 2024

What are the associated risks and costs, including operational, reputational, and competitive? Find a change champion and get business users involved from the beginning to build, pilot, test, and evaluate models. Does it contribute to business outcomes such as revenue, sustainability, customer experience, or saving lives?

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