CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

At the roundtables CIOs and senior technology leaders gathered to discuss legacy systems, transformation to the cloud, leading and planning with the C Suite, and building sustainability and cybersecurity plans. Throughout these vibrant conversations, CIOs also discussed managing teams and leadership.

Digital Transformation 77

Digital Transformation Data Processing Technology Interactive 77

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

As CIOs prepare for the next wave of digital transformation, they must demonstrate shorter-term business impacts from technology investments and achieve larger innovation goals that evolve the organization’s business model. It’s hard to deliver business outcomes from any technology investment without business executives as partners.

Digital Transformation 144

Digital Transformation Data-driven Business Objectives Strategy 144

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. IT service delivery enables an organization to give end users access to essential IT services by designing, developing, and deploying key technology resources, including applications and data.

IT 138

IT Testing Metrics Optimization 138

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Every leader and every team should use rate of change to determine how quickly they can turn around a particular change, Avila recommends. You have to have a good measure of which teams need to move fast and what they are really achieving.” Focusing on the value delivered is crucial in determining IT team ROI , Freeman says.

Metrics 138

Metrics IT ROI Measurement 138

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They also need general business acumen, industry knowledge, and accounting talent. To really stand out, the best CIOs — like all top executives — must also know how to lead. As such, they “know what’s doable based on the technology and the skill sets on their teams. They have to solve problems horizontally,” he adds.

IT 123

IT Consulting Management Insurance 123

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Like many other professional sports leagues, the NFL has been at the leading edge of data-driven transformation for years. One of those data sources is the Next Generation Stats System (NGS), which captures real-time location, speed, and acceleration data for every player.

Recreation/Entertainment 130

Recreation/Entertainment Data-driven Risk Digital Transformation 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

In today’s dynamic, digitally evolving business landscape, establishing a strong foundation of trust within an organization is more vital than ever. That’s because trust is a fundamental enabler of business success. These teams are hindered by an absence of trust in their data, which stifles decision-making and overall effectiveness.

Digital Transformation 135

Digital Transformation Metrics Enterprise Optimization 135

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2024

Over the past decade, CIOs have invested significantly in digital transformation initiatives in an effort to improve customer experiences, build data analytics capabilities, and deliver productivity enhancements with automation. Unfortunately, the business impact of many digital transformations continues to fall short of expectations.

Management 122

Management Digital Transformation Testing Experimentation 122

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

But the partnership seeks to go beyond Cognizant’s internal use, with Microsoft and Cognizant teaming up to promote generative AI use across Cognizant’s global client base through the advisory and digital transformation services arm of Cognizant’s business.

Enterprise 108

Enterprise Digital Transformation Consulting Risk 108

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Whether you’re looking to deliver a new product release, fix an issue, or enhance a service, the longer you make customers wait, the worse for your business. By employing Value Stream Management (VSM), executives gain the visibility to align teams, workflows, and investments around one key aspect: customer value.

Management 143

Management Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit ROI 143

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Here, in an extract from his book, AI for Business: A practical guide for business leaders to extract value from Artificial Intelligence , Peter Verster, founder of Northell Partners, a UK data and AI solutions consultancy, explains four of them. If AI will lead to job losses and redeployments, be upfront about it.

Experimentation 116

Experimentation Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Risk 116

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

These executives can help lead their organizations toward increased efficiencies and improved performance through strategic implementation of the right products and services. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

Technology 122

Technology Risk Strategy Interactive 122

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 134

Data Strategy Strategy Unstructured Data Data Governance 134

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

There are three key roles within Scrum : Scrum master, product owner and Scrum team members. The Scrum master is the leader of a Scrum team and is responsible for championing a project, providing guidance to the team and product owner, and ensuring all agile practices are followed by team members. Others do not.

Software 109

Software Insurance Management Risk 109

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2023

Despite the best of intentions, CIOs and their organizations often struggle to deliver business outcomes from digital transformation strategies. My experience leading many digital transformations is that failures stem from a series of derailments, many of which are inadvertent. Five years ago, I shared that the No.

Digital Transformation 136

Digital Transformation IT Data-driven Metrics 136

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Without revenue from sales of products or services, a business becomes little more than a hobby or a charitable organization. Building sales requires a well-equipped sales team, and in today’s digital world, that means IT must become a strong support partner. Data should be both insightful and actionable.

Sales 109

Sales IT Enterprise Technology 109

AWS Big Data

MARCH 29, 2024

Real-time data streaming and event processing present scalability and management challenges. AWS offers a broad selection of managed real-time data streaming services to effortlessly run these workloads at any scale. This also led to longer proof of concept and onboarding cycles, which hurt the business.

Cost-Benefit 89

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Metrics Management 89

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2024

In an era of business where every industry requires its stakeholders to be capable of quick pivots and sharp turns, siloed information that ultimately slows decision-making can be the ultimate vulnerability. In this way, data may just be the ultimate disruptor – a fact that the insurance industry knows all too well. Enter data mesh.

Insurance 87

Insurance Strategy Data Governance Data Integration 87

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

Here’s a look at why you might want to roll your own cloud cost solution, what makes a successful DIY approach, and how some leading organizations have already done so. He and his teams tried a few off-the-shelf tools but were never satisfied with the support for linking a cloud resource to a line of business to determine ownership.

Management 74

Management Optimization Strategy Enterprise 74

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the ever-evolving world of finance and lending, the need for real-time, reliable, and centralized data has become paramount. Bluestone , a leading financial institution, embarked on a transformative journey to modernize its data infrastructure and transition to a data-driven organization.

Data-driven 93

Data-driven Data Lake Data Quality Data Governance 93

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

Feats like that have ramped up pressure on CIOs to not just modernize, but modernize faster so they’re ready to seize new opportunities as they arise by having infrastructure that can support emerging technologies and a team that isn’t mired in maintenance mode. The framework acts like a position paper, he says.

Strategy 139

Strategy IT Digital Transformation ROI 139

Ontotext

MARCH 20, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, businesses are drowning in a sea of information. Traditional data integration methods struggle to bridge these gaps, hampered by high costs, data quality concerns, and inconsistencies. Unleashing the Power of Data Connections Zenia Graph isn’t just another data solution company.

Data-driven 52

Data-driven Strategy Sales Data Integration 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2022

All successful CIOs know how to instruct, motivate, energize, and even excite their teams. Yet only a relative handful of IT leaders can truly be described as inspirational figures, capable of leading their teams to goals that collegues at other enterprises can only dream about. For an inspirational CIO, work isn’t simply a job.

IT 139

IT Consulting Uncertainty Insurance 139

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Gartner’s surveys and data from client inquiries confirm that developer productivity remains a top priority for software engineering leaders.” Connected teams exhibit greater ownership and commitment, resulting in enhanced productivity,” she says.

Measurement 117

Measurement Software IT Metrics 117

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2024

We just came out of the gates fast, and we just kept solving problems,” the CIO says, noting that his team was experimenting with Azure LLMs before they were on the market. “We I was literally just waiting for commercial availability [of LLMs] but [services] like Azure Machine Learning made it so you could easily apply it to your data.

Digital Transformation 90

Digital Transformation Machine Learning Data Lake Software 90

AWS Big Data

APRIL 18, 2024

is a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software company building artificial intelligence (AI)-powered business applications that allow businesses to connect with their customers in new and personalized ways. The data lake consumers then use Apache Presto running on Amazon EMR cluster to perform one-time queries.

Optimization 85

Optimization Data Lake Management Key Performance Indicator 85

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For decades, organizations have considered networking and security a cost of doing business. Business leaders consider IT a cost center, not a revenue generator. Without these capabilities, global business would screech to a halt. More and more of our applications are outside our data centers. See belief #1.)

Digital Transformation 139

Digital Transformation Business Driver Uncertainty Strategy 139

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“The cloud makes it easy to build and grow solutions, but costs can quickly spiral out of control,” says Jay Upchurch, Executive Vice President and CIO with leading AI and analytics software company, SAS. Those teams are in the best seat to take advantage of the cloud’s elasticity.” Cloud Computing

Optimization 129

Optimization Enterprise Finance Data Processing 129

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Foundry / AI Priorities Study 2023 The ideal individual to assume this role should have much more than top technology and AI skills, says Colin Reeves, principal data and AI recruiter at ConSol Partners in Los Angeles. They should be a champion for smart AI adoption, and be able to recognize and balance AI benefits with risks.

IT 122

IT Strategy Reporting Visualization 122

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 29, 2024

The company now has several business processes fully automated with homegrown code and AI. When Woodring joined the company in 2017 as CTO to lead the product engineering team, one of his top priorities was accelerating Rocket’s embrace of the cloud. The rest are on premises. It’s a powerful strategy.”

Data Lake 118

Data Lake Machine Learning Data Warehouse Unstructured Data 118

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

Like other CIOs, Katrina Redmond has been inundated with opportunities to deploy AI that promise to speed business and operations processes, and optimize workflows. To be successful, an AI proof of concept (PoC) project also needs to make good business sense, says CIO Vikram Nafde, CIO at Connecticut-based Webster Bank.

Enterprise 129

Enterprise Cost-Benefit Forecasting Strategy 129

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve been leading people from the Air Force through my business career, but I wanted to understand the theory behind leadership,” he says. I told him I’d set, expect, and communicate high standards as I converted 50 contractors into an in-house team,” says Lillie.

Sales 106

Sales Software Strategy IT 106