CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2024

Judy Balaban, former CIO at Covanta Judy Balaban “People say with hard work you’ll be recognized. But for true recognition, you have to have a presence beyond your company,” says Balaban, who has had multiple senior-level IT positions and was most recently a director in the Office of the CIO at waste management company Covanta.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2024

Digital transformation of copper lines – like most IT infrastructure – is better for telecommunications carriers/network providers and businesses alike, as copper networks are expensive to maintain and unreliable with gradual deterioration accelerating over the past decade. Neglecting it by not moving forward imperials us all.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

Here’s where CIOs can rethink their approach to the long-term benefit of their organizations. What CIOs need to do instead is to present IT infrastructure investment as an important corporate financial and risk management issue that the business can’t afford to ignore. CIOs must change this thinking.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2024

Jason Snyder faces the same challenge nearly all CIOs encounter when looking to fill open positions: a tight labor market, where fierce competition for workers has meant months-long vacancies. Work required CIOs have a lot of work to do if they want to implement a skills-first hiring strategy, Lutes says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Next CIO cohort sat with Natalie Whittlesey and James Lawson from InX to discuss how to transition into a first time C-suite role. Next CIO workshops are designed to support the Next CIO cohort into their first CIO role. However, the transition from CIO-1 to CIO entails a significant mindset shift.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The role of the CIO (Chief Information Officer) and CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) have become increasingly important in recent years as organizations place more emphasis on digital transformation and information security. While both positions are crucial in their own way, the top priorities for CIO and CISO can often differ.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

CIOs are at the forefront of this as they help shepherd their organizations through digitalization. But until there’s a change in corporate will and the CIO’s vision combines with other management to drive a full-scale project, success can only be measured by the strength of the corporate culture. “I million tons of waste annually.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Networking isn’t just for holiday parties. The two cardinal rules of networking, according to CIOs and career coaches, are to schedule time to do it for at least an hour every month, and to approach it as something you do to help others in addition to yourself. I suffered from a crippling lack of self-worth.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

According to the State of the CIO, 2024 research “79% of heads of IT say that CIOs have a strong educational partnership with the CEO/board of directors “and “88% of CIOs say that their role is becoming more digital and innovation focused”. This was an added stress on planning his data and cloud strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2024

CIOs, too, are expanding their executive capabilities — as they should be — given the everchanging list of challenges they face. CIO of Central Connecticut State University. Di Maria says having a group of trusted advisors can help CIOs — or any professional — identify and correct deficits as well as hone and build up strengths.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But as digital transformation efforts have intensified in recent years, CIOs have had fewer opportunities to pause and reevaluate IT’s financial situation. Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. Following are some actions IT leaders can take now to secure those funds for the future.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2024

Even before the algorithms are officially approved this summer, CIOs should start taking steps. CIOs can also ensure they assign somebody to lead in the transition, and that they have the funding and expert staff they need. Another thing CIOs should do is protect against “store-now, decrypt-later” attacks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Over the summer, I wrote a column about how CIOs are worried about the informal rise of generative AI in the enterprise. Since then, many CIOs I’ve spoken with have grappled with enterprise data security and privacy issues around AI usage in their companies. That column may have been the understatement of the year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In the age of digital transformation, the CIO’s role is increasingly central to business, focused on driving growth and establishing a new digital culture across the organization. But without the full support of the CEO, a CIO’s innovation and digital transformation agenda will only go so far. Software is invisible.

Strategy 111

Strategy Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit Forecasting 111

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2024

Previously head of cybersecurity at Ingersoll-Rand, Melby started developing neural networks and machine learning models more than a decade ago. He brought that experience with him to Dairyland in 2016 when he was appointed as the cooperative’s first CIO to oversee 24 power grids in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Get ready for the IDC Middle East CIO Summit 2024. The IDC Middle East CIO Summit has been the platform of choice for industry leaders across the region for the past 17 years,” says Jyoti Lalchandani, IDC’s group vice president and regional managing director for the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa.

Data Processing 87

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2024

La cybersecurity toglie il sonno ai CIO? Quest’anno, a rafforzare la spinta verso la sicurezza informatica c’è anche la Direttiva NIS2 (“Network and information system security”) dell’UE, che andrà a sostituire la precedente NIS, aggiornando le misure per un elevato livello di cybersicurezza in tutta l’Unione Europea.

Data Lake 93

Data Lake Testing Management IoT 93

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 18, 2024

Today’s dynamic organizations – among them manufacturers, logistics warehouses, and transportation hubs like airports, seaports and rail yards – increasingly rely on an ever-growing network of connected devices, systems and people to operate successfully. Today’s advanced ports are some of the most connected enterprises,” says Leventhal.

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Manufacturing Optimization Management Enterprise 112

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2023

Derek Cullen, CIO, Stikeman Elliott discusses the evolving role of the CIO as a leader and business partner. He also discusses supporting career development through networking and volunteering. Watch this episode: Listen to this episode: CIO, CIO Leadership Live

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The CAO of SGI asked Lillie for his 45-day assessment, and Lillie reported that the Site IT group was a disaster, and they wouldn’t be able to successfully design the network infrastructure for the new campus. I had to carve out a CIO seat on the executive leadership team, which was not the norm back in 2008.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

For Shamiel Kimmie, Duxbury Networking’s CIO, a few of these make his list, as well as addressing talent shortages, managing relationships with his C-level peers, and finding a balance between the head and the heart. A relationship with security “I recently read an article that said: ‘If it’s smart, it’s vulnerable,’” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2024

For instance, when May Govender, group CIO of pan-African financial services group Old Mutual, first started moving up the corporate ladder, she was one of very few women doing so. Aveena Mothilall, CIO of African energy group Engen, faced similar hurdles early on in her career.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

With the merging of operational efficiency and embracing new technologies, today’s CIOs are under increasing pressure to do more with less and become both technologists and business leaders, says Sunny Azadeh, CIO at digital services company GlobalLogic. “In

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Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Consulting Strategy 135

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

Three years ago, Essen-based Eon’s IT function was in the dumps, according to CIO Sebastian Webers’ colleagues when he took on his new role. Once in the CIO role, he observed that IT didn’t criticize itself in an appropriate or constructive way, with sarcastic barbs like, “Of course the printers don’t work.” There’s still a lot to do.”

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IT Digital Transformation Sales Optimization 88

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. I would say, right now, I’m a technologist last.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 18, 2024

By all accounts, 2024 will be a good year on the CIO hiring front. The result of all this tech activity is that organizations are putting great stock in their CIOs to be true strategic leaders — not just a member of the C-Suite, but one of its loudest voices. 2024 seems to be trending higher for CIO demand,” Licciardello says.

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IT Data-driven Marketing Technology 122

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Because as a young CIO, I was struggling with obtaining budget approvals for a range of IT initiatives. What I had been trying to do was to pitch and fund the needs that we inIT felt were urgent, such as new investments in networks, processing, and storage. Let’s say you want funding for a zero-trust network.

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IT IoT Internet of Things Manufacturing 95

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

To prepare for this worst-case scenario, Mastercard launched its Quantum Security and Communications project, which earned the company a 2023 US CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership. Mastercard’s Maddaloni reports that the team tested the quantum key distribution solution over a dark fiber network.

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Testing Enterprise Technology Risk 135

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2023

Forward-thinking businesses are realizing the role of the CIO in using technology to achieve business outcomes – especially in today’s uncertain economic times. Forward-thinking businesses are realizing the role of the CIO in using technology to achieve business outcomes – especially in today’s uncertain economic times.

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IT Digital Transformation Strategy Data Processing 98

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2023

I don’t think of it as an extension of the CIO job, but rather as a separate role to ensure we achieve transformation. But a growing number of companies are game for formalizing a position devoted to oversight of large-scale transformation efforts and sometimes that role is being filled by the CIO.

Digital Transformation 139

Digital Transformation Strategy Technology Enterprise 139

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Shumon Zaman, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Ali&Sons explains to CIO Middle East what are the top 7 technologies that have changed the tech landscape in 2023. Technology is becoming more and more relevant in our daily tasks and every year new technologies promise to change the paradigm of our reality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

CIOs on university campuses across the country have an obligation, as technology leaders, to provide the tools and expertise that staff, administration, and professors require to help fulfill the potential of students, and the university itself. Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Education Industry, Generative AI, IT Leadership

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Today we face the harsh reality of cloud costs, if not done right,” says Jay Upchurch, executive vice president and CIO at SAS. On the other hand, those CIOs who develop a well-thought-out cloud strategy are more likely to achieve better outcomes than those who don’t, says Smith.

Strategy 142

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2024

As CIO you need to anticipate, not only actual AI risks, but perceived ones as well. As CIO you’ll have to help communicate the company’s intentions, whether AI is used for employee augmentation or replacement. It’s what neural networks do. Here’s how to go about it. Risks perceived by an average schmo 1.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2023

Jason Strle joins Discover as CIO Jason Strle, Discover Discover Discover Financial Services is a digital banking and payment services company that issues the Discover card and operates Discover Global Network, PULSE, and Diners Club International. Strle joins Discover from Wells Fargo and he held previous roles at JP Morgan Chase.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. It’s not a stretch to say that across the board, CIOs are continuing to invest in some form of AI. Modern-day CIOs or CTOs have to start thinking like business owners if they are to be successful, he says.

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IT Insurance Machine Learning Marketing 145

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2024

Establishing trust Lovelady admits that in the early innings there were some who questioned whether hiring a CIO was necessary. Around here, young talent are people in their thirties,” explains Lovelady, “and a lot of our team members came with backgrounds as directors, vice presidents, or even CIOs at well-respected companies.”

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