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8 business concepts IT leaders should master

CIO Business Intelligence

Speaking to that latter point, CIO.com polled analysts, consultants, and CIOs about the must-have business concepts of today. Key business drivers. But the upheaval of the past few years has brought the need to fully grasp what drives the business and how they do so to the forefront. Here’s what made their list.

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Managing the ‘H’ out of AI

CIO Business Intelligence

To wit: A consultant operating in the travel and hospitality vertical declaims that “AI is the most technologically important shift since fire and the wheel.” Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey, and Arnold & Porter — is that nearly a quarter of CEOs and board members are personally using generative AI tools for work.

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Rethinking data analytics as a digital-first driver at Dow

CIO Business Intelligence

Be a business enabler. If D&A is going to be a driver for business success for Dow, then we must align to key business drivers for the company — in particular, growth, sustainability, and productivity. As legendary management consultant Peter Drucker said: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

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Top 10 business needs driving IT spending today

CIO Business Intelligence

Rasmussen and others acknowledge that this year’s list of business drivers may seem like a break from past years’ priorities, where transformation generally dominated. According to Gartner, the total of business-led IT spending averages up to 36% of the total formal IT budget. 13, respectively.

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BI Adoption Trends: Learn From the Companies That Do It Best

BI-Survey

The primary technical drivers of increased usage are “self-service authoring tools” (73%), data preparation tools (48%), and “embedded BI/analytics” (38%). Business drivers. Key takeaways.

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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Business drivers for the first wave of digital transformation through 2020 targeted growth, data capabilities, cloud migration, and delivering competitive technology capabilities.

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Eash Sundaram: CIOs offer much-needed expertise to PE-owned businesses

CIO Business Intelligence

After nearly 10 years at JetBlue, where he served as chief digital and technology officer, Eash Sundaram recently took on a new role: operating executive at Tailwind Capital, a private equity firm that focuses on mid-market companies in the business and industrial services markets.