Tag: cio

July 26, 2024

Embrace AI or die. That’s the modern mantra across global business, putting CIOs in the driver’s seat of the enterprise’s success — and in some cases pitting them against their CEOs. Not all IT chiefs take the expanded calling to […]

July 23, 2024

The IT industry has a long history of vendors exaggerating the functionality of their products, and it’s certainly happening in the current AI hype cycle. Now, even user companies appear to be overstating their AI capabilities, potentially leading to major headaches. IT leaders at […]

July 23, 2024

As a digital transformation leader and former CIO, I carry a healthy dose of paranoia. Call it survival instincts: Risks that can disrupt an organization from staying true to its mission and accomplishing its goals must constantly be surfaced, assessed, […]

July 2, 2024

Organizations must adapt to rapid market changes with innovative solutions while maximizing resources. Doing so requires a strategy for future proofing tech investments. Here’s guidance for developing such a strategy. Imagine navigating a rapidly changing landscape, where technology seems to […]

June 19, 2024

IT leaders are reassessing organizational structures to be more on the front foot regarding strong skills sets, collaborative team culture, and the right tooling. Three years ago BSH Home Appliances completely rearranged its IT organization, creating a digital platform services […]

June 5, 2024

New genAI capabilities from Asana and a recent interview with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan show how important it may soon be for IT leaders to lead the discussion on AI avatar and human digital twin usage in the enterprise. As […]

June 4, 2024

IT leaders must refocus their strategy making processes to ensure they address the human side of the equation on a timeline that aligns to the hastening pace of value evolution. Organizations erroneously believe that 100% of the value of strategic […]

May 28, 2024

The role of your people is key a factor in the success of digital transformation. Find out how redeployment and talent transition experts, Randstad RiseSmart, can help organizations at all stages of the digital transformation journey. The raw statistics tell […]

May 24, 2024

Investors look to CIOs to drive revenue creation, cut costs, and research new deals, while setting digital transformation and AI strategies. The CIO’s value in the rebounding private equity market appears to be increasing, as investors see IT as an […]

April 30, 2024

Every IT leader will experience being out of work at some point in their career. How you approach this transitionary period will have a profound impact on the trajectory of your career. At some point in your career, you’re likely […]

April 16, 2024

Taking on one of the most difficult C-level roles requires a broad spectrum of skills. Here’s a breakdown of what it takes — and the two areas where keen focus will unlock your ability to achieve the rest. Companies expect […]

April 15, 2024

CIOs have arrived at a pivotal point in their evolution, taking command of enterprise strategy and cementing their status as full-fledged business leaders — a role they’ve long strived for. Nimesh Mehta might not have millions of followers on social […]

March 20, 2024

Gen AI is opening up doors to company-wide innovation on a massive scale. But in this new era, leadership must carefully oversee its adoption to maintain code quality and mitigate technical debt. In its infancy, gen AI is already transforming […]

March 14, 2024

With greater technical expertise and business knowledge comes more wide-ranging responsibilities for CIOs. AI is increasingly underpinning IT teams, but utilizing it as a check against high-value tasks must still be a priority to drive business performance. As businesses digitally […]

February 27, 2024

After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, […]

February 9, 2024

The rapid adoption and democratization of generative AI has been compared to that of the lightbulb, which did the same for electricity nearly 150 years ago. Much as its invention in 1879, which came decades after the invention of electricity […]

February 7, 2024

When public access to the internet emerged in the late 1990s, CIOs were faced with a question: Do we allow our employees to search freely, or do we put restrictions on access while at work? We all know how that […]

February 6, 2024

“I’m an engineer at heart,” says Stuart Birrell. “So this is fun.” Fun, for the chief data and information officer at EasyJet, means running one of the biggest e-commerce operations in the UK, at the same time as overseeing the […]

January 23, 2024

Analyst firm Gartner has released its 2024 worldwide IT spending forecast, and the topline is eyepopping: Overall IT expenditures are projected to grow 6.8% this year to a hair under $5 trillion. That growth more than doubles what the firm […]

January 8, 2024

Last year was certainly a wild ride, with the ascendent rise of AI impacting a wide range of IT sectors and capturing the imagination (and fears) of the world at large. IT leaders can look forward to even more surprises, […]