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Your AI journey: Destined for the ditch?

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence expectations has IT leaders at a crossroads — whether they know it or not. Those who choose value creation over narrative now will better control their company’s AI destination.

2023 CIO Hall of Fame inductees on building a successful IT leadership career

Standout tech execs whose work has advanced the CIO role reflect on the paths that got them to the top of the IT leadership ranks, offering lessons learned and words of advice on what it takes to lead IT successfully today.

Agile project management: Principles, benefits, tools, tips, and when to make the switch

Geared toward continuous improvement, the agile methodology can greatly increase your project’s prospects for success. Here is everything you need to know about agile project management, from certification to training to software and more.

The four Es of AI: Keeping up with the trend that never sleeps

Companies that educate, explore, experiment, and expand, perpetually, with the right pace and sequencing, are most likely to win with AI

Health check on Tech: CK Birla Hospitals CIO Mitali Biswas on moving the needle towards innovation

“With the ratio of doctors to patients being 1 for every 2,000 patients, accessibility to healthcare is a potent challenge,” says Mitali Biswas of CK Birla Hospitals.

P&G enlists IoT, predictive analytics to perfect Pampers diapers

The consumer packaged goods giant has turned to Microsoft IoT and edge analytics to capture real-time data about manufacturing processes to anticipate impending failures before they damage diapers.

Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

Enterprises—and their technology vendors—continue to fall over themselves to add gen AI capabilities to tools and platforms. But moving too fast can expose companies to present and future compliance risks, as well as potential legal liabi

Equinix goes partner prospecting with AI

The multinational data infrastructure company is using AI to identify partners with the best potential to drive new logo acquisition, and prioritize partners predicted to generate the highest booking value — an initiative that is proving the re

CIO Anurag Gupta on taking the private equity plunge

In private-equity-owned portfolio companies, CIOs may work at an operational tempo exceeding that of almost any other corporate theater. Here’s what to expect if you, too, take the PE plunge.

Financial IT leaders prep for a quantum-fueled future

Banks and investment management groups are experimenting with quantum to reduce risk and gain accurate knowledge about portfolios faster than ever. Here’s how those initial projects and use of this potentially game-changing technology are evolv

How Huber spurs innovation in a historically decentralized business

With IT/OT convergence, digital technologies, and the growing importance of data, Huber CIO Dwain Wilcox leads the creation of a cross-functional, cross-business innovation engine.

Examining Cargill’s push to nurture growth through digital and data strategies

Jennifer Hartsock, CDIO at Cargill Incorporated, joins CIO.com’s Maryfran Johnson to speak about elevating the digital and data mindset, and how the company’s ‘better together’ ethos helps to navigate its IT operating model tr

Google opens second cloud region in Germany

The investment is part of Google’s plan to invest $1.08 billion in Germany’s digital infrastructure and clean energy by 2030.

3 key roles for driving digital success

The capacity to transform digitally needs to be a core organizational competency, and it requires creating a team of digital trailblazers to pave the way to continuous improvement.

Lenovo’s Arthur Hu on the CIO’s customer-centric imperative

No longer enough to just manufacture and ship, today’s IT must provide value by aligning with the customers’ business goals, ‘which is where a CIO can play an integral role,’ Hu says.

7 project priority checks for overloaded IT agendas

As organizations pursue digital transformation, it falls on CIOs to sift through and prioritize the work that needs to be done. Here, IT leaders discuss how they address this surfeit, evaluate initiatives, and make the difficult decisions to support

How to build a next-gen workforce

J&J’s Jim Swanson brings mission-driven leadership to the CIO role

Jim Swanson’s extensive background in science, technology, and pharmaceuticals has defined his path to servant leadership as CIO at J&J.

Lilly revolutionizes clinical trials with intelligent sensor cloud

The pharmaceutical giant has developed a cloud solution dubbed MagnolAI for continuously ingesting, visualizing, and transforming digital biomarker data into meaningful medical insights.

Money Matters: Director – IT and CISO Pushkal Tenjerla of CMS on digital revolution in cash management systems

“AI-powered surveillance allows us to detect tampering and vandalism of ATMs, and even catch culprits who have masks on,” says Pushkal Tenjerla about CMS’ AI technology.

5 rules that transform outsourcing outcomes

Shifting to a Vested sourcing business model can help your organization achieve mutually beneficial outcomes when partners with outsourcing firms.

What The Clover Group does to address legacy-related challenges

For Clover Group CIO Tsholofelo Moeca, moving away from ageing technologies was non-negotiable. Here’s how he and his team found the right solution—and partner—to help them on their modernization journey.

Tech leaders weigh in on the upside and flipside of generative AI

Risky, immature and full of promise, generative AI is forcing tech leaders to assess challenges on many fronts, and in real time.

The CIO’s call to action on gen AI

AI expert Dr. Lisa Palmer and CD&IO Anna Ransley discuss the need for CIOs to take the lead in preparing their organizations to develop sensible, strategic, and impactful generative AI strategies

Introducing the GenAI models you haven’t heard of yet

Beyond the household names for generative AI models, a burst of other options are emerging for the enterprise. Here’s a look at some that might be the right fit where others fall short.

How Svevia connects roads, risk, and refuse through the cloud

Just like large parts of the construction industry, digitization has come relatively late to Swedish civil engineering company Svevia. But here, CIO Maria Wester details how a cloud-based digital infrastructure has been built for the entire company,

CIO 100 Award winners prove the transformative value of IT

From combatting election fraud to aiding in the prevention of suicide, this year’s award-winning projects for IT innovation and leadership demonstrate IT’s transformational impact on business, well-being, and society.

Micro transformation: Driving big business benefit through quick IT wins

Strategic micro transformations enable IT leaders to digitally evolve their organizations without disrupting business continuity, creating continuous cycles of improvement that deliver large-scale benefits with lower overhead and risk.

Cherokee Nation empowers its citizens with IT

What started as a way to facilitate emergency COVID-19 relief has grown into a full-service digital platform that connects Cherokee citizens with human services and government resources no matter where they live.

The best of the best: Inside this year’s CSO50 Awards

Los Angeles IT secures the vote with open source and the cloud

For LA County Registrar-Recorder CIO Aman Bhullar, election security is top of mind. To that end, the CIO is enlisting cybersecurity partnerships, open-source software, and the cloud to ensure the sanctity of free and fair elections for the long run.

What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

Natural language processing is a branch of AI that enables computers to understand, process, and generate language just as people do — and its use in business is rapidly growing.

Rethinking data analytics as a digital-first driver at Dow

On the road from data to business intelligence, Dow discovered a good first step is not only looking at where information might be used but how it can be woven into the cultural fabric of the company.

How IT does business at Eastman

The fact Eastman created a new line of business through digital products is nothing new. What is new is the business is run by IT.

6 legal ‘gotchas’ that could sink your CIO career

We live in a litigious society and CIOs are no exception when it comes to lawsuits. What can you do to protect yourself?

Oracle adds compute services to its Cloud@Customer offering

The hardware, according to the company, will come at an approximate cost of $10,000. The infrastructure will be managed and operated by Oracle.

Examining the National Bank of Canada CIO’s approach to tech and teams

CIO.com Canada editor Lee Rennick recently sat with Julie Levesque, EVP, technology and operations, and CIO at National Bank of Canada to discuss her approach to technology’s role in leading teams, and ensuring that the leadership roadmap is in

Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC India on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

"We’re making efforts in green technology, hydrogen fuel cells, bringing down diesel consumption and manufacturing electronic locomotives to bring down carbon footprint," says Kopal Raj, CIO of WABTEC India, on their sustainability go

Nvidia unveils Workbench for managing AI workloads, updates Omniverse

Chip maker Nvidia is using software to position itself at the center of two model-making markets: AI and 3D.

6 ways CIOs sabotage their IT consultant’s success

As an IT leader, it’s up to you to make the consultants you engage successful. If you weren’t serious about their project, why did you sign the contract?

PepsiCo IT redefines direct-to-store business model success

The food and beverage titan’s SalesHub+ cloud-to-edge strategy leverages modern iPhone app development to elevate frontline workers’ productivity and significantly improve the bottom line.

4 questions CIOs are asking about cloud computing

Making the true business case for cloud computing is about much more than just cost savings.

IT leaders embrace the role of business change maker

IT leaders are blending equal parts business acumen, robust communications skills, and immersion in day-to-day workflows to deliver change management success.

IDC: Pace of enterprise applications sales will increase next year

Forecasts show that enterprise applications sales will grow at 9.6% annually, reaching $483 billion in 2027.

Generative AI is a make-or-break moment for CIOs

IT leaders must bring a pragmatic technology lens to gen AI’s potential — and its pitfalls — by optimizing their strategies for use cases first.

AWS hopes for a savior in AI as revenue growth continues to slow

Top company executives believe that the enterprise shift toward AI workloads is critical to getting back on the high growth trajectory.

4 ways to ask hard questions about emerging tech risks

For too long we’ve accepted all technology as progress. Today, that comfort zone can be a detriment to the business unless tech leaders start scrutinizing beyond face value.

A 4-pronged strategy to cut SaaS sprawl

Oversubscription, underutilization, and shadow IT both bloat SaaS budgets and weaken results. It's crucial for CIOs to survey their SaaS estates and right size implementations to bring financial relief to their enterprises.

What is an automation engineer? A growing role to address IT automation

IT automation engineers help develop, test, and implement technologies aimed at automating business, IT, and development processes — a growing business imperative.

Lay the groundwork now for advanced analytics and AI

Proper data integration, modeling, and maintenance make up the unglamorous but necessary foundation for high-impact analytics and AI applications. Without it, data is too hard to access and, even if can be analyzed, will deliver inaccurate results.