Tag: cio
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🤖 Findings and CIO Retention Guide: Gender, Priorities, and Exit Triggers in High Tech
Original: Beyond the Pipeline: A Gender Lens on Priorities and Exit Triggers in the High-Tech Industry by researchers at The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Communications of the ACM. Summarized by Claude AI on July 2, 2026. The Findings Men are far more committed to staying. 44.9% of men selected “no intentions to leave” vs.…
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Lots of yes-but’ing here, inc. this gem for y’all security folk: Wall Street doesn’t understand the reluctance of enterprise CIOs to trust startups with mission-critical data or value the expertise needed to run SaaS reliably at scale as much as the shiny new thing. 🔗 A day of reckoning for the AI boom
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VMware Tanzu CIO Checklist for Safer and More Scalable AI Application Delivery – If you’re doing some enterprise AI strategamagizing, here is a good list of things to ponder and pester your direct reports about.
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MCP Is the New Control Point in AI—Are CIOs Ready for the Lock-In Battle? – They get the date of the spec’s release wrong (it was November 2024), and it has that Futurum cable TV news vibe, but good points are made, e.g.: “Will MCP remain truly portable, or will each vendor implement its own…
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What CIOs should know as DORA regulations kick in – All the great -ility’s. // “The business continuity standards laid out in the EU’s DORA require banks, insurers, securities exchanges, trading venues and other financial services providers to maintain backup systems for swift incident recovery. The EU expects impacted parties to be able to restore…
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Note from the Editor-in-Chief – TechTarget acquires the executive focused news/advertorial outfit CIOstuff.
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Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web for November 4th, 2024
Code Neo (Pearl Sijmons), Joana Schneider, 2024. Relative to your interests Priorities CIOs Must Address in 2025, Insights from the 2025 Gartner CIO Survey – “only 48% of digital initiatives meet or exceed their business outcome targets. This statistic highlights a significant challenge for organizations aiming to achieve their digital transformation goals.” // It could…
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Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending to Grow 9.3% in 2025 – Setting expectations: “CIOs will begin to spend on GenAI, beyond proof-of-concept work, starting in 2025. More money will be spent, but the expectations that CIOs have for the capabilities of GenAI will drop. The reality of what can be accomplished with current GenAI models,…
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CIOs: Get Tech Sprawl Under Control – “According to Forrester’s Q2 2024 Tech Pulse Survey, a staggering 77% of US technology decision-makers report moderate to extensive levels of technology sprawl. This sprawl can result in unsustainable costs, slower IT delivery, reduced operational resilience, and increased security risks.”
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Private Cloud at VMware Explore – Notebook
Normally I wouldn’t disclaim this since I think you, dear readers, are wise enough to know that it always applies, but: these views are my own, not my employer, VMware Tanzu by Broadcom. Also, we covered the below on this week’s Software Defined Talk. If you prefer to listen a podcast, it’ll be out on…
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Developer productivity metrics, 1970s sausage fonts, only the “grown and sexy” are welcome
Once again, I am bringing you only links and funny pieces of text. Relative to your interests Measuring Engineering Productivity, at Google, circa 2020 – “If the decider doesn’t believe the form of the result in principle, there is again no point in measuring the process.” // Some great advice in here about improvement programs.…
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How CIOs can ease the generative AI transition for developers – “AI-powered coding tools are expected to become fairly ubiquitous within enterprises in the next four years, according to Gartner research. The analyst firm predicts around three-quarters of software engineers will add AI coding assistants to their workflows by 2028, a considerable jump from the…
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Skills – CIO goes: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“We can’t hire the right people” is the eternal complaint of CIOs everywhere. They’re beset by all this FUD’ing out about Facebook coming and disrupting the toothpaste industry, Google accidentally dis-intermediating car insurance, Elon Musk launching a bank1, or Amazon doing anything new. I call this freaking out the “macro-economic headwinds” part of any pitch,…
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Skills – CIO goes: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“We can’t hire the right people” is the eternal complaint of CIOs everywhere. They’re beset by all this FUD’ing out about Facebook coming and disrupting the toothpaste industry, Google accidentally dis-intermediating car insurance, Elon Musk launching a bank1, or Amazon doing anything new. I call this freaking out the “macro-economic headwinds” part of any pitch,…
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Skills – CIO goes: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“We can’t hire the right people” is the eternal complaint of CIOs everywhere. They’re beset by all this FUD’ing out about Facebook coming and disrupting the toothpaste industry, Google accidentally dis-intermediating car insurance, Elon Musk launching a bank1, or Amazon doing anything new. I call this freaking out the “macro-economic headwinds” part of any pitch,…
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How Can CIOs Communicate the Business Value of IT? – Talk with biz-normals about how technology can make the organization better, not on the activities that’s required to do so: “IT demonstrates value when we enable business outcomes, not when we report effort expended, resources consumed or work done…. Highlight the impact technology can have…
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A Formula For Pitching CIOs – Pretty good for any pitch.
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FinOps! Five Cost Management Tips for IT Leaders, IDC – Good chart of what people are doing to optimize cloud spend (only n= from Dec 2022, though). Also:”In a recent IDC poll of CIOs, 64% of respondents said they were spending more on the Cloud than they budgeted. Over 50% of CEOs are concerned about…
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ChatGPT creates a digital transformation strategy for a pharmacy company – you’ll never guess what happens next!
Pretty long one below, but fun if you’re into exploring the potential for AI stuff to make work-life less tedious. In case you just wanted something fun, scroll to the bottom to see me become the victim of my daughter’s favorite joke. Coming up with a digital transformation for a pharmacy company Midjourney prompt: a…
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The #legacytrap kills flexibility – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #52
Another take at writing up why app modernization is important for business, and the usual links to stuff and my recent podcasts, etc. Smuggling in Modernization I’m working on a project I call the #legacytrap. Trying to explain to executives (CIOs and non-IT executives) how important it is to modernize your old stacks of IT,…
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