Tag: cio
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🗂 Link: Nationwide CIO’s ride-along sparks innovation and pays dividends
“This allows an insurance broker to close and bind a product in real-time,” which also lowers the cost of onboarding new members, Fowler says. Source: Nationwide CIO’s ride-along sparks innovation and pays dividends
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🗂 Link: Goldman Sachs brings on co-CIO, CTO
The strategy has four parts, according to the presentation. The investment bank wants to: Offer a digital client experience Increase automation Build scalable infrastructure Make room for innovation To do so, Goldman Sachs is using 45% of its $4 billion engineering budget in 2019 on investment. The other 55% will be used to run the…
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🗂 Link: Nissan CIO Driving Toward a Digital Future
More than 80% of the organization was outsourced, which inhibited information sharing and collective vision. Thomas set a goal to reduce outsourcing to 50%. Source: Nissan CIO Driving Toward a Digital Future
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Discussing the common “CIO agenda”
I get asked to talk with “executives” more and more. That’s part of why Pivotal moved me over to Europe. People make lots of claims about what executives want to hear, the conversations you can have with them as a vendor. They don’t have time. You have have to be concise. They don’t want to…
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🗂 The Gig Economy is Actually Pretty Tiny – Nextgov
> According to the data, in May 2017, just 1 percent of workers were “gig economy workers whose tasks were electronically mediated,” or sourced through technology platforms like Uber, Upwork or TaskRabbit. > Moreover, in the workforce as a whole, 89.9 percent of people had a standard work arrangement as their main job, slightly up…
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Link: Government CIOs Must Resist Transformation Hype and Focus on Digital Optimization
Some points: focus on using existing data more, in new ways. usually, it’s jus optimization good chart of types of projects. Original source: Government CIOs Must Resist Transformation Hype and Focus on Digital Optimization
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Link: Farmers Insurance’s New CIO Sees AI Improving Claims Process
‘Fast, easy interactions are key for customers who have become accustomed to the ease of use and personalization of e-commerce. For example, Mr. Wilson says he won’t buy from a website that doesn’t make it easy to see as many reviews as he can on a product, and to quickly order and check the status…
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Link: The New CIO: Leading IT the Mark Schwartz Way
“As the company decides on its objectives and turns them into a definition of business value, the CIO takes this vision and works with the teams to implement these objectives thereby connecting the team to the goal and giving constant feedback on progress. The CIO is the enterprise architect and arbitrates the quality of the…
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Link: CIOs planning to snub Oracle for other cloudy vendors – analyst
“Murphy has told clients that a survey of 154 CIOs revealed negative spending intentions towards Oracle, with CNBC reporting that his note said just 2 per cent of respondents said Oracle was their most integral vendor for cloud computing. In contrast, 27 per cent chose Microsoft and 12 per cent opted for Oracle CTO Larry…
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Link: 6 questions with winner of the 2018 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Leadership Award
“They won’t get comfortable with failure if you make a very big deal about it and keep reminding them that they failed. I normally tell them, ‘You found a way that doesn’t work, let’s go find a way that does.’ They are probably more sensitive to the voice of the leaders, so if the leaders…
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Link: NASA faces ‘significant’ IT management weaknesses, GAO says
‘GAO seems to concur with the IG’s assessment. “Until NASA addresses these [IT governance] weaknesses, it will face increased risk of investing in duplicative investments or may miss opportunities to ensure investments perform as intended,” the report states.’ Must be tough for the CIO types over there with that report. Original source: NASA faces ‘significant’…
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Link: More Firms Look for Revenue Boost from Tech Innovation, CIOs
“In a survey of 767 business executives at tech-focused firms around the world, revenue growth was cited as the top metric to measure the success or failure of tech innovation in their organizations, followed by market share and return on investment, KPMG said this week.” Original source: More Firms Look for Revenue Boost from Tech…
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Link: How Insurance Giant Allstate Is Using Cloud Tech to Build New Businesses
“When you’re an 86-year-old company things have done a certain way, there are rules in place because of what someone did 10 years ago,” says Opal Perry, vice president and divisional chief information officer of claims for Allstate. “Now, instead of a 200-person team, you have small six- and eight-person teams working on things. It…
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Link: Gartner Survey Reveals Business Value or Benefits Realization Is the Leading IT Cost-Optimization Priority for CIOs
Saving money to spend it on new, growth driving projects: “The survey findings highlight how cost optimization has become a business-focused, continuous discipline that drives spending and cost reduction, while maximizing business value (see Figure 1),” said Stewart Buchanan, research vice president at Gartner. “It’s not enough to simply reduce IT spending; CIOs must reinvest…
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Link: Almost half of CIOs plan to deploy artificial intelligence enterprise solutions | ZDNet
“According to the CIO agenda survey, four percent of CIOs have already implemented AI in some fashion, but a further 46 percent have plans to follow suit. In addition, 20 percent of CIOs worldwide have pilot AI programs in the pipeline for implementation in the near future.” But, wait: “However, not every AI pilot will…
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Link: Don’t make the mistake of thinking the CIO is irrelevant – TechRepublic
“The world isn’t about to end, however. Yes, Forrester reveals in its “Understanding Shifting Technology Acquisition Patterns” research note that lines of business are taking on a greater role in technology purchasing, removing IT from the purchasing process in 6.3% of new technology purchases in 2013, rising to 7.2% in 2015, while IT-only purchases will…
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The never ending game of “Business Alignment”
On top of that, the second issue is that there’s this new technology base, and a new application set…I call this a different circus with different clowns. And you’ve got CIOs who have done a good job of getting us this far at the tail end of a maturity curve. Their challenge is whether these…
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