Daily Archives: October 8, 2024

The CIO100 Awards offer more than just a trophy—they reflect your organization’s drive for excellence. Nominations open October 1, 2024

In the ever-evolving world of technology, leadership and innovation have become key drivers of business success. The CIO100 Awards recognize this profound impact and reward organizations and their IT leaders for their exceptional contributions to driving technology-led innovation. The CIO100 Awards, established by CIO Magazine, are celebrated at an annual event on August 11-13, 2025,…

The genAI opportunity: From ‘data to insight’ to ‘context to action’

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Data scientists have long struggled with silos and cycle time. That’s partly because of an underlying structural tension between the traditional data science mission of turning “data into insights” versus the on-the-ground game of turning “context into action.” The latter is something business teams and managers strive…

SAP Build gains AI capabilities to help build autonomous agents

SAP wants developers to view its Build platform as the one extension solution for all of SAP’s applications, according to Michael Aneling, chief product officer for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). At its TechEd event this week it is showing a new extensibility wizard, now available, that gives developers access to SAP Build directly from…

From risk to reward: Mastering the art of adopting emerging technologies

One of the greatest things about working in technology is the surprise advancements that take the industry by storm.  Things like:  The personal computer The internet The cloud Blockchain The Internet of Things (IoT) Generative artificial intelligence (genAI)   One of the worst things about working in technology is the surprise advancements that take the industry…

Día Rosa Tecnológico: el movimiento mundial de TI del CIO de Estée Lauder para financiar la investigación del cáncer de mama

Cuando se unió a The Estée Lauder Companies en 2017, Michael Smith reconoció una forma en que podría ayudar a marcar la diferencia de una manera diferente a sus típicas tareas de CIO: crear conciencia sobre el cáncer de mama. Para ayudar a recaudar fondos para la investigación a través de la Breast Cancer Research…

Many C-suite execs have lost confidence in IT, including CIOs

Some bad news for CIOs: Many C-suite leaders, including IT leaders themselves, have less confidence in your department’s ability to get the job done than they did a decade ago. Less than half of C-level executives believe their IT organizations are effectively delivering basic services, compared to about two-thirds with confidence in 2013, according to…

Amazon is cutting out the middle manager. Here’s why you shouldn’t.

Amazon made headlines a few weeks ago with its announced reorganization. According to CEO Andy Jassy, a massive reorganization is what’s needed to remove layers, flatten organizations, increase teammates’ ability to move fast, and create an employee utopia by getting rid of lots and lots of non-value-adding managers. I’m not optimistic. And I don’t think…

Headhunted? That dream job could be a trap

Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting private accounts on LinkedIn and WhatsApp because they are less secure than business accounts, according to Europe cybersecurity agency Enisa’s latest threat landscape report.  Here, an increasingly common method sees cybercriminals pretending to be recruiters targeting people in higher positions with sugarcoated offers of enticing jobs.  Sometimes hard to see through…

뛰어난 IT 임원을 구분 짓는 ‘무형’의 기술 6가지

경영 코치이자 베스트셀러 작가인 마셜 골드스미스의 “지금까지의 방식으로는 앞으로 나아갈 수 없다”라는 조언이 CIO에게 그 어느 때보다 적절해졌다. 기술적 능력, IT 리더십 전문성, 네트워크 보안 및 운영, 혁신 제공 능력만으로는 오늘날 CIO가 성공을 거두기에 충분하지 않다. 가트너의 연구 부사장인 크리스티 스트럭만은 “CIO가 나아가야 할 방향을 생각할 때 ‘먼저 경영자가 돼야 하고, 그다음에 실무 리더가 돼야…

“나랑 생각 다르면 퇴사해라” 설립자 지시에… 오토매틱 직원 159명 회사 떠나

워드프레스 공동 설립자인 맷 뮬렌웨그가 자신의 회사 오토매틱(Automattic) 직원에게 회사의 경쟁사인 WP 엔진(WP Engine)과의 분쟁에 대해 불만이 있다면, 3만 달러 또는 6개월 치 급여를 받고 회사를 떠날 수 있는 제안을 했다. 총 159명의 직원이 이 제안을 받아들였다. 지난 9월 뮬렌웨그는 WP 엔진이 워드프레스 오픈소스 기술의 유지보수와 개선을 위한 인력을 충분히 투입하지 않는다고 비판했다. 그리고 이…