Despite billions pouring into AI, research suggests most projects stall or fail because the underlying data isn’t ready. Gartner estimates that six in ten AI initiatives without AI-ready data will be abandoned. Leaders may blame the technology, but the reality is simpler: “garbage in, garbage out” is alive and well in the AI era. The…
Having led a tech company for more than 20 years now, I often get asked one question: “What does it take to be a truly effective leader?” It’s a question that has stayed the same over the years, even as my answer has evolved. Twenty years ago, leadership was all about strategic thinking and decision-making.…
The CIO 100 Awards UK recognises the best and brightest technology leaders driving digital transformation and innovation across the United Kingdom. Now firmly established as one of the most prestigious accolades in the UK’s IT and business community, the awards celebrate CIOs and technology executives who use technology to deliver real business value—whether by enabling…
While private sector CIOs debate the merits of container adoption and worry about Kubernetes complexity, an unexpected leader has quietly emerged in the enterprise technology landscape: government. Recent research from Nutanix reveals a startling reality that challenges every assumption about public sector innovation — 96% of government organizations are actively containerizing its applications, significantly outpacing…
Like many retail organizations, we had no shortage of data. What we lacked was trust in the data, ownership of outcomes and a clear way to convert insights into action. Teams operated in silos. Analytics were reactive. Dashboards were everywhere, but real decisions still defaulted to opinion, not evidence. To deliver the kind of personalized,…
The old approach to dealing with legacy systems was simple: rip them out and start over. These days, though, most CIOs will tell you a different story that sometimes the best path forward isn’t about replacing everything but making what you have work better. With emerging tech multiplying at such a furious pace, some companies…
The Tile Shop’s place in the home improvement and building products industry is testament to its strength in offering wide selections of natural stone and manmade tiles, along with maintenance materials and related accessories, in over 140 immersive showrooms across the US. Founded in 1985, the specialty retailer now has 1,400 employees, and Christopher Davis,…
Teradata is expanding its cloud-based analytics platform with a new agentic AI offering called Autonomous Customer Intelligence that, it says, is “designed to transform raw data and customer signals into context-aware, real-time actions at scale.” Autonomous Customer Intelligence will use agents to construct data products, detect signals, interpret context, and respond autonomously, the company said.…
Oracle NetSuite is joining the move to an AI-first world with its announcement of NetSuite Next, which it describes as “the future of NetSuite.” NetSuite Next adopts the same Redwood design language Oracle has been applying to its other products since 2019, and will include agentic workflows, conversational intelligence, and natural language search, the company…
Agentic AI tools are rapidly integrating into businesses, shaping workflows, influencing decisions, and assisting with daily operations. At the same time, in Netskope Threat Labs’ Cloud and Threat Report: Shadow AI and Agentic AI 2025, agentic AI was identified as one of the rising shadow AI trends on the horizon that security and technology leaders…