Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. Even amid headlines announcing massive layoffs at tech companies, persuading change-making tech professionals to take up residence at your firm can feel nearly impossible. “The IT skills shortage is critical, with CIOs losing talented employees faster than they…
Modernization and transformation are the IT imperatives of the day. Rationalizing applications, reinventing business processes, capitalizing on the cloud — all point to legacy systems as the dead weight and sunk costs modern day IT organizations must move beyond to reach their digital potential. As an IT professional, I too have at times thought about…
Last week, I attended the annual Gartner® Security and Risk Management Summit. The event gave Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other security professionals the opportunity to share concerns and insights about today’s most pressing issues in cybersecurity and risk management. While every situation is unique, there are two topics our conversations always seemed to…
Manufacturing processes are industry dependent, and even within a sector, they often differ from one company to another. However, some things are common to virtually all types of manufacturing: expensive equipment and trained human operators are always required, and both the machinery and the people need to be deployed in an optimal manner to keep…
In recent years, we have witnessed a tidal wave of progress and excitement around large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and GPT-4. These cutting-edge models can potentially transform industries, especially in regulated sectors like healthcare and life sciences, where they could be used for drug discovery, clinical trial analysis, improved diagnostics, personalized patient care,…
In a relatively brief time span, technologies like cloud, edge computing, artificial intelligence, and IoT have taken center stage, and new innovative technologies keep emerging. We’re now navigating a technological landscape that’s growing exponentially more complex and rapidly changing, one that increasingly exceeds the ability of human intelligence to keep pace. This landscape is characterized…
Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Ignoring the potential of generative AI to increase productivity is a surefire way to fall behind as an individual, a team, and an organization. You should put it to work as an “eager intern” or “autonomous agent” (or both) ASAP. But positioning yourself, your team, and your organization…
Better together In a time when organizations can seamlessly access the cloud to unearth tools like analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), “collaboration with customers and partners around the globe can drive sustainable, impactful innovation,” Timo Elliott, SAP’s global head of partner digital selling and marketing director, told the audience. Let’s think about the recent past – companies…
Consultants aren’t always held in the highest regard. The 90% who are bad, the old joke goes, ruin it for the rest of us. Knowing the 90%’s tricks of the trade is the canny CIO’s first line of defense. Here are seven of the most pernicious consulting misdeeds you will encounter as an IT leader.…
As CIO of Anglo-South African international banking and wealth management group, Investec, Shabhana Thaver has a multi-purpose approach to tech trends. On the one hand, there are foundational forces, which protect the existing business and include talent, information security and modernization. Then, on the other, there are pioneering forces, which drive business growth and include…