Resistance to digital transformation comes in many forms. And sometimes it takes a wizard — or a CIO with a satchel of magic tricks — to overcome them. You’ll need to persuade employees and middle management to leave their comfort zones and change how they operate. You may find yourself stuck in bureaucratic quagmires or…
Project management office (PMO) definition A project management office (PMO) is a group, or functional unit, that sets, maintains, and enforces the practices, policies, and standards for structuring and executing projects within an organization. According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), a PMO is essential for enterprises seeking to centralize and coordinate the management of…
Over the last eighteen months or so, a motley group of teenagers under the banner of Lapsus$ managed to hack into “unbreachable” fortresses at tech giants such as Okta, T-Mobile, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Globant using unsophisticated but creative and persistent techniques. While the group’s goals were unclear and differing – fluctuating between amusement, monetary gain,…
As I work with financial services and banking organizations around the world, one thing is clear: AI and generative AI are hot topics of conversation. These conversations are so weighty, they are happening at the boardroom level. I get it. Financial organizations want to capture generative AI’s tremendous potential while mitigating its risks. In the…
Generative AI (GenAI) is not just the topic of the hour – it may well be the topic of the decade and beyond. Until a year ago, when people suggested that AI was already mainstream and asked what the next big thing would be, I replied that we had not reached the end state of…
If any technology has captured the collective imagination in 2023, it’s generative AI — and businesses are beginning to ramp up hiring for what in some cases are very nascent gen AI skills, turning at times to contract workers to fill gaps, pursue pilots, and round out in-house AI project teams. Analyzing the hiring behaviors of…
What makes IT organizations fail? Often, it’s the adoption of what’s described as “industry best practices” by people who ought to know better but don’t, probably because they’ve never had to do the job. From establishing internal customers to instituting charge-backs to insisting on ROI, a lot of this advice looks plausible when viewed from…
As senior vice president and CIO at Qualcomm, Cisco Sanchez leads a global IT organization laser focused on setting the company up to achieve scale and speed in a world of complexity. Sanchez’s organization was honored with a CIO 100 Award at this year’s CIO100 Symposium Awards and Event, recognizing the innovative work his team…
Generative artificial intelligence is all the rage, but how can enterprises actually harness the technology’s promise and implement it for value? What benefits can be expected and what challenges might arise? Gen AI is a relatively new tool for organizations and individual users. And while many CIOs might have a fairly solid understanding of the…
With the intricacies of the CIO role multiplying, there’s increased talk about having deft knowledge and understanding of both the business and technology in order to contemplate and process next moves as a leader. In Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer’s case as the first CIO of NATO, he has a unique perspective of soon to be 32 nations…