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TBM helps CIOs translate tech spending to business outcomes

The use of technology business management is growing as IT environments add AI and other new technologies.

Apr 10, 2025 5 mins

SAP customers on Business Suite: New strategy, same old concerns

Once again, SAP customers must grapple with a new SAP strategy. Their demands for ‘Business Unleashed’ are familiar: more clarity and consistency, better integration, accessibility for all.

By Martin Bayer

Apr 10, 2025 5 mins

ERP Systems Enterprise Applications SAP

Data trust and the evolution of enterprise analytics in the age of AI

Gut feel beats BI dashboards? Untrusted data cripples AI's promise. Governance is key to unlocking AI's true potential and competitive edge.

By Dion Eusepi

Apr 9, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Business Intelligence Data Quality

Gen AI graduates to operations in higher ed

Institutions of higher education are using large language models to transform operations — everything from admissions, student services, and administrative processes. But how do CIOs ensure efficiency without losing the human touch?

By Lauren Paul

Apr 9, 2025 8 mins

CIO Education Industry Generative AI

Downer’s digital journey to deliver consistency to customers

Cathy O'Sullivan, CIO editor for APAC and host of CIO Leadership Live Australia, sat with CIO50 alum for Australia Nicola Dorling, group CIO for integrated services provider Downer in Australia and New Zealand, to discuss the importance of balan

By CIO staff

Apr 9, 2025 7 mins

CIO Digital Transformation IT Skills

Data’s dark secret: Why poor quality cripples AI and growth

Poor data sabotages AI and strategy despite significant investments. Leaders must act now to build trust and unlock true value.

By Vipin Jain

Apr 8, 2025 20 mins

Data Quality Generative AI IT Strategy

7 risk management rules every CIO should follow

Effective risk management is a top priority for every CIO. Following a few fundamental rules will help ensure your IT strategy aligns with the organization’s risk appetite.

By John Edwards

Apr 8, 2025 8 mins

Business Continuity IT Governance Risk Management

Decision-making 101: How to get consensus right

Consensus: Easy to say, easier to recommend, but very hard to accomplish. Here’s how leaders turn a group into a team.

By Bob Lewis

Apr 8, 2025 5 mins

IT Leadership IT Management IT Strategy

IT job postings lowest in over a decade

Are IT pros experiencing a significant drop in demand? Industry observers see a nuanced story of new pressures, risk aversion in both supply and demand, and roles that used to be in IT shifting to lines of business.

By Evan Schuman

Apr 8, 2025 5 mins

Careers Hiring IT Jobs

CIOs brace for tariff impacts on tech industry and their businesses

Escalating tariffs will cut significantly into IT expenditures, while increasing tech prices and market pressures on CIOs’ businesses, leading to shifts in IT and staffing strategies.

By Paula Rooney

Apr 7, 2025 5 mins

Budgeting IT Strategy Technology Industry

CIOs to leverage AI for real RoI: Ankit Bose, Nasscom AI

We believe that enterprises will benefit from thinking of a leap strategy, from being AI ready to becoming an AI-first company as the technology acquires a general-purpose technology distinction, says Ankit Bose, Head, Nasscom AI.

By Yogesh Gupta

Apr 7, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Massive modernization: Tips for overhauling IT at scale

IT leaders offer hard-earned advice on undertaking largescale legacy IT transformations based on years-long experiences bridging their businesses to a new era.

By Esther Shein

Apr 7, 2025 14 mins

Digital Transformation IT Leadership IT Strategy

What’s a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

Data engineers work for enterprises in various industries to help them manage and store the data they need to operate, and, increasingly, to support their AI initiatives.

By Thor Olavsrud, Sarah White and Maria Korolov

Apr 7, 2025 12 mins

Data Mining Data Science Staff Management

CEOs believe AI can develop better business plans than board members

Some AI experts aren’t as confident as CEOs about the technology’s ability to provide strategic insights into their businesses, but others say it’s getting there.

By Grant Gross

Apr 7, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Business IT Alignment IT Leadership

ServiceNow to acquire Logik.ai to boost CRM portfolio

Logik.ai’s CPQ technology will expand ServiceNow’s CRM portfolio and complement its service management solutions.

By Denise Dubie

Apr 4, 2025 1 min

CRM Systems Mergers and Acquisitions ServiceNow

Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s new AI education initiatives offer hope for enterprise knowledge retention

Learning-centered AI design could solve the growing “digital amnesia” problem in workplace.

By Gyana Swain

Apr 4, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Training

Top 15 Microsoft Azure certifications to expedite your IT career

Earning these will showcase expert knowledge and enhance your credibility in the industry.

By Moumita Deb Choudhury

Apr 4, 2025 11 mins

Certifications

Many CIOs operate within a culture of fear

Statistics reveal nearly half of IT leaders are afraid to admit mistakes, blocking organizations from valuable learning opportunities.

By Grant Gross

Apr 4, 2025 6 mins

IT Leadership IT Skills Staff Management

9 principles to improve IT supplier relationship management

IT supplier relationships are critical for many businesses, but as many CIOs have learned, ensuring these partnerships deliver intended outcomes relies on more than just finding an experienced partner.

By Kate Vitasek

Apr 4, 2025 7 mins

Business Relationship Manager CIO IT Skills

Dr Arvind Gupta: Trustworthy systems to empower India’s growing economy

Digital India Foundation is poised to deepen its contribution to policy and public awareness, working with partners across government and industry to cultivate best practices in data governance, AI, and startup ecosystems says Dr. Arvind Gupta, Head

By Yogesh Gupta

Apr 4, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation

AI PCs: A paradigm shift in the modern workplace

As AI reshapes the workplace, IT leaders face a pivotal moment to reassess PC infrastructure, address evolving privacy demands, and align on long-term strategies for what’s next.

By Rahul Tikoo

Apr 3, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology Supercomputers

Siemens grows its digital twin strategy into life sciences market

With its acquisition of Dotmatics, a developer of software for managing data in life sciences research, Siemens hopes to help cut drug development costs.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 3, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Life Sciences Industry PLM Software

Exploring the confluence of tech and sustainability for a better future

Organizations are taking a closer focus on their ESG goals as sustainability goals rise in urgency for a world perched on the precarious edge of climate-change induced disasters. CIOs discuss the propensity for Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) in

By Qiraat Attar

Apr 3, 2025 5 mins

Emerging Technology

From concept to reality: A practical guide to agentic AI deployment

Autonomous AI is here, but deployment is the real challenge. Are you ready for the agentic revolution?

By Stephen Kaufman

Apr 3, 2025 17 mins

Developer Devops Generative AI

Edge AI for robots, smart devices not far off

Souped up industrial robots and smart devices will revolutionize how we use AI at the edge, and understand cloud and data centers.

By Paula Rooney

Apr 3, 2025 10 mins

CIO Generative AI Nvidia

7 common transformation mistakes and how to avoid them

Just because technology solutions are readily available doesn’t mean transformation will automatically succeed.

By Patrizia Licata

Apr 3, 2025 11 mins

CIO Digital Transformation IT Strategy

CIO legend Andi Karaboutis on what every IT leader should master

Current board director for four public companies, Karaboutis draws on her experience leading IT across multiple industries to lend advice to the next generation of CIO hopefuls.

By Dan Roberts

Apr 3, 2025 11 mins

IT Leadership

Digi Yatra aims to be the ‘Travel stack of India’: CEO, Suresh Khadakbhavi

Digi Yatra’s vision is to transform air travel and beyond with Digital Verifiable Credentials and Self Sovereign Identity, providing a secure and private way to validate your identity, says Digi Yatra CEO Suresh Khadakbhavi.

By Yogesh Gupta

Apr 3, 2025 8 mins

Identity and Access Management Privacy

European cloud group invests in “Trump-proof cloud services”

CISPE's cloud investment is intended to give businesses a Euro choice that is "immune to disruption, access and potential removal by foreign actors.”

By Evan Schuman

Apr 2, 2025 1 min

Cloud Computing

What does an AI consultant actually do?

AI consultants combine technology and management to develop customized AI solutions. Those who meet the high requirements will find a promising and varied career.

By René Kessler

Apr 2, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI IT Consulting Services

Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

It may have faded into obscurity but by an order of magnitude, the outage last July caused by the cybersecurity vendor was the costliest in IT history. What have we learned to prevent something similar from happening again?

By Maria Korolov

Apr 2, 2025 12 mins

Cloud Security Data and Information Security Network Security

How the wow factor drives innovation at Northeast Grocery

Scott Kessler, CIO for the nearly $7 billion multi-brand grocery business, views AI as an opportunity to redefine IT leadership.

By Martha Heller

Apr 2, 2025 5 mins

CIO IT Strategy Retail Industry

What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

S/4HANA can realign and transform business models and processes. Here’s what you need to know about SAP’s flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

By Christian Olausson

Apr 2, 2025 12 mins

ERP Systems Enterprise Applications SAP

Download the ‘Strategizing Data Analytics for AI’ Enterprise Spotlight

In this issue: We explore the intersection of AI and analytics. Data analytics only gets more complex. And its growing use for artificial intelligence applications brings a new set of considerations and strategies for IT and business leaders.

By CIO.com and InfoWorld staff

Apr 1, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Data Management Generative AI

Taming the cost of AI: Is FinOps the answer?

AI costs are soaring! FinOps is key to managing cloud expenses for AI services like genAI. Transparency, management and optimization are vital.

By Magesh Kasthuri

Apr 1, 2025 11 mins

Amazon Web Services Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

Remember when developers reigned supreme? The market for software coding goes soft

While many companies are still hiring programmers, demand has fallen off as AI and ML experts can’t be hired fast enough, spurring some developers to rethink their roles.

By Grant Gross

Apr 1, 2025 7 mins

Careers Hiring Software Development

In turbulent political times, IT can be a difference maker

With many organizations experiencing political and macroeconomic whiplash, CIOs can serve as a much-needed oasis of calm and consistency — especially if their motives and methods are right.

By Thornton May

Apr 1, 2025 5 mins

Business IT Alignment IT Leadership IT Strategy

How DPDP Act will define data privacy in the digital-first world

Organizations entrusted with sensitive data from their customers are utilizing emerging technology, processes and regulations to protect it. But with sophisticated cyberattacks, data theft and confounding cross-border legislation, will data privacy e

By Qiraat Attar

Apr 1, 2025 4 mins

Data Privacy Digital Transformation

Siemens and Accenture launch joint business group to transform manufacturing

The newly founded Accenture Siemens Business Group will develop software-defined products and processes for engineering and manufacturing firms, including an emphasis on agentic AI.

By Jürgen Hill

Apr 1, 2025 4 mins

Digital Transformation IT Consulting Services Manufacturing Industry

AI brings complexity to cybersecurity and fraud

Cybersecurity is like a game of chess – organization vs attacker, and cybersecurity is the good side’s strongest defence. Influential CISO’s discuss how institutions tackle infiltration using AI when bad actors threaten to bring cha

By Qiraat Attar

Apr 1, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cyberattacks Fraud

12 ways to accelerate digital transformation

Disruptive forces dictate the need for speed when it comes to key digital initiatives. Here’s how IT leaders are overhauling strategies and processes to streamline IT for quicker success.

By Mary K. Pratt

Mar 31, 2025 12 mins

Business IT Alignment Digital Transformation IT Strategy

AI culture war: Hidden bias in training models may push political propaganda

Some AI experts warn that DeepSeek has the potential to secretly spread cultural and political bias on behalf of the Chinese government.

By Grant Gross

Mar 28, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Technology Industry

The RACI matrix: Your blueprint for project success

A RACI matrix is a simple, effective means for defining project roles and responsibilities, providing a comprehensive chart of who is responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed every step of the way.

By Bob Kantor and CIO staff

Mar 28, 2025 11 mins

IT Governance Frameworks IT Leadership Project Management Tools

Connecting with Gen Z: A guide to boosting employee engagement

How employers can find the balance between the aspirations of the younger generation and the requirements of the company.

By Felix Pflüger

Mar 27, 2025 4 mins

Careers Hiring Human Resources

9 CRM trends for 2025: AI reshapes the customer equation

AI is accelerating the evolution of customer relationship management (CRM), with agentic AI, a shift to targeted use cases, and workforce realignments on the horizon.

By Neal Weinberg

Mar 27, 2025 9 mins

CRM Systems IT Strategy Technology Industry

11 go-to podcasts that inspire IT industry leaders today

From deep dives into emerging technologies and cybersecurity threats, to explorations of leadership and team building, these podcasts offer valuable perspectives and practical advice to empower tech leaders in their roles.

By Linda Rosencrance

Mar 27, 2025 5 mins

CIO IT Leadership Innovation

How Women in Tech are rising to the new challenges

Leading women CIOs discuss how technology is in spotlight in boardroom conversations, balancing business, budget and IT for organizational success and offer insights on how women can shape their careers and shine in executive leadership.

By Qiraat Attar

Mar 26, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence CIO Women in IT

How CIOs are stepping up as business strategists

With the impact of technology permeating across all business verticals, CIOs have become instrumental in business decisions – from operations to budgeting to customer experience. Leading CIOs discuss how the digital boom cemented this change, t

By Qiraat Attar

Mar 26, 2025 7 mins

Business CIO

SAP adoption surges in Europe as enterprises embrace cloud

About 40% of companies in the DACH region are increasing their overall IT budgets, while SAP-specific investments are on the rise for 47% of enterprises, according to a German SAP user group.

By Gyana Swain

Mar 26, 2025 4 mins

Enterprise Applications SAP