CIO First Look
Stay up to speed with the dayâs top stories for IT leaders
December 18, 2023
IT leadersâ top 9 takeaways from 2023
CIOs share insights on the lessons theyâve learned this year about balancing operations and innovation, rifts between IT and the business, and how to capitalize on emerging value creators such as generative AI. Read more
Sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Learn to optimize your edge and balance your business priorities
Digital transformation is often a balancing act between business priorities and the ability to secure, analyze, and act on data everywhere. HPE can help you assess and transform your hybrid cloud environment to capitalize on edge data where itâs created.Read more
A perfect match: How tech promoted a small soccer team to the top
Jan Mayer, MD of TSG Hoffenheim, currently in sixth place in Germanyâs top-flight soccer league, the Bundesliga, discusses the key ingredients of business solutions, physical facilities, and sports management software that enabled the club to climb the ranks. Read more
Cushman & Wakefield builds a foundation for enterprise-wide AI
The commercial real estate firm seeks to inject generative AI in âevery piece of our workflow,â says CDIO Salumeh Companieh, who is putting partnerships and a product-based IT approach to work in achieving that vision. Read more
Microsoftâs role to help sow AI success in Africa
Artificial intelligence holds great potential to solve many of Africaâs problems, but some fear thereâs not enough spark to put initiatives into action. Here, Lillian Barnard, president for Microsoft Africa, details the challenges ahead and what can be done to help overcome them. Read more
Salesforce Data Cloud updates aim to ease data analysis, AI app development
Salesforce adds Einstein Copilot Search, vector database to its Data Cloud, to help enterprises take advantage of unstructured data for analysis, and build AI-based applications. Read more
CIOs weigh the new economics and risks of cloud lock-in
With AI tools rapidly emerging from major cloud vendors, a new opportunity cost for CIOsâ cloud strategies is arising to bring new twists on old questions about the risks of cloud concentration. Read more
