CIO First Look
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July 03, 2025
4 things that make an AI strategy work in the short and long term
As the hype surrounding AI intensifies, many CIOs face a familiar tension: how to deliver tangible business value now, while building toward a longer-term vision.
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CIOs: Are you being the champions of change for modern business?
In addition to managing the wide range of emerging tech, IT leaders are continually expected to step out of their comfort zones and steer the ship during periods of transformation. Staying on the front foot is a tricky balancing act, but these four actions help secure a true course.
CIOs rethink public cloud as AI strategies mature
Concerned about cost and data privacy, IT leaders increasingly see private cloud or on-prem as the better alternative for AI once workloads stabilize and experimentation is done.
Ron Insana on why CIOs canât wait for certainty in an unpredictable economy
Ahead of his FutureIT NY keynote, Ron Insana offers insight into how tech leaders can lead with confidenceâeven when the economy wavers.
Who should really be driving business transformation today?
CIOs often take the lead over transformative initiatives, but thereâs debate over whether thatâs the best approach for ensuring true business transformation rather than just a technical one.
Hakkoda Labs adds homegrown AI agent to its data team
The data consultancy transformed a skunkworks experiment into a âsupport engineerâ AI assistant that helps automate time-consuming data migration tasks â with higher-level agentic AI ambitions on the horizon.
8 trends defining the enterprise IT market today
Whereâs the IT market headed? From AI to the edge, hereâs a rundown of whatâs shifting of late in terms of IT offerings, strategies, deployments, and investments.
