CIOs are heading into the 2025 budget season, and all eyes are on how budgets will change and where spending will go. Let’s unpack the details and indicators that are driving the decisions. Here are a few observations. Inflation continues…
Read More Lower inflation opens the door for larger 2025 IT budgets
HPE GreenLake adds new private cloud virtualization capabilities in addition to new AI offerings based on deep collaboration with Nvidia. Executive Summary Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) held their annual HPE Discover conference in Las Vegas where they announced several new…
Read More HPE GreenLake Updates Capitalize on Enterprise Private Cloud and AI Demand
It seems that every week brings a new LLM to the market. At this point, most major vendors have one or more LLMs for enterprises to choose from. With the sheer number of LLMs available today, it can be overwhelming…
Read More Are we approaching peak LLM and do we need to rethink how we use LLMs?
2023 was expected to be a bumpy ride as I mentioned in the CIO Playbook for 2023. It turned out much bumpier than expecting. Unfortunately, there is still a good bit of uncertainty going into 2024. The good news is that…
It seems you can’t escape having a conversation today without the mention of generative AI. But how accurate is the information coming out of generative AI algorithms? While the origins of generative AI date back to the 1960’s, the interest…
Read More How accurate is generative AI and is it enterprise ready?
I asked OpenAIs ChatGPT “What are the top issues facing CIOs? The results were, frankly, very interesting. They are good but in practice CIOs will find the results pedestrian and not actionable. ChatGPT Response Here is the unedited response: As I mentioned earlier,…
The World Economic Forum (WEF) met last week in Davos, Switzerland for its annual conference. Here’s my take on the outcomes from WEF and impact for the CIO. For those not familiar with the WEF, it is an annual gathering…
Each year, I revise the CIO playbook to reflect the changing agenda for the CIO. Over the past several years, the role of IT has seen dramatic change within the enterprise. 2023 is no exception as a few focus areas…
What can the CIO do now to prepare for a recession? The short answer is: A lot. The past 30 months have been trying on many levels. I wrote about the Three Hurdles for 2020 and Beyond shortly after the start…
Read More What does the CIO Playbook for Recession Look Like?
Last year, I shared the CIO Playbook for 2021. The general focus was an effort to move from reactive to proactive. Much of the 2021’s effort was finding stability in the next normal. In 2022, many are still trying to find their footing…
