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How to build data foundations for AI exploration

CIOs who develop a competitive advantage through AI focus on the underlying IT infrastructure, and the right data foundations allow the business to shift rapidly as new opportunities emerge.

By Mark Samuels

Aug 13, 20258 mins

Data QualityIT StrategyInnovation

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Avoiding costly ERP and cloud systems implementation failures: A perspective from the deal room

Want to dodge ERP disasters? Do your homework, get everyone on the same page and lock in clear terms before you sign.

By Sean Christy

Aug 13, 2025 16 mins

Digital TransformationERP SystemsHybrid Cloud

Creator’s dilemma: Dissonance in copyright law at the heart of GenAI

AI’s changing the creative game, but the rules on who owns what are fuzzy, leaving creators stuck in a messy copyright grey zone.

By Charlyn Ho

Aug 13, 2025 10 mins

Generative AIGovernmentRegulation

The case for a unified approach to AI and data governance

Bringing AI and data governance together helps you move fast, stay compliant, and actually get the value you expect from AI.

By Hari Subramanian

Aug 12, 2025 8 mins

Data GovernanceData and Information SecurityRegulation

Humanizing AI: Empowering people, not replacing them

Stop fearing AI’s takeover — start fearing being left behind if you don’t use it to supercharge human potential.

By Burley Kawasaki

Aug 12, 2025 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDigital TransformationGenerative AI

2025 CIO Hall of Fame honorees

Meet the CIOs enshrined in the CIO Hall of Fame — from the Class of 1997 to the Class of 2025.

By CIO US Events

Mar 25, 2025 12 mins

CIOCIO 100Technology Industry

OpenText replaces CEO, weighs asset sales in strategic shift

The development raises questions over possible changes to product strategy and long-term enterprise support.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Aug 12, 2025 4 mins

Technology Industry

Salesforce to acquire Waii to enhance SQL analytics in Agentforce

Waii’s core technology for translating natural language questions into complex, production-ready SQL queries to be integrated into Data Cloud.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 11, 2025 4 mins

CRM SystemsMergers and AcquisitionsSalesforce.com

Beyond pilots: How successful enterprises move from AI experiments to scalable transformation

AI pilots are easy; scaling is the real game. The winners turn hype into hard results with strategy, infrastructure and guts.

By Suvidha Shashikumar

Aug 11, 2025 8 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDigital TransformationIT Strategy

Stop telling yourself no: Breaking the cycle of self-imposed limitations

Your best ideas are dying in your head. Stop killing them before they see daylight.

By Nick Colisto

Aug 11, 2025 8 mins

IT LeadershipStaff Management

Skills and the AI-ready organization: four things to consider

Employing a staff with the right blend of skills and experience is a challenge for CIOs building AI-ready organizations. We explore some of the issues they need to resolve.

By Matt Egan

Aug 11, 2025 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT Leadership

Lost in plain sight: The quiet collapse of your transformation

Why high-performing teams still miss the mark…and how leaders can close the final mile.

By Mehdi Kadaoui

Aug 8, 2025 9 mins

Business IT AlignmentDigital TransformationStaff Management

Executives love their AI rollouts, but employees aren’t buying it

Less than half of workers see their organizations’ approach to gen AI as strategic and successful. CIOs must embrace the change management challenge to ensure clear direction and organization-wide AI literacy.

By Grant Gross

Aug 8, 2025 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceChange Management

Oracle SVP Thorsten Herrmann: Being late to the cloud has its advantages

Computerwoche's Martin Bayer sat down with Thorsten Hermann, SVP technology and Germany country leader, at Oracle to discuss the company's cloud ambitions, issues around digital and AI sovereignty, and why he says Oracle will "continue to push ahead with partnerships."

By Martin Bayer

Aug 8, 2025 19 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabasesOracle

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Spotlight: How AI is Reshaping IT

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IT organizations have already been challenged to find the resources and skills to support major shifts like cloud, automation, and a dramatically altered risk landscape. The emergence of AI as the next big game changer adds an additional level of stress and urgency. It also requires IT leaders to rethink how IT is staffed and organized, how it’s funded, and how the IT team works with the business to capture the value and promise of generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, and whatever else comes IT’s way.

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